I didn't know.......

Free sauna came as one of the benefits to this job. Man it's really hot in here. Tends to make you sleepy and makes focusing a bit harder. Just keep plenty of water nearby and maybe a tiny fan like mine.

Worked on a new today. exciting stuff. It involves insurance. Peep it HERE. Learned quite a bit while writing the content for an awning site. Apparently there is a large difference between awnings and retractable awnings. I'll give you a minute.......Okay if you haven't guessed yet one of them retracts and the other doesn't. I'll let you decide which is which.

Weekenddd

Finally. Wall-e tonight. Pretty excited. Got a few reworks done today nothing too exciting. Been stuck on writing content for an canopy and tent company. Not the best content writer. Not that I write bad content, just that it takes me a long time and occasionally I get somewhat anxious. Sometimes I can get my head in the zone and it kinda just starts flowing, but that's usually a rare occasion. Well hope everyone has a good weekend.

Safety First.

If your in the market for an insurance agent, look no further then Monroe Insurance Agency. They are a legitimate home based....err...a California home based insurance company. Check em out.

Been pretty devoid of all sleep lately. Starting to take an effect. Looking forward to a long nap tonight, followed by a long sleep.

Fail.

So pole position turned out to be a terrible idea. Apparently someone else bumping you into a wall is grounds for getting kicked off the track. $60 down the drain. Also watched the love guru, not AS terrible as I was expecting but I had an occasional laugh.

Worked on two news today. One for a real estate agent and another for some revolutionary new concept known as the "private cash generator". Truly groundbreaking. Amazing that someone could even come up with an idea so original. Both mirror the originals to a certain extent. Mirroring the originals is somewhat fun and adds a few challenges into the mix.

Learned that locking a co-workers wallpaper so it can't be changed (although funny) isn't the best of ideas, unless of course the wallpaper is this one.

Pole position....

No it's not a strip club. It's go-cart racing, and it's awesome. Taking my girlfriend tonight. Her 21'st birthday is tomorrow. Pretty excited, wish I was 21 though. Being 19 in vegas is pretty boring.

Rewrote content for a fishing vessel site or something like that. You can look at it here if that kind of thing interests you.

High gas prices getting you down??

Then you need to check out http://bestwaytosavegas.com. This revolutionary product is EPA proven to increase fuel efficiency!! What are you waiting for??? You absolutely need this product NOW! This is in no way an MLM in disguise taking advantage of customers looking for the solution to extremely overpriced gas.

So the office cat caught a lizard today. Pretty much the most entertaining thing to happen.

Not much to say today. Pretty pooped out. Looking forward to a nap.

Friday

Week went by fairly quickly. Overall pretty productive, got alot of reworks and news done. Check out this pretty nifty site for a real estate agent in Colorado, and be sure you don't forget to look at this awesome health insurance site.

Got the chance to watch Forgetting Sarah Marshall the other night. Absolutely hilarious, hands down best comedy of the year so far, and probably the rest of the year. Looking forward to catching up on some much needed sleep this weekend, also looking forward to finishing off Alone in the Dark for the 360. So far it's definitely a very unique game and I've never really played anything much like it. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Seo blog speak.

Check out my post on http://seoblogspeak.com/

Today

I will keep it short. Running low on time. Got through 5 reworks today. Think we are finally starting to dent the never ending pile of them. Will link to the sites tommorow when there is more time available.

Another day...

Another stack of reworks on the desk. We've all be pretty swamped with reworks lately, some requiring a simple change, some are ....well lets just say "loganized". Never met the guy before, but its clear his favorite site is wikipedia. I mean seriously I happened upon a rework involving cruise ships and there is about 4 paragraphs of information on vikings??? I mean sure they were interesting and all with their little viking escapades and all, but noone looking to book a cruise trip gives a crap about vikings.

Anyhow I did manage to get through three of them today. This one about a one year plan to get rich required a bit of keyword enrichment. This one about taking vacations ( which looks pretty nice if I might add) required a couple additional paragraphs for the new keyterms. Finally we have this one about an artistic plumbing company. The site required a fix to the content which lost its boldness in translation to the timberlake. I absolutely love the first paragraph. Big props to Sam for that one. Anyone looking for a good laugh check it out. I'll never poo the same again.

Pretty good day overall. Getting a new battery for my 2 month old car that pooped out on me yesterday ( go figure) , the best part was that it broke down in the drive through at a KFC. A word of warning for anyone who goes there, bring jumper cables because apparnetly out of the 50 customers there noone carries them.

Also happened to stumble across a 26" hdtv on clearance at target (it was the floor model, but in perfect condition). Managed to grab that for a measly $350 with a 3 year service plan. Doesn't get much better then that. Looking forward to checking out a few hd movies on it later tonight. Overall happy with today though and hoping the rest of the week goes by just as easy.

Blah

I think that pretty much sums up how everyone feels Monday morning, although I found the day to go by somewhat smoothly. Pretty productive day. Got through 2 and half "news". The first was for a real estate agency located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, yes that is an actual place. You can check it out here. Although there is not yet content for the site so it might look somewhat plain. The second was a limo/sedan service in Arizona. Check that one here. I enjoy working on sites other then MLM's for a change. Gives you a break from the generic happy person/money headers that are so common to them. Lastly was another real estate agency (I've noticed we've been getting bombarded by these lately). Spec that one here. Overall happy with today and looking forward to possibly picking up a new plasma tv tonight :]

Excitement

Got a few exciting reworks out of the way today. #1560 needed an upgrade to T3 followed by some fixes to the css and header. It's an mlm involving the resell of vitamins and stuff. Pretty fancy. The second was another mlm #1247. Needed some reworking in the content.

Started working on another Canadian Real Estate agency. Sure is alot of these floating around lately. Looking forward to doing another new however. I definately enjoy the design part of the job alot more then anything involving content.

Probably hit the movies tonight and check out the new Hulk or maybe The Happening or maybe both....Although Happening has been getting some pretty terrible reviews. Nonetheless should be an overall good weekend. Have a good one everyone.

Back from vacation

Trip was excellent. Got to meet my african aunt. She's pretty awesome. Although I occasionally get lost when she tries to tell me something. Disneyland was a blast. We had two day park hopper tickets so we just went back and forth and pretty much did everything there was. I was wiped when I got back in town last night. I did feel surprisingly refreshed at work today (probably due to my 10+ hours of sleep). Glad to be home once again.

Got right back into the swing of things with a full rework on albeeadventuresonline.com. Pretty happy with the overall design on the header. Closer resembles the original then the first version did.

Also finished the rework of #1560. Just an upgrade to t3 and a few additional keywords. You can see it here.

Friday. Day of Frenzy (pineball)

Worked on a few reworks today. #1452 needed new content and additional keywords. You can see the page here. #1542 required an upgrade to T3 and a few tweaks to the code/banner. View here.

On a more personal note, I have an aunt coming in from Africa this weekend, yes that's right Africa. My dad was born there, pretty neat huh. I've been there once. I was like five and there was crazy monkeys at our hotel that snuck into your rooms and stole shiny things. No lie. Also my brother stepped in a large pile of lion fescies. Also they call ketchup "tomato sauce" (toemawtoe) and they charge you for it at fast food restaurants. Pretty interesting experience overall. Looking forward to someday going back. Anyhow should be pretty awesome meeting her for the first time.

Just wanted to send a quick thank-you to all my coworkers who have been very helpful in getting me into the whole SEO thing. Looking forward to expanding my knowledge in the field and continuing to improve on other areas related to it. Have a good weekend everyone.

Wednesday + Thursday.

Somehow managed to miss my blog yesterday. Worked on a couple "news" yesterday one was for John Wolff's Home Loan Educators. You can see the original image of the house here. Did a bit of cloning and extended the grass. Added some text/shadows and some clouds in the background. Worked on another carbon copy MLM yesterday. You can see that here.

Worked hard on a site for a Texas-based Limousine company today. Tried out a few new photoshop techniques I've been messing with lately. You can see the site here. Overall very happy with the design. Had to pull Daniel aside a few times to pick his brain on some css that wasn't agreeing with me. Learned a few new techniques and am looking forward to incorporating them further along in future designs. Although Timberlake's aren't too entirely flexible, there are some things you can do to make them look decent. I tend to be somewhat anal when it comes to my designs and wont be happy until I can come up with something that is at the least midly pleasing to the eye.

Eh.

Added some much needed improvements to my blog (design wise). Added a very useful set of links for any web designer to check out. All the latest design related news/tutorials/ anything can be found from those links.

Worked on two "news" today. Finished one for a realtor in the Surrey area of Canada. Went a little bit fancier on the styling with this one. They're background images in the Navbar and contact box. Stuck with the whole "red white and blue" realtor theme on this one. This one's not even based in America, yet the original site still followed it, so I went along with them. The site can be seen here.


Not very impressed with Ninja Gaiden, although hack and slash has never been my type of game. Sure it's undeniably pretty and has a huge fan-base, yet mashing "x" and "y" all night has a somewhat limited appeal for me. Gta4 and Halo have had me hooked non-stop however, so I'll stick to those for now.

Another manic Monday.

Overall a good one though. Finished a new for one of those carbon copy mlm's that we all know and love so well. Toponeyearplan.com Two more reworks in the book for Trip-questonline.com and cruisetowealthbiz.net

Looking forward to firing up Ninja Gaiden 2 tonight.

Thought I'd share a link to one of my favorite sites that I visit regularly www.designfloat.com. It's basically a "Digg" with the exception that it only allows submission of design related links. There's definitely some useful stuff in there for the aspiring master web designer in all of us.