Pernah lihat logo seperti dibawah ini? Nah kali ini saya akan mencoba menjelaskan teknik pembuata logo seperti ini dengan menggunakan software adobe photoshop :

Gaya logo seperti ini banyak kita jumpai di website-website saat ini, biasanya ditempatkan di bagian header.

Langkah-langkahnya adalah sebagai berikut:

1. Bukalah sebuah lembar kerja baru dengan menekan Ctrl + N, atau melalui menu File -> New
kemudian tentukan ukuran panjang dan lebarnya, misalnya seperti gambar di bawah ini:

2. Ketikkanlah tulisan diatas kanvas yang masih kosong tersebut dengan menggunakan Text Tool, tekan Huruf T atau klik icon T yang ada di toolbox, misalnya Designkillers.com

3. Pilih layer tersebut dengan mengklik nama layer yang ada di pallete layer (layer Designkillers.com):

4. Tekan Ctrl + J untuk menduplikasi layer, dimana duplikasi ini nantinya akan jadi bayangan layer pertama.

5. Klik kanan layer hasil duplikasi (dalam contoh ini Designkillers.com copy)
kemudian tekan Ctrl + T untuk melakukan Transform. (Atau melalui menu Edit –> Free Transform)
Setelah itu akan muncul kotak-kotak kecil di sekeliling huruf (transform handle).
Klik kanan di dalam area tersebut (text), kemudian klik Flip Vertical.

6. Maka layer tersebut akan menjadi posisi mirror / terbalik.

7. Pilih layer yang terbalik tadi (Designkillers.com copy) dengan mengklik namanya di pallete layer.

Selanjutnya baca aja di sini

New bloggers tend to believe that all they need to be successful is good content or plenty of promotion to become successful. However, for some reason people don’t actually do what they think it’s necessary to succeed.

A good tip when starting a new blog is to choose a topic that you can blog about for years to come. If you’re not passionate about the subject, the chances that you’ll be able to write hundreds of posts on the matter are low.

There are plenty of mistakes new bloggers do, but here are 5 that are more common:

1. Not being original – repeating what others say in a different form is a common mistake for bloggers. That might happen because they either don’t put in the time to write original content, or because they don’t know enough of the industry to write in-depth articles.
2. Afraid to speak their mind – this can come in hand with the lack of originality. Just because the majority has an opinion, it doesn’t mean bloggers should be silent if they feel different. As long as it’s based by facts, it goes hand in hand with what blogging is all about, conversation.
3. Promoting a blog before it’s ready – a common enough mistake, where people start promoting their blogs before they have enough content to show. Having at the absolute minimum 5 posts (preferably more then 10), allows any new visitors to get a feeling of what the blog is about, and to subscribe if they enjoy the content.
4. Not being focused – when looking to attract a certain crowd to your blog, it’s best not to overwhelm them with topics they’re not interested in. For example, with a technology blog, talking about cars can prove boring to some of your readers. So, instead of having the full potential to be interesting, you’re dropping the percentage.
5. Growing a blog takes time – if you’re giving up after just 3 months, then you’ve wasted a good portion of your life. A blog can take a year or more to take off, so patience is the key, and consistent blogging.

Mistakes are done by all new bloggers. What’s important is that you learn from them and you don’t repeat them.

I get on average around 10,000 to 12,000 unique visitors to my main site each month. Actually, when you’re speaking about the Internet, that’s not too much to brag about, but it’s better than getting say 1000 or 2000 visitors; that was my usual rate until I aggressively went after targeted traffic for my site. I thought I would briefly and in very simple terms explain how I increased the targeted traffic to my main site from around 1,000 to 10,000 unique visitors each month. That’s a ten-fold increase — I am aiming for a hundred-fold increase but would gladly settle for thirty or forty times the traffic.

How did I increase my site’s traffic? The answer might just help you get more traffic to your own site. Most of these techniques are very simple to implement and if you’re serious about building an online business, lets face it, the first thing you’re going to need is targeted visitors to your site.

I hope you have noticed I have mentioned the words ‘targeted visitors’ several times already. I did this to bring home the fact that you’re not just after traffic but targeted traffic or visitors to your site. You want visitors to your site who are already interested in your site’s topic and who are more likely to benefit from your site’s content or products.

It’s the first ingredient for a successful web site.

Below are my 5 main sources of targeted traffic to my site. Along with a short explanation of how you can create or put the same practices to work for your own site.

1. RSS EMPOWERED One of most effective sources of traffic to my site would have to be my blogs and RSS feeds. Notice I said blogs and feeds; I have created simple blogs and feeds for the major topics of my site: on rss resources, web hosting solutions, notebook computers, etc. These blogs and feeds bring in a great number of targeted visitors to my site.

With the introduction of Google Blog Search, my blog traffic is increasing even more. Within minutes of posting to my blog – I am getting targeted traffic from Google. You are instantly indexed by Google Blog Search; it’s reason enough for every webmaster to put at least one blog on their site.

Try to imagine the traffic you’ll get when the next RSS empowered Windows browser arrives from Microsoft. Get your own site ready and prepared for RSS to take advantage of all this traffic. Just use Google owned blogger.com to create your blog — it has that all important blog search bar at the top!

2. SEO EMPOWERED Seo optimization should be your goal! Still the main source of traffic to my site are the search engines. Mainly from Google, followed by MSN and Yahoo. You must optimize your site for the search engines. This includes off/site links and on/site tactics.

I have been online since ‘98 so I thought I knew how to optimize a website. Boy, was I ever wrong! I didn’t notice a big jump in my traffic until I stumbled across a SEO expert, actually stumble is the wrong word, I actually sought out the best SEO expert I could find. His name is Brad Callen. He offers a free email course on how to optimize your sites for the search engines. His main product is SEO Elite.

Just the free course and his helpful newsletter have really fine-tuned my site, which resulted in a major increase of traffic especially from Google. You should try the same for your site or sites and see the results for yourself.

3. ARTICLE EMPOWERED This one works. Article marketing for me has been the major reason for the turn around in the amount of traffic my sites were receiving. It’s one of the most effective ways to get targeted visitors to your site.

Getting your articles published in ezines and on sites such as addme.com or sitepronews.com will generate an enormous amount of traffic to your site. As a bonus, you even get 100’s of subscribers to your own ezine in one day!

The trick is to write helpful how-to articles on current topics that other webmasters want on their sites, this will boost your link popularity with the search engines and increase your rankings. You must also very carefully choose the right keywords to target in your articles, matching the content on your site. One way to do this is with a site like www.nichebot.com — it will show how to pick the right ‘competitive’ keywords for your site. You must target keywords that have high traffic, yet little competition from competing web sites.

My main sources of traffic from article sites include www.ezinearticles.com and www.buzzle.com.

4. EZINE EMPOWERED Building a large opt-in list or subscribers to my ezine is another method that brings in a lot of traffic to my site. You can use an ezine to offer helpful tips to your subscribers. It is a very easy way to get repeat visitors to your site and build up a relationship with your visitors.

Your ezine should relate to your site’s theme and offer more information on the same. Whether you believe it not, if you operate a site on a particular subject for a couple of years, you will fast become an expert on that subject. People will regard you as such and this will also bring in visitors to your site.

5. VIRAL MARKETING EMPOWERED Another way to attract targeted visitors is to offer a free product or service. I use free brandable reports that visitors can download and use. These reports and ebooks have links back to my sites. One of my most popular ones is a timely report and guide on how to use and benefit from RSS on all your sites. It brings in a lot of traffic.

Similar to the one above, I use other free viral techniques to build targeted traffic to my site. These are products that can be branded with your links and passed around. Helpful software programs that match the theme of your site are good choices to make.

Another popular one that I have on my site is the DATEwise eCalendar and personal planner that visitors can download and place on their desktops. It has hotlinks to my site that brings in traffic. It can be customized with your site’s products so you get targeted visitors or customers.

OTHER SOURCES There are other sources of traffic for my site that I find effective but they bring in lesser traffic than the methods listed above. But they are still worth mentioning, one of these is regular posting on major online forums. This brings in very good targeted traffic, so too, is posting comments in online blogs.

Another good source is a traffic exchange called ‘Traffic Swarm’ – most sites where members exchange traffic don’t work. You get worthless hits to your site. However, Traffic Swarm is one exception that your should try. You just set your start page to this exchange, and click on sites you want to visit.

Increasing targeted traffic to your site is an ongoing struggle for every webmaster. I hope you can try some of the techniques that have worked for me. I am sure they will also work for you.

Empower your site with targeted traffic!

Jika Anda seorang webmaster yang mengelola sebuah situs maka sudah mengenal apa yang dinamakan dengan CMS. Bagaimana dengan Anda yang lain? CMS merupakan singkatan dari Content Management System, suatu software yang berguna untuk memanipulasi content atau isi dari suatu situs web. Maksud dari memanipulasi disini adalah bisa menambah, mengedit atau menghapus isi dari suatu situs. (more…)

The term Web 2.0 has really been foxing me. I have seen the term being used at variety of places and for variety of reasons. Terms like Ajax, Folksonomy, Wikis, Blogs, Mashup , Syndication has been there for some time, but their association with Web 2.0 was not something I was able to apprehend.

As usual, I googled and came across this definition of Web 2.0 from Tim O’Reilly, which kinda of addresses the web 2.0 (more…)

Mungkin suatu kali anda ingin merubah penampilan blog anda, atau karena ingin cari suasana lain agar pengunjung blog anda tidak bosan melihat tampilannya yang itu melulu, selain template yang disediakan Blogger sebenarnya banyak sekali penyedia template untuk blog, baik yang berbayar ataupun yang gratisan tapi tentu saja kita maunya yang gratis, ya gak???
anda bisa mencari melalui Search Engine /Mesin Pencari Google atau Yahoo dengan kata kunci “Free Template Blog” atau kunci kata yang lainnnya.
Maka akan muncul banyak sekali web site atau blog yang menyediakan template blog baik yang dari Indonesia ataupun luar Negeri, Tapi setelah saya telusuri, saya kesengsem pada 2 web penyedia blog template yang menurut saya desainnya keren yaitu Finalsense.com dan geckoandfly.com, dan sekarang mari kita praktekkan cara mengganti penampilan blog anda dengan langkah langkahberikut ini: (more…)

Buat temen-temen yang pengen bikin situs blog gratisan silahkan klik link-link di bawah ini. Caranya gampang … semudah bikin email . Kalo menurut pengalaman, saya merekomendasikan pake http://www.blogger.com/start atau http://wordpress.com atau di http://multiply.com/ Cara ngedaftarnya di wordpress bisa di lihat di http://urip.wordpress.com/2007/02/18/cara-daftar-tuk-bikin-blog-di-wpcom/ Cara ngedaftar di multiply bisa di lihat http://hady82.multiply.com/journal/item/68

Untuk Blogger lebih mudah kalo kita punya account di gmail.com. Bagi yg udah punya friendster bisa juga menggunakan fasilitas bloggnya … tapi blog untuk fs masih banyak kekurangan baik dari layout desain dan fasiltas plugin lainnya.

Berikut daftar situs yg menyediakan blog gratis

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Bandwidth is the amount of data your website visitors can download from your website. You can calculate your bandwidth requirements basing on how big your pages are, and how much people you expect to visit your website.

Let’s take an example. Suppose you have a website where average page size is 2kB, and each page contains graphics of combined size 5kB. Now you expect that your website will have 100 visitors daily, and each visitor will view 3 pages on average. Then you need monthly (2kB + 5 kB) * 100 visitors * 3 pages * 30 days = 63 MB of bandwidth.

When your website exceeds its monthly bandwidth limit, you will need to buy more bandwidth. Therefore you should plan your bandwidth requirements accordingly and not sign up with a company which offers too little of it.

Some hosting companies offer so-called “unlimited” or “unmetered” bandwidth. This means that they do not limit your bandwidth at all. This way you don’t need to worry about exceeding the monthly limit.