Monday, December 29, 2008

Google SEO tips

I'm learning new things on how to make your page SEO friendly. How to get ranking etc. I'm very sure what i know is not even a fraction of how google search works. But here's an interesting thing I learnt. When you search - results are listed based on your location. if you are competing in international market and your primary audience are US based then, there is a way to get results listed like how it it viewed by a user with US IP.

After the results are listed, in the address bar - at the end add &gl=us (google location = united states) like wise you can add relevant country shortforms 'ca -canada, au-australia, in-india'. You can get a sense of your competitors in specific to that market useful when it comes to adwords.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Useful links to PDF convertors, Screenshot capture tool

Here are some good links that I want to share with everyone.

Taking print screen from movie clip:
I wanted a software that will help me take screenshots from a movie file. Was testing a lot of freewares and finally found the solution in Frameshots. An awesome tool for taking screenshots from movie clips.

PDF convertor: If you want to convert any file to a pdf file just try primo it is super good. Uses print command to convert any file to a pdf file

PDF to word convertor: The freeware itself is called Free PDF to Word Doc convertor.

PDF split and merge: I had to include a wrapper design to a pdf user manual. The user manual had a wrapper design which was not very impressive. I used Adolix Split and Merge PDF. It was very intuitive. Was able to separate the wrapper from the existing pdf and included my design which was saved in the form of a pdf.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Inspirational site for some great color and layout ideas

Long time since I blogged. Official and personal work kept me totally busy. I have been working on some interesting things offlate. I will talk about it in detail when I get the time :).
But first do check out http://bestwebgallery.com/ I keep going to this side with no brief in mind. Whenever I feel stuck with design, layout, some radical idea this site does help. Some absolutely off beat ideas are there.

Post a comment if it was useful to you as well.