kylebennett

Comment other peoples blogs with links to your own

Link to other peoples blogs in your own posts (called Pingback/Trackback in Wordpress, don't know if Blogspot has it) but every other blog post you link too, will automatically link back

There is a way, it's called seam carving

Google "liquid resizer" and quite a few programs come up, google "seam carving" for more info about it

Google doesn't use Meta keywords so I wouldn't even bother

It does however, rank any words in the <title> tag quite highly, so I usually fill these up with relevant keywords, and use different tags/keywords in every page, don't use the same ones for everything as this can affect your ranking too

In regards to Meta description, I don't use these and neither does google when it comes to affecting search results, google uses the meta description tag only to show users on its site the description under your link, if you don't have one it'll use the first few lines of text instead

An XML sitemap will be handy for google but isn't a nessecity for it to crawl your pages, if

When you're ready, add your url to google via

http://www.google.com/addurl/

and it'll do it in the next crawl, just don't expect instant results, the problem with search engine optimisation is it can take a fair while to see results, and there is loads of things that can affect your ranking.

Also, you're website isn't search engine friendly anyway, there isn't any text what so ever par the bio, everything is pictures, and worse, without even any alt text tags for search engines to read.

You have potential for a really nice website there, just anti-alias the logo, make the strips the same size as the bottom ones so it all fits on the page central, have ALL the menu links at the top so you don't need to scroll down to contact you, and have everything as text links, not pictures. Also a little briefer version of the bio on the front page would be helpful for search engines (i.e your name, location etc so it'll show up better in searches for "photography in location" etc), and also I wouldn't change background colours for the bio page either, keep everything the same.

Another vote for Western Digital here from me, and I've just tested out excatly what you're doing here

I've had a 4 year old WD drive thats been sat on the shelf with all my old data on (I hate wiping drives, I just buy new ones when they fill up and retire the original), and I plugged it back in last month and it works perfectly.

That is a VERY poor website from the point of updating etc, even if you where fluid in web design, you'd still have to use the Skew / Perspective tool on twice on EVERY new photo you wish to upload because of that stupid gallery layout.

Something more updatable could be done in Flash, and even keep the same Skew/Perspective effect on the Gallery without requiring multiple versions of the same image, but this would be expensive from a web designer.

The best idea for someone without much web design knowledge is to just use one of the image collection/editing programs which can generate a gallerys, I'm pretty sure I have seen people mention them on here however I can't think of any names off the top of my head :)

I agree with above, use thumbnail images to load a larger image. Using small thumbnails (not the original image shrunk down into thumbnail dimensions in internet explorer, actual separate thumbnails) would also be good with something like LiteBox to load the larger ones only when they're called for

Also, I don't like using "Courier" font for websites, looks too much like an old typewriter in my opinion and not inline with the minimalistic style of the design, if you insist of a serif font, "Garamond" and "Times New Roman" are better choices, although I prefer sans-serif fonts when designing my websites personally

Duplicate the layer twice

On the middle layer go Filter > Blur > Surface Blue (Radius 15, Threshold 10 or there abouts

Set the top layers blending mode to "Linear Light" and go Filter > Other > High Pass (Radius 0.5-3.0 just until you get fine skin texture back basically)

Merge the 2 layers and use a layer mask to just show the skin

Anyone good any good reccomendations for times to use with Fotospeed FD10 film

developer and various Ilford films? (I use HP5, FP4, Pan F and Delta 3200)

I know about the Massive Dev Chart etc, was just wondering if anyone had some

real life reccomended times? I don't really have the time or money to

experiment as I'm a student and only have limited darkroom time alongside my

other subjects

HP5 we use mainly at school and 9 minutes @ 1:9 solution seems to work brilliantly

I tried some Delta 3200 with 12 minutes @ 1:9, which was half way between the

Fotospeed reccomended times (11 or 13 minutes low/high contrast) but it still

came out rediculously low contrast.

I'm about to try some PanF film and was wondering if anyone had some personally

reccomended times in general for all these films?

Thanks,

Kyle