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Spice up a light content website

On October 27, 2012

Does your website have light content and no photos? What is light content? A site that doesn’t have much to say. Your pages may have less than 300 words on them. According to Yoast’s SEO Plugin for WordPress, 300 words is a good number to have on a web page.

What can you do to improve the site?

You need to jazz up the site. One way is to add more photos. Be creative. Photos can help to convey what your company’s products or services are about. With products, you can show them out of the box and being used by a person. If you are selling services, you can demonstrate your services by using photos of your staff or stock photos. For example a client does property maintenance for local homeowners and rental properties, I took a few photos of painting supplies, measuring tape and a toolbox with tools. These photos were adding to help demonstrate a few services that the company provides.

You can also add social media, videos and a way to schedule appointments. In Creating more purpose for content-light websites, Kendra Gaines explains how to make your website more interesting so people will return or suggest your site to friends. This can be a challenge when your site isn’t a blog or magazine.

3 Background patterns taken with a cellphone

By djbrensinger

On August 31, 2012

In Photography

As a developer and photographer, an android phone makes it easy to capture photos wherever you are. You don’t need to remember to take your camera with you because it is always with you. When you find inspiration, you can take a photo. Great photos can happen with a cellphone. You can master cellphone photography.

Bright Light

Most photography tips tell you to get the lighting right. Bright light can make your photo look washed out. You can still get good photos at noon. I got this green leaf when walking at lunch. In this case, the shade of the building helped to minimize bright light of the sun.

Green Leaf with Stripes

Color Variations

The shade of a tree helped to create the variations in color for this metal grate. When the sun breaks through the leaves in the tree, it creates a bright pattern of its own on the grate. You can also see the effect of our weather on metal.

Grate in Waukesha

Texture

This tree has bark that grows in an interesting pattern. Unlike the other trees in the park, this tree’s bark grows in thin strips and seems to separate. Even though the picture was taken at noon, the shade of the tree helps to minimize the sun’s glare and show the unique pattern of the bark.

Bark

Any photo that you take with your cell phone can be a potential background pattern for a web project or shared on the web for others to enjoy. As cellphones become handy replacements for camera, more people can publish their photos on flickr and other photo sharing sites. If you want to do more, you can look for contests or exhibits that focus on cellphone photography.

March brings snow

By djbrensinger

On March 4, 2012

In Miscellaneous, Photography

After our March snow, I took a few pictures around town. The snow had made everything look so pretty.

Maple In Front Yard

Mukwonago Road

Snow on Pond

Snow on Trees

I used my Canon PowerShot and Android to take these pictures. Can you tell the difference?

Photographing your own background patterns

By djbrensinger

On February 20, 2012

In Photography, Web Development

For certain projects, you may want to use a texture. You have two options: buy one or create your own. When you buy, you take a chance that someone else has used it one of their projects. To ensure that your project is unique and interesting, you can photograph your own textures. Vandelay Design explains How to Photograph Your Own Textures.

After reading this article, I was inspired to take photos to use as textures. I used my Android Phone and Canon PowerShot to take the photos. I used the suggestions by Vandelay Design to experiment with photographing textures. Here are a few results from my experiment: