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Adobe Photoshop 101
Advanced Adobe Photoshop

This course covers the detailed tactics of web marketing and advertising, how to apply them to your business, and the latest tools and techniques to use in an ever-changing medium. We will discuss how to use Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest to promote your brand ethically and honestly – without the harsh marketing undertones, how to decipher Google Analytics, what tools you’ll need (and what you don’t), and much more!

Schedule

March 11th – March 25th (You will be able to access the materials and receive instructor assistance during this time.)

Live Session

April 1st, 7pm Mountain Time

Materials Needed

There are no special materials required, though it is suggested you have a Google account.

Prerequisites

There is no previous knowledge required for this class.

Instructor

The instructor for this course is April Durham, owner of Creative Girl Media. April has two degrees, one in Advertising and one in TV and Digital Media Production, as well as over 4 years of experience in the online market. She currently works from home full time designing blogs and websites, as well as teaching others how to do the same!

Price

$75 USD per student

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Nicole Bullock is a jet-setter, pop-culture junkie, social media enthusiast, search engine marketer and seasoned blogger. She is the social media manager for DegreeSearch.org, where she interacts with DegreeSearch’s followers and members of the higher education community. She has an extensive background in search engine optimization, corporate blogging, and serves on the leadership board for the Social Media Club of Salt Lake City.

Her perspective in search engine optimization is unique because she is a blogger first, SEO second. In February 2012, she underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, and has been candidly sharing her 120+ pound weight loss journey with her friends and followers at Beauty and the Bypass. In her free time, she loves to travel, attend conferences and social media events, and writes on her personal blog, Cute Culture Chick.

You have ordered The Blog Designer Workshop, a four-part series that is delivered to your inbox 24 hours after each class has occurred.  You can expect your purchase to arrive on the following dates:

Week 1:  September 16th

Week 2:  September 23rd

Week 3: September 30th

Week 4:  October 7th

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us!

January 18, 2011 By BDN Administrator

Hi, everyone!  I’ve collected a few links and tips for you Blogger users.  Hope you find some of them to be helpful.

1. Add a horizontal drop down menu in Blogger.

2. How to widen the new Blogger templates greater than 1000px from Dawn by Design

I worked with a food blogger recently that needed plenty of room for the food photos she spends so much time crafting. I was setting her up with Blogger’s new Simple template which allows you a maximum width of 1000px from the template designer. I found an area of code where you can define a width larger than 1000px.

*I don’t at this time have tips for this in templates other than the Simple one.

3. Complete SEO guide for Blogger templates from MagzNetwork Solution

Lots of people are switching from Blogger to WordPress lately. One of the things bloggers love about WordPress is the SEO optimization. It is easy to add “behind the scenes” meta data to each post or page in WordPress. Blogger? Not so much. Actually, not at all! This link will show you a little bit that you CAN do to help things along.

4. Forcing text to go underneath your photo.

There are times when I don’t want my blog post text to wrap around my inserted image, which is the default alignment in Blogger. I went and found an easy way to force the text to start beneath your photo.

First, you’ll want to successfully upload an image into your post editor. Second, if you are not already in the HTML mode, then switch over to it. All of the code in the image below is just for a photo. You’ll want to copy the parts in red and paste them below the photo’s code.

Your final code will look like this:

5.  Designer Blogs has a tutorial for uploading larger images in Blogger that is helpful for those times the default Blogger sizes are not serving your needs very well.

August 23, 2011 By BDN Administrator

If you like to make your own social networking icons,  use these silhouettes with transparent backgrounds as an easy way to extract the logos of your favorite social sites!  Just click the image for a larger size, and right click to save to your computer.

Post Edit:  To use your custom icons, you will need to save the images to your own site (for self-hosted sites), or a place like Photobucket.com.  Copy the code below, and replace the capital letters with the URL of your social site, the URL (or Direct Link) of your image, and the name of your image.  Then copy the entire code and paste into a widget on your sidebar.  Repeat for all social icons!

June 4, 2013 By BDN Administrator

We hope you keep up the momentum after last month’s blogging challenge!  Everyone who participated is automatically entered to win a prize from the featured businesses we’ll be sharing in June.  Didn’t participate?  No problem!  You’ll have other ways to enter as the giveaways take place.

Also, if you noticed the lack of workshops currently posted – have no fear!  Relish the first weeks of summer break because we have some fantastic classes planned for the summer.  Time to get your learn on!

Lastly, we’ve implemented a new way to share each blog post. Just use the drop-down box below and tell your bloggy friends the good news!