Well, today is the end of my “How to Build Traffic to Your Art Website CD giveaway“, and the big winner is newsletter subscriber, Niki Jackson! A big congratulations goes out to her…I hope she enjoys the CD.

If you’re interested in the CD, I’ll be making it available for sale on September 25th. Along with the CD you will also get the following:

• a written transcript of the CD with a list of resources and SEO terms
• instructional videos on how to use Free Keywords and Wordtracker for keyword research
• an instructional video on meta tags, alt tags, and title tags for web pages and how to use them

Starting tomorrow through September 25th, newsletter subscribers are eligible for an “Early Bird” discount. If you’re already a subscriber, look for information about the discount in this week’s newsletter.

If you’re not yet a subscriber and you want to be eligible for the “Early Bird” discount, simply subscribe to the newsletter by filling out the subscription form on the right or by visiting this page between now and September 25th.

Well, I’ve gotten a such a great response from the teleseminar I did in July on search engine optimization I decided to turn my first ever teleseminar into my first ever CD! To celebrate this, I’ll be giving away a free CD to one of my newsletter subscribers! In addition to the CD, I’ll include the following:

• a written transcript of the CD with a list of resources and SEO terms
• instructional videos on how to use Free Keywords and Wordtracker for keyword research
• an instructional video on meta tags, alt tags, and title tags for web pages and how to use them

So how do you enter the giveaway? Simply subscribe to the newsletter by filling out the subscription form on the right or by visiting this page.

I’ll be announcing the winner of the giveaway on September 16th on the blog…so keep an eye out!

Well, if you’ve tried to visit the blog on Friday and over the weekend, you may have discovered that it’s been down. A change in policy and some upgrades at the web hosting company combined to shut down two of my blogs. I spent the weekend scrambling to find a new host and transfer my sites to the new hosting service.

I think that everything is in hand now, though there may be some glitches here and there. If you run across any, please let me know!

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After about a week and half of work and testing, I’ve finally completed the redesign of The Crafted Webmaster. Along with a brand new theme, and new layout, I’ve also added some nifty new plug-ins that will make it easier for visitors to look around on the blog.

So any comments? Complaints? Suggestions? Leave a comment!

Whenever I’m writing these posts, I’m always worried about whether I’m being too geeky in my terminology while I’m writing about a particular topic. I’m always trying to walk that fine line between assuming that readers are familiar with typical Internet and technology related terms and just going the other way assuming that readers are completely clueless about things like RSS, wikis, blogs, and DNS. I don’t want to offend the savvier readers and have them roll their eyes and think “Does she think I’m an idiot?” when I explain what CSS is. Nor do I want to have less knowledgeable readers get perplexed when I write about podcasting and XML. So in order to help get those of you who aren’t quite up to speed on all the geeky terms, I’ve decided have one post a day in which I’ll pick a Internet-related term and try to explain it in plain English. I call it the Geeky Term of the Day.

For the inagural launch of the Geeky Term of the Day, I’ll be explaining what RSS is which will lead into a whole Geeky Term series that will focus on “Web 2.0 terms. If you have a term that you’ve been wondering about, please feel free to drop me an email and suggest it for the next term of the day. Those among you who are technology geniuses can feel free to skip these posts, or post a comment when you think the definition is full of manure or you have something better to add. Either way, I’m hoping that everyone will get something useful out of it. Enjoy!