Real Photos of Fairies

I was forwarded on an email from Elizabeth, who was in contact with a woman who took some real photos of fairies. Do you believe in fairies? I do. My friend told me Shannon from www.TheMagdaleneAwakening.com went out with a friend in her backyard and the beach and chanted "Fairies, Fairies, Fairies" over and over again until the showed up. Looks like they did!

It's pretty interesting.

Check out the slideshow...


These photos are not doctored up in photoshop in anyway except to crop and brighten them up. They are so awesome I just had to show them off.

Professional Logo Design for Holistic Businesses

When you are starting a small business, eventually you are going to need a logo to brand your company. I specialize in professional web design, graphic design and logo design for the small business - mostly holistic and alternative medicine practitioners. Here are two new logos I completed...



This was actually for an energy healer in Palm City, Florida. She wanted a golden lotus for her paypal buttons on her site...check out http://www.skyshealing.com

This logo was actually created for me as a website I am developing to sell holistic products. I wanted to keep the same brand at Third Eye Studio. This one is for Third Eye Vision.

Web Conferencing and Pay per View of your workshops, online classes and more...

Are you looking to take your business to the next level technology wise and reach a wider audience? Now you can. I connected with a new company that can do:

• Live Streaming Broadcasts – This is great for online workshops, lectures, classes etc. You can now sell your broadcasts as pay per view off of your website! You can also interact and take questions from your viewers with live chat during the broadcast. How cool is that!
  
  
  
• Video Conferencing
  
  
• Video Emailing
  
  
• Video Newsletters
  

All you will need is a web cam hooked up to your computer. This new system makes it easy to post video broadcasts to your website or send out as an email. Training & customer support is available as well as affordable packages customized to your needs. Please contact me so I can tell you more…IntuitiveInternet@gmail.com

Seamless Photo sharing software and website

Hi, I came across this solution while looking for a site that people can upload photos and make comments on them, make it private, or not. It looks like a great way to share your photos online, promote your event, show your products or services...etc.

Talking about Web Design, how to get a site, how to design it....

Hey, I was on the Joyful Light Hour on Thursday, April 2, 2009 talking about what I do, web design and graphic design. I tend to help about holistic businesses so the hosts thought I would make a good guest...I also designed their website...check it out...I was a little nervous but it was fun...they laugh alot...

Bonnie and Gary's website is at http://www.reysofthelight.com

Custom Carrot Cake Baker in West Palm Beach and how to use meta tags on a webpage

I found out this weekend that one of my local clients is at the top of google for “carrot cake in west palm beach”. I thought that was pretty cool to know. It means I chose the right phrases for her meta tags, although meta tags are not really all they are cracked up to be, they work pretty well for local markets.

My friend and web design client Roxanne invited me over for a delectable lunch at her house this weekend and I met her friend Janet there. We talked about all sorts of things but it came up that Roxanne was searching for certain phrases in google to see if her website would come up. She was delighted to find she was first for “carrot cake in West Palm Beach”.

Meta tags are not everything, but if your target market is pretty localized, it’s a really good thing to use the right phrases in the website code to get you to come up where you need to be. The title tag is important. This is the tag that will show up in the reverse bar of someone’s browser when they go to your page and it helps to put your key phrases in there. Here is Roxanne’s title tag and probably how she got the number one spot for carrot cake in West Palm Beach.

<title>Cake Baker, Carot Cake Baker, Breakers in Palm Beach, Children's book author Roxanne Birney in West Palm Beach, Florida</title>

So whenever someone is looking for custom made carrot cakes for a wedding or event, Roxanne comes up on the first page of google. This phrase is also repeated on the webpage so it’s a double whammy!

The description code is important as well. Here is Roxanne’s description tag for her products page.

<meta name="description" content="Roxanne bakes delicious cakes for private parties and weddings and also wrote a children's book, plus much more...." />

I won’t go into the key word tags, since from what I have read, the search engines don’t even read them anymore. Personally, I put them in there just in case since old habits die hard. Here is her keyword tag.

<meta name="keywords" content="positive discipline, disciplineearly childhood, child, children, kids, child development speaker, child behavior, speaker, pre-k, kindergarten, teacher, keynote speakers,speaker, aggression, conflict, parenting, brain research, childcare,guidance, power struggles, rituals, relationship building, infants,toddlers, problem solving " />

The title and description tags of a webpage are not as important as they used to be, but they do help. One of the best ways to get a higher ranking in the search engine is really just to have good, descriptive content. Another is having lots of inbound links from other relevant websites pointing to your website pages. So, if Roxanne had her website link on www.allrecipes.com or www.cooks.com, or even the The Breakers in West Palm Beach, since she is local, she would get a higher ranking in the search engines. It’s more about promoting your website than using the right keywords, but it does help and Roxanne’s website is an example of this.

So try it, google “carrot cake in West Palm Beach” and see what comes up…

By the way, the cake really is that good, as you can see from the pics from our garden lunch.

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Chucklehead Music

I have no idea why, but this band name popped into my head today. I used to listen to them in the early nineties when I was going to school in New Haven, Connecticut. Funk music was making a big comeback at that time and I was into Funkadelic, Parliment....George Clinton...but these guys were sort of local to the northeast.

Chucklehead Official Blog

Dowsing and New Projects for Web Design

I have to say, I meet the most interesting people and ideas during my career as a graphic and web designer. Since I tend to specialize in holistic businesses, I get exposed to all kinds of different people and techniques.

Today, I met with a new client in his office to redesign and simplify his raw food website…www.RawFoodLlife.com. In an effort to be fair to both parties and come to an agreement on work and payment, my client took out his trusty dowsing rod to get answers to our project. I thought it pretty cool. As we were talking, he dowsed the whole conversation. I guess we came to a good agreement since he seemed happy with the result. He then used the dowsing rod on me and concluded I have very strong energy, especially in my third eye....they don't call me Third Eye Studio for nothing...

What exactly is dowsing? From what I seen of it, it is using a pendulum, a stick, or a rod to divine answers to questions or find to objects or water. Apparently, this tool connects us to the unconscious mind to find. Here is a good article on dowsing…

What is dowsing?

Get a book on dowsing...

Everybody has their own set of tools to get answers and make the right decision. I like to use astrology and intuitive cards to keep me on the right track and do things at the correct time. I find using your intuition a very practical skill that more people should access. It is there for everybody and just makes your days a little bit easier.