Online Advertising

There are several really good websites to learn more about online advertising and advertising
specifications. One of the easiest ads to place is a text search engine ad. Google offers this service through their Adwords Service and Overture offers text ads on MSN, Yahoo, and CNN among other sites.

One of the best sites to graphical ad specifications is Yahoo! Ad Center. The International Advertising Bureau also has a Standards and Guidelines page which is very similar to the requirements of Yahoo! ads. Sitepoint also has an excellent article on Trends in Online Ad Design.

Want to keep up with the movies and tv shows on Ark. cox cable?

You can do this by going to http://www.tvguide.com and sign up to see what cable you use. After this every time you want to check the tv schedule all you have to do is sign in with your email address. The best thing about this is that it is FREE. I love to see what old and new movies are going to be on tv so that I can tape them to watch later.

Weather Alert!!

I was looking for a good web source for weather and found http://www.wunderground.com/. It is a very user friendly web page and what I like about is you can find information just on your county. it gives you the morning and night weather and a weekly focast. Check it out!

Electoral Vote Predictor

If you are interested in following who is really going to win the 2004 Presidential election, you want to check outelectoral-vote.com. The site tracks state polls to determine who is going to win the electoral college instead of the popular vote with national polls.

Yay! I made a post

First... congratulations to me for successfully making a post. Supposedly a picture of me with my mom was posted on the www.texarkana.com website this weekend. I worked Race for the Cure. I do not know if it is really there, but even so, this is a good website to check out restaurants and things to do in texarkana. It is almost the same distance from arkadelphia as little rock, so OBU students sometimes go there to hang out on the weekends. So check it out the next time you and your friends are bored.

"The Search Engine That Isn't a Verb, Yet",

The New York Times published an article about yahoo and it's competition with Google. The author implied that Yahoo is somewhat jealous of Google's status as a verb. Terry S. Semel took over as chief executive of Yahoo in 2001 and since has been making great strides, outpacing MSN and AOL in many areas. Many have come to see Google as Yahoo's big rival. Yahoo was founded in 1994 and most people considered it a search engine. But Yahoo has relied on Google search results. In 2004, Yahoo finally replaced these results with its own search engine, using a robot called Slurp to read web pages. Yahoo has done much to portray itself as an all-in-one package with email, music, search, and news information. But Google is planning to unlease it's own free email, gmail. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the future.

Good clip art source

I recently found a great clip art site: http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us
This site is helpful if you are trying to find some good clip art really fast for a site or something else you are designing. I just used it to make some invitations last week, and I can see how it could have good potential for designing sites as well. Hope this helps someone! :-)

Scholarship search

I am an independent student here at Ouachita Baptist University and being my fifth year I don't have the same scholarships. I went here to find some scholarships available. There are some quite interesting ones. If you are interested you can go to http://fastweb.monster.com/index.ptml

EXTREME!

Teton Gravity Research! One of the best extreme sports filming company out there. They cover everything from surfing to kayaking. Their web site is easy to get around on and holds a "clip of the week." There are a lot of photos, videos, and stories to adventure through. If you get a chance take a look. http://www.tetongravity.com

Taking the Internet on the Road

I found an article in the Dallas Morning News that said more states are beginning to put web addresses on licence plates instead of the state slogan. Pennsylvania has the state's official web page on its plates, West Virginia plates have its official tourism website, and Washington DC has jumped on the bandwagon as well. We'll see how long it is before other states decide to follow this trend as well.

Rip, sample, share without restrictions

Several pop music stars are releasing a new compilation album without the traditional copyright restrictions. “The Wired CD: Rip. Sample. Mash. Share” will hit homes and newstands this week with copies of this month's Wired magazine. What is different about this album is that it is being released under the Creative Commons copyright license that is offered as an alternative to full copyright privileges. The creative commons license was developed by Internet Law guru Lawrence Lessig as a way to allow the creator to develop their own unique copyright restrictions rather than following the strictly intepreted never-ending U.S. Copyright Law.

Because newer isn't always better

One of my friends recently told me about one of his favorite sites, Oldversion.com. This site is pretty cool because you can download any previous edition of files such as AIM, itunes, or Internet Explorer. This helps out people that can't run the latest version of a program, or those that liked features in an older version. Go check it out.

My church's website redesign

My home church in Fort Worth, Texas recently paid someone to come in and redesign the church's website. The new site is definately a dramatic improvement on the previous website that we had. The site is definately user friendly with a pleasant color scheme and design layout. It is a good example of how a really poorly done website can be transformed into a much better one. Please visit it at http://www.northfortworth.org

Need a job?

I found a website that's very similar to monster.com and has lots of different job-related searches. (I looked up web desiging since we're all on our way to becoming pro webmasters) Employer's can submit a request for a job or search through the many resumes online. If you're looking for a job you can find freelance or full time work, submit your resume online, or just search through tons of jobs. They use a bidding system that's very unique. I'm not sure I like it as much as monster .com -see what you think. Click here