ProcessProjects

SEO Explained(The Short Version)

Daniel — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:42:35 +0000

What is all the hype about SEO, Search Engine Optimization and why is it so important for your website? Every week I get phone calls from SEO companies stating that they can get my company’s website on the top of the natural search listings if I give them large sums of money every week. It’s hard to consider when I am at the top of Google, Yahoo and MSN (not to mention a dozen others of my understanding) from my own techniques.

To answer the question above, you first have to understand what the internet is. Unlike our Universe, there are answers. Optimizing techniques and practices may be all in theory, but if your website is in the top three natural search listings, then you’re doing something right. If it’s not, you need to consider a full redesign and reimplementation of your html structure.

Now for some metaphor to put search engines (i.e. Google) into perspective;

Think of a mass of some sort with thousands of millions of tentacles. These tentacles go to the edges of time always stretching and dipping into crevices and spaces hunting for data. It is this data that is content or information. Your website is one of these areas that the tentacles want to explore and feel around picking up the information you are providing assuming it has some value to the growth of the mass that the tentacles are going after. However, your channels must be clutter free and open.

A poorly optimized website is similar to a stuffy nose. Difficult to breath, but the mouth cannot smell. Therefore, you miss the fragrance of the rose garden as you walk through. A properly designed and constructed website has these channels free for the tentacles (or bots) to reach your content.

Fuzion Fundraiser 2010

Daniel — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:41:11 +0000

2010 Update (_dm)

Daniel — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:36:33 +0000

A few websites that have been in the works, and near completion;

1.Brian Haverlock

Sarasota Fine Artist
2.Cahill Connolly

New York Photographer
3.Harvey Milk Festival Sarasota

Annual Sarasota LGBT Festival
4.Daniel Miller

Restructuring of my personal website.
5.American Tin Ceiling Company

Redesign of internal page elements.

SARTQ Invitational Design

Daniel — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:23:43 +0000

SARTQ: Process Exhibition

Daniel — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:38:16 +0000

G.Wiz Science Museum /// March 26-April 25

S/ART/Q, Sarasota’s answer to contemporary visual art, announces new exhibition, PROCESS, opening Friday, March 26 at G.WIZ – The Science Museum, in Sarasota, FL

[Sarasota, FL – February 11, 2010] S/ART/Q will close out season in Sarasota this year with a stellar new exhibition at G.WIZ – The Science Museum (1001 Boulevard of the Arts), opening Friday, March 26. While their last show at a former furniture store on State St. displayed the artists’ finished products in a white-cube gallery setting, their new exhibition, simply titled PROCESS, is a sneak-peak inside the artist’s world, from inspiration to completion. With glimpses into the studio through video, samples of materials and actual vignettes from the artists’ workspaces, S/ART/Q strives to demystify Art as well as the techniques used to make it. The finished artworks will be exhibited alongside these process pieces, bringing the experience of the viewer full-circle. The show will be open through Sunday, April 25 and during this month S/ART/Q will host student tours, panel discussions and demonstrations.

PROCESS: Opening Reception 5-11 p.m., Fri., March 26 and exhibit ongoing through Sun., April 25,
G.WIZ- The Science Museum, 1001 Boulevard of the Arts, 906-1851 or sartq.com, museum admission $9 (Free: Friday, March 26).

About S/ART/Q:
S/ART/Q is a collective of local contemporary artists providing cultural leadership for Sarasota county through exhibitions, fund raisers and community outreach projects. Founded in early 2009, the group consists of 14 artists including painters, sculptors, photographers and new media experts. Maintaining their commitment to the community through collaboration with varied organizations and individuals, this non-profit strives to present contemporary art events of the highest caliber alongside community service programs.

Playing the YouTube Piano

Tobey — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:38:26 +0000

An INTERACTIVE YouTube video from kokokaka. Please wait until the video has loaded and then play away. ★ ★ ★ ★

Browser Pong

Tobey — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:34:23 +0000

Just in case the holiday party you end up at this week doesn’t turn out to be as exciting as you’d hoped, there’s nothing to fear if there’s a computer near, and you bookmark Stewdio’sutterly brilliant use of pop-up windows. Browser Pong’sgift of creativity is undeniably one to share this holiday season.

Happy Celebrating (Linking)!

The Multi-disciplined

Tobey — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:25:26 +0000

One of the more charming aspects of producing creatively in the year 2009, and on the cusp of 2010, is the undeniable feeling that one can make whatever they like, however they like. This feeling is in specific regard to the ability of creatives to ‘cross-over’ into other creative fields (or other productions, altogether), and meddle with their means. And who can blame them, when their passion is directed by a sense of enthrallment and admiration for the spirit of making, the passion can and will take whatever form the admirable has.

A multidisciplinary artist whom manages to not only produce in multiple creative fields, but garner attention within each, is Hisham Bharoocha.

Bharoocha is an artist currently based in Brooklyn, New York. He concentrates on creating music, visual art, and photography. His newest works deal with the melting together of images that happens in the mind when one is meditating, dreaming, day dreaming, or going about their daily lives.

The charming aspect of Bharoocha’s work is piecing all of his different projects together and realizing his personal stylistic undertones run through each. His musical project is known as Soft Circle,and you can listen to one of his tracks below:
Drumbler.mp3

See a compiled portfolio of all his work at his website.

Information Can Be Beautiful

Tobey — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:03:56 +0000

Can this be so?

Can information be beautiful, all on its own?

Besides the fact that beauty is inherently a kind of information, we’d like to take a moment to link you to the admiration we find in the blog Information Is Beautiful.

I like to imagine that the world would be a better place if we were able to readily understand the complexities of our collective systems with the same ease and comprehension that we look at an advertisement. I’ve also imagined that the popularity of visualizing data might some how be helping to develop this imagined ideal. [That's a lot of imagining.]

The above image is a piece regarding the myths surrounding the year 2012. And as their post-link states, you should probably “make up your own mind.”

14 Fingers, 14 Bulbs

Daniel — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:59:46 +0000

Hand Drawn Inaugural Exhibit Poster by Daniel Miller

inside light box