View
109
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
Third lesson of the program created for the Amsterdam Conservatory to help music students to promote on internet.
Citation preview
CVA Web cursus
Day 3Multimedia, interactivity and SEO for
musicians
Why is a blog important?
• Authority
• Enhances your social media strategy
• Content is the king... For SEO
• Content gets people to take action
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu
http://www.rightmixmarketing.com/
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu
How to create a blog in your wordpress.com site and add tags and
categories
How to create a blog(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqxo8dR33JE)
How to add categories and tagshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUiZNE9-R2A
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu
Adding pictures in our site
How do we mesure a picture?
Pixel
stackoverflow.com
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu
• In digital imaging, a pixel, pel, or picture element is a physical point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in an all points addressable display device;
• so it is the smallest controllable element of a picture represented on the screen.
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu
discoveriesandbreakthroughs.org
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu
Image formats
www.funatweb.com
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu
• GIF = Short for Graphics Interchange Format.
• JPG= Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the original name of the committee that wrote the standard.
• PNG = Portable Network Graphics (not supported by all browsers)
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu
GIF
• Very low resolution files for your website
• Transparency
• Limited to 256 colors
• Support animation
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu
JPG
• can be relatively small in size
• They look crisp and beautiful
• support up to 16.7 million colors
• flexible images without large loading times
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu
PNG
• PNG files are lossless, which means that they do not lose quality during editing
• PNG files tend to be larger than jpegs
• PNG files do not support animation
• PNG files were developed to build upon the purpose of gifs.
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu
Which one should I use?
• For most ecommerce situations - JPEGs will be your best bet. They provide the best quality and the smallest file size.
• Never use GIFs for large product images. The file size will be very large and there is no good way to reduce it. Use GIFs for thumbnails and decorative images.
• PNGs can be a good alternative to both JPEGs and GIFS. If you are only able to get product photos in PNG format, try using PNG-8 over PNG-24. PNGs excel at simple decorative images because of their extremely small file size.
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu
Optimization for the web
• Not larger than 70-100 Kb’s
• Be careful with resizing
Tools to use:
www.pixlr.com
For windows users: GIMP 2.8
Videos:Resize: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05MadTlQUp8
Adding pictures and links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akSSUnx8S04
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu
Adding videos
To quickly embed a YouTube video, simply copy the video’s URL from yourweb browser’s address bar
Paste it on a line by itself in your post/page editor (make sure that it isnot hyperlinked): while viewing the video:
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu
To customize the video’s size and settings, use a shortcode. You can do this by copying the video URL:
Then create a shortcode using the format below. Be sure to replace the URL listed here with the URL of your video, and the code is on a line by itself.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A]Video Customization OptionsYou can specify the width and height of the embedded video byadding &w=... or &w=...&h=...to the shortcode. It will automatically adapt to your theme’s content length and give you preferred dimensions.You can disable related videos by appending &rel=0.For example, this shortcode:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A&w=640&h=385]
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu
Homework
• Fix your blog
• Write a daily small post
• Use Pixlr.com to resize some pictures
• Add them to your site
• Add content to your site
• Add at least one customized video
• Improve design
Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu