Helping You Rock Out Your Site Like A Rockstar!

Most people when they see my site, it is filled with a lot of things to do. From my literature and webmaster article, and even my graphics, there are literally a lot of things. However, I tend to forget when I am posting new stuff to write about it on my blog. One type of graphic I offer is one I have not talked about much, which is my pixel patterns.

The patterns are a collection I have added to since 2003. Some of them I used on my first domain that I ever had! I am really proud of them and I am always working to make more. I will be working on this section and adding a download monitor to each of them and putting each of the backgrounds in a zip file. I think it is better to do that too. I recently found out through Twitter that some of my work had been redistributed on another pixel pattern site and was irate, especially since there was no credit given. As a note, with the pixel patterns, the colors are allowed to be altered, but please do not claim as your own.

I already have a dozen new ones to add and some older patterns too. When I add them, I will update you. I suggest subscribing to my RSS feed to keep updated. *Hint* There may be more WordPress layouts available for download too!

I added 2 more Computer Desktop Wallpapers to Blondish.net. Both are simple, but I think they are cute. They are offered for download in 3 resolution sizes (800×600, 1024x768x and 1280×1024), and are free to use. If you cut them up and use for graphics, please remember to give credit back.

One wallpaper is called ‘Ice Cream Cone’, and the other is ‘Paper And Markers’. So far Blondish.net offers 5 wallpapers, but since the beginning of February 2009, I have added the majority of them.

If you have any ideas for wallpapers, I can do requests, even fanart for celebrities, but only if they are using my vector method. I will not use the photos and do blends. I know most are girly, but most of the people who do visit Blondish.net are between 14 to 45. If you are a guy visiting, do comment here and make a request. I would like to face the challenge of making other types of graphics too. Again, just in case you missed it, you can view and download these wallpapers in the Wallpaper section.

As for more site news, there are a few WordPress Tutorials in the articles section of Blondish.net for your perusal.

The vectors tutorials I mentioned on the way will be ready this week. As usual, if you would like me to try to take a stab at creating a tutorial, I would be happy to hear about it.

Also, I may soon be a guest blogger over at WPThoughts. I encourage you to check it out as I think it is a promising site. I answer more han a dozen questions about WordPress in Twitter on a daily basis. Might as well write more about it, right?

As for Blogrity.com, I am thinking of making it a Blog directory. However, it will be using WordPress and submissions will be hand done. I would like to make a page on each site and then the page have stats like Google PR, Alexa Rank, and Technorati rank, Ability to leave a comment about the site and possibly a site rank and maybe editor rating. That is just the beginning of my ideas for it. I am thinking that perhaps the first 500 links would be free and the rest would be $5 submission fee. I just renewed it for its 2nd year and until now, I did not know what I wanted to do. What do you think?

I have had tutorials in the past, usually basic coding, but never on my graphics. I seem to give a lot of graphics, which I have been told time and time again. That is quite okay with me. I have well over 800 different graphics available on this site for download and I am damn proud of each and every one no matter if I recently created them, or created them over five years ago when I first started out. For anyone new to Blondish, or has not visited my site since its early GeoCrappy days, I have offered layouts, background patterns, blinkies (as siggies – signatures), emoticons (smilies) and much more. However, I always get “How did you do that?”

Well, I started with the Flower Vexel. Since I am designing the theme for Rouged, I will be vectoring another picture of myself. However, I have also been writing a tutorial on how to do certain parts like skin, eyes, and hair. Of course, this is all with my style of vectoring.

I hope in the next couple days when revealing each tutorial, that they will be helpful and you use your imagination when creating the vector. Art is always something that each person perceives differently. With vectors, some like smooth looking vectors, while people like myself like some difference between the layers. Of course, with the tutorials I am also going to be introducing a PNGs section of graphics that I made by vectoring.

I noticed a huge change the other day on the Alexa rank for Blondish.net. It was at over 1.6 million for a while, but changed to 445,040 the other day. I am very happy about this. I am still wondering about my Google Page Rank as it use to be a 5 before my huge hiatus during last year. Well, it was not much of a hiatus… more like I barely blogged. I now blog daily as there are plenty of things that I believe worth sharing and discussing.

It may have been the php scripts I offer, or being active on Twitter? Or perhaps it was being able to get around to some great blogs and leave meaningful comments? However, I did find in the past year, some great sites with good PR either lost PR because they also did not keep up on their online presence, or some sites just faded away. What I need are good quality link exchanges with sites that have great page rank, but who would stretch out and link with me. I like to link exchange with sites I like, or will just link for the heck of it. However, I need sites that have better Page Rank than I do. Anyone interested in link exchanging?

I was just talking with another on Twitter about WordPress and I had my dashboard open. I noticed at the top that there was an upgrade available for WordPress 2.7.1. I was able to automatically upgrade to 2.7.1 on a click! I was really happy about this as I have been wanting a version of WordPress to do this thing just like you can automatically install plug-ins.

So far, the upgrade is going great. It is awesome that it is the first time I did not have to go into my Cpanel and upgrade via Fantastico.

The update changes from 2.7 to 2.7.1 also include 68 fixes. I encourage you to drop by and check them out. You may have been fighting with issues that were covered. If not, submit a ticket there.

For those who use Blondish.net, I encourage you to subscribe to my feed. The site is updated constantly whether new pages or new blog posts. In subscribing, you will be informed of updates as fast as they are posted.

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I also would love feedback or comments from you about my site. What have you learned? What would you like to see? Your comments are appreciated.

I do want to mention that I will be introducing a second personal blog soon on focuses that I did not find that fit here. I have many interests, but Blondish is a site that I have cultivated more into my projects and online based stuff. I rarely talk about my personal life any more as it seems not to fit well here. The site used will be one I used as a different type of site before. My plan is that I will feature a few articles from there in the sidebar. That site is not necessarily to focus on traffic, but for those whom I have known for some time that I relate to and can share those interests there.

I will be blogging regularly there as well as here at Blondish.net.

As a last note, I have started to blog more with Host Solutions too. I have redone the packages and currently offer 5GB diskspace and 25GB bandwidth for $25 a year. I am very happy with how my server has been. In a couple more months will have been 1 year with the company I leased the server through and no downtime has occurred. So, if you are moving or having issues, feel free to go take a look there. If you are a web designer that is looking to find a place to feature your portfolio, you can contact me and we can work something out too as I am about to start updating the design section there at Host Solutions.

Shout out to Chris Brogan for the original idea of writing this. And for those who do subscribe, thank you. If you do, please comment and tell me. I can return the favor too.

I have not done much about updating the Wallpapers section, so I finally got in gear an created a two different ones. They are called Mustang and Lily. Both of the vectors were also suggestions from a few of you readers to make as some liked my other theme for the site and others liked the lily from the vector tutorial I recently revealed. These wallpapers come in three resolution sizes: 800×600, 1024×768, and 1280×1024. You can download them from the Wallpapers section, and yes, THEY ARE FREE.

I will have more wallpapers in the near future, but I also have a long list of things to put on the site. I will even take requests but I will only do celebrity wallpapers using my vectoring. I do not put celebrity photos up anymore here since it seems to be a big no-no because of copyright issues. If you noticed, I also am trying to keep track of how many downloads. It has been a great way to see what you all find useful from my site. As a side update and example: PHPads has been downloaded over 714 times in the past month and PHPurl has been downloaded over 145 times in the past 2 weeks.

Please remember that The Listing is open and replaced 2 different webdirectories. In less than a week, over 50 sites have joined. Also, I hope to see some of you all at Blogtopsite, especially those who were there in the past.

Big shout out to Amanda of Autism and The World Around Me for plugging The Listing. Any help is always appreciated. The site has some very informative links on autism and is in general, a personal blog. Anyone who can relate or knows someone with autism should find this site enjoyable and intriguing. Also, if you are curious to learn more, she can help you find out more information. She has two boys in which both are in school and doing well. Amanda seems friendly so I recommend you to click over sometime to visit.

As the site rolls through the end of January, there has been a lot of updates.

• Re-organizing of pages within the site
• Two scripts: PHPads and PHPurl
• One emoticon extra images set for my 15 x 15 round smilies
• Backgrounds that are great for Twitter
• Open of Re-URL.me
• Major tweaks on Host Solutions
• Blog daily and sometimes twice a day
• Opening of The Listing (to replace Pixelled Listings)

Throughout the month I have notices the rise in traffic and there are a few I want to thank.

• 1. My Twitter followers that have retweeted or visited about my site of their own accord.
• 2. Charity – She has a couple sites and has been blogging for some time. She has also kept up with my site and I have to give her kudos lately since I blog almost every day. I recommend that you all visit her sites and read what she has. She has a network of sites and a very good person to know. She also has other sites called Gothic Peach and Basically Geeky. Gothic Peach is a site that is one of her personal sites. Basically Geeky is a tech site that involves SEO, gadgets, blogging, and other tech stuff that will help others.

There are a lot of other new things to come in literature, graphics, and articles in February. However there are just a few left in January to reveal too! In fact, I will be blogging quite soon about a vector tutorial. Some of my visitors have been begging me to at least completed one, so I have decided to oblige.