Okay, this is the wallpaper that is currently on my desktop!
I have it available in one size right now (I will be sure to get some new sizes up soon):

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Use h2 tags for your post titles - Search engines like Google love heading tags. The lower the number in the Header the better. Use h2 tags for all post titles and h3 for sections within your posts/pages.

Make your post titles into links - On archive pages, and on permalink pages, make your post titles link to the permalink page (even though it just link to itself). Have you heard of Google Bombing before? Didn’t think so..

Optimize your Page Titles - Your title tag should contain more than just your blog’s name. It’s a great place to put some keywords in. Try this format: “%the Post Title% - %Your Blog Name.COM%.” Your average post title probably has good keywords relevant to your post, right? For your index/home page, you want something like the name of your blog, and either your tagline (you know, that witty line you came up with!) or just a list of keywords that are relevant to your site.

Change Your Permalink Structure - If you use Wordpress, do not use the default permalink style or ?p=page-number. If fact, the best way is to input a custom structure field such as: /%category%/%postname%/.

Optimize Post Slugs - Many blogging platforms, such as Wordpress, offer a “Post Slug” feature that allows you to tweak the URL of the post your working on. When using you can change name of post to something SEO friendly.

Use Meta Tags - While meta tags don’t have as much value placed on them as they used to, there still is some, and it’s a good idea to use them.

ALT and Link Your Logo - Make sure your logo links to your blog’s homepage. This is more of a usability thing than SEO advice, but it’s still a good idea. On a SEO note, make sure you use an “alt” tag on the image, adding something such as the blog’s name to it.

I spent a good part of the week working over at an online beauty supply store BeautyChoice.com. While working a little on one of their satellite site’s, I spent some time building some affiliate banners. I put them together in Photoshop and used some of imagery from there website. Check some of them out over at my Graphic Design page.

I have been working on my personal blog: http://thefrosty.com. The site was for my personal portfolio before I migrated over to this site. So there is not much content on it, as I removed all of the sites I did.

I spent about two (2) hours browsing through an old hard drive for flyer designs I did for Inebriated Inc. club promotion. So head on over to my graphic design page, once there you can view about 50 assorted flyer designs for promotional events Inebriated Inc did from 2003 till 2006.

I also was able to find some of my animated banners (animated .gif’s). They range in sizes, and are from different events and advertisements I have done over the past 4 years.

I know I have more graphics to put up, but this is the starting point.

So I was browsing around online for some new code. I wanted to change the rollover state of the navigation menu depending on which page you were on. So I did a search for Wordress dynamic class. That let me to Elliot Jay Stocks, where he had an article about dynamic body classes. I wasn’t wanting to change the body class or id of my site, but it was in the right direction.

After reading the article and browsing the comments I saw a link to Conditional Tags on Wordpress’ Codex. After searching for the terms I was going to use I had to write the PHP code. I went over to php.net to visit the code for if statements.

I used the following php structured code:

<?php
if ($a > $b) {
    echo "a is bigger than b";
    $b = $a;
}
?>

To apply the code to my page I inserted;

if (is_page('about')) {

Now where is_page asks the web site if the page that is loaded is the page titled about, then do what ever code it followed, such as:

if (is_page('about')) {
echo "page_item_current";

Now if the page about is loaded inside the browser, echo (write)

class="page_item_current"

So lets see what comes next.

if (is_page('about')) {
echo "page_item_current";
} else {
echo "page_item";
}

So in the final code you will see the first line asking if the current page loaded it about, and telling the page to write (echo) the class page_item_currentBut, if the current page you are on is not the page about, then just write page_item.

The final code will be placed in between the class quotes where ever you need to use Conditional Tags.

my final code:

<li class="<?php
if (is_page('about')) {
    echo "page_item_current";
} else {
    echo "page_item";
}
?>"><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/about" class="menu-about"><span>about me</span></a></li>

The next step is changing you CSS in your stylesheet to display your current page.

My CSS code looked like this:

#menu a:hover {
background-position: left bottom;
}
#menu .page_item_current a {
background-position: left bottom;
}