Silly stuff for Fun

Send your Valentine a Flipbook Kiss!

Remember Flip Books?  We all made them as kids So what if you could make your own Valentine flipbook for FREE and Print it.

Well, there is a program called Flipbook Printer and of course it is FREE

Flipbook Printer is a program that lets you make your own printed "Flipbooks" from avi movie files and print them on business cards.

It's the ultimate in low-tech movie making fun!

Want a version for the Mac?  Try Movie Flipper

Stuff for Kids 

Billy Bear4Kids.com This is a Great Site…One worth linking to.  All kinds of Holiday and Everyday stuff for Kids to Download and Learn.

All kinds of free Valentine stuff for kids (and kids at heart) including books to download, online games to play, free love notes fonts, valentine paper you can print, gift box templates, word games, storybooks, cards…and more.

Valentine Coloring Pages for Kids:  Here you will find all kinds of Holiday Coloring Projects for Kids!  Suitable for printing.  This makes a great link for your website!

Valentine Cards/Coloring Pages:  These images can be used as cards or printed out as coloring pages

Stuff for Adults

Valentine Poetry:  Here is the place to look for that romantic poem to put in your Valentine’s card!

Valentine Desktop Theme:  Download and Install a desktop theme and icons on your Sweethearts Desktop!

 

Images in this post from Hellasmultimedia.com 

The bear images below are Billy Bear4Kids.com - Love Note Fonts 

 

Site Grader  is an easy to use web based tool that will assess your sites current search engine optimization and provide some good tips to improve your search engine ranking. 

To use the tool, enter your website URL, key words and competors site (this is optional I skipped this) and email address then select generate report.

The tool will assess your home page and three additional pages for all kinds of things such as:

number of images

headings

readability level

blogs and rss feeds

converting qualified visitors to leads

number of inbound links

key works, the monthly search volume and your ranking with the key words you have so that you can better customize your key words for searches

which directories your site is listed in or not listed in and more.

Within a few seconds it assesses your site and provides you with a free report and suggestions to improve your site for a better search engine ranking.

At the bottom of the report you are invited to download a free marketing kit.  I recommend it.  Additionally you can register for a Free Webinar on Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 2-3PM EST -Topic- Search Engine Optimization 101.

This easy to use, fun tool was a real eye opener and keeps your report in the data base so that after you implement the suggestions and assess your site a second time you will be able to compare the reports.

Oh, BTW they e-mail you link to a copy of the report so you can review it and implement the suggestions at your leisure.

More Freebies next week!

This Weeks Freebies are Website or Blog Translation tools. 

With people from all over the world visiting your site and blog doesn’t it make sense for them to be able to translate your site into their native language easily?

With any of the tools mentioned below, your site or blog visitors can translate your content into their native language by clicking on the flag that belongs to their country.

Remember that the translations are done by machine and are not always perfect. Expect online translators to give the gist of the translated text but not a quality translation. To improve your translations use proper grammar. Avoid long and complex sentences, slang, misspelled words, or improper punctuation.

Google Easy Translation Tools

The easy way for visitors to translate your site or blog is with the Google toolbar. Offer a download or link to the Google Tools Page on your site or make it easy add the Google Gadget to your site (see below).

1.  You can add your native language button to the tool bar. When you want to translate the web page you click the button.

2.  Translation with no clicks using the Toolbar. You just pause over an English word, and the Word Translator displays that word's meaning in the visitor’s own language (You can translate from English to Chinese, Traditional and Simplified, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, German, and Spanish).

3.  Add a Google Gadget to your Website or blog.    

Just visit the tool link and copy and past the code into your blog or web page and your visitor can select the translation language from a drop down list in the gadget.

Not in Love with Google? Use a Widget or other tool

Widgets typically use country flags to indicate translation options. A visitor clicks on the flag of their native language and the page or blog is translated.

It is easy to add the tools and widgets to your site by cutting and pasting in the code provided. No excuse now for not translating your site or blog!

Widgetbox offers a Google Widget If you have an older version of WordPress you will want to upgrade because the content will not appear in IE7. Upgeading to the latest WordPress will solve the problem.

Other tools and other Widgets such as Babblefish (now merged with Yahoo) and many others including one that translates into 18 languages with a pull down menu.

I found a nice looking translation tool from the UK that you might like but it offers translation into ten different languages. The tool is customizable so you can use it vertically or horizontally and you can specify the background color.

Global Translations offers two options for translation. The offer a banner, which offers flags with the country, names under each flag (12 language options). They also offer a drop down menu like the Google menu I mentioned above.

These are just a few ways to add the global audience to your blogs and web sites.

If you don’t want to Ad’s for other sites on yours

You can use the code (PHP, Java Script and html or a combination) with images and link to the translation pages provided by Google.

If you want to see it work. You can go to my real estate site (under development) and see it in action. http://homes.carynwebb.com/

If you want help adding Ad free translation e-mail me at

Caryn@CDWebbDesign.com

Watch for more Freebies Next Week.

Warmly, Caryn