Top Ten Tips

Top Ten Tips: Website SEO Techniques

By Web Alchemist Merlin on October 25, 2008

Search engine optimisation is not a form of ‘alchemy’ beyond mere mortals, as some SEO companies would have you believe, all it takes is research and time. My tips are based on four basic ideas: research your keywords; use your keywords wisely; make life easy for search engines; and make yourself popular.

Posted in Search Engine Optimisation, Top Ten Tips | Tagged accessibility, CSS, Search Engine Optimisation, SEO, valid code, website design, XHTML

Top Ten Tips For… Recording Speech

By Midi Minstrel on July 10, 2008

I’m often asked how best to record voice. People seem regularly to be in a quandary about how to effectively accomplish this seemingly simple task. Unless the voice recording is to be professionally published (as a voiceover or audio book, etc, in which case fancy microphones and snazzy audio-engineering tricks are required), this task should indeed be very straightforward.

Posted in Audio and Music, Audio Transcription, Top Ten Tips | Tagged dictation, digital audio, recording speech, transcription