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Format Text and Image Content Correctly

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How to format text and image content Correctly for search engine optimization In addition to setting up an SEO plugin such as All in One SEO Pack or WordPress SEO by Yoast you should always make sure that you format website content correctly. There are only three things to remember here. 1. Text link Descriptions Every time you put in a link, always make sure the link has a description. I selected one of my links here, clicked on the …
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The Horizontal Rule

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When you are composing the content for a page or post and include a number of images with your text it is always nice to float your images to the right, left or center. Gaining a decent page layout with WordPress can be just a tiny bit frustrating to get text to wrap images and not have everything run together. Solution: the horizontal rule! That’s one right below this line of text. Here’s an example layout where everything runs together: …
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Formatting Your Visual Artist CV

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Formatting your visual artist CV in WordPress. Formatting your Curriculum Vitae (CV for short) can be a royal pain using the limited editor features in WordPress. Even with the advanced editor features from TinyMCE there is still no tabbing. You can indent but not between the year and text without creating a return. This is what I want to do: (screen shot from Word) Notice how the list is indented over from the year. I can not do that in …
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Artbiz at VAAA

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Visual Arts Alberta Association has long been a source for artists to find opportunities Visual Arts Alberta is a non-profit, Provincial Arts Service Organization (PASO) with a mission to promote and assist Alberta visual arts and artists, providing a communication hub between members of the visual arts community and the general public.  Additionally, it is the goal of Visual Arts Alberta to provide Alberta artists with current, vital information on arts opportunities locally, regionally, provincially, nationally and internationally to ensure …
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Make Your Website Content Stronger

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A list of ideas to implement and make your website content stronger. Looking at artists sites I see one thing that  strikes me as odd. Artists are visual people right, image is worth a thousand words and all that. What I see alot, are blog posts with out images and portfolio images with out descriptive text. Make your site stronger by: If you are writing about a process to create a work of art show us images of the process. If you have …
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