Hey there curious reader. I am Ashton Brown. I make websites in Austin, TX and try to make the most of my free time. This here is my blog. I post stuff about the web design industry and my personal life. Enjoy.
While doing some research on methods to obtain inbound links, here are some key takeaways from my notes:
Inbound Link Tools
Buzz Stream
http://www.buzzstream.com
Finds link opportunities (about 1% worth pursuing from my experience)
Acts as a great CRM tool to manage link acquisition conversations
Automatically checks the links you have made to make sure they are still active
$29 a month
Lotus [...]
It will look like this
Use the Photoshop line tool.
Use these settings
Draw a very short line at about 11 o’clock.
Add a Layer Style with these settings
I’ve been building websites since the dot come bubble. I’ve also been designing websites for the real estate industry fore a few years now. After seeing success rates of many website tools out there I can say WordPress has been a life saver for me and my clients. Using WordPress for real estate clients is [...]
Research findings from needing to automatically check the rank of several websites.
There are many SEO tools that do several SEO related tasks. I needed a program that would check several site’s ranking on specific keywords automatically. I could not find an app that just checked rankings. I found several programs that had a ranking checker [...]
I’m starting a set of photos of my favorite swimming holes in central Texas. Check out these really big photos I’ve taken. You can get the high res images at my Flickr account under Swimming Holes. I have them licensed under Creative Commons as Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative. So you can have them. You just can’t modify [...]
My last blog was stolen by a domain pocher so I’ve started up a new one. Lesson learned: have all your domain names in an easy to manage system with a trustworthy registrar. Now I’m using GoDaddy. They seem to be pretty afordable and professional. I’ve entered a couple old posts and travel photos.
Summer of 2009 I went to visit my good buddy Robert Nance who was working at Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Here are my photos along the way.
Eeyore’s Birthday is definitely the pinnacle of Keeping Austin Weird.
Words can’t do it justice.
Click the image to see my slideshow of photos.
These guys are nuts. I mean fucking crazy!
They dreased up like superheros, passing their insterments to audiacne members, running out and playing in the middle of the street.
I caught a random show at SXSW and had to go track them down again with my camera this time. Click the image to see my slideshow.
My good friends, the Bramwells, have a place in an undiscovered Mexico tropical paradise. Yelapa is a bay south of Puerto Vallarta and accessible only by boat. With not cars, a beautiful beach, great food, friendly locals and all the cheap beer you can drink, this is an ultimate get away. A couple of my [...]
