2) Submit Articles
Write articles that are related to your blog and submit them to popular article directories such as ezinearticles.com, Isnare.com, Articledashboard.com, Articlealley.com and goarticle.com. Quality articles may drive you a lot of free targeted traffic.

3) Participate in Community Forums
Use google to search for forums that are related to your blog. Look for forums that has over 10,000 members and read the rules of the forums to see whether you can promote your blogs and websites in your signature. Join forums that allow you to add a link to your blog in the signature and start participating in discussion. You can ask questions, answer other members questions and post your articles, ideas and thought in the forums.

4) Submit Your Blog to Directories
This isn’t working to me but some bloggers claim that they gain a good amount of traffic from their listings in directories.

5) Post Often
You can lose traffic if you seldom update you blog, try to make it at least 5 posts per week. This not only will maintain your traffic but possibly attract more readers.

6) Write about Blogging
Write helpful and quality articles related to blogging can attract other bloggers link to your articles and gain may be truckload of free traffic.

7) Post Breaking News
If your found a breaking news of your niche very earlier, post it to your blog. It may give your blog’s traffic a boost.

Social Bookmarking
Bookmark you blog posts in the large social bookmarking sites like Netscape.com, Digg.com, Simply and Reddit.com.

9) Run a Contest
Start a contest on your blog. Think about the prizes that people really want. It will create a viral effect and bring in new visitors.

10) On-page Optimization
Make sure your blog’s title tag and description tag contain your targeted keywords. When you have posted plenty of quality blog post and done a lot of blog promotion, don’t be surprise to see your blog ranks top 10 in Google and get free search engine traffic daily.

Without further ado, here are this week’s chosen artworks.

Digital Art > Drawings:

Digital Art > Vexel:

Digital Art > Mixed Media:

Digital Art > Miscellaneous:

Digital Art > Photomanipulation:

Digital Art > 3-Dimensional Art:

Digital Art > Paintings & Airbrushing:

Digital Art > Pixel Art:

Digital Art > Text Art:

Digital Art > Vector Art:

Digital Art > Fractal Art:

Instructions

Preparation

Make watermelon sorbet:
Line a 9-inch square baking pan (2 inches deep) with plastic wrap or parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang. Put lined pan in freezer.

Coarsely chop watermelon flesh (leave seeds in), then purée enough to yield 2 1/2 cups in a blender.

Add sugar, juice, and tequila to purée and blend 30 seconds.

Freeze sorbet in ice cream maker. Transfer to lined baking pan, smoothing top. Put in freezer to harden, at least 1 hour.

Make lime semifreddo:
Whisk together condensed milk, zest, and juice. Beat cream until it just holds stiff peaks, then gently fold into condensed-milk mixture.

Spread over sorbet, smoothing top. Freeze until solid, at least 2 hours.

To serve, lift dessert from pan using plastic wrap. Cut into 12 bars and serve on chilled plates.

Cooks’ note: Dessert can be frozen (covered once completely frozen) up to 3 days. Cut into bars just before serving.

Preparation

For candied rose petals:
Whisk egg whites in small bowl until foamy. Using pastry brush, brush rose petals on both sides with egg whites; sprinkle on both sides with sugar. Dry on nonstick rack at least 6 hours or overnight.

For cake:
Preheat oven to 325°F. Butter two 8-inch-diameter cake pans with 1 1/2-inch-high sides. Line pan bottoms with parchment paper; butter parchment. Sift flour, 7 tablespoons baker’s sugar, baking powder, and salt into large bowl. Whisk yolks and next 4 ingredients in small bowl until smooth. Add yolk mixture to dry ingredients; whisk until smooth. Beat egg whites in medium bowl until soft peaks form. Gradually add 7 tablespoons baker’s sugar; beat until whites resemble thick marshmallow fluff. Fold whites into batter in 3 additions. Divide batter between prepared pans. Bake until cakes are golden and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool in pans on racks 15 minutes. Turn out onto racks, peel off parchment, and cool completely. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Wrap and store at room temperature.)

For frosting:
Combine 1/2 cup cream and saffron in small saucepan. Bring to simmer. Remove from heat; let steep 20 minutes. Chill until cold.

Beat remaining 2 cups cream, powdered sugar, and rose water in large bowl until soft peaks form; strain in saffron cream. Beat until peaks form.

Place 1 cake layer, flat side up, on platter. Spread 1 cup frosting over. Top with second cake layer, flat side down. Spread remaining frosting over top and sides of cake. Chill at least 1 hour and up to 6 hours. Garnish cake with rose petals and pistachios.

Line:
1. a connection of two points in space
2. an edge
3. one dimension, length

Shape:
1. two dimensional, length and width
2. any area with an inside and an outside

Form: three dimensional, length, width, and depth

Texture: the way something feels by actual touch or by sight.

Value: the lightness or darkness of color

Space: the area around, above, below and within the subject

Color: the way an object appears when light is reflected or emitted by it

primary- red, blue, yellow
secondary- orange, green, violet
intermediate- red-orange, red-violet, blue-green, blue-violet, yellow-organge… etc
tint- any color plus white
shade- any color plus black
tone- any color plus white and black (like value)
warm colors- orange, red, and yellow
cool colors- blue, green, violet
intensity- the brightness or dullness of a color
analogous- colors next to each other on color wheel (ex: red, orange)
complementary- colors opposite on color wheel (ex: yellow, purple)

= Principle of Design=

Balance- an equilibrium within the design area (deals with weight distribution), two kinds:
1 symmetry- weight is equal side to side, items are similar or identical, formal balance.
2.asymmetry- weight is equal side to side, but the items are not the same, informal balance.

Harmony- the similarities between the elements of design

Contrast- the differences between the elements of design; helps to create visual interest

Dominance or Emphasis- the most important element of design in the composition, that which your eyes see first. (Center of interest)

Movement- combining elements to cause the viewers’ eyes to travel over the work; the way the artist makes your eyes sweep over the work in a certain manner.

Gradation- combining elements using a series of gradual changes in those elements

Rhythm- repeated elements that create a visual tempo or beat

Proportion- the relationship of certain elements to the whole and to each other

Unity- describes the total effect of the work of art through the effective use of the elements and principles. (summery of how everything works together.)

EXTRA: The Trend of Thinking in Our Art history

1. The Natural Trend: Nature, it is a form of beauty of all kinds, no one denies that; thus it was the standard for ancient calligraphy artists to study, and used to describe many forms of art.

2. The Elemental Trend: Lines, dots, shape, tints, shades and color, those are art element related thinking trend; most of the art teachers today use this trend of thinking to critique

3. Being: The beauty of the artwork is determined by the viewer, its beyond all standards of beauty and ugliness. Being yourself and expressing through your art is the most important thing. (So some go for extreme ugliness, or extreme beauty.)

4. Moral: The beauty of the artwork lies in its moral value, and what it is inspired by.

5. Art that Denies Art: Movements such as Da Da, which challenges and ask people to redefine what art means.

This article will provide you 9 important basic tips for succeeding in affiliate marketing.

1. Select a specific niche. Make sure that there are affiliates already making money in the niche as this indicate that the niche is profitable. Then join affiliate programs that are offering products or services appeal to the niche market. It is suggested not to join too many affiliate programs at the beginning to avoid losing focus.

2. Do research and investigation on the affiliate programs before joining them. You should only join rewarding and reliable affiliate programs. The products must be targeted to your niche market and in good quality so that you are able to promote and sell them with less refund rate.

3. You can promote affiliate products without a website. But, it is highly recommended that you build a niche website with interesting content focuses on promoting your affiliate products.

4. Create a budget for your marketing campaigns. Know clearly how much you want to spend on promoting your website and affiliate programs.

5. Traffic and conversion are the keys to generate affiliate commission. You will need to spend most of your time to learn and work on these two aspects. So, be prepared to work hard.

6. Your potential buyers often need supporting information before buying an item. You may write reviews about your affiliate products and ‘how to’ articles with your affiliate links included in the content. This is one of the effective ways to direct your visitors to your merchant’s site and make a purchase.

7. For long-term profit in affiliate marketing, you have to build a list. Some of the methods you can apply to grow a list are offer free gift, free newsletters, free e-courses and participating in a give away event. When you have a opt-in email list, you can regularly contact your target prospects and recommend your affiliate products to them.

8. Your credibility is important. You should often send helpful and interesting information to your opt-in list subscribers. Provide your real name and an email address on your website so that the potential prospects know there is a real person behind the website and contact you anytime when they have question.

9. Most affiliate programs allow you to recruit affiliates under you (sub-affiliates). You will earn more commission if you grow your own network of sub-affiliates. If you have found a few hard working sub-affiliates, you can expect to share a steady commission from the affiliate sales generated by them.

After
spending a great deal of time building your money making website, you
finally can launch your website to the Internet. Now you will need to
drive traffic to your website. Your website will generate nice income
for you only if you can drive consistent volumes of traffic to your
site.

As
a new web marketer, getting traffic will be one of your challenges.
Here, I will provide you a few tips that will help you build traffic
for your new website.

Avoid Duplicate Content
Write
unique content for your website. Don’t simply take those articles from
article banks and re-publish them on your website. As your website is
new, you want the search engines to crawl your site and subsequently
get your website indexed by the search engines so that you get the
chance to enjoy free search engine traffic later. A new website that
contains a large portion of duplicate content could have a hard time
getting indexed by the search engines.

Social Bookmarking
Bookmark
your articles in large social bookmarking websites such as Digg,
del.icio.us, simply and so on. This could generate some free traffic to
you. If you want to get more traffic through social bookmarketing, you
got to write more unique articles and book mark them.

Comment on Blogs
Post
comments on the blogs related to your website. Find 5 to 10 related
blogs which have gained massive amount of traffic, take the time to
read the posts of these blogs and post your comments on them. You could
possible get 10 to 20 daily visitors from these blogs from your comment
posting effort.

Make Use of Article Marketing
Start
creating 400 – 500 words articles that provide some useful info and
then submit them to article banks and directories. The two main
benefits you’ll get from article marketing are free targeted traffic
and free relevant backlinks.

Build Backlinks for Google Traffic
Once
you have used social bookmarking, blog comment posting and article
marketing, your website will soon get into the index of search engines.
These method should have increased your backlinks and by the time your
website indexed by search engines, you might find that one or two of
your webpages show up on first page in Google for long tail keywords.

These
long tail keywords will send you very limited traffic, may be only 1 to
2 visitors daily, but you will be excited to see some of your web pages
rank first page on Google. If you want more Google traffic, you got to
work more on increasing your backlinks. To get the most backlinks for
your site, you’ll first need to learn all the possible ways of increase
relevant backlinks for your website, then put hard effort on link
building.

Conclusion
There
are of course many other methods of getting traffic, but at the
beginning, you might want to use the above mentioned methods as they
wouldn’t cost you money to use. To get consistent traffic, you need to
keep on repeating the process. i.e. If you prefer article marketing,
you will write new articles for publication on article banks again and
again. So, repeating the process will make sure traffic keep coming to
your site.

There are demands for desktop publishing service. A lot of people want to create creative documents, brochures and other publications using computer but they don’t know how to create one themselves. So, you can make money by providing them your desktop publishing service.

What skills are needed?

Since everything is done using the computer. You need to be able to use several types of software programs for desktop publishing and possess some design skills. It will be even better if you have natural talent on this area.

What equipments are needed?

You will of course need a computer and below are other tools you must possess as well:

• Desktop publishing software
• Photo editing program
• Printer (laser or color)
• Scanner
• Good quality paper for printing

Once you obtain all the above necessary tools, it is time to start your desktop publishing business.

The first important thing you need to do is find a niche you want to target on. You will be putting your marketing efforts into this single niche to make money with desktop publishing.

You are going to need to build a website to market your desktop publishing service to the selected niche. Your website should look professional and include samples of your work to show your expertise in this field to your target prospects.

How to get your target prospects to visit your website and check out your service?

This will involve the use of Internet marketing methods:

Pay per click advertising – The method that can give you instant target prospects is pay per click (PPC) advertising. With PPC advertising, you will pay each time a targeted visitor is sent to your from PPC search engines such as Google and Yahoo. It is a good method for getting targeted visitors for short term. But, you shouldn’t rely on it for long run as it can be very expensive to you.

Press release – You may hire someone to write a press release about the service you are offering and then submit the press release to news sites. It may bring in some clients for your business.

Article marketing – There are large traffic article directories that will publish your articles. Keep on writing articles related to your service and publish them on the article directories. This way, more people will know about your business and click the link in the resource box of your articles to learn more about your offer.

Other than using your website to get potential clients, you may also join those freelance bidding websites (guru.com and elance.com). These freelance sites have an online marketplace for freelance projects and jobs; and new opportunities are posted everyday. So, they may be good places for you to find more desktop publishing work.