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I’m starting a list of position titles for Web Design/Development, or Graphic Design in general. If you’ve got something to add to the list, please comment. Thanks, you’re the breast

And yes, I’m putting in the photographers, writers, editors, and so on. Anyone who belongs in a firm.

Level 1
• Partner
• President
• Principal

Level 2
• Art Director
• Chief Designer
• Chief Programmer
• Creative Director
• Director of Marketing

Level 3+
• Copy Editor
• Designer
• Graphic Designer
• Editor
• Information Architect
• Internet Application Specialist
• Interactive Designer
• Interactive Developer
• Interface Designer
• New Media Designer
• Multimedia Designer
• Production Assistant
• Production Artist
• Programmer
• Photographer
• Usability Engineer
• User Interface Designer
• Web Master
• Visual Designer
• Web Designer
• Web Developer
• Writer

Fun Names
• Pixel Pusher

You’ve heard it before and I’ll say it again, when you submit your site to search engines, you should shy away from auto submission companies that promise you top listing on all the major engines. In fact, it’s the major engines that you want to submit manually. Free Web Submission’s homepage provides a list of the top engines as rated by alexa. When subitting your website you wanna basically hand submit those top 5 engines… Yahoo, MSN, Google, About and Open Directory which refers to DMOZ. The rest of those engines are not nearly as important at those top 5, however it can never hurt to have more incoming links to your site. So you might consider auto-submission to cover those and only those, but what you need to be careful about it that you have control over the list of engines to whom your sending. I say this because you don’t want to re-submit to those top 5 engines as they’ll tag you with spamming the engine and penalize your site. Personally I stick to that form on the bottom of that same Free Web Submission Site and I make sure to uncheck Google and Alexa. Alexa is also one that I hand submit btw. Beyond those, I find that my sites make they’re way just fine into all the other little engines out there once I get listed into some of the bigger ones. So my submittion routing is Yahoo, MSN, Google, About, DMOZ, Alexa, and the list on Web Site Submission minus Google and Alexa. Enjoy!

I’m on Firefox (mac) and have had some trouble installing the toolbar – but wait, there is a solution… right click this link and “save link as”. Save it to your desktop. Once you’ve got the file, all you’ve gotta do is physically drag the file on an open firefox window. Viola, you’ve got Google Toolbar.

Simple Viewer is a pretty awesome photo gallery. I’m building a couple sites that feature a gallery like this… I was basically pulling my hair out trying to find good tutorials or ready-made movie clips that I could tailor into my site (because I’m not as good at flash as I’d like to be). Hopefully I’ll get their eventually, but no better way than to look at good files and deconstruct them. In the Meanwhile, I bought the sourcecode for this simpleviewer MC and that definately speeds up the process of what needs to be accomplished. It was only $50, not too shabby. And there’s a free non-sourcecode version as well. Enjoy!

SELF SEO has a tool very simliar to Overture Tool, but better. It’s faster, breaks you down to searches per day, and also gives you worktracker results in addition to overture results. Give it a try.

Last night I bumped into Andre Chaperon’s Marketing Newsletter. Some Great info there and I’ll begin visiting often. Of note was his most recent entry Google Sitemaps Tutorial for WordPress – Get GoogleBot To Visit Your Site In Under 60 Seconds!.

As Andre says, THIS IS HUGE. I did this google sitemaps stuff on 2 of my sites last night and as advertised, those googlebots are their visiting your site within seconds. At first, I went straight to the google sitemaps site and was a bit overwhelmed by all that I had to do, BUT, if you watch the little video that Andre prepared, it’s very very simple. There’s actually a Google Sitemap Generator for Wordpress (V2) which makes this process honestly just a few clicks. Check out the article, drive more traffic, and enjoy.