Burning News - Aruba Edition

The AiBURN Community is Growing

People are stopping by commenting and the community is growing. Its exciting. I think the web really needs more high quality Illustrator communities. There is so much out there for Photoshop and Illustrator seems to be left behind. We'll lets remedy that. If you would like to get involved with writing tutorials then contact me or give a heads up in the comments.

Resource Changes

I've been getting involved with blogging a lot the last few months. I've been learning a little bit about Search Engine Optimization as well. Just getting my feet wet with it. I decided to remove the Feeds from the site. The reason for having them was I thought it was a good resource for this growing Illustrator community.

The last few weeks I've learned more about pulling feeds into a site. It may have a detrimental effect on the original authors as far as search engine rankings are concerned. Also, the web community seems to frown on pulling in feeds calling it "scraping" (not sure if that is the right term).

When I'm back from vacation I'll be replacing that with a blog roll linking to those sites, but not pull in any feeds. Let me know in the comments if you think this is the right decision.

Guest Series of Tutorials at GoMediaZine

I've got a series of guest posts that will be running over at GoMediaZine. The introduction to the series can be found at Create a Killer Band Site With Drupal.

The series will kick off next week and yes it is Illustrator Related. The first tutorial will cover Designer a Band's website in Illustrator. It's a solid follow up article to the post Building a Website Wireframe in Illustrator.

The tutorial will cover using resources from the GoMedia Arsenal. If you haven't checked them out they have some awesome vector graphic packs at really affordable prices. That's why I chose them to be one of our site's sponsors.

Aruba Here We Come

My Wife Karen, my one and half year old son Daniel, and I live down in South America on the coast of Venezuela. So, we are going from one beach to another, such a hard life. Though I've never been to Aruba. So, I'm really excited

I likely won't be able to comment next week. Though as soon as I'm back I'll be following up with all the comments happening here. I may have to sneak away to an internet cafe for a couple hours though. I don't know if I could make it a whole week without going online.

Upcoming Tutorials

The last two months I've focused on getting into a rhythm with publishing new tutorials here on AiBURN. My goal is to personally publish at least one tutorial a week irregardless of how many guest writers we have in the future.

So far our tutorials have been focused on techniques, tricks, and mostly beginner level Illustrator goodness. I will continue to write with the same level of thoroughness but I am going to be publishing some more creative focused tutorials. In the future you'll see more of a blend of illustration tutorials, logo design tutorials, and other creative tutorials. So, things are just getting ramped up here.

This would be a great time for you to ask for any tutorials that you really want to see done. Feel free to leave any request you have for tutorials or requests for improvements to the community features of AiBURN in the comments. Or, just say hello, introduce yourself, let us know your familiarity with Illustrator, and leave a link to your website or blog.