Curtis Matthews

Since February 14th 2010 I have tried to figure out the correct way to track a diet and workout on a Blog. I wanted to put all my workouts and food intake on this Blog eaisly with my Blackberry Bold 9700 and the WordPress application.

I started to make 2 pages a day for the day’s food intake and workouts. It was not hard to do these post but somthing did not make sense with the format.

While I continued to make two pages for each day I saw on the Blog it placed the pages on the bottom of the Blog under the headings (my daily eating habits) or (my daily workouts). I did not want that formating, logging one after another on the bottom like that would make a very long footer with days of workouts and eating habits. What I wanted was every days diet and workout to be listed only under the corresponding pages only with the heading, (my daily eating habits) or (my daily workouts. I want that you have to click on the page About and on that page you see the links to my daily diet and workouts.

My web guy said each daily log should be one page for each category and just add to that page the daily logs. So yesterday I started to copy the daily pages into their categories and it did look a lot better but I am want to try some other things.

One of the main things I do not like is when I want to add to the post it becomes very difficult to do from my Blackberry Bold 9700 now using the WordPress application. I have to scroll way to much to add more daily deatails because of the amount of preivous logs and the pictures html. I need a easy way to add the daily logs of workout and diet on the Blackberry.

Until I can figure out a better way to do my posts I will not continue to do my daily logs with the WordPress application on my Blackberry Bold 9700. I have done the last 2 weeks in February and edit it on one page like my web guy told me too.

‪‪I was contacted by Tangowire and need to do what is written below. I am hoping to make some money with Google and other websites.

These are my dating related domains.
Same-sex-dating.com
Mixed-dating.com
SingleMale.net
SingleFemale.net
Petamate.com

My instructions are below.
Valued Partner:

As we said in our last communication we are very excited that we have established a direct relationship with Google and are able to assist you in moving forward with your Adwords campaigns. In order to solve the recent issues and/or to avoid future issues is to have unique landing pages for your campaigns.  We will need you to mock up your page(s) and send them to us at xxxxxxxx@Tangowire.com we will have your designs coded and placed in front of your site for you to start driving traffic your AdWords campaigns to.
Let’s get started on your unique landing page….

What is a landing page

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In online marketing a landing page, sometimes known as a lead capture page, it is the page that appears when a potential customer clicks on an advertisement. The page displays content that is a logical extension of the advertisement.  This pages main goal is to persuade a visitor to complete a transaction – In your case you want your landing page to be compelling to enough for the visitor to click through and become a member of your site.

Rules for Landing Pages

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As long as your truthful the design is completely up to you!

Things to consider

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Make sure your landing page refers directly to the ad copy that drove the click.  If your ad is for Single Parents your landing page will want to be written and have visuals the single parent can relate to. Match your language as exactly as you can. This way you keep your visitor oriented and engaged. This is by far the most important part of your landing page.

2.

Provide a clear call to action. Whether you use graphic buttons or hot-linked text (or both), tell your visitor what they need to do. We recommend 2 calls to action on your landing page. So, Join Now Free and Search are two calls to action.

3.

Be crystal clear in your goals. Keep your description copy on point as a logical progression from your headline and offer.

4.

Write to the screen. Take a piece of paper and frame-out where your text, buttons, and design elements will go. Keep the landing page short so all your content will be seen “above the fold” a visitor will make a decision about your site in less than 3 seconds.

5.

Remove all extraneous matter from your landing page. Like visual clutter and links to other sections. You want the visitor focused solely on your copy, your supportive visual, and the offer you’re making without being tempted to wander elsewhere.

Elements You Can Use

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Site Name/Logo

Description

Currently Online

Success Stories

Quick Search

Registration Button/Link

Photo

Where to Start

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You can design your landing page in any program you want (Paint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PhotoShop, or even a piece of paper and a pen and fax it to us)

-   Take a piece of paper and design your landing page – what elements you want incorporated, where you want your picture, your text, your call to action etc.-  Go to your favorite program and mock it up – This does not have to be professional or to scale we will do the heavy lifting once you send us your mock up.  -   

 If you still feel a little lost check out the attached “How To Guide” we have provided you a step- by- step guide to creating a basic mock up in MSFT Paint.Examples of Landing Pages———————————–www.MilitaryMatcher.com/Registration
www.extraordinarybbws.com/registration

What to send us

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Email  LandingPages@Tangowire.com with the following information and attachments
1. Send us the photo you want to use – if you do not have a photo please describe what you would like the photo to be of (two men, two woman, one women, man and women) and we will do our best to pick a photo for you. (please be sure you have usage rights)
2. If you do not want the color palette of your site please provide us the colors you would like in RGB format.
3. Please list the elements that you want – even though you have it mocked up we want to be sure you are not forgetting anything that you were planning on having.Remember the elements are:

Site Name/Logo

Description (What do you want the visitor to know)

Currently Online

Call to Action  (Button or Link)

Success Stories

Quick Search

Photo

4.       Briefly explain anything you would like to us to know– (Like make sure my header goes across the page or make sure my logo is in the lower right corner)5.       Don’t forget to attach the mock up!‬
 
The TangoWire Team

The last couple of days I added a few pages with my daily workouts and food intake. I started doing this on Valentines day and almost kept good records of everything. I say almost good because I wanted to record all the foods by picture, video and text on my Blog. I have not taken pictures and written text of all foods but most is here and with time and efficiency I will only get better.

I am using the Wordpress application on my Blackberry and so far today 2/17/10 almost everything was done with this app. Besides the video of lunch on one of my food days everything was easy.

The lunch video could not upload with the Wordpress application in my Blackberry Bold 9700. I had to send to Youtube then download back to my 9700 as a MP4 then upload with the word press application.

Then the format which the days a shown on the bottom of my Blog seem to be a little busy with all the days listed on the bottom. I thought I would be able to file under specific pages and the only way to view the daily pages was to go to the main page of workouts or food to see the daily logs.

Today is the Super Bowl, I live in South Florida so everything is about the Super Bowl around town. I did not attend any of the parties around town but I will be watching the bowl game and rooting for the New Orleans Saints.
The Saints are the underdog and never won a Super Bowl. This is their time to win. The city of New Orleans needs this boost for the city. They have had hard times in the last few years.
The New Orleans Saints fans are out numbering the Colts fans in South Florida at least 5 to 1. So the Saints have the support of their fans here in South Florida.
I am in the gym now writing this post and after I will go to work till 4pm. Then after work I will go over my uncle’s house which is a few mile away from the newly named Sun Life Stadium where the Super Bowl will be held. I will get that imaginary feeling of being at the bowl game.

I have gone to the gym at least four days this week. I am back on track with my training. The last couple of months with the holidays and activities going on I did not make time for my training.
My workouts were sporadic and not intense enough for me to achieve my goals. So this is the week I started back on track with my training and I will keep a record of my progress on this Blog.
I just downloaded an application to make the posting a lot easier for me to do from my Blackberry. http://www.mobilewiseguy.com/wordpress-application-for-blackberry/

I decide to see Avatar tonight. The only time I would make the movie was the 10:55pm showing. By the time I would get out of work and go home and change the earlier showings were not an option. I wanted to get the full effects of the movie so I planned to see it at the Imax in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This movie was the top grossing movie of all time and the special effects used are new to movie making.
The director Mr Cameron created a new type of camera to film this movie. He had to wait for technology to advance before these cameras became a reality.
I had called Imax to buy advance tickets. A couple days before my coworker Ana told me she was going after work with friends and family. She intended to leave work at 7pm and make it for the 7:50pm showing. She also intended to buy the tickets at the box office prior to the movie. How wrong she was the 7:50pm was sold out and Imax also recommends that you get to the theater 45 minutes early.

The last movie I saw at the Imax in Fort Lauderdale was Transformers. I got to the movie theater 25-30 minutes early and still ended up sitting at the very front of the movie theater. This was way to close, I still enjoyed the movie but would had rather sat in the middle of the theater.

So this morning I called Imax in Fort Lauderdale and waited on the phone for 15 minutes before I had to leave for work but I left my girlfriend on hold. It took another 15 minutes on hold so 30 minutes is needed to wait on the phone to buy advance tickets for Imax’s Avatar today.

I hope its all worth it. I expect it would be since it is the top grossing movie of all time.

Now its been 2 days since we saw the movie and it was worth the wait and the extra money to see at Imax in 3D. In some of the senses I felt I could walk onto the screen. I was entertained and my girlfriend whom always falls asleep in movies stayed awake and the movie was a late on, it ended around 2am.

I just did a tweet on my two twitter accounts @ MobileWiseGuy and @ CurtisMatthews asking any SEO experts, SEO marketing, search engine optimization experts out on the web, if my domain seolutions.com is worth anything.
Those tweets were done this morning 1/29/10 around 6am. Now I am riding the recumbent bike in the LA Fitness on 184 avenue and Pines Blvd, writing a post about my two tweets.

While writing my post I got a couple of tweets as followers on one of my twitter account @ MobileWiseGuy maybe because I did the first tweet on MobileWiseGuy twitter account or it has more followers than @ CurtisMatthews.

The two follow tweets were duplicated letting me believe they have program that searches key words on twitter and initiates a follow twice.

Last year I rode my bike by CB Smith Park and saw they were having a concert. It was the annual Chili Cook Off, lots of country music and a chili cook off contest.

The main thing that caught my attention was how the surrounding area was thrashed with garbage and broken beer bottles.

This year I made the mistake of driving in that direction in the morning to go to the gym and like last year it was thrashed and it seems that it must go on for two day because that trash could not have gotten there at 8am. Besides the trash a mile long line of cars with confederate flags waving were waiting to get into the park. I was block from going the direction I was attempting to go and had to turn around and go to another LA Fitness in west Pembroke Pines.

I have to say last year I remembered that the following Monday after the Chili cook off weekend the streets were clean so I can not bitch that some country music, chili eating, beer drinking folks had a good time.

I am just jealous I don’t like country music that much or I would be drinking beer and eating chili with my American Flag t shirt.

Last year we went to Universal Studios Orlando for New Years Eve. I decided this would be the best time to try out may Video capabilities of the Blackberry Bold 9700. The video taken below is the Macys Parade at Universal Studios in Orlando on New Years Eve. The whole video is a little over 15 minutes. I posted the Video up on the web from my Blackberry Bold 9700 with the QIK application. The QIK application only work to upload videos already taken with my 9700 the app has problems and is not working to allow me to stream live video like I did before with my Blackberry Bold 9000 with the QIK application. But this video was uploaded and will give you a good sense of the quality of the video camera for the Blackberry Bold 9700.
Macys Parade at Universal Studios

Protein is the what your body needs to grow muscles. Without the right amount of protein your body will cannibalize your muscle tissue for a energy source.

I realized eating a big steak for dinner wasn’t enough protein in a day to maximize my muscle growth from the workouts I am doing. My body seems stuck in a rut.

I read in a article published in a Max Muscle magazine that for my body weight of 200lbs I need 160 grams or protein a day or if I split that into 4 meals 40 grams a meal, 5 meals 32 grams a meal. My concern was where to get that amount of protein from without having to eat 5 steaks a day. So today I Google protein sources and it came up with this chart.

The Protein Content of Common Foods

The best way to get the protein your body needs is from food.  Once you have determined how much protein your body needs, it’s time to determine the best food sources. 

Plant-Based Sources

Protein Content (g)

Tempeh (4 oz.)

17-21

Tofu, firm (½ cup)

10

Soy milk, plain (8 oz.)

10

Soybeans, black, cooked (½  cup)

14

Soybeans, green, cooked (½  cup)

11

Peanut butter, chunky (2 TBSP)

8

Kidney beans, cooked (½  cup)

8

Black beans, cooked (½ cup)

8

Chick-peas, cooked (½ cup)

8

Hummus (¼ cup)

5

Refried beans, cooked (½ cup)

8

Pinto beans, cooked (½ cup)

7

Lima beans, cooked (½ cup)

5

Peanuts (½ cup)

19

Almonds (½ cup)

15

Pine Nuts (½ cup)

15

Cashews (½ cup)

10

Sunflower Seeds (½ cup)

13

Walnuts (½ cup)

10

Flax Seeds, ground (2 TBSP)

4

Wheat Germ (2 TBSP)

4

Whole Wheat bread (1 oz. Slice)

3

Oatmeal, instant, cooked (1 cup)

6

Broccoli (1 cup)

5

Corn (1 cup)

5

Rice, white (1 cup)

2.5

Rice, brown (1 cup)

4.5

Pasta, cooked (1 cup)

6.5

 

Animal-Based Sources

Protein Content (g)

Chicken, boneless, cooked (3 oz.)

27

Turkey, roasted (3 oz.)

25

Ground Turkey, cooked (3 oz.)

23

Roast Beef, lean, cooked (3 oz.)

24

Ground Beef, lean, cooked (3 oz.)

24

Beef Sirloin, cooked (3 oz.)

24

Pork, roast, trimmed (3 oz.)

25

Ham, cooked (3 oz.)

21

Tuna, canned in water (3 oz.)

23

Tuna, fresh, cooked (3 oz.)

26

Yogurt, low-fat, plain (8 oz.)

12

Frozen Yogurt (½ cup)

2.5

Milk (8 oz.)

8

Cheese (1 oz.)

7

Cream Cheese (2 TBSP)

4

Egg (1 medium)

6

Egg White (1)

3.5

Egg Substitute (¼ cup)

6

Cottage Cheese ( ½ cup)

14

Cod, cooked (3 oz.)

20

Salmon (3 oz.)

22

Shrimp, boiled (3 oz.)

21

Lobster, baked or broiled (3 oz.)

17

Ice Milk, soft-serve (1 cup)

10

Sources:  Health Canada, Nutrient Value of Some Common Foods (1999);  Tufts University School of Medicine; Harvard University; USDA National Nutrient Data Bank