For awhile now, I have contemplated doing a Q&A feature post that would address questions from my readers. I’ve been compiling some of the questions and answers that I think will help people out of a tight spot. These questions can be on any topic; from Photoshop questions to Wordpress issues, tutorial requests to general banter. I will try to answer each question as best I can and give you resources where you can find more help on a given topic. So without further ado…I give you Q&A with GrandmasterB.

Question From: Jamie
In one of your tutorials it says to place a guide at 400x and 400y. How is this done??? Please help.

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In what could be described as perhaps the Murphy’s Law of Blogging…if it can go wrong it will, last week was the craziest lot of bad luck ever. I had hoped for great numbers for visits to the site, but came up very short of the mark. The Month in Review post, chronicling the first full month of recorded stats was the most viewed post of the week bringing in 195 page views over the week. Some might think that’s an impressive number, but it wasn’t even the best content on the site last week.

I dug deep and came up with a fantastic tutorial to throw the Photoshop tutorial world on its head; only to be served a nice cold dish of reality. I’m not sure what lead to the tutorial’s downfall, it could’ve been a number of things. Maybe making the tutorial a two-parter killed it? was it too detailed or not detailed enough? It could be either of those things that lead to it not taking off, but I know one thing for sure didn’t help it any. Somehow, someway when the first part of the tutorial was discovered it was placed in the wrong category. I’m not entirely displeased as I’m hoping the tutorials will get picked up by either Pixel2Life, Tutorialized or get Dugg and build up sustained traffic. If you wouldn’t mind giving it a digg, I would greatly appreciate it.

1000 Entrecard Credit Winner

Well, the contest for the 1000 EntreCard Credits ended on Saturday, and through the magic of the BuzzMyBlog Contest Winner Picker I am proud to announce that John from Matsubonsai.com has been chosen as the winner! John, I will be sending an email over momentarily with your passcode for the 1000 ECs. Congratulations!

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My Monday could not have started of better…let me tell ya! Just two days removed from the two month anniversary of GrandmasterB dot com, I have been spotlighted as the winner of the Weekly Buzz contest on BuzzMyBlog. I have been reading Jeff’s blog for a long time now as most of my readers know and being featured as the Weekly Buzz winner is a great honor.

The 500 EntreCard credits that Jeff gives the weekly winner is a great prize, but the feature on a blog with a Google PageRank of 4 is like icing on the cake. I am very excited about the traffic that winning this week will bring. I could not have been chosen at a better time either. Jeff just had a great guest post published on ProBlogger yesterday and it is being well received by the community. If you haven’t read it yet, you should definitely give it a look.

In honor of winning the WeeklyBuzz and keeping with the theme of what the contest is all about I’m going to do something to show my gratitude. Since starting my blog I have received numerous tips from the great community of bloggers, so I’m going to give back to the community. I’m going to give away the 500 EntreCard credits that I won from the Weekly Buzz and pony up another 500 credits to give away to one lucky winner; which will be chosen by random drawing on Saturday, June 7th.

WIN 1000 ENTRECARD CREDITS!

How to Enter?

I’m going to keep this really simple so that it’s not only easy for my readers to enter, but for me to tally up the entries. Too much math makes my brain ache…so simple is better. Here we go…

• Subscribe (1 entry): Simply subscribe via feedburner or email
• Stumble this post (3 entries): Just stumble this post…blammo get 3 entries

I told you I would keep it simple. If you Stumble the post please comment here and leave your username, so I can verify your entry. Good luck guys and gals. Thank you again Jeff for the Buzz and the great writeup!

~GrandmasterB

I can’t believe it, but it seems like every blogger out there reads the story of the infamous John Chow and wants to be just like him. Some think it’s cool, others think it’s hilarious…me, I think it’s friggin’ lame. This is going to come as a surprise to my readers, but I think for today’s post I’m going to flip the switch to the dark side and it might get ugly. Fear not, the true GrandmasterB will return shortly.

I have only seen one spinoff of the John Chow idea that really impressed me and got my attention…John Cow. I mean how could it not get your attention? Taking a famous blogger’s name and turning it into a cow theme is hilarious and well done. Alas, I am not here to talk about John Cow, because quite frankly it’s not really a clone…it’s original. What I am here to talk about are the no talent hacks that somehow believe that they are the next great thing on the Net. Guess what clones (or should I say clowns?)…you’re not even close.

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It’s that time again kiddies! GrandmasterB took the day off yesterday from blogging to do some springtime landscaping on the back forty. I must say that if there’s one thing that I absolutely cannot stand it’s manual labor. My soft blogger hands were not meant to be digging holes; they are better suited here at the computer. Can you imagine if I would’ve gotten a splinter? That would’ve been awful, I don’t even want to think about it…the horror!

Other than my landscaping nightmare yesterday the week was fairly uneventful. I did see the Rockies get pounded on by the Dodgers 12 - 7 on Saturday night at Coors Field. The sting of the loss was numbed by a few pints of In Heat Wheat from the Flying Dog Brewery. If any of you are near Coors Field for a game or for leisure definitely check out the Blake Street Tavern (23rd and Blake). They’ve got great grub and serve all of Flying Dog’s finest brews. If you’re there during the day you can get a tour of the Brewery; which by happenstance is located next door to the tavern. I highly recommend you check them out!

With that shameless plug out of the way…onto the week in review!

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