Always Room 4 Smore

Hey everyone!! So this week I feel like the idea of being vegetarian and vegan got brought up a lot for some reason.  One of my friends recently went vegetarian, and not because she decided she no longer likes meat, but because she wants to feel and live healthier. I personally could never give up meat but I totally get what she means about feeling better in general. This new change in her lifestyle did get me thinking thought about how you can have a healthy balance of meat, carbs, vegetables and even dessert. So I decided to look up some healthy recipes that allow you to have some diversity within your meals but also don't make you feel gross after eating.  I think that it is all about balance and in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle you need to stay consistent.  Anyway, that just got me thinking about my own lifestyle so I linked the recipes I found to this post. Hopefully you guys try them out and like them!!! Have an awesome weekend everyone :) 

Happy Thursday!!!  Friday junior finally... it has been quite a long week but y ou know what that means... New foodie finds to make and places to explore this weekend. I actually do have some exciting news, well exciting for me anyway. This weekend I am going to Orlando with three of my best friends and you guessed it, we will be exploring Orlando for the best eats around town. We are going to Universal and you know that the parks have the BEST places to eat. My friend went to Orlando last weekend and actually gave me a list of places to go sooo I can't wait to try, and, of course, take pictures of everything! One of the places she raved about is called Toothsome Chocolate Emporium & Savory Feast Kitchen . This place is unlike any other because it was designed to look and feel like a chocolate factory, but they sell everything from steak to seafood to brunch and last but certainly not least (and probably most important) dessert .   All their food is unique

Through a lot of my classes as a communications student I have learned tons about SEO throughout my college career. Between my academics and my internship experience I think I advanced in the world of SEO and the importance of SEO to any business. So what is SEO you might ask? It is the idea that by including words that people will be searching for in your web content you will gain more search results and recognition. Google Trends is another factor that can advance your ability to gain traffic to your site. It has the ability to tell you what people are searching for the most on Google as well as exactly how people are searching for things. Words that I would use for SEO on my blog would include: desserts, food, trendy food, eating, etc. The majority of what I post about has to do with those things, so for me it if were able to see what foodies were looking for I could base how I write my food blogs off of that.

Happy Tuesday all!!! I went to an event recently with my family and a few friends and got some great food clips from the event. It was an all you can eat buffet that featured some of the best food and desserts that you could think of. I chose to shoot this video because I posted it to my Food Instagram and tagged the location that we were at so people knew where we were and what kind of food we had. The event took place at the BB&T Center and it was tons of fun! "Club Lexus" hosted the food portion of the event so I gave a shoutout to them when I had posted this to my Instagram and they loved it. I hope you're enjoying your week and I hope you don't get too many cravings watching my video!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC-jn6YfHxo

I found Don’t Make Think to not only be interesting but extremely informative. Not only did the book help breakdown the idea of web usability but it did so in very simple and short manner. It was explanatory and easy to follow along with and opened up my mind to thinking a little differently about the internet and how I do things on the internet.  So what is usability? It is the idea that any normal person should be able to use a product without running into difficulties or becoming frustrated. It is the idea that something works well, is straight forward, and easy to use. This term applies to many different aspects of life including building a website. Throughout the book Steve Krug pinpoints ways in which you can make your website as user friendly as possible.  One of the biggest lessons I think I learned was the whole concept of “Don’t Make Me Think.” A major emphasis is that a website should be pretty self-explanatory. I mean this in the sense that a website should be easy