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David explains how a site map benefits search engines and your website. You can get search engines crawl more pages of your website, and gathering more keywords and content. The gathering of this content allows search engines to display your results higher up, and to more relevant searches.

Site Maps are pages that contain links to all the pages of your website, or to the most important ones, so search engines can easily find them. You can think of a site map as a table of contents for your website.

David takes some pictures, and gets creative. He will teach you how to import pictures and use them as textures (paint bucket tool) in SketchUp. He also uses images he created in Photoshop.

You are no longer limited to using plain colors, and default textures. You can now create your own texture library that you can use with all of your future designs to make them stand out and be more realistic.

David is back with another tutorial for SketchUp 8, this time using an extension to help draw terrain. You will no longer be limited to drawing on flat land.

The Extension is called “Sandbox” and comes packaged with SketchUp by default, but is not enabled. Enabling it is simple, and explained in the video also.

There is so much you can do with the Sandbox tool, other than just drawing terrain. It can be used to model humans, oceans, faces, and much more.

No need to partition your Hard Drive, or reformat parts of it to test out the latest version of Linux. With VirtualBox you can manage Virtual Systems, and test them without having to format your computer, leave your main operating system, or worry about flaws in the current OS release. VirtualBox is free to use, and really simple to navigate and learn.

David shows you a quick walk through on how to get Ubuntu running in VirtualBox. VirtualBox supports many other Operating systems other than Linux based ones.

Items you design in SketchUp rely on the small details you make, to make them appear realistic. In this tutorial, David draws wall molding / moulding that was required for a house project he was working on. This method can be used to draw floor, ceiling, and door molding as well.

The tools David used in this tutorial include Line Tool, Arc Tool, Push / Pull tool, and used the rectangle tool to draw the wall.