| How to Style Windbreaker Pants Posted: 13 Mar 2020 05:00 PM PDT Windbreaker pants are made of swishy nylon material, just like windbreaker jackets. Although they were originally made for athletes to wear, they're now great staple items in your wardrobe for comfy and cool streetwear looks. If you have some windbreaker pants you've been dying to try out, try wearing them with a few different tops, shoes, and accessories to create outfits for a day in or a night out. [Edit]Keeping Your Pants Casual - Pair your pants with a cropped sweatshirt for a sporty outfit. Contrast the bulk of the windbreaker pants with a chic layer on your upper body. Choose a sweatshirt that hits just above your waist for a simple, cute outfit to wear on a casual day out.[1]
- Pair a grey cropped sweatshirt with some black windbreaker pants and white shoes for a neutral outfit.
- Keep your outfit simple with a fitted T-shirt. You don't have to make your entire outfit look oversized to match your pants. Combat the bulk of your windbreaker pants with a V-neck or scoop neck shirt that is fitted to your upper body.[2]
- Add a pop of color to your outfit with a bright blue or red shirt with some black or grey windbreaker pants.
- Use a cropped tank top to keep cool in the summer. Throw on a spaghetti-strap tank top that stops just above your natural waistline to hug your curves. A cropped tank will also provide a nice contrast from the larger, more oversized pants in your outfit.[3]
- Put on a white tank top, red windbreaker pants, and a baseball hat for a cute summer outfit.
- Make your outfit oversized with a large winter coat. It's okay to add some bulk up top when wearing windbreaker pants. Throw on a winter coat with a big hood to stay comfortable and warm in your windbreaker pants.[4]
- Navy blue windbreaker pants look great with a black or hunter green coat.
- Pair your outfit with some winter boots to keep your feet warm.
- Add some chunky sneakers for a comfortable look. Chunky sneakers add more bulk to your bottom half which looks great in a more sporty outfit. Complete your outfit with some bulky shoes to stick with the oversized theme.[5]
- Pair your sneakers and windbreaker pants with a large jacket and a beanie for an oversized outfit.
- Create a sporty outfit by wearing some running shoes. Windbreaker pants were made to exercise in. Use running shoes to copy the sporty look, or even to go running or jogging.[6]
- Black running shoes, black and white windbreaker pants, and a navy jacket pair well together for a quick jog through the neighborhood.
- Carry a small backpack to stick with the casual aesthetic. Purses and handbags can make your outfit look more formal. Choose a small backpack to carry your phone, wallet, and keys in to keep your arms free.[7]
- Add a pop of color to your outfit with a pink or yellow backpack, or stay neutral with a cream or black one.
- Wear a baseball cap to finish off your look. Since windbreaker pants are so sporty, you can top off your outfit with a cool baseball hat. Use a black or white one to keep it neutral, or add a pop of color to your outfit with a neon hat.[8]
- You can find cheap baseball hats at most thrift stores.
- Black windbreaker pants, a neon green shirt, and a white baseball hat is a great casual look.
[Edit]Creating Fashion-Forward Outfits - Elevate your outfit with a bedazzled bomber jacket. If you want to stay away from the sporty aspect of windbreaker pants, throw on a bomber jacket with some sparkly accents to make your upper half pop. Choose a silky bomber jacket to elevate it even more.[9]
- Wear a pink bomber jacket with some black windbreaker pants and white sneakers for a cute outfit.
- Throw on a windbreaker jacket for a tracksuit look. Go for a bold outfit by pairing a matching windbreaker jacket with your windbreaker pants. This is a great look if you have a bright vintage windbreaker jacket that you can wear with some bright pants.[10]
- Pair red windbreaker pants with a red jacket to stand out, or keep your outfit more muted with a neutral navy blue or black.
- Put on a patterned top to spice up plain windbreaker pants. Stripes, polka dots, or even animal print goes great with solid-colored windbreaker pants. Add an interesting element to your outfit by wearing a bold piece up top.[11]
- Wear a leopard print shirt with some black windbreaker pants and a bucket hat for a streetwear outfit.
- Elevate your outfit with a button-down. Choose a button-down shirt with a solid color and some bright windbreaker pants. Tuck your button-down shirt into your pants for a cool streetwear look to make you stand out.[12]
- Pair a light blue button down paired with some red windbreaker pants and black sneakers.
- Make your outfit more cozy with a soft sweater. Contrast the swishy material of windbreaker pants with a wool or nylon sweater. Pair a pair of neutral pants with a neon sweater for a bright look, or go all out and mix bright pants and a bright sweater.[13]
- Wear some pink windbreaker pants with a neon green sweater for an outfit that will stand out.
- Tuck your pants into crew socks for a bold look. Wear crew socks that hit above your ankles. Pull the bottoms of your pants into your socks and smooth them out flat.[14]
- Hang a fanny pack over one shoulder for a fashion-forward bag. Grab a neutral fanny pack that goes well with any outfit, like black or brown. Instead of wearing it around your waist, pull it on over one shoulder so that it hangs on your torso like a crossbody bag.[15]
- Use a neon fanny pack to make it stand out.
- Red windbreaker pants, a white shirt, and a black fanny pack pair well together for a simple look.
- Pair your pants with some skinny heels for a night out. Windbreaker pants don't have to be worn during the day. Throw on some black stiletto heels to elevate your outfit enough for a night out.[16]
- Wear some black windbreaker pants with white stripes down the side, black heels, and a white crop top to take your outfit to a club.
- Throw on some boots for a contradiction. Since windbreaker pants are so sporty, you can contrast that with a pair of chunky work boots. Tuck the bottom of your pants into your boots for a seamless look.[17]
- Pair black work boots with black windbreaker pants and a jean jacket for a fashion-forward outfit.
- Try out a few different outfits to find a style that you like!
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| How to Focus on Yourself After a Breakup Posted: 13 Mar 2020 09:00 AM PDT After a breakup, it can be hard to turn your attention away from your ex and onto yourself again. This is normal, but it's important to make this shift in focus so that you can move forward with your own goals, interests, and life. Start by cutting off all contact with your ex, grieving the relationship, and talking with people during the first week after a breakup. Then, find positive ways to distract yourself, such as by setting goals, taking up a new hobby, or taking care of things you've been putting off. Also, make sure to take good care of your mind and body so that you can continue to grow and thrive in your daily life. [Edit]Changing Your Focus Right After a Breakup - Cut off all communication with your ex so you can focus on other things. Unfollow or unfriend your ex on social media so you won't see what they post. Also, don't contact them via text, email, or phone. This will help to prevent you from focusing on them, which could become an unhealthy habit.[1]
- If you need to keep some contact with your ex while you transition out of a shared residence or because you have children together, keep all communications brief and civil. Stick to the basic details you need to communicate.
- For example, you could say something like, "I'm going to stop by the house to pick up my things at 5:00 pm today. I'll leave my key on the kitchen table." Or, "Can you please have Mindy and Sarah dressed and ready to go at 8:00 am?"
- Remove anything in your life that might remind you of them. Put all of your ex's things into a box and ask a friend to return the items to them. You can also place any items that remind you of your ex into a box and store them somewhere out of sight. If this is difficult for you to do, ask a friend to help you.[2]
- For example, if you have pictures of your ex, gifts they bought you, or even sentimental items that remind you of them, place these into the box.
- Allow yourself to feel sad and grieve over losing the relationship. If you've recently broken up with your ex, it's normal and acceptable to be sad about it. Let yourself cry about it, lay around in bed, watch sad movies, or do whatever else helps you to grieve. Don't try to ignore your feelings. It's important to feel them in order to move on.[3]
- Try to limit this grieving period to 2-4 days, then get yourself up and out to do something that will distract you.[4]
- Reflect on the relationship so you can make improvements to future ones. Another good way to process your feelings and shift the focus to yourself after a breakup is to think about what killed the relationship. While these things may have been out of your control, it can help you to reflect on them and think about how you might avoid a similar situation in future relationships.[5]
- For example, you might note that part of the reason why you and your ex broke up is that you had different life goals. This could tell you that you might have a more successful relationship with someone who shares your goals.
- Or, you might note that your relationship troubles resulted from having different communication styles and want to find someone in the future who communicates differently than your ex did.
- Talk with a trusted friend or family member about how you're feeling. Talking through how you're feeling can also be a helpful way to move forward, so you might ask a friend or family member to meet up with you when they have time to listen. Choose someone who is trustworthy and who will listen carefully and respond in a supportive way. Also, make sure that the person is not someone who might feel awkward discussing your breakup with you, such as a mutual friend of your ex.[6]
- Avoid asking friends and family who still have contact with your ex to tell you how they're doing. This can put you back into a cycle of focusing on your ex instead of yourself.[7]
- Find a therapist to help you if you're struggling. Therapy can help you to develop new tools for dealing with your emotions and it can also give you a safe space to vent about the breakup. If you can't seem to stop feeling sad about your ex or focusing on them after 2 weeks, find a licensed therapist or counselor who can help you.[8]
- If you're in school, you could also ask to meet with a school counselor.
[Edit]Finding Positive Distractions - Identify a meaningful goal for your personal, social, or work life. Setting a goal can give you something positive to focus on and take your mind off of your ex. This goal could be related to your health, career, grades, spiritual life, or something else. As long as the goal is meaningful to you, it can be anything you want. Make sure to start small and be as specific as possible about what you want to accomplish.[9]
- For example, instead of setting a goal to lose weight, you might say, "I want to lose over the course of 6 weeks."
- Treat yourself to something special to take your mind off the situation. While indulging yourself after a breakup can be a little dangerous, it might help you to feel better. Treating yourself might mean buying yourself a gift that you've wanted for a while, eating a piece of cake, going for a hike, seeing a movie, booking a salon treatment, or playing a round of mini golf with friends. Anything that you consider a treat and that will make you happy is fine.[10]
- If you plan to buy something or do something that costs money, try setting a limit on how much you'll spend. This may be helpful if you're worried about overdoing it.
- Take up a new hobby or learn a new skill. Learning something new is a great way to take your mind off of other things. Choose something that you are genuinely interested in and make learning about it your sole focus for a set amount of time each day. If you need more structure, consider taking a class at your local community college or online.[11]
- For example, if you have always wanted to learn how to play guitar, follow along with online videos, take private lessons, or enroll in a class.
- If you're interested in learning a new language, download a language app, listen to a podcast on learning the language, or take a course.
- Channel your energy into something productive to improve your life. Identify something you can do that will make your life better and do it. This could be a simple task that you've been putting off or something bigger you need to take care of.[12]
- For example, now's the perfect time to tackle that leaky faucet in your kitchen, repot your houseplants, or develop a better filing system for your bills.
[Edit]Taking Good Care of Yourself - Develop and maintain a daily routine for yourself. Try to wake up and go to bed at the same time each day and do things in roughly the same order each day. Keeping the same basic routine every day may help you to stay grounded and focused.[13]
- For example, after you wake up you might take a shower, get dressed, go to school or work, and then hit the gym.
- Add some physical activity to your daily life. Regular cardiovascular physical activity is good for you and it can also help you to feel happier in general. Strive for 30 minutes of exercise on 5 days of the week, and make sure that you do something you enjoy. This will help to increase the chances that you'll stick with it.[14]
- For example, if you enjoy going on walks outdoors, take a walk around your neighborhood on most days.
- If you're a fan of soccer, join an inter-mural soccer league at your local gym.
- Adopt a healthier diet to promote better health and energy levels. Eating lots of unhealthy food can affect your mood and leave you feeling unhealthy and tired. To prevent this, eat a diet based on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins. Stick to whole foods and steer clear of fried, sugary, processed, and packaged foods as much as possible.[15]
- If you're new to healthy eating, start by replacing one unhealthy item in your daily diet with a healthy alternative. For example, if you usually eat a bag of potato chips for an afternoon snack, try switching to apple slices.
- Make sure that you don't use food as a coping mechanism after your breakup. If you overeat or find yourself turning to junk food in the first few days after a breakup, that's okay. However, if it becomes a regular habit, this can lead to weight gain and poor health.[16]
- Use a relaxation technique daily to manage stress. It's normal to feel stressed after a breakup, but there are ways you can reduce your stress levels and keep them in check. Choose a relaxation technique that you find helpful and set aside at least 15 minutes every day to use it. Some relaxation techniques you might find helpful include:[17]
- Deep breathing
- Yoga
- Progressive muscle relaxation
- Meditation
- Check in on yourself and how you're feeling daily. Try to be more mindful and focus your attention inwards at least once per day. Identify what you're feeling, how these feelings are affecting you, and what might make you feel better. Sit and think about how you're feeling, say what you're feeling out loud, or try journaling about your emotions to check in with yourself.[18]
- Try doing this after you get ready for school or work in the morning, or set aside a specific time later in the day to reflect on how you're feeling.
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| How to Optimize Your Website Posted: 13 Mar 2020 01:00 AM PDT This wikiHow teaches you how to optimize your website for search engines, accessibility, and performance. Having a website which ranks highly in search engine results, is easy to use, and loads quickly will increase your traffic, prevent user frustration, and add to the overall quality of your site. [Edit]Optimizing Your Website for Search Engines - Analyze and study your website. Your first and most important step for SEO is to analyze your website to determine what changes, if necessary, should be made. This process includes assessing the site navigation, context, and overall cosmetics of the website. Once you've determined common issues (e.g., lack of site traffic on a specific page), you can proceed.
- It is a good practice to develop a task sheet to better proceed with the optimization of the website.
- Remember that search engines look at domain names, title tags, and header tags to assist them in ranking the website according to relevance. Thus, it is important to maintain consistency in text with the subject of your site.
- Review your competition's website(s). By knowing your competition in the industry, you will gain a better understanding of what exactly needs to be accomplished. It is helpful to find the top 5 to 10 competitors in your industry and find out what methods they are employing, including their chosen keywords and site structure.
- While you don't want to copy competitor websites outright, knowing their strategies will help you identify weak points in your own.
- Research keywords. Identify keywords related to your site's content. These can be popular search terms that lead people to your site, words related to your overall topic, and the topic of a specific page or blog post. If you're not sure which keywords are popular search terms, there are services online that can help you evaluate keywords, many of them with free trials.
- Place keywords strategically throughout your content. Having keyword-rich content is the key to performing well with search engines. Some search engine bots may penalize you for keyword spamming, however, so learn where to focus your efforts:
- Use the keywords liberally on your home page.
- Include keywords in header tags, title tags, and meta tags.
- Include keywords in the anchor text used to describe links.
- Use keywords in the URL of new pages.
- Include meta and title tags. HTML's meta tag does not alter the content visible on the website; meta tags exist only for search engines and other bots. Some ways in which you might use meta tags to boost your website's search ratings include the following:
- Place a meta title tag at the top of each page to identify the document's overall content to search engines.
- Write an accurate meta description tag, since it is often used by search engines to describe a site in search results.
- Add a meta keyword tag as well to reveal the most important keywords for each page to search engine bots.
- Keep in mind that Google's search bots do not look at meta keywords, but other search engines often do.
- Develop some base traffic reports. These reports are used to determine the current traffic to your website to see what kind of activity is taking place, where your traffic is coming from, and what pages are the most popular on your website as well as how they currently rank. If you are not already monitoring your web traffic, you will want to do this for at least a month to get a feel for your current volume.
- Statcounter is good for monitoring.
- This step is crucial in the SEO process because the reports will also be used to gauge activity prior to your optimized performance.
- Keep providing new content. New content is a critical factor in keeping site visitors interested and coming back for more. This in turn will lead to higher search engine rankings. When writing new content, keep in mind that each page should have at least 350 words.
- Update your content at least once per week for optimal results.
- Get other websites to link to you. Building good incoming or back links can also increase your search engine ranking and website traffic. List your website in relevant directories and forums, and ask websites on similar topics to link to content on your website.
- Most major search engines rank web pages based partially on the number and the quality of links that point to the site.
- Finding a journalist or website owner who will cover your website and link to it will create an organic piece of content which may boost your search results listing.
- Create a site map. Site maps are XML files that list every URL in your website. Your web host may provide this file, or you may have to make it yourself: find an example site map file and replace the example URLs with URLs of pages on your website. Once every page is listed, upload the site map file to the root folder of your web server.
- Search online for "submit a sitemap" to find sites where you can submit your link.
- Having a site map will also help you keep track of your current links, allowing you to update or remove non-working links as part of your optimization efforts.
- Remember to update your site map as you replace or update links. Nothing turns people off to your site more than hosting broken links.
- Avoid using frames whenever possible. Frames, which are being used less and less, enable you to split a page into pieces and section off static content to decrease download times. However, using frames can prevent search engine bots from accessing your entire website.
- Providing a site map may fix this problem.
- Validate your HTML code. While search engines don't care whether your HTML code is error-free, they rely on the basic correctness of the code to find out which portions of your web page to index. If your HTML code contains errors, it is possible that only portions of your web page are included in the search engine's database.
- You can use W3C or another site to validate your HTML by checking it for errors.
- Tweak your website as needed. You'll need to re-optimize and re-assess your website at least once every three months, though performing optimization assessments once per month won't hurt your website.
- Generating a new report each month will give you an idea of which keywords are most successful (and which ones are falling flat), allowing you to increase usage of the proper ones and remove the inefficient ones.
- Keywords change alongside their respective trends, so monitor and update your keywords as your website's audience changes. Or you can Chose a keyword which have more density.
- Use CTAs in your content. A CTA (Call to Action) consists of a short paragraph (e.g., three or fewer short sentences) which encourages a reader to take action by clicking a link, calling a number, or enrolling in your services. In most cases, you'll want to provide a link for the reader to select.[1]
- When effective, CTAs improve the amount of time for which readers stay on your site.
- Providing internal links in your CTA will keep the reader engaged with your content. Avoid linking to external (e.g., other website) resources in your CTAs.
[Edit]Optimizing Your Website's Accessibility - Use a readable URL. By default, most websites list different pages as "url/number" (e.g., "www.yoursite.com/12345"), making specific pages difficult to remember for human readers. Enabling a "permalinks" option for your website's pages will allow you to create a memorable name for each page (e.g., "www.yoursite.com/how-to-eat-salad").[2]
- Using recognizable words instead of strings of numbers will be especially helpful when encouraging others to view a specific page on your site by sending them a link, as they'll be able to see at a glance what the page is about.
- Most website hosting services have an option to use title-based links rather than procedurally generated (numerical) links in the Settings section.
- Create a 404 page. The infamous 404 page is encountered when a person misspells or incorrectly types a section of your website's URL into the address bar (e.g., "www.yoursite.com/handburgers" instead of "www.yoursite.com/hamburgers"). By default, the 404 page results in an error, but you can create your own 404 page to address common issues.
- A great 404 page should include a link to the main site, a table of contents for popular links, and a concise but light-hearted message informing the user that they've entered a broken link.
- As with most accessibility features, you can usually create a 404 page from within your website hosting service's Settings page.
- Make sure you have a site navigation section. This section can take many forms, but it usually appears as a hamburger menu (☰) in one of the upper corners of the site page. Users can click the menu icon to view a list of common pages (e.g., Help, Downloads, etc.).
- If possible, implementing an in-site "Search" function will also help users search your site for more specific content or features.
- Even if your "navigation" section is just a row of title tabs across the top of the website's home page, having the option to jump between pages is valuable.
- Keep your content concise. It can be difficult not to get wrapped up in the process of implementing keywords to the point that your content ends up being lengthy, but shorter sentences are preferred by the bulk of readers.[3]
- This doesn't mean that your overall content needs to be short; your content should be at least 350 words, and in some cases may perform better in the 800 to 2000 word range.
- Ensure that mobile phone optimization is enabled. Virtually every website hosting service offers a mobile view preview when designing your site; make sure that you use this feature to ensure that mobile users aren't seeing a confusing, cluttered, or inefficient layout. Since most of your site traffic most likely comes from mobile users, this is a crucial step.
- Try visiting your site from a mobile browser and looking for issues or irritating features. This will help you determine which parts of the design require your attention.
[Edit]Optimizing Your Website's Performance - Reduce your use of intensive applications. Website that use lots of Flash or Java can take much longer to load. Try not to rely on these for your basic web page, and don't make Flash videos play automatically.
- This is an issue with sites which automatically play embedded (e.g., YouTube) videos as well.
- Optimize your images. Large, high-quality images can slow down your website considerably, and may burn through your server hosting space as well. Many photo editors and website hosts alike offer an option to optimize your photos for web publishing, so take advantage of this option.[4]
- Most website hosting services also offer an option to load images as viewers scroll down rather than loading a whole page's worth of images at once.
- While images are important when attempting to make your site more attractive, they can considerably slow down traffic from slower browsers and platforms. Don't overuse images.
- Minify CSS and Javascript code. Minification removes all unnecessary characters from code, typically white space, new lines, and comments, which will both help your site load faster and boost your website's search engine optimization.
- Closure Compiler by Google can minify Javascript for free, while other free minimizers can be applied to different types of code (e.g., HTML).
- You will still be able to edit your code with the human-readable organization. The code is minified only when it is uploaded to the server.
- Use the latest version of PHP. Make sure you are using the latest version of PHP so you can benefit from the latest improvements. While the PHP developers try to keep the language backwards-compatible, you will probably need to spend some time updating your code in accordance with the latest changes.
- If you're using a website hosting service such as WordPress or Weebly, you shouldn't have to worry about manually updating your website's PHP.
- Make sure your website caches files locally. Enabling this option for your webpages' files, photos, and other content will ensure that users who allow cached content won't have to retrieve the content every single time they revisit your site.
- Any users who clear their browser's cache and cookies before revisiting your site won't benefit from this, but the bulk of people who come across your site will be positively impacted.
- A great way to build natural and permanent links to your website is through submitting articles to other websites, each of which contains one or more live links pointing to your business' site. By writing good articles on other sites, you are increasing your chances of being found in the search engines for the keywords that are relevant to your business.
[Edit]Warnings - Do not over-stuff your pages with keywords. "Keyword spamming" can be punished with a low ranking by many search engines.
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