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Create an eCommerce Website with WordPress in under 5 minutes

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:26:47 +0000

In this 5 minute tutorial Adam Purcell of Hungry Dog Media walks you through all of the steps needed to create your first eCommerce website with WordPress and the WP e-Commerce plugin

Blinkweb – Create unlimited websites and make money

admin — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:25:21 +0000

With Blinkweb you’ll be able to create your very own professional looking website in only a few minutes without knowing a lick of HTML, javascript, CSS or php. Simply choose one of the professional designs and use the Blinkweb drag and drop interface. Blinkweb is ideal for the info product business model. Best of all, You can create and publish an unlimited number of websites, completely free. You can choose between sales letter style website, content site or blog.

Not only will you be able to create your own website in minutes, but over the next 6 days Blinkweb will be teaching you the exact steps on how to make money from your website with easy step-by-step tutorials.

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Creating a Web Design That Sells

admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:25:37 +0000

The holy grail of website design is not a site that wins awards at some design conference or at a geek convention. The holy grail of web design is searched for and found every day by designers and scripters just like you. This web design holy grail is a website that sells. Whether it sells products, services, or free information, it doesn’t matter. It sells. That’s what commercial websites are all about and that is what you should be striving for when you design a site for a business.

Of course, this selling isn’t always direct. Sometimes a site is just a glorified online brochure for a company. That site is still selling. It’s selling the company that you’ve made the site for, so it is still a web design that sells. Your goal as a website designer is to sell your client’s products, not to make flashy widgets that look really cool and accomplish nothing but wasted bandwidth and maybe an award or two for your portfolio.

This can’t be overemphasized. I am contacted by both businesses looking for website designers and by designers wanting to know if I have any work for them. I rarely match them up because those designers who\’re looking for work have portfolios full of work that might look good in an art gallery or a design show, but that is not what business sites need in order to succeed on the World Wide Web.

So now the question is, “what exactly is web design that sells?” Fortunately, that part is easy to explain. Unfortunately, it’s not so easy to accomplish. Many web designers think of themselves as artists, but they think of this “art” in the wrong way. They think they’re visual artists who create art using the electronic medium of the web. That’s not the case. Web designers are more like interactive or audience participation artists. They’re more like illusionists and magicians than they are like mimes. This means your business site design is not about wowing the eyeballs, but instead getting the visitor involved in the site itself: getting them to click, to read, to participate. That’s the true art of web design.

To accomplish this, your design must be simple, but not boring. It must be interactive, but easy to use. And most of all it must be gently guiding the visitor towards a goal: usually a sale, or the piece of information they’ve been searching for.

Let’s look at an all-time favorite of ultra-simplistic design: Google. This home page is probably the fastest-loading page on the web that consists of more than just “.” Yet it’s one of the most user-friendly and most-visited sites on the Internet. Another great example is eBay. A little more complex, yes, but still fast-loading and very clean to look at. Very rarely does a visitor to eBay not know how to use this site—everything is laid out for them simply and neatly. All while still selling.

Simple and effective design is much more than just graphics and obscure talk about “visual flow.” It’s all about how the user interacts with the site and what the visitor can get out of the site quickly. Most definitely it’s about “selling” the site through its web design elements. Often this involves a strong mesh of team work between the designer, copywriter, and the back-end programmer.

The search for the grail continues as designers who understand their business continue to find innovative ways to make web design that sells rather than web design that wins obscure awards. Moving away from pure “art for arts sake,” they’re capturing the holy grail and winning the awards that matter: happy clients who come back and send their friends and colleagues. That is great web design!

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Free WordPress Theme: Callisto

admin — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:25:48 +0000

Callisto is an elegant, Glossy Blue, 3 Column, Widget and Adsense Ready WordPress Theme. Now is available for free download.

Callisto contains Three Widget Ready Left and Right sidebars, with a shining glossy look. The theme is available in 4 unique flavors; Red, Blue, Green and Gray. Users have the leverage to choose their own favorite color. Highly Search Engine and Adsense Optimized with easy to use interface. Social bookmarking buttons have also been added for readers to share content with the rest of the world.

Features:

* 3 Columns
* Web 2.0 Looks
* Widgetized Sidebar
* SEO Optimized
* Dynamic background
* Four unique colors (Red, Green, Blue, Gray)
* Social Bookmarks Integration
* Better Navigation
* High Content Visibility
* WordPress 2.7 Support

This theme is released under GPL.

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