Twelve discounted website design / builds for charities | Design Aid
A special 2012 Design Aid project
A professional website design for your project
All you need for just £250
web design that works and gets traffic
Every month throughout 2012 the Design Aid “Website Twelve” project will have me provide your charitable project with one complete bespoke professionally designed website for just £250. This fantastic project begins today with the first website to be launched in January 2012.
Read more about this great offer via Twelve discounted website design and builds for charities and good causes | Design Aid.
Please support the Design Aid project – simply tweet, share, like and email links to this post and www.designaid.org.uk
Creating a Favicon for WordPress Site
Creating a Favicon
A favicon can be easily created using any graphic program that will allow saving of .ico graphic files, such as The GIMP. There are also online services that will allow you to create a favicon for free.
The image should be clear and is usually designed to match your blog image and/or content, a big task for something so small. Continue reading
Ecommerce Store – Excellent Design And Active Marketing Are Critical For Success
E-commerce websites can have a huge positive impact on a business’ bottom lines. E-commerce offers the tremendous opportunity of enlarging your clientele while reducing expenses. This appealing combination cannot be realized by just setting up an e-commerce website. An internet site will deliver expected results only if supported with well-planned, and bold marketing.
The success of an e-commerce solution is dependent on how successfully you attract prospects, prevent them from leaving quickly, transform their visit into a sale, and prod them to return. These details are covered in greater detail below.
Grow website traffic
Driving prospects to your e-commerce web site is an important 1st step. Some of the effective strategies for attracting more prospects to the website are: Continue reading
40 Website Design Layout Tutorials that Yield Professional Results | CreativeFan
40 Website Design Layout Tutorials that Yield Professional Results | CreativeFan:
Creative fan has blogged a whole load of tutorials that help you get great design results for your website no matter what your preferred method or application with links to tutorials in Photoshop, Design Lab, Blogger, WordPress, etc.
“- Sent using Google Toolbar”
DATEOMATIC: Back links for website owners-Dateomatic
One way back links help your sites rankings, google loves to see one way links into your site and many pay good money for a one way link – here you can have a link for free you simply add your comment to the post and be sure to put your site link in the form.
Easy and Free
DATEOMATIC: Back links for website owners-Dateomatic
FBoxBot, Joomla bot for thumbnails
Use Joomla and have photographs on your site? – then check this one out…
FBoxBot, Joomla bot for thumbnails: “FBoxBot is a joomla bot/plugin. The main idea is to help the user to create easily thumbnails from any pictures, and when you click on the thumbnails a nice ‘lighbox-like’ popup appears that show the image at its original size. So what makes this package so special ? First: I’ve written the associated popup script, frontbox, which I wanted to be lightweight, polyvalent, reliable.
And Second: the process of creation of thumbnails easier than ever: inside your favorite wysiwyg editor insert a picture, resize ‘manually’, save, publish and the bot will do the remaining job for you ! “
Top 7 websites to teach yourself SEO
Design Aid provides all it’s charity websites hosted on a Heart Internet resellers account the little gem of info and links to SEO resources below was in their latest newsletter and I thought it was worth sharing with others on my blog.
So, here are some words and links from Matthew…
“When I first got into online marketing many moons ago, my main focus was on paid search (Google AdWords et al) and my job revolved around creating campaigns, bids, clicks, conversions etc however, although it wasn’t part of my job at that time, I found SEO equally as interesting and wanted to learn more. Without any on the job experiences to learn from I went looking online for websites that would help me, and they did. Since then SEO has become part of my job in a couple of positions and I can honestly say the following websites were a big reason why I knew enough about the subject to be able to work in that field.
Whether you are a complete beginner or you an SEO master, these sites have enough of a back catalogue and regular new information to keep you going for months!
1. http://www.seomoz.org/blog: Starting as an SEO agency they have used their blog to position themselves as a global resource for the industry
2. http://www.seobook.com/blog: A mix of practical advice, industry news and personal opinion
3. http://searchengineland.com/columns/: one of my favourite sites, the columns section covers all aspects of search marketing
4. http://searchenginewatch.com/sew_archive_experts&type=sew_experts/sem-101&issue=2009: Really good introductory articles to various aspects of online marketing
5. http://www.wolf-howl.com: This site has been around for years and it mixes advice with commentary and personal opinion
6. http://econsultancy.com/blog: The volume of posts each day can be a bit too much and some articles don’t go in to a lot of detail, but the percentage that do hit the money make it worth it.
7. http://www.toprankblog.com/: Good traditional ‘how to’ blog with some great advice for all levels of knowledge
These are the sites that I relied on to get me up to speed early on and the ones I still read each week, and I’m sure many have your own, so if you’d like to share them leave a comment and link below…
P.S. For a great list of online marketing sites check our AdAge’s Power 150“
Blogger app for iPhone
As you can see from the default signature below this blog has been posted from my iPhone. I used the blogger app which works realy well and gan be used with multiple blogs on multiple accounts across the whole range of most common and popular blog service providers.
This must be a great little app for people who blog for the most part their own thoughts and reviews. For me it’s use may well be limited as I mostly post links I find of interest and use to creatives, but who knows maybe this could be the start of me posting my own ocasional thoughts and ideas while I’m waiting for a haircut. No doubt it’s a very cool app.
– Posted from my iPhone
NO!SPEC
If you ever wondered why people should expect you to do spec work and effectively work for free! you need to check this out and get behind this campaign.
Shareaholic for Firefox :: Add-ons for Firefox
Shareaholic for Firefox :: Add-ons for Firefox
The ultimate to keep all your social networking up to date – I think! I’m just about to give this a go it looks amazing!
