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When it comes to marketing and finding the best optimized creatives for your product, testing is the key, but depending on how much you know or are into web design and the whole process, testing just might not be your cup of tea.
Lets face it… who really wants to create multiple layouts, images, and text to promote the same thing and then track every stat?
While you might not have the budget to hire a sole marketing team, there are companies out there who do. Many of them spend thousands to millions of dollars a year figuring out what stuff converts and what works best. What if you could find a way to piggy back off these results?
Well if you are signed up for an affiliate network, then you are already halfway there…
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If you are going to be doing something with the internet, then it is a good idea that you have some working knowledge of web design. You never really know when you will have to make the quick change or edit, and wouldn’t it save you some time and money if you could tweak things yourself?
The following is a list of 8 great sites will make you a web design guru…
1. The Do’s and Don’ts of Modern Web Design
2. Nettuts
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When it comes to working with Wordpress and designing in general the ability to quickly preview your changes and edits helps move the process along much faster. While you can easily see regular HTML and CSS files on your computer no problem, when you start to use databases and PHP, you need a server that can interpret these documents…
Unfortunately that means you need to set this up on your computer, but that is where we come in.
Note: Some Mac users seem to have trouble uploading images with the latest WP builds.
A few reasons to consider installing Wordpress locally:
- Can see changes made without the need to upload.
- Can upload complete theme once, design looks right.
- Can play, test, and build your designing skills without risking your actual site.
The following tutorial will teach you step-by-step how to install Wordpress locally…
1. Download Software (Free)
Yes there is other software, but, for ease and cross-platform capability, download the version of XAMPP suitable for your operating system.
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The top marketers are using Wordpress these days because its easy and the utility that can be performed with their template tag structure. It seems like everybody is looking to move towards a magazine-style Wordpress theme.
Besides just looking professional and complex, these type of themes allow you to promote more of your content than a traditional blog-style Wordpress theme.
You may also want to take a look at 16 Best Free Recommended Wordpress Themes For Wordpress 2.8. The following is a list of free magazine-style Wordpress themes.
1. Arthemia
Arthemia – Demo
2. Premium News
Premium News – Demo
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Obviously, the ideal Wordpress theme would allow you to do almost all customizing of not just your site’s content, but also the layout directly from your admin panel. While most templates are now being published with some sort of management through the panel such as color scheme or where to put your sidebars, you still really don’t have the option to completely customize where you want each individual piece to go.
Until Thesis came around…
You might not have realized it, but Thesis seems to be used on almost every other site nowadays, but you can’t tell because they have all customized it their own way… and done it straight through the admin panel. Lets take a look at some notable examples…
Tipd
Bankling
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Obviously because the core of this site revolves around using various creatives to enhance our marketing techniques, it is somewhat recommended that we all know a little something about web design. While that does not mean you have to know how to make a site from scratch to finish, it will benefit you drastically to at least get a good idea of whats going on or how to edit somethings here and there.
Interesting fact… most web designers have little to no former training (including myself). Does that make us special (we like to think), but, in all honesty, learning how to create websites and other similar creatives is actually incredibly easy. It really just takes some time to play around with different templates, and see what changes what. Eventually you get a good idea on what works, and the rest just follows.
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If you are unfamiliar with what sales and squeeze pages are, then it is time to get familiar. These type of pages are basically a single web page that focuses on getting the visitor to perform one action.
- Sales Page – Focuses on visitor to buy the product.
- Squeeze Page – Focuses on visitor to opt-in to mailing list.
There are obviously advantages and disadvantages to creating each one over the other; however, each one is almost a vital part to launching and selling any product or service. We think they are so important that we have created free templates for these specific pages that you can get for free.
Although these pages seem relatively easy to produce, it is almost an art form. How will you keep somebody’s attention and convince them to perform the action you want? That is why it is imperative that you understand exactly how these pages work and then also study what successful marketers are doing on these pages.
I have created a video that you can watch below to get a better understand of how a sales or squeeze page works, and we will also look at a couple examples.
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Have you ever noticed that many popular sites have some sort of mascot or image that represents their brand. It is usually some type of animal or creature. Unlike a typical plain text logo, these creature looking images always seem to pump up the brand more.
While they look nice, it can be pretty hard to create these icons, but, once again, something you can’t do others can. The following is a list of free creature-based icons that can be used to liven up your site.
Manto Smiley Icons
Feed Me Animals: RSS Icon Set
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Whenever you try to sell something online, the payment company you are dealing with usually requires you to have a couple things. At the same time, you always want to focus certain parts of your site with bold distinct images.
The problem is if you can’t design or don’t have the resources how can you meet these requirements and highlight various aspects of your site?
The following is a list of high quality icon sets related to eCommerce.
Weby Icons
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The easiest step to outsource in all of the “make money online” process is the design phase. With so many tools and resources available, why waste time coming up with that perfect design when you can just find one already made and run with it?
Just like with any business, time is money.
If you are uncomfortable with coding and web design, but still trying to create your site from scratch, to save a couple dollars, you are going to be wasting so much precious time. Even if you had to pay $30 to get a design template, you will easily save more money than spending hours trying to come up with your own design.
Better yet, there are always tricks, tactics, and other special coding stuff that will boost your traffic, but you probably don’t know them. These designers do.
There is only one problem… How do you find good quality templates?
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