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This video show you how you can unlock the secret to setting up “Two Hour Profit Surges” with your website ideas…
Because what you’re about to discover is so incredibly effective, we do everything we can to actually limit how many people can get their hands on this information.
So you’ll need to be really quick…
What this video reveals is the answer to the top 4 things people struggle with online:
- Getting traffic
- Getting joint venture partners
- Creating products to sell (this holds a lot of people up)
- Making BIG floods of income (instead of just “trickles”)
All it takes is one “simple money funnel” website that can funnel money right into your bank account.
One word of warning…
This isn’t like anything you’ve ever learned before. You have to remember to follow the simple steps to success, because the money funnel won’t become fully operational without the secret to “filling the money bucket”…
Go check it out now…
1. oswd.org
This site currently has 2080 free designs, its mission is to help make the internet a prettier place. You will find web design from the intricate and stunning to the simple and well laid out. You can browse by favorites, all , or search. Each template details number of views, comments made and the number of downloads. You can add your rating for individual templates via a 5 star system.
2. opendesigns.org
A community providing 1527 free open source website templates over 55 pages, you can view details of each design for: age, validation, license, columns, contrast, width and colours. An active forum is available for your questions and information.
3. openwebdesign.org
You’ll find over 3707 designs available for download via search or browse facility at this site. Designs are categorized as either fun or business. The search facility allows a good range of specificity in what you are seeking.
4. oswt.co.uk
Here you’ll discover 267 free open source XHTML CSS templates with 100% W3C validity. It contains both frameworks for pages and CSS Menus as well as fully designed web templates. You can browse or use the search feature that allows you to select parameters including W3C validation type, accessibility, CSS and images .
The option of template layouts and CSS menus provides much greater flexibility and freedom than fully developed designs, not if you are only looking for ready to go designs. It also offers links to some interesting and potentially useful online tools ie: CSS Formatter and Optimiser; Web Form Factory and a PHP Object Generator.
5. csstinderbox.com
This is another site for those a little more confidence and ready to try a more hands on approach to design. It provides very basic, yet solid, CSS/XHTML design templates as a framework or foundation for building your own web design, as well as some fully designed templates.
6. themebot.com
You’ll find a wealth of choice at this site with 6599 templates, skins, themes and layouts for HTML, Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, e107, SMF, XOOPS, PhpBB, Flash and Myspace. Go to downloads on the menu bar then website templates. All free templates are easily accessible via graphical buttons for the particular platform designed for. Each thumbnail contains the usual information on columns, width, layout, W3S validity and a 5 star rating system.
7. opensourcetemplates.org
While this site claims to be the original site for open source templates is contains 20 fully designed templates, and the link to the wordpress templates actually links to a vector art site with interesting visuals. Still in the 20 open source templates you may find one that is right for your purposes.
I hope you’ll enjoy taking a journey around these open source website template sites and that within them you’ll find some inspiration, some learning and something that strikes you as a good fit for your next site.
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So how do you “literally” sell anything online, or to put it another way what’s proving to be the best way to sell products online?
In one word… video.
If you’ve not got into creating your own videos and you have something to sell online (even as an affiliate) then now’s the time to get started because you’re missing out on something very powerful.
I would go so far as to say that video is quickly becoming the #1 method used to sell online.
But there’s one thing you can do that makes dominating any niche as an affiliate very much easier and it’s called video skinning.
This video was just released that shows you how it’s done…
You really need to check it out before it’s taken down.
When you watch it be sure to take notes!
I use videos on all my best selling websites (they sell well because I use video) it’s something I’ll be applying to all my marketing websites and squeeze pages from now on.
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If you’re serious about having an online business it’s a good idea to have some familiarity and confidence in building webpages. On the internet you will find many free website builders that will help you do just that.
They come with a vast array of specifications and serviceability: some you use online, some are integrated with web hosting, others are downloadable, stand alone which you use on your desk top.
You’ll also often find that your web hosting company offers a website builder in your hosting package. I’ve compiled a list of 5 free website builders for you, that covers the spectrum of online, desktop and web hosting integrated tools.
1. NVU is an open source website builder that you download to your desk top that integrates with your file management system for easy FTP. It includes: tabbed editing; spell checker; in-line preview; capacity to edit and debug JavaScript; a CSS editor; it also supports forms, tables, and other standard tools.
It offers an easy to use drag-and-drop interface and logical, easily accessible and adjustable menus. Overall a good basic, stand alone, WYSIWYG editor that provides all the fundamental editing and general usability tools necessary for beginners.
2. Doodlekit is an online website builder, quoted by PC World as – “the time’s most beautiful, quickest, advanced website tool right now, the strongest available online website builder.”
It offers a free plan that includes website hosting. Features are: W3C Valid XHTML & CSS Layouts; Interchangeable Layouts, Color Themes & Designs; Advanced Page Editor & CMS; Blog; Photo & Image Albums; Custom CSS Editing Of Layouts; Built-In RSS Feeds; Full Website Searching.
Limitations of the free plan ie: only 5 Extra Pages & Sub-Pages, 500 Photos/Images upload limit and, 25000 maximum hits per month, are certainly enough for your first site. You can view examples of sites created with doodlekit, read the frequently updated blog and participate in the user forums that include current postings.
3. Blinkweb is a free, easy to use online web builder that creates blogs, content or sales letter styles of sites. It offers a simple drag and drop functionality, with a wide range of designs to choose from.
You can easily create: Testimonial boxes, order buttons, checkmarks; optin forms as well as easily adding video to your site. You can create unlimited sites and either host, for free, with a sub-domain at blinkweb or purchase your webpage creation so that you can download it and host it elsewhere with you own domain name.
The creators of blink web say it’s the world’s easiest website creation tool that allows the average, everyday person to create a professional looking website. Try it, and you just might agree.
4. First Page 2006 is a free downloadable website builder that allows you to create: HTML, XHTML, PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, Javascript, CSS, SSI and Perl. It offers a clear easy to use menu.
The free version has some limitations and doesn’t include 24/7 priority email support or lifetime upgrades. This site has some other interesting web promotion tools such as the capacity to test your link popularity, analyse your site ranking on search engines, a whois tool and many more.
5. Blue Voda is a website builder that must be used in conjunction with blue voda hosting. Their tagline boasts that you can build your own website in 30 minutes and have it live on the internet by tomorrow morning! You don’t need any HTML web design knowledge with it’s easy to use drag and drop functionality.
It has pre-designed website templates for unlimited web page and website creation. One click publishing means that you are live on the internet in seconds. It comes with very comprehensive video tutorials on practically everything you need to get your site live, including ecommerce set up. The follow up series of email that you receive on registration are also very helpful.
The above list of 5 free website builders gives you the opportunity to try out the various forms and structures of easy to use free webpage creation tools. Try one, two or all of them to discover which you feel most comfortable with. There’s no need to become an absolute expert in webpage building, although a little confidence and knowledge will serve you well in your online life.
I hope this helps.
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While you don’t need to be an absolute expert it is a good idea to have at least a basic knowledge and understanding of CSS (cascading style sheets), how to use them and how they work. One of the biggest benefits of using CSS based websites over non-CSS websites is that they produces faster loading pages.
If you can’t wait to get started, you’ll find excellent tutorials and “try it” examples for CSS and a wide range of other web building languages at w3schools.com. I highly recommend you pay them a visit once you’ve selected some CSS website templates from the treasury I’ve assembled for you below. A word of warning: many of these sites have very similar domain names so if you like a particular site, keep good records so you can return to it easily.
1. Free-CSS.com
This site contains over 1200 free CSS templates. This site is very easy to use with excellent categorization providing you with so much more than CSS website templates. You can navigate to CSS: layouts, menus, tutorials, articles, gallery, references and resources as well as the opportunity to purchase premium templates.
Practically everything you could ever hope for in the way of CSS. The template search navigation tab allows you to search via: name, designer, category, layout type, contrast, doctype used, columns and color. Niches include: childcare, dating, builders, resume, software, bookstore and more.
2. FreeWebsiteTemplates.com
161 CSS templates are on offer here with niches that include: restaurant, web technologies, snowmobile, children, nightclub, movies, military, gaming, music, party, architecture, generic and more. New templates are added daily and you are not required to include a link back to the site.
3. StyleShout.com
30 CSS templates that contain generic themes that would be applicable across a wide range of niches. All templates are valid XTHML (strict) and valid CSS, (which means they comply with current standards). The licensing requirements are as per Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. You’re required to include a link back to the site if you use a template. This site also contains an excellent CSS Resources section.
4. BestFreeTemplates.info
28 free CSS templates are currently available here. Niches include: travel, SEO blog, furniture, business, charity, photos, sport, babies, religious, weddings, animals, generic and more. Check the license tab for licensing terms.
5. FreeCSSTemplates.org
432 CSS templates, over 36 pages for your viewing and downloading pleasure. The 8 latest templates are displayed on the front page. The themes are generic, and you will need to scroll through each page to find something that appeals to you. Information with each template includes: ” type” ie. fixed or fluid width; when it was uploaded and if images are included. Many of the templates are also available for wordpress. Terms are as per Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.
What I like is these templates have fast loading images, tables-free layout and comply with W3C stands with valid XHTML strict. Images are public domain from PDPhoto.org and Wikimedia Commons.
6. Templatemo.com
179 CSS website templates are available from this site with no restrictions. Themes include construction, pink, gardens, music, food, paint, camera, fashion, bird store, consultant, cars, generic and more. Preview design of your choice to discover views, downloads and upload date.
All templates comply with W3C standards for XHTML/CSS website layouts and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
7. FreeCSSTemplates.com
45 free CSS templates, Themes include: Event planner, real estate, spa, financial, business, and many generic. All templates are valid XHTML, available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.
8. Free-CSS-Templates.com
219 free CSS templates, over 15 pages. Themes include: family, business, flowers, Dalmatians, food, dating, computers, generic. New templates are added regularly. You are required to link back to the site and follow the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. Template specifications are: tableless layout, W3C standard compliant, public domain photos and light weight for fast loading.
9. CSScreme.com
32 free CSS templates over 4 pages, themes include: beauty, santa claus, photo gallery, tool shop, valentine, business, spider, electronics, generic. You are required to retain the credit and links.
10. CSSTemplatesMarket.com
17 free CSS templates with an easy drop down category selector that includes: dating, medical, prom night, fashion, photography. They do ask that you include a link back to the site.
Enjoy selecting and learning how to use your free CSS website templates, you’ll probably never look back.
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So, you’ve started a blog and want to give it a different look to the standard blog theme templates of your chosen platform, and you’re not a designer. Relax it’s easy…
I’ve sourced nine sites that together provide you with over 84,653 free blog theme templates to choose from. I’ve started with sites that offer templates across a wide variety of platforms. Below that you’ll find some that are blogger and /or wordpress specific, as these are the most common blogging platforms currently available.

blogskins.com
This site is the most prolific offering 80,215 skins (which is another name for a theme) across the following platforms:
blogger, diaryland; livejournal, onsugar, roller weblogger, tumblr, wordpress and xanga. A unique feature is that it even offers suggestions as far as “people who liked this theme also liked.”
You can search and sort via tags, keywords, relevancy, name, type author date downloads or rank and you can view: recent, top rated, favorite and top downloaded themes as well.
There’s a forum that offers support for all your questions: General; Tips & Tricks; Help; Suggestions; Skin Requests; Blogging Software and Web Hosting.
As well as generic themes you’ll find a broad range of niches represented including: cars, beauty, politics, news, gardening, pets, internet marketing, vacations, travel and poetry.

jump2top.com/themes/
You can choose from 309 word press and 300 b2evolution themes at this site. With the same design often available for both platforms. You can sort and select by platform or tag eg: columns, seo friendly, fixed or fluid width and colour.
Designs are suitable for various niches including: IM, furniture, diet, girly, vacation, lawyer, real estate, news, generic.

instantshift.com
This blog contains both free wordpress and blogger templates, go straight to the page at the links below. You can view features and a live demo of each theme before you download. You do need to scroll through to view each one as there doesn’t appear to be a search feature.
140 Brilliant Free Wordpress Themes
Want your choice of 142 wordpress themes? Themes are mainly generic with several magazine and news ones available.
120 Best Free Blogger Templates
Here’s a selection of 120 blogger templates that offers a range of themes including: café, luxury car. Japanese style, graffiti

topwpthemes.com
Here are 300 Wordpress themes to excite your senses.
You can sort by tags such as columns, adsense, fixed width, widget ready, side bar and designer.
You can review and add comments, visit and use the support forum and links, access installation instructions and under feedback you will find a link to usage rights which are creative commons 3.0.
Themes include: business, shopping, tattoos, family, travel, hosting and generic.

freetemplates.blogspot.com
While this site currently only has 18 blogger templates available it has themes that include: hearts/valentine, chocolate, adsense, hot air balloons, wood and sport.

bloggertemplatesfree.com
You’ll feast your eyes on 100 blogger templates here. Themes include: craft, news, Japanese, grungy, games, business, internet and photos. You can sort by categories and tags.

eblogtemplates.com
A site containing 337 quality blog templates – 146 for blogger and 113 for wordpress.
From the navigation bar select either the wordpress or the blogger tab and options to view: all, premium, most downloaded or top rated themes. This site also offers articles about wordpress and blogger and the blogger tab contains an ad code converter too. Generic themes suitable for a range of niches.

btemplates.com
The 1250 templates here are for the blogger platform. You can sort by columns, styles, sidebar and width, most downloaded, viewed and ratings. A particular feature I really like on this site is its excellent FAQ that contains easy to understand instructions for using the templates.

wpthemesfree.com
This is a great site with 3336 free Wordpress templates. It offers clear categorization for easy navigation and selection. It is also updated daily so there is always something new to check out.
Some of the themes you will find are: agriculture, animals, café and restaurant, communications, dating, industrial, jewelry, motorcycles, society and culture. Searching by properties allows you to view by: columns, colour, sidebar, width and plug ins.
There are so many choices of blog theme templates available from the sites I’ve mentioned here, that you’re bound to find something that appeals to your visual tastes and needs and perhaps even more importantly – the needs of your intended audience. Enjoy.
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Free website templates help budding internet entrepreneurs overcome one of their biggest hurdles and that is to create and build a website that will send their message out to the world in a consistent, congruent and professional manner, without spending thousands of dollars on professional design.
This list of places where you can access free website templates will flatten this hurdle so that it’s no more than a tiny undulation in your journey to web success.
A few tips before you begin. When you are searching through a site that offers free website templates make sure you understand the “rights” associated with use of the templates.
For example:
Are they for personal use only?
Are you required to keep a live link back to the download site on your webpage?
Some sites go as far as to mention that the images used are royalty free.
I also suggest you gain at least a basic understanding of the creative commons licensing, who knows one day you may be submitting a website template, for use by others, to one of these sites as well.
Doing your own due diligence is very important, without it you never know who might come knocking on your door demanding retribution – ignorance is no excuse.
OK, now on with the fun stuff – here are 10 of my favorite sites, for free website templates but first, check with your hosting company, they often offer you a whole range of templates with your hosting package, and you may find something here that meets your needs, if not.

1. freetemplatesonline.com
197 free templates, categorized for ease of use. Go straight to your niche of choice, there are even templates specifically for wordpress and joomla platforms too. A link back to the site is required.

2. freewebsitetemplates.com
78 CSS coded free templates over 6 pages. No need to link back to the site, complete freedom. Niches include: travel, software, web design, real estate, model agency, book author, call of duty, movies, gaming, family, architecture

3. oswd.org
2080 free open source designs. This site accepts contributions from the broad community of designers. Open source means that you have full rights to do whatever you like with them. You are free to link back to the site or not. The keyword and designer search does mean a bit more work to uncover suitable designs, but well worth it.

4. dreamtemplate.com
122 free open source website templates. Scroll to near the bottom of the home page to access the link to view all free templates. No categorized search can view by oldest, newest and random.

5. stylishtemplate.com
192 free designs. Niches include business, personal, construction, design and consultancy, electronics and generic. Contains some stunning designs. Use of the free templates from this site requires a link back to the webpage.

6. freecsstemplates.org
431 free CSS templates: tableless, lightweight, W3C compliant with strict XHTML and photos from within the public domain. No search capacity, browse only. Link back to site required.

7. opendesigns.org
1455 designs. Open source CSS templates, each providing detail of its compliance with standards. No search capacity, browse only. Generic, business and personal themes.

8. openwebdesign.org
3707 designs. Very sophisticated search options by Keyword, Designer, Template ID, Advanced. The advanced option allows you to specify standards, contrast, colours, CSS.

9. mastertemplates.com
90 free templates, broad range of niches including love, ebook, music, web traffic. A link back to the site is required.

10. templatesweb.com/blog/?s=free
220 free templates, niches include: business, exotic birds, luxury cars, music, radio, literature, advertising, printing. Use requires link back to the author. This site includes templates from some of the other sites mentioned here.
So there you have it – 10 sites to browse through to pick and choose a free website template that’s right for you. No more stress, bother or anxiety. Go forth and choose from this vast array of free website templates and give your site that professional look, it deserves.
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Your probably thinking one of two things right now:
” Yeah, right” or “Show me where I can get these profitable website ideas in just one click”
I’ll share with you later how you can get a ready researched idea with just one click of your mouse.
When you get a bright idea for a website, if you know the process to follow you’ll be able to very quickly assess it for its profit potential on the internet.
Here’s my 7 step checklist for assessing profitable website ideas.
Step 1. It’s important to choose a subject that you have some interest in, so you won’t get bored, after all this is a business you are setting up, so you want something that excites you enough to keep going.
Step 2. Make a list of your hobbies, passions and areas where you have some expertise or life experience. Perhaps you’ve overcome an illness via alternative means, successfully adopted a child. just let the ideas flow.
Step 3. Select the 5 from your list that most interest you and then investigate each one, reporting your findings in a spreadsheet for easy comparison.
Step 4. Think about who can benefit from your information? Where are they, what do they do, how do they access the internet, are there sites or groups where your potential customers gather? Build a profile of your “ideal” client. Age, gender, hobbies, problems, desires, location, socio-economic etc.
Step 5. Market research: This is probably the most important of the 7 steps because this is where you will discover the answer to your question, “Is this a potentially profitable website idea?”
5a. Discover what books and monthly magazines are published on your topic.
A great place to research this is http://www.amazon.com and look in the books and magazines sections.
If you find a good number of books and magazines then potentially you have a winner. Publishers don’t waste money on unprofitable ideas.
If you find that there are no monthly magazines or books published on your topic, go back to step 1, immediately. DO NOT WASTE TIME on an unprofitable idea, no matter how much you like the idea.
Step 6. Find out how many searches are being carried out each month on topics around your profitable website idea. A site you can use for this is:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal?defaultView=2
This will also provide you with lots of other relevant keyword phrases.
Definition: Keyword phrase is the term that you and other people put into an online search box.
How many searches do you need to gauge potential profitability?
As a guide at least 3,000 per month, less than this and it’s considered too small for profitability. Next you take a look at how many competing websites there are for you keyword phrase. To do this put your keyword phrase into a google search and then see how many websites come up, you want a figure of around 30,000 or lower.
If your research shows that your keyword phrase doesn’t match these parameters STOP and start at Step 1 with your next potentially profitable website idea.
Step 7. Are people talking about your topic idea?
Go to Google.com, and conduct a search on your topic / phrase. Then click on the Show options link, near the top left of your screen.
A new list of links will appear to the left of your search results
Find and click on the “forums” link. This will bring up all the forums that mention your keyword phrase.
If you find a good selection of forums on your topic bookmark the page.
You will use these as a resource later to enhance your knowledge on your subject, expecially finding out what problems people are having, provide support to others and build your reputation as an expert.
So in a nutshell if:
1. You have topic/s you’re interested in
2. There are published, hard copy books and magazines on the topic
3. Online searches are between 30.000 and 100,000 per month
4. There are online communities talking about your topic
Then, congratulations, you’ve confirmed the potential of your profitable website ideas and are well ahead of most people who grab any idea and run with it without taking the time to do their research first. They put in hours of time and effort for now reward, and then wonder why.
Now for that link to my website that in one click gives you potentially profitable website ideas… http://BigSellingIdeas.com
Each year I publish a list profitable website ideas generated by my website, the 2010 list will be coming soon, if you would like to take a quick look at the 2009 list you’ll find it here: 42 profitable website ideas for 2009
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The right time to ask this question is BEFORE you even put pen to paper to create your first draft or wireframe of your website.
However once your site is live, it’s important to continue to test for usability.
Website usability is a critical component of your success as a web marketer. If your users can’t easily take the actions you want them to, you could be missing out on more than just lost sales. When users find your site easy and perhaps even fun to use they are more likely to tell others about it, and generate more traffic.
So how usable is your website?
How quickly and easily can your website users find what they need?
I’ve put together a list of resources below to help you assess this very important question.
How usable is your website?
9 Website Usability Tips and Resources
1. First it’s vital that you know exactly what you want your “ideal” website user to be doing when they come to your page. It’s a good idea to map this out ie: when a new visitor comes to my webpage I want them to see ___________and do ______.
2. Excellent navigation is key for web usability. Good navigation allows the user to answer 3 questions : Where am I? Where have I been? Where can I go?
“Breadcrumbs” are an excellent way to achieve this. Breadcrumbs are text linked indicators of your journey to pages within your website. eg: home FAQ How much is the program? could be the bread crumb trail to a “How much is the program?” page.
3. Your navigation needs to be clear and consistent in its look, feel and location. You can achieve this by using templates. There are many places you can source quality free templates such as oswd.org and opendesigns.org
4. A site map is an important feature of a usable website. A site that allows you to quickly generate a free sitemap is: xml-sitemaps.com
5. It’s important to be able to track and assess the actions your users are taking, to determine how useable your website is. This is made possible by software scripts such as those found at crazyegg.com you can access a free 30 day trial of their visual heat maps on you webpage users activities.
6. An opensource (free) alternative for heat maps can be found at labsmedia.com/clickheat/index.html Clickheat allows you to see hot and cold click zones on your pages.
7. wave.webaim.org is a free web accessibility evaluation tool providing an on-page view of accessibility with embedded icons rather than complex technical reports. The entire webaim.org site provides a wealth of information and training in web accessibility.
8. usabilla.com offers a 5 minute, 5 step process that gives feedback at every stage of your design process
a. create a test start
b. select the pages you want to show your users
c. select questions for your pages
d. Invite your users to participate
e. Feedback analysis and statistics
9. No list on how useable is your website would be complete without a reference to the founding father of web usability Jakob Nielsen. Useit.com This is definitely not a site for those who like pretty graphics but for purists and researchers on the background on web usability. Information on one of his books “Homepage Usability 50 websites deconstructed” can be found at useit.com/homepageusability
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