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I’ve got a real treat for you here, it’s my top 10 best online resources to help you create your own “big selling” websites (be sure to bookmark it!)….

1. Create professional Internet Marketing websites and blogs for zero cost…
(This one is great when you need to get a new product online for some rapid fire testing)

Create internet marketing sites on the fly

2. Here an excellent style guide to how to design Web 2.0 graphics…

An Essential Web 2.0 Style Guide

3. Here are 59 thinks you should be doing with your website but probably aren’t…

Creating a big selling website is all about these 59 things

4. Building a strong visual brand identity online is crucial to your business success.
Image is everything online when you only have a few seconds to create the best first impression.

Here are 7 deadly branding mistakes you can’t afford to make…

Even if you’re as rich as King Solomon you’ll still want to check this out

5. Here are a few of my favorite fonts (free to you)…

40 excellent free fonts ready to download

These are excellent for creating very cool looking navigation with…

Get these Pixel perfect fonts when size is an issue

A very nice sans serif as used by del.icio.us

This font makes your graphics sing!

6. Keyword research is an important part of creating a big selling website, here are a few of the best online tools to help you…

kwbrowse.com

synonym.com

Google’s keyword research tool

Here’s a page full of other SEO tools and resources to help you get that top 10 Google ranking…

More SEO tools than I can count

7. Tracking how people use your website…
You’ll also find lots of useful information here on search engine optimization…

Stomper Scrutinizer

This website will give you some interesting data on what people are looking at on your website and how their eye moves around your pages…

Crazy Egg

8. Tracking and conversions
Creating big selling websites is all about conversions and getting more visitors to take specific actions on your website.

Before you can do this you need to know what people are doing so you can make the changes needed.

Fortunately Google give you everything you need with their superb tracking and conversion tools.

This is an absolute MUST HAVE tool everyone serious about their online success should be using on all their websites…

Google Analytics

9. Split testing
Google does it again and gives you one of the very best online tools there is for setting up split testing all of your website components.

If you’re not split testing things like headlines bullet points and design elements you have no excuse with this tool…

Google Website Optimizer

10. Here’s where I get all my photos from.
This is without a doubt the best collection of royalty free photos I’ve ever come across in over 10 years online.

Using the right photo can massively boost your conversions. You’ll find plenty to chose from here…

iStock Photos

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Just recently a good friend and expert programmer (Michel Komarov) came up with this interesting twist on the popup window concept.

It’s possible you’ve seen something similar to this probably not done in the same way. You’ll know what I mean when you check this out for yourselves.

What I especially like about what Michel has created is it’s unobtrusiveness. Despite the fact that popups work like gangbusters sometimes you want something that’s a little more subtle and perhaps even subliminal (to a certain degree).

With that said go take a look at what he’s created, it costs nothing to use and Michel even gives you all the code you need along with installation instructions, all for zero cost! (Don’t ask me why, something like this could easily be worth around 50 bucks).

Michel’s Komarov’s Interesting Twist On Popup Windows

Even if you don’t need it now, be sure to bookmark the page because I’m willing to bet that you’ll need it sometime soon!

(I almost forgot) …when I spoke with Michel last time he hinted that he might create a WordPress plug-in for this (I hope he does it!).

I’ll keep you posted as he develops this interesting script.

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In the past I’ve had people ask me… “what’s simplest and easiest way for creating a website?”.

If you’d asked me this 1 year ago I probably would have said download an HTML editor like Dreamweaver or NVU and learn how to use it.

That was until recently… you see I discovered this amazing online system for creating great looking, highly functional, highly interactive websites in an incredibly user friendly and intuitive way that requires few technical skills. (Did I say it’s also free?)

If you’ve been reading any of my other blogs or articles you might have heard me mention it, but just in case you haven’t here’s the link you need to check out right away!

www.Weebly.com

Don’t ask me what weebly means, it sounds just as strange to my ears too! But don’t let this put you off, it’s an outstanding example of web 2.0 programming.

Heres a quick 7 step guide to setting up a website using this “foolproof ” system to get you started ASAP…

Step 1: Go to www.Weebly.com

Step 2: Create a free account

Step 2: Give your website a Title (Make sure your title includes your main keyword phrase). Recently I created a short video that shows you a powerful method of keyword generation using the Google AdWords tool. You can watch it here.

Step 3: Add the elements your home page is going to need, I would select “Paragraph with title” and start from there.

Don’t worry too much about how it looks right now, you can easily edit things later on, including the design of the website.

Step 4: Once you’ve added the elements you think you’re going to need to get started you can begin editing them…

Step 5: Remember it does not have to be perfect! just get started.

One other thing you can do is add your own custom HTML code which is perfect for adding your autoresponder form code.

As I’ve suggested before you should include your optin form on every page of your website. Building a list of subscribers is critical to your online success!

Step 6: Once you have the basic structure of your page in place you can change the design of your website.

Step 7: Now you have your first page more or less set up you can start thinking about what other pages you’re going to have on your website. Take out a piece of paper and plan out the content of your site.

So there you have it, 7 steps to foolproof website design.

Once you start exploring Weebly some more you’ll soon discover many other useful tools and features including having a blog that you can have run along side your main website. What I like about this idea is you can have a blog design that matches your main website design, not forgetting that search engines also love blogs!

Let me know how you get on won’t you? I’d love to see what you create using this awesome online website design tool.

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It doesn’t require years of training, it doesn’t even require years of “hands on” web design experience (of course these things do help!).

However… there’s a shortcut to becoming a “genius” website designer I’d like to reveal to you that not enough people take advantage of…

Let me ask you this… how many times have you visited a website that looks like a “rabid dog” chewed it up and spat it out again? If you’re anything like me once too often, am I right?

If only they knew this shortcut to website design they’d have better success online selling or promoting whatever it is they’re offering…

This approach to becoming a genius website designer is so deceptively simple, you might even think “I knew that already!”. If that’s you my reply would be… why aren’t you doing it?

With that said, here are the ingredients needed…

1. A copy of Adobe Photoshop or GIMP
Adobe Photoshop CS2 (even the older version is fine)
GIMP 2.4 (works much like Photoshop except it’s free)

2. A copy of Adobe Dreamweaver or NVU
Adobe Deamweaver CS3 (Professional level HTML editor)
NVU (A simple “pro” standard HTML editor that’s free)

3. A website hosting account
DotEasy (They offer both free and paid hosting accounts)

4. Here’s where your website design genius can be found…

Go here now…

Your personal genius comes through your leveraging of the design skills of others who already have the knowledge and the ability you need to take your project to the next level.

All you do is purchase high quality website templates designed by a professional website designer. Then use the tools I’ve given you above to adapt those designs to suite your purpose.

Ok, it’s not “literally” turning you into a “genius” website designer, but what it does do is it gets you to a point where you don’t even need to think about how to design a website (isn’t that genius enough?).

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Finding useful and informative information for great web design can be a time consuming task. Apart from the time involved you really need to know what you are looking for.

One of the best methods I have found for finding information that is not only relevant but useful is by using information others have found and bookmarked.

Stumbleupon is one of the best sites for this.

So here are 10 of the sites I ‘ve bookmarked for great web design. They include; how to guides, tutorials, tips, tricks and
examples. More than 259 plus resources within these 10 sites!

1. 99 Resources for Web 2.0 Design
2. Developers | Tutorials Garden | Photoshop, PHP, Flash, CSS, XHTML,
3. Mandarin Design. Web and Blog Design and Development
4. Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins | Blueprint Design Studio
5. Open Source Web Design - Download free web design templates
6. Jatecblog & Links for Making Your First Web Site Without Paying a Dime
7. pForm - Free HTML Form Builder - Create Web Form Template Online
8. 60 ridiculously useful tools and generators for your blog or website
9. Tag Cloud Generator
10. 100+ Resources for Web Developers | BlogWell

I hope you find these sites as useful and resourceful as I have for your web design endeavors. There are over 259 plus resources here! Take advantage of them.

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I don’t know about you but when I come across a website that can help me build mine, drive traffic or boost sales I always bookmark it. Here are the 7.5 slightly baddass links I’ve found to help you create big selling websites…

1. 19 Tutorial Websites And 97,200 Visitors In 3 Months
I’m sure you must know by now that creating tutorial videos to show people how to do certain thing can generate some good traffic when you submit them to places like YouTube.com and Video.Google.com.

But did you know there are quite a few websites out there specializing in tutorial videos where the traffic is even more targeted?
www.wipeout44.com

2. 37 Viral Post Ideas You Can Use Today
Regularly posting to your own blog is a superb way of generating excellent traffic to any offers you might have not to mention establishing you as an expert when you give people useful content. Here’s a blog I found recently that gives you some excellent ideas that turn your blog posts into viral marketing tools.
www.skelliewag.org

3. The Cosmo Headline Technique for Blogging Inspiration
Here’s an excellent blog post that reveals a simple technique for creating some really eye catching blog post headlines.
www.copyblogger.com/cosmo-headlines

4. 50 Common Web Design Mistakes
Go through this essential list with a fine tooth comb to see if you’re making any of these mistakes then get them fixed ASAP! you’ll thank me later.
www.designrefugee.com

5. Free article spinning and content rewriting using JetSpinner and JetSubmitter.
This is such a powerful idea! Take your content, re-write it using this software and reconstitute it across the web avoiding Google’s duplicate content filter.
JetSubmitter.com

6. 85+ Free Killer Resources Every Designer Should Know
This website gives you all the inspiration you need to get your website design off to a flying start. Whilst it’s aimed at website designers these killer resources are for anyone who likes to design things themselves.
www.snap2objects.com

7. How to Attract Links and Increase Web Traffic – The Ultimate Guide
The number of excellent resources that have come out since the beginning of the year on attracting links and building traffic has really mushroomed. Here’s an extensive and thoroughly uncompromising list of the best resources you’re ever likely to find that help you increase your traffic.
http://www.copyblogger.com/increase-web-traffic

7.5 Top 10 ideas for testing your headlines
Having the right headline on your website can make or break your website sales, so getting it right is critical! This article will give you 10 things you can test to find that winning headline…
www.grokdotcom.com

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Back in January I ran a 7 day test using this interesting new online website visitor tracking service called Crazy Egg. (Here’s the article I originally wrote Don’t boil this crazy egg).

Essentially what this online tracking service does is it tells you which links are the most popular ones on your website. You can then use this information to optimize your websites ability to convert visitors into subscribers or customers.

Here’s the page I tested: BigSellingConversions.com

As soon as you login to your CrazyEgg account you’re shown a really well laid out and easy to navigate dashboard that shows all the tracking campaigns you’re running.

Here’s a screen shot of the page I tested out…

So you can see that during this time I had 25 visits and 17 clicks in total for that page.

To be totally honest with you that figure of 25 visits is something I’ve not been able to verify with my Google Analytics stats that I was getting so I have to question the accuracy of the tracking. I’m going to run another test on another site to see how accurate the tracking really is, right now I’m just not convinced by it.

For the purpose of just showing you what you get when you use this still very interesting online tracking tool here are my other results…

CrazyEgg provides you with a couple of ways to look at the data you get back on the clicks the links on your site has gotten. The first way is a heat map…

Then you can switch to overlay mode and you get something like this…

What’s interesting is how many people clicked on the check box, even though the form would still work without the checkbox being checked. The reason for doing this is to use the idea of commitment and consistency, when you commit to doing something by taking a positive action you’re more likely to follow-it through to the end by being consistent in your actions.

Is CrazyEgg worth using?

Definitely, but with one caveat… make sure you also track your visitors using a service like Google Analytics to compare the visitor numbers.

Based on the what I learned the numbers of clicks were not high enough to get any kind of significant information from them. Ideally you need around 200-300 visits to the page you’re testing to get meaningful results.

Go check out CrazyEgg.com now and see what you can learn about how people are using your website. It costs nothing and takes about 5-10 minutes to set up.

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It’s been a wicked sunny day here in the UK, I just had to go out for a quick walk to post a letter. After getting back from the post office and whilst waiting for the kettle to boil I thought I’d see what websites I could stumble upon when I came across this…

The WordPress Theme Generator

After a couple of minutes of testing it out I created a really simple, yet very aesthetically pleasing blog template design. This was all done by adjusting a few simple menu controls.

How many times have you been searching high and low for that “dream theme” WordPress template design only to come back empty handed? With me it’s been more than a few times, in the end I had to get a blog design I created custom coded, just so that it would look the way I wanted it to (it’s the blog design you’re looking at now).

If you’re still searching for a simple, yet effective blog design that matches the rest of your website design then the link above should help you out.

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Since posting my last video about how to create “aqua” order buttons using Photoshop I’ve had quite a few people find my blog looking for instructions on how to slice a Photoshop file into a website.

Not only this but a good friend of mine got stuck and had this exact same question…

“How do I slice up a Photoshop file into a website?”

Watch this 5 minute video and I’ll show you exactly how it’s done. Then I’ll show you where you can pick up some free Photoshop website templates that just need image slicing in Photoshop and turning into live websites.

(If you’re watching Joe I hope this helps!)

If you’re stuck for website design ideas or you’d like an easy starting point for your new website design then here’s a website full of layered Photoshop templates ready to go. All you do is make the changes you’d like to make then slice them up and add them to your HTML page.

Here’s where you can get some free Photoshop (PSD) website templates…
www.freepsd.com

But the very best place for Photoshop website templates has got to be:
www.templatemonster.com

As usual… any questions, just let me know.

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Adding forms to your website design just got a whole load easier with this excellent website I recently discovered that builds forms for you.

Let’s face it creating forms for your website is a real pain in the rear, you know what I mean, lining up the tables, getting the text for format the way you want it to (need I say more?)

Here’s the easy way… (and it costs you nothing)…

Just visit this link here and all will be revealed:
http://wufoo.com

Here’s what it says on the Wufoo website…

Wufoo is an Internet application that helps anybody build amazing online forms. When you design a form with Wufoo, it automatically builds the database, backend and scripts needed to make collecting and understanding your data easy, fast and fun. Because we host everything, all you need is a browser, an Internet connection and a few minutes to build a form and start using it right away.

Sounds pretty good so far. I checked into this website some more and found that you can use this service to create all kinds of forms, for example…

Workshop registration
https://examples.wufoo.com/forms/workshop-registration

Contact Form
https://examples.wufoo.com/forms/contact-form

What do you think? Forms are essential for any direct response website so finding a quick and easy tool like this was a real stroke of luck.

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