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We are currently not taking new assignments, however, we would like to recommend some valuable resources in case you decide to design your website yourself. The best step-by-step guide to design a professional website is Web Design Mastery:
What I like about Web Design Mastery is that it doesn't stop with teaching you web design. It also shows you, step by step and in great detail, what to do BEFORE and AFTER you design your web site. Web Design Mastery devotes extensive chapters to Planning Your Website and Developing a Strategic Plan, and How to Market and Promote Your Website. Shelley Lowery doesn't leave any lose ends and guides you through the full planning-design-marketing cycle. One of the book's most attractive sections is Volume 7: 101 Design Tips and Tricks, where you will find cut and paste code to easily enhance the look of your pages and make your site look more professional. Web Design Mastery also comes with valuable bonuses, which is always a nice plus. However, the book itself justifies its price many times over. If you are set on designing and marketing your own website, Web Design Mastery
is probably the best investment you can make and the only ebook you may ever need to buy.
or visit The Internet Digest, our Internet marketing site for small business, where you will find articles, tutorials and tools to design a better website and market it more effectively.
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The SEO Book: The industry
standard #1 ranked SEO Book. Author Aaron Wall tells you everything
you need to know about Search Engine Optimization. Covers all major
search engines, not just Google. This eBook comes with free updates
for life so you can rest assured that you will always be current with the latest search
engine developments. Highly recommended. [ More Information ] |
How to Create a Profitable Ezine:
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The Step By Step Guide to Creating and
Promoting Your Ezine: Ezines are powerful,
relationship-building, sales-generating tools that can boost your business. Author Karon
Thackston walks you step by step through every single element of creating
and promoting an ezine. If you are serious about effectively
promoting your business and building profitable relationships with your customers using
email marketing read this ebook first. [ More Information ] |
How to Make Money with Google
Adwords:
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Google AdWords: 21 Pay-Per-Click
Campaign Secrets Your Competition Doesn't Know : This insightful analysis of how
the Google Adwords system works, by Andrew Goodman, will help you find
the best bargains and achieve the highest click-through
rates. This ebook will save you time and will pay for itself many times over.
A must read for anybody who wants to get results with Google Adwords. [ More Information ] |
The Nitty Gritty of Search Engine
Optimization (by Jill Whalen) This special report in ebook form is probably
the most thorough guide on how to write for the search engines. Making sure that
your main keywords are well represented in your page copy without sacrificing readibility
is not always easy, but this special report shows you how to do it.
Search Engine Visibility (by Shari Thurow) Most web developers/designers build a site first and worry about "searchability" later, which is a costly mistake. This book will teach you how to design a site primarily for your visitors, while making it easy to find in the search engines. Forworded by Danny Sullivan, from Search Engine Watch.
What You Need to Know Before You Hire a Website Designer and the very popular e-book Start Your Own Home-Based Website Design Business, by Mark Frank, website designer and Internet consultant. Both books can be found at WebsiteDesignBiz.com
Simple Web Sites: (by Stefan Mumaw) You've probably heard me mention the virtues of minimalist web design in my articles. In fact, end users are tired of and turned off by overloaded sites that are difficult to navigate and slow to load. This book offers valuable insights on creating simpler web sites, while offering the reader visual inspiration.
Color Logic for Website Design: (by Jill Morton) This book provides a solid foundation in color usage in web site design, saving time, trouble and rework. Enjoy new design potential through the informed use of color in web design.
Ebook Starter: (by Shelley Lowery) Do-It-Yourself ebook design kit. Ebooks are the "perfect" online product, as they provide your customers with instant gratification and can be downloaded right over the Internet. Not only does this package include a complete ebook tutorial, but it also provides you with professionally designed templates that will give your ebooks the look and feel of a real book (including a page turning effect).
Multiple Streams of Internet Income: (by Robert Allen) In spite of hints of hype in some of its chapters (after all, the author is a best selling Real Estate guru), this book gives you a broad overview of all the possibilities that Internet marketing can open for you and your business.
You Name It: (by André le Roux) A practical guide to naming products, services, businesses, divisions, domain names, newsletters and just about anything else.
The Step By Step Copywriting Book: (by Karon Thackston) This widely acclaimed ebook by shows you how to write effective web copy that both sells and ranks high with the search engines.
Net Words: (by Nick Usborne) Mr. Usborne is one of the leading advocates of good web copywriting. Net Words builds a compelling case about how of interesting, highly personal copy, always gets far better results than the boring copy usually found in corporate sites, or the overly aggressive text common in most sales sites.
Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity: (by Jakob Nielsen) Creating Web sites is easy. Creating sites that truly meet the needs and expectations users is not. Usability guru Jakob Nielsen shares his insightful thoughts on the subject.
Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed: (by Jakob Nielsen and Marie Tahir) Specific observations and suggestions about 50 of the top websites in the world, backed with solid quantitative analysis and graphic aids. Focuses on the Home Page.
Don't Make Me Think: (by Steve Krug) Author Steve Krug lightens up the subject of usability with good humor and excellent, to-the-point examples.
"About Us" -- Presenting Information About an Organization on Its Website (124 pages PDF) Representing a company or organization on the Internet is one of a website's most important jobs. Explaining the company's purpose and what it stands for provides essential support for any of the site's other goals. This report contains 50 guidelines for improving the design of "about us" areas of corporate websites, and is richly illustrated with 85 color screenshots from many different websites.
Defensive
Design for the Web: How To Improve Error Messages,
Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points: (by 37signals) The folks at world-class
redesign firm 37signals have brought to life the topic of forms, error messages and 404
pages. Following the tips in this book can make the difference between having
one-time visitors and repeat customers.
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