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So how did i actually earn a very modest $1,200 on the web last year? I’m not talking about paid work as a Freelance Web Designer as such, nor am I talking about creating a blog and selling it for a profit. This method is so much simpler, and truly a very real option for anyone with a knowledge of photoshop and a bit of design flair, and the best part about this is that it’s recurring, once you’ve put the work into it, it will continue to send you a modest, but steady flow of income each month, and as every freelancer knows, it’s often these steady modest monthly pay checks which ensure the bills are paid.

Ok, so I’ll stop beating around the bush, you may already be aware of and maybe even have a portfolio on stock graphics websites. Website’s like iStock etc are all well and good, but it’s hard to get on them as a seller in the first place, and the Stock Photography Market is saturated – it’s hard to find your niche. About 12 months ago I found Graphic River, a website designed to help designers sell high quality stock graphics to consumers. Graphic River is one of the many Envato marketplaces and has grown exponentially in the past few years. The site plays home to some 50,000 stock graphics growing every day.

My First accepted file on Graphic River

So 12 months ago, I set about creating my first piece of stock photography, a simple set of buttons in a few different colours and took me a few hours to design. The first time I uploaded it, it was rejected by Graphic River staff, who made some comments for how the item could be improved. I made the relevant changes and re-uploaded the item, and sure enough a few days later I had my very first item on Graphic River, priced at $3.00. As an exclusive seller (meaning i do not offer my items anywhere else for sale on the internet) i am entitled to 50% commission on all of the items I sell, so as the sales of my first item began to rack up, I watched the $1.50’s start collecting on in my account balance. Just 1 or 2 sales per week at first, so i left it to see how it built up. A week or two later I logged back in to see my account balance had surpassed the $20.00 mark , still modest but not bad considering I’ve done nothing, and I’ve put more work into creating adsense sites that have returned only a few pence per month!

I continued creating items at a rate of 1 or 2 per month and submitting them to Graphic River, around 50% of the items i submitted were rejected, though some were later accepted following some design changes and tweaks. 12 months later i have a graphic design portfolio of 27 items and have racked some 850 item sales, with my items priced between $3.00 and $18.00. I now make a steady stream of between $150.00 and $200.00 per month. Not bad for somthing i do in my spare time, and next month if I’m too busy to create a new item, that money still arrives, and the one after and the one after that.

You’re not going to make thousands of pounds over night with this, but you might well earn a little extra over time without putting in too much effort.

American Pie 4 : American Reunion

Boshanka will build a new website for the up and coming film American Pie 4: American Reunion. The Website: American Reunion is set to launch over the next few weeks, and will bring you the very latest in cast interviews, features and downloads from the American Pie Franchise. With the fourth installment of American Pie due to be released in March 2012, fans’ of the American Pie films dont have much longer to wait to find out where all of the favourite characters are, 10 years down the line. The new film will featured the entire original cast, all of whom have some interesting tales to tell. So bookmark www.americanpiereunion.com to keep up to date with the latest!

Over 50s Website

A brand new website has launched that’s aimed at the over 50′s! Promoting the notion that being 50 means FREEDOM, and when life truly begins!

Many people often say fifty is the new thirty, sixty – the new forty and seventy – the new twenty – that’s the philosophy of this new website. An online magazine which recognises that the being over 50 is something to be celebrated and not feared. Because being over 50 means an active, free reign on life, love and adventure. The site provides help, hints, tips and advice on a wide range of relevant subjects, such as over 50′s health, travel, money, +50′s Dating and a whole host of other good stuff.

Maybe you’re looking for a list of great pubs to visit or the top 10 restaurants to visit in the UK, the site has it all. With thousands of great articles about the best iPhone games or the best advice on how to meet your love online with Over 50s Online Dating advice, the site is a treasure trove of secrets to help people over 50 really start making the most out of their retirement years!

The site also boasts a healthy and growing community of fans – See their Facebook and twitter pages.

I’ve just launched a milestone project today, that marks the end of over 4 months of design and development work, and the result? A bright, inviting lighting fast wordpress website to encourage people living in Florida’s beautiful Boynton Beach area to visit the Lissauer Cosmetic Dentistry practice. Established for over 25 years, Lissauer Dental offers a variety of cosmetic dentistry services to it’s patients. The new site forms part of a push to bring new patients to the recently refurbished dental practice. Featuring TV’s in the ceiling, and beautiful waiting rooms, the stunning Lissauer Dental practice now has a website to match.

The dental practice has gone a step further though, unlike many dental websites, the Lissauer Dental website features detailed articles on hundereds of dental procedures and services, meaning that it’s not just the people of Boynton Beach who can benefit from the new website, people all over the world can visit the site for advice and information about cosmetic dentistry and tooth care.

The website allows new and existing patients to schedule appointments online, locate offers and discounts, find out more about the practice and the team that work there and ask the specialists questions.

Working on the site has been a pleasure from start to finish, and i’m looking forward to seeing the results, a massive effort has gone into creating this vast dentistry archive from both myself and the Lissauer Dental team – my thanks to them and best wishes for the future!

For anyone in need of a dentist in Boynton Beach, head on over to Lissauer Dental.

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Wordpress Tips

Whatever your niche, the key is to be individual, and to stand out from the crowd. With all the thousands of new WordPress themes out there, it seems as though sites are becoming a little standardized, with new sites being created in hours instead of weeks – it’s important that your website looks like some serious time and effort has been put into it and it doesn’t look like every other cut and paste job out there. When building your website with WordPress, your main objective should be to build a site that is seamless, wordpress should simply be the platform on which you manage your content, it should not lead the design and layout of your site. Here are a few tips, for helping you achieve this.

1. Pay attention to your Sidebar
The WordPress side bar is present in nearly every single WordPress based website, and for me the term “sidebar” is a little misleading. The WordPress sidebar area doesn’t need to be in the sidebar, it can form part of your footer, header or any other content space on your website where features will consistently appear across different areas of your site.
Think about the content in the sidebar area, don’t just include the standard blogroll, categories and archives pages – be creative. Think about the content of your site and add useful meaningful sidebar widgets that help the user navigate your site and discover all that great content. Feature a specific post or guide, add a video, post a feed, link to your social networks or add a site search.

2. Set up your permalinks and custom URL structure.
I typically use /%category%/%postname%/ which displays the titles of my posts and the category in which they are posted nicely, getting rid of the user and search engine unfriendly post IDs. If you intend your posts and articles to be listed in Google news you may wish to include the post ID at the end as Google News requires a unique number at the end of each post in order to be aggregated.
Setting up your permalinks might seem like a complete no brainer, but time and time again I see CMS sites using the standard ugly URLs.

3. Download and Install the SEO Ultimate plug-in
This plug in should form part of the standard list of plug-ins you use with every single WordPress site you build. The plug in lets you easily create useful relevant meta content for each individual post, post category and page and comes with a whole host of other technical options that you can spend hours tweaking and testing the results. WordPress by default inserts Meta data into each post, but so much of the time it ends up being duplicated for each post – this is bad news for SEO, and what’s more if your posts are unique, then so should their meta content be!
SEO Ultimate Plugin on WordPress.org

4. Use Tags & the tag cloud appropriately
Tags and tag clouds are considered by many to be very “web 2.0”, the way in which tag clouds are used is a real pet peeve of mine – so often I see WordPress sites where someone has posted hundreds of useless tags to the post which are then shown in the site’s tag cloud. The concept of a tag cloud is great, and when they first appeared they were a nice way to help users find posts about a subject they were interested in. My advice is to use tag clouds appropriately, look over your post tags and filter out the rubbish, consider the top 1 or 2 keywords or subjects covered in that post and use those as your tags. Additionally make sure you don’t have two tags in different posts that mean the same thing -0 if you’ve used “web design” as a tag in one post, don’t use “website design” in another. Your tag cloud should truly reflect the content of your website, it’s a summary of all the subjects and key points covered during the time in which your site has been online – so make sure it counts.

5. Use the “Nice Search” plug-in
Relating back to the reasoning behind updating permalinks, the Nice search plug-in allows you to replace the typical WordPress search string “?s=my%20search” to a nicer looking, more SEO friendly version – “/search/my+search.htm”
Nice Search Plugin

6. Use CSS instead of Images where possible
Of course you need to use images for your website, but use them appropriately, if you can achieve the same effect with CSS then do it; it’s faster and friendlier to users on mobile devices or really slow connections. Depending on who you’re targeting, you may also which to consider using CSS3 to create some of the effects on your website, but check which browsers and versions will be able to cope with your CSS3 selectors.

7. Track your website with Google Analytics
Track your website with Google Analytics. It’s completely free and very comprehensive, though not 100% accurate; Google Analytics will give you some incredible insight into your website and its conversion. Use Google Analytics to monitor the impact of any changes you make, check the bounce rate and other user behaviour metrics, and use annotations to mark key changes you have made.

Conclusion.
I realise some of these tips may be stating the obvious, but it’s imperative to get the foundations right before moving forward, otherwise your website will crumble under it’s own weight. There’s plenty of good reason to become a WordPress web design expert, there’s lots of WordPress Jobs out there that many people make a very good living out of, and if you’re not looking to become a professional WordPress designer, follow these tips where appropriate and make your own WordPress website awesome! Your readers will thank you for it by coming back time and time again and Google will reward you for it by giving your site more exposure!

It’s hard to imagine an internet without wordpress, big sites and small sites, social networks and the office of the prime minister, WordPress can be used to power almost any kind of website you can think of, and so it’s no suprise that the availability of WordPress centric jobs and positions in the web design industry has grown with the times. For people who love wordpress, WPJoblist.com could be the answer, listing high quality roles in the USA and the UK.

Good luck with your job search!

1.  Build up a contact list and perfect your strategies for connection by means of e-mail with your consumers.  Terms and statements can be misunderstood via e-mail so spend some time drafting a few email messages to see how you may act in response when you received that specific e-mail.  It will show you a whole lot regarding if you are connecting well with your clients on your e-mail subscriber list.  When you are you’ll likely see your Google rankings increase.

2.  Any time you talk with your clients be sure you are utilizing their first name and continually be certain you react to them in a timely way.  Whether that means you reply or an associate responds for you, it must be done.  These web marketing strategies help to make the buyer feel needed and appreciated.  In the event that you are making your web visitors feel this way they may likely keep coming back to get more.

3.  Communicating with people by way of user discussion forums will certainly be useful for you.  An internet marketing forum is a relatively informal place for people to share and exchange thoughts.  You could possibly get some new ideas and you will also interact with your target audience through these particular forums.  There is nothing better than obtaining a bit of feedback directly from your prospective buyers.

Establishing connections is absolutely crucial in the world of online marketing.  This happens because your visitors do not usually speak to you or see you therefore it is difficult to build rapport sometimes.  If you’ve got a few distinctive tactics on hand you could absolutely establish these interactions quickly and easily and begin to discover economic accomplishment right away.

Envato Marketplaces are offering a sensational bundle of premium wordpress themes, premium wordpress plugins and other goodies, a massive $250.00 worth of marketplace items bundled in to the amazing price of just $30.00. Very cool guys!