Okay…just remember, winners take imperfect actions while losers are perfecting their plans.

The first thing I want to do, is take the little bit I’ve done so far on the site, and put it up for review. I will do it on a couple different forums and use the feedback to get the site layout fine-tuned and set up.

While the layout of the site as well as the look and feel of the is extremely important, I have so much work to do, that I don’t want to get bogged down with trying to get everything perfect. So, I’ll launch the site now and fine tune it as I go along.

I think I will start with Facebook and Linkedin.

By getting uncomfortable and getting into things I normally don’t do, it allows me to expand my marketing. I will be going from the stands into the fields, acting on what the gurus say and determining whose full of BS and whose not. I most likely want discover anything you don’t already know, but I very well could shine some light on some things that I would like to know. And if you see me doing something wrong or know of a better way of doing something, please let me know. Cause I want to figure out how to make it work and need all the help I can get.

So…my game plan is to fail quickly, so I can figure out what is going to work faster.

Let’s post the site in site review and start working on setting up an account with Facebook.

First thing I am going to do is go to Facebook home page and click on the Create a Page text link under the sign up form on the right hand side and follow the steps.

Once everything is set up I am going to do a couple things to try and make the site get traffic and then send that traffic to my main site.

Here’s why I chose Facebook.

They have a massive and growing global audience as a matter of fact there are more people on Facebook then there are men, woman and children in the us. And last numbers I saw showed them getting over 39 billion page view per month, that’s more than any other website on earth, including Google. And best of all Facebook has about 1 advertiser for every 20 that Google has. And let’s not forget that on Facebook I can target only the people that want to buy my product. And one other thing to think about, Facebook has opened user profiles to the search engines. This means that if someone is searching for something online and a Facebook page comes up, that you are advertising on, you could very well find a client by way of the search engines while advertising on Facebook.

Now, I have to set this up differently than I would for Google. This is not search traffic and no one is on Facebook looking for something to buy.

I’ll continue this in my next post.

One thing that has always bothered me is this whole template thing. You see any website that has the same design throughout the site is a template. I get calls daily from people whose first words out of their mouth are, that they don’t want a template.

They have already spoken to some web designer who has preached to them all about templates. He’s unable to sale on his own abilities so he points out, to the potential client, that what you don’t want is a template. Templates are really bad.

Basically he is trying to convince the client not to go to a template site and buy a web template but he himself is not educated enough to explain what the heck he is talking about or rather why the client shouldn’t buy the template.

The first question a potential client should ask is if their site is going to be a template, if he answers no then tell him you where hoping to have a site that had the same header, footer and navigation throughout the site. You see if every page looks different then a site visitor will become confused and leave your site.

And if every page looks the same then you have a template.

Now…what numb nuts is talking about are template sites that sell the same templates over and over again.

Are web templates bad?

The biggest problem with template sites is that they are not newbie friendly. If you don’t understand the tools needed to modify, update and change the templates then they want be any good to you. So…the template sites were never his competition in the first place.

What I hope you learn from this article.

If you are speaking with a web design whose preaching to stay away from templates he/she doesn’t have a clue what they are talking about and you should go in search for another web designer.

Joomla Custom Designed Templates

There are basically 3 really good CMS systems and Joomla happens to be one of the three. My biggest problem with any CMS system is that there is a learning curve no matter which you decide to use.

Joomla Custom Designed Templates

Now, I’ve got designers that design for all types of CMS systems and it has allowed or rather forced me to play with all types systems. Joomla is one of the better programs but with more diversity comes bigger learning curves and Joomla has a pretty big learning curve.

If you are going to make a living online your best bet is too find a CMS you like and stick with it. Due to being a web designer I am forced into learning and using different ones because I have clients that prefer one over the other as well as the fact that some CMS systems are designed to do some things better than others.

Find you a CMS that you like, get you a custom designed template for the CMS and start using it. There is a lot of money to be made online but I see people day after day wasting time with things that don’t matter.

The biggest hurdle in making money online is getting started and sticking with it.

At one time web designers created websites from scratch. At that time designers would spend months trying to create the perfect website design. Once the design was finished the website would be turned over to a programmer to handle the programming and web developer to handle the completion of the website creation.

However things have changed greatly since that time.

Today we have website templates that are created much easier, faster and are more affordable.

The programs we use cut down significantly on the amount of time and work it takes to develop a website.

While a good template can cost you hundreds of dollars a custom-built web design can cost you thousands.

The sad part is that the custom website designs (in most cases) do not look as good as the website templates. The only thing the web designer has going for him is the word “custom” but he loses that once we take a template and start customizing it.

Yes the availability of website templates have opened up a whole new world of opportunity for web developers who can now create quality websites in much less time. I have dealt extensively with web designers over the last eight years and have found that most of the custom website designers get their ideas from template websites. So basically you are paying $5000 for a designer who got his idea from a $100 template.

You would be better off buying the $100.00 website template and then paying a web designer to customize it.

I’ve been playing a little with Drupal and have to say that it’s a really cool program. About the only problem I had with it was finding templates to use.

You can do a lot more then I realized with Drupal and while you can do more with Drupal than with Joomla or WordPress it is also a lot harder to use.

Drupal is not near as user friendly as WordPress but then neither is Joomla. I guess for programming and getting into complicated types of social media sites Drupal wins hands down and for that reason I thought I’d post a couple Drupal templates.