Ctabuk

I find it funny that any forum would allow a moderator to be a moderator that lacks the understanding of the simplest of things. When I design a site I try to get as much input on the design as I can, it’s about conversion and what will get the best response from the end user.

I’m not afraid to ask for opinions because at the end of the day it’s about how much money a design will make for my clients. If my clients are making money off my work they’ll come back for more.

I did a design on a site back in August and asked for a review on one of the forums. I got my review made some changes and went on my way. However, in December the site was making around $160,000.00 per month and I wanted to try and get it to $200, 00.00 per month coming into the New Year. Without the client asking I did a total redesign of the site and before going to the client with the site decided to once again hit the forums and get some opinions.

I was immediately attacked by a moderator on the forum who claimed I had already asked for a site review for that same site. Common sense should have set in as he could tell they were two totally different sites by the conversations going on in the two threads.

However, I showed him from a screen shot that they were two totally different designs. To my surprise he lacked the understanding that a design could change and the URL remains the same.

He does not that I can take a website that is located at http://wristbands.geeksonsteroids.com and make the site look totally different yet the url remain http://wristbands.geeksonsteroids.com. Don’t believe me, check the thread out here Ctabuk.

The guy lacks a total understanding of how the internet works.

I read an article today and for the most part it was pretty good. However, about the middle of the article they totally lost me and I didn’t feel like spending the brain power to try and figure out what they were trying to say, so I decided to rewrite it and make it say what I wanted.

Here’s pretty much how it started.

You take each page of your website and turn it into a deck of cards. Each page is one card in the deck. You tell someone to pick a card, any card and this is how the world of online web design, conversion and marketing works.

Each card or each page of your website needs to guide that visitor down the path you want him/her to go while answering any and all of their questions. A website is not a book that you read from cover to cover. People can enter your website on any page, anywhere byway of the search engines, directories, forums, links or even a social media site.

If you’re going to make a living online you need to treat each page of your site like the home page. A potential client can enter your site from anywhere.

This means that you need to answer the questions or give access to those questions from any page on the site and you need a call to action on every page. Every page on the site is a landing page and every page needs to be able to convert the traffic.