Being creative takes time, dedication, understanding, talent and planning. If we’ve got all those then we can create videos like the one below.

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When it comes to marketing a site online, you need to have something that is link worthy. Link worthy is when something is so cool that people will link to it just because, it’s so cool.

A lot of times well written content on an interesting subject is enough to do this. But there are times in life that the product being sold is just not that interesting. It doesn’t matter how many articles you right, people are just not going to link to them.

This calls for a different approach and it is one we are working on now with a silicone wristband site we have. We hired a couple writers however, it didn’t take long for all the articles to start looking the same and it was rare for anyone to link to the articles.

In the past I’ve run across graphic designs that were just so cool that I linked to them. This got me to thinking about the silicone wristbands as well as the fact that none of the competition had tried this approach yet.

I’ve got some graphic designers in-house I am going to use and see how things work how.

Below are the original images we have to work with, these are all silicone wristband images and are very boring however, they are mixed in with images that I found online that are not boring to give you an idea of what I am talking about.

Web design is more than just art; you have to have the artistic side along with the ability to guide your site visitor in the direction you want them to go.

The use of colors, fonts, and other things used to guide the site visitor can me learned. However, the artistic side is a gift given by God.

We often look at art, photos, shapes and much more to get ideas on the artistic side of the site.

There are those artists that look to others to be inspired and then there are those that inspire others.

Adam Hughes is one of those that inspire others.

In 1987, Hughes penciled two short stories and the first issue of the character Death Hawk, created by Mark Ellis. In 1988 Hughes’ work appeared in Comico’s Maze Agency with co-creator/writer Mike W. Barr, and stayed on the book for one year. When Maze Agency was canceled by Comico, DC Comics offered him a job on Justice League America. He did both covers and internal renditions on that series for two years, before switching to providing covers only.

You can check out his work in two places: DeviantART profile and his personal website.

Over the years I’ve learned a lot about web designs and how they work. I have a pretty good understanding of how to make a website convert the traffic into customers and even how to get traffic to a site.

It’s a never ending game and about the time we get a grasp of how one aspect works we find that there are 100’s of new things that are happening right now that we need to learn.

And when we have time we look at our competition to make sure that we are able to stay ahead of them.
But the truth of the matter is that web designing is art and we will always find artist that we are impressed with. However, taking that art and putting it into a form that will grab the visitor and turn him into a client is skill.

And while I might see a lot of artist that impress me, I see very few that are able to turn that are into conversions.

When you look at a web design or a photo that has been manipulated it’s hard to see the time and dedication that goes into it.

I thought I would share a tutorial with you that I found on abduzeedo on creating a Milk Typography. You can imagine the time and dedication that goes into creating a website just from looking at the time and dedication that went into creating this one small aspect of a site.