Recent content by Norwood

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    6 months to a fatter wallet

    In August I'll be leaving for a 6-month contract playing bass for Celebrity Cruises. I'll have a laptop with me but I'll have less time available for web stuff, so I'm setting this deadline to get some serious work done. I have some SEO sites that have been sitting idly and they brought in...
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    One thing I did that helped my copywriting

    I've been trying to improve my copywriting lately. It's probably the most frustrating thing for me and thus it's something I put off the most. But there was one thing I did recently that helped out a lot. I teach guitar lessons part time, and one of my students' dad wanted to get his son a...
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    About to buy a laptop

    Looking in the $500-ish range. Mainly I want something sturdy and reliable for setting up campaigns. I've had my eye on this one. Newegg.com - ThinkPad SL Series It only has the one review at newegg but it seems to be a well regarded brand and model. Thoughts?
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    Dreamache/Gary Simon and Design Course

    Gary, I signed up to the Design Course from your signature because I like your design work and you seemed to be a trusted member of the forum. I paid for the first two projects. I worked through the exercises, found them useful, and was able to apply them to my own stuff. Then I emailed you a...
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    Notes on Cialdini's "Influence"

    I recently finished the book and thought I'd post the notes I took. There are some really good ideas that can be easily applied to LP's. Asking a favor – provide a reason "May I use the Xerox machine because I have to copy these files?" more effective than "May I use the Xerox machine?"...
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    Revamped site - sales now suck

    I've had this site for a little while, selling physical products and averaging a few sales a day, about $40 - $60. It was kind of rough looking, so I redid the whole thing. I added a review section, some content, and tried to have every page describe its purpose and give customers info to make...
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    Video embed compatibility

    I have a video on my site's home page, and every way I try to embed it there's always some problem. One way it auto plays in FF when it shouldn't. Another way it sometimes shows up blank in one browser or another, etc. What should I use that will work for most of my visitors?
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    Music retail site - some questions

    I'm working on a music retail site. I have little design experience, so I thought of using the design of another site and putting in my own content and images. The site I'd like to model is zzounds.com. It seems pretty simple and straightforward. My first issue of probably many is the logo. I'm...
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    Customizing my wordpress site

    I just made a new site with this wordpress theme WordPress › simpleX Free WordPress Themes Using Firefox's firebug plugin on my site, I was able to preview edit the page so that the header is taller and has my custom image instead of the title. I changed the CSS rules for <div id="headerimg">...