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I share this post with everyone after reading the small white paper produced by David Meerman Scott who’s a writer and consultant. He’s not a professional website designer or architect but focuses much on content.

So when you learn about his tips, do keep in mind that you need to imagine them from all available angles especially in a more content driven manner. The original article is 10 Web Landing Page Tips to Drive Action and it’s a PDF document hosted on David’s website. If you’d like to grab a copy, you’d need to look inside his Resources.

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Ha! Thought I was going to teach you Macromedia Dreamweaver using an Apple Macintosh, huh? Well, that will happen as soon as I get enough funding for either a MacBook Pro or an iBook 14″ at least.

I was visiting Josh Lockhart’s website after being redirected from CSSImport. I noticed that they catered to something called RapidWeaver themes. I’ve heard of Dreamweaver but not RapidWeaver so naturally I had to find what was this all about.

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It’s big, it’s black (or at least used to be), it’s got an organic type logo, it’s The Making of the 9rules Network. After a few nudges by some fans, Colin starts to tell us the tale of how 9rules was built.

The first article published at the moment is about how 9rules was built on WordPress for their first round. Colin explains why and how he used to start of the 9rules network in an instant. And as he says, it really wasn’t that difficult.

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Have you ever imagined pushing the limits of merger between static content and the Flash platform together to enhance the value of website usability even more?

Well, this article written by Kevin Hale titled; Using Flash as an Animation Underlayer, from Particle Tree shows a promising future. If you’ve not seen it, you don’t know what you’re missing in the development of web industry today.

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A little early for Chinese New Year but a great happy client will appreciate the value you have to offer them. A client of mine that I’ll showcase when the project has gone live has just given me a bonus. In his words, just a small red packet (ang pau/ang pow) for me when I submit the last bill.

I’ll leave the guessing of amount to you as I feel it might not be appropriate to scream it out. But the genenorisity shown to me is really new since I started doing this business on a freelance basis.

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Darren of Problogger recently wrote about How to Decide How Many Columns are Best for your Blog. A blog is also considered a website to me. Just that it’s a genre of its own.

I like the way Darren introduced the problem along with the solution in his life experience. He began telling the story of how a salesperson selling wardrobes wanted to make a deal with him and his wife. The surprising thing was the salesperson didn’t show them a catalogue and told them the great deals offered now.

The salesperson instead started with questions of function.

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You know what I like best about 9rules? Other than the fact that it’s got a cool website design and many talented bloggers in their niche behind it, they’ve a vision of what a blogging network should be as it grows bigger.

Not long ago, 9rules was only a website filled with the latest articles by authors blogging their niche. Now they’ve evolved further into something most networks normally don’t aim to be because of the generic goal of providing just the best content.

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It’s a new year of opportunities for everyone and anyone around the world. Before the clock hand struck the middle of the night and 1 second, many bloggers already posted their resolutions and wishes for this year. I took a much longer time to come up with something.

Instead of my new year resolutions and assumptions of things to come in 2006, I’m going to explain the simple mission and goal I’d like to achieve this year.

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I just finished reading the Creating Passionate Users blog and their new article, The hi-res user experience is something that explains the confusion of why our passion helps us aim to be better in our work.

People are not passionate about things they know nothing about. They may be interested. They may spend money. But without the enhanced skill and knowledge that adds resolution, there is no real passion.

This just hits right on the money about myself and my passion for website design.

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From the research while surfing and using Google to search, I’ve found out that most people admit long sales letter reeling in more business than short, straight to the point stuff. This just baffles me from all sides to who really spends more than 10 minutes actually reading a letter trying to get you to buy their product.

Well, I hope to share with you my research findings and together we’ll sniff out the clues of getting a more concrete answer on why more business comes from a long sales letter.

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