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Today I was asked by two friends to accompany them to an “Internet Marketing Workshop” to give my opinion on what they taught. This was an all day workshop put on by storesonline.com. Had I known that was the company putting on the workshop I could have done a Google on it and saved us a lot of time but my friends didn’t know who they were so we went and checked it out. We didn’t have anything to do anyway and there was lunch included.

One of the most asked question is how often sites should be updated. There are two camps. One camp say create the site, doing some SEO and let Google do the rest. Then move on to the next site. There is really nothing wrong with this method but it has one major flaw – Live by the Google, die by the Google. If Google decides to change their search ranking (and they always do) your site(s) could become worthless.

Business 2.0 has a really nice article about some of the internet’s biggest blogging superstars. They all started small and rode the internet money train to riches beyond their wildest dreams. The bloggers they profiled included Michael Arrington, who pulls down $60,000 a month off his blog.

I just saw over on TechCrunch that Pay Per Post has raised $3 million in venture funding. What Pay Per Post does is allow advertisers to buy a blog post – often referred to as a paid plug. Instead of buying normal banner advertising, the advertiser would pay the blogger to write about their product or service. This of course raises many ethics and credibility issues. It is obvious that anyone paying for a blog post will want positive things said about his or her product. However, if the blogger making the post is doing the post just for the money his creditability just hit zero.

Making a cool blog design that will stand out from the crowd, with all the blogs existing right now is quite a serious challenge. Before a potential new reader can get to the content of you blog you have to catch his attention. That’s when a good design comes handy. Of course, some will recommend keeping the design to a minimum and focus on the content itself. Content was, is and will always be king, but in the fast moving world of the Internet you have to use any advantage you can acquire to keep your visitors on the website.

For our first yearly wrap up we want to bring you the best 50 CSS and Flash website designs of 2008 handpicked from our website showcase, CLD Web Gallery.

Saizen Media

Nem Studio

Efingo

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This tutorial will show you how to design a stylish, custom contact form for your website / portfolio from scratch. It will cover all the aspects of the design including the CSS and HTML coding and PHP programming.

The result will be a fully functional, personalized contact form and will look like this :

Some time has passed since we didn’t put together a free WordPress themes compilation. Our previous free WordPress themes compilation was a huge success, but most of the themes we presented then have now become obsolete. We’ve seen a lot of beautiful theme designs over the last year, a lot of worthy candidates, but we’ve narrowed it down to about 50 New and Beautiful Free WordPress Themes.

Intaglio – Free WordPress Theme

Details : 2 columns, widget ready, XHTML and CSS standards compliant, Gravatar, Flickr and Twitter ready, SEO optimized, tested with IE 6+, Firefox 2+, Safari 2+, Opera 9+.

Every design needs icons at some level. So, this week the Sunday Design Resource will present free icon resources.

1. 90 Free Vector Icon Sets, all in one EPS file. You can download the file directly from here.

2. Vista Ultimate IconPackager Vs. 1

3. Vista Ultimate IconPackager Vs. 2

4. StudioMX MacOS style computer icons – PC, Mac and iPod devices icons.

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For the 6th issue of the Sunday Design Resource we’ll be showcasing some of the best business card designs. It’s a really good place to start if you are looking to redesign your business card or design one from scratch all together.

Eric Kass | design by funnel.tv

Heads Inc | design by headsinc.com

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