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Make Money in Web Design. A New Course and Coaching,

By James Dalman · Comments (0)
Saturday, August 7th, 2010

This September I will be launching a new course and coaching that will show people how to start, operate, and run a small profitable web design and blog business.

Over the last two years I have been asked by stay at home moms, bi-vocational pastors, students, and people ready to leave their current job on what they could do to make extra money or how to launch a business.  Every time I responded by saying learn how to use WordPress and then learn how to install and modify premium WordPress themes.  The biggest problem is that most people don’t know how to get started.  This is what I will be teaching on.

Make Money in Web Design will walk through all the steps of setting up your business including naming your business, marketing, branding, the minor technical skills you will need to know, how to price your services, invoicing, and creating a business system to run smoothly.  It covers everything that I know and more.  Students will also have access to all of the business forms I use and my treasure chest of design files.  There will also be group and personal coaching involved to ensure you progress through the course and hit your goals!

Please know, Make Money in Web Design is not a get rich scheme or magic bean.  It is a proven business model that I have used to generate a great income and will be a business you must work and invest in.

I am currently offering people the opportunity to get on the waiting list for when I launch.  Seating for this course will be limited and once the spots are filled they are gone! You can sign up for notifications for the latest details and be on the list with no obligation to enroll in the course.  Visit my page with the current information by clicking this link and you can sign up from there.

Also, those who sign up and enroll in my first class will be receiving the BETA launch discount … so don’t wait to get on the list.

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Categories : Business, Business Lessons, Design, Social Media, Technology, Websites

The WP Theme Experiment

By James Dalman · Comments (6)
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

The last two years I’ve had a lot of people ask me about which premium WordPress themes are the best choice for their projects and exactly how easy they are to learn and use.  These questions are usually subjective based on a person’s knowledge, skill set, what they’ve heard from others, or what their desired outcome is supposed to be.  Giving a first place award for “Best in Show” to a premium WP theme company is extremely difficult because of these variables.  Regardless, I am going to conduct a little experiment.

The Do It Yourself (DYI) group is a huge market.  There are many of us who would rather dig in and learn how to use or customize  premium WP themes ourselves in addition to a group of us who will use these products to build a business for clients.  My experiment is going to be based on these groups and I am going to look at how well the themes stack up in the following areas:

  • Ease of use for a beginner to intermediate user
  • Documentation or How to Videos
  • Support for the theme
  • Visual and graphical appearance “out of the box”
  • Level of customization or CSS knowledge required to change base design
  • User-friendliness for designers, developers, or neither

My end goal is to provide an accurate review and grade for each theme I test, based on how well an entry-level to intermediate level person might use that product to build a site and make money with that product.  The following premium themes or frameworks are what I consider the industry leaders and ones I would like to use for this experiment.

Themes or frameworks I currently have:

  • iThemes Builder
  • Headway
  • Startbox

Themes or frameworks I would like to take for a test drive:

  • StudioPress
  • Press 75
  • Woo Themes
  • Thesis

I am hopeful that I will be able to test all of these premium themes and start providing individual reviews by August 18th, with a complete report ready September 1st.  If you are a theme company that would like to donate or provide your theme for a BETA test experiment please let me know ASAP.  I will limit the entries to eight (8) companies and will cut off any new entries August 11, 2010.

Finally, I will say that all reviews will be completely objective and not based on my involvement with Startbox or my previous employment with iThemes. Just in case you were wondering.

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Categories : Branding, Business, Design, Technology, Websites
Tags : blogging, premium wordpress themes, Technology, Websites, Wordpress Themes

Awesome Website of the Week

By James Dalman · Comments (0)
Thursday, January 7th, 2010

I’m not going to lie or apologize.  This website makes me jealous and kicks ass!  That’s what I can say about Groovy Web Design’s site.

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Categories : Branding, Websites
Tags : Branding, Graphic Design, Web Design
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