We’ll be building the shape in Illustrator using the 3D Revolve tool before going into Photoshop to texture it all up using clipping masks and blend modes and layer styles and all that modern doohickory.
The new version of Adobe’s successful CS series of creative products has just recently launched and Dreamweaver has received an extensive upgrade full of exciting new features for WordPress developers. For a long while, I was content using Notepad++ to do all of my development but, after switching to a Mac, I thought I’d give DreamWeaver another go and this new version has been well worth it.
The launch of Never Ending Voyage was one of our most successful website launches to date, receiving over 8,000 visits and over 5,000 unique visitors in its first three months. Our site was launched on February 19th 2010 and the image above is a picture of our Analytics account for those initial months (until May 18th 2010).
We launched with one post and a posting schedule of 3 a week (which we managed to keep to until we ran out of internet in Paraguay!) and we’ve been fortunate to have over 470 comments in the four and something months we’ve been live. We’ve also managed to earn some income through affiliate sales which has paid for the hosting costs for all of our sites for the year. Not bad for such a young site!
Ask me what the most important aspect of a website is and I’m likely to reply ‘Conversion Rate’. I believe it’s even more important than visitor numbers and I would rather have a high Conversion Rate than a high visitor count (of course, having both would be best of all!)
Of course, you need to have a certain number of visitors to begin with, but even 100 visits is enough for you to start to see which aspects of your site are working.
New site finished and added to my portfolio page: http://bit.ly/cfnx3K
Hi! I'm Simon Fairbairn and I am very fortunate because I love what I do!
I spend my days designing and building websites and teaching people about Search Engine Optimisation, traffic analysis and conversion rates.
In other words, I help people create beautiful websites and then I help make those websites perform.