We’ve all been seduced by adverts promising untold wealth for very little effort or for very little investment. Sadly a few of us actually part with our hard-earned cash on a pointless scam. These scams are usually written with highly attractive sales copy designed to encourage us to buy into something that usually only results in lots of cash for the scam artist. Here are a few tips to help you identify potential scams quickly and easily. (more…)

A few small tips for you today. How to implement an e-shop within Wordpress, optimising your Meta Description Tag in Wordpress, the benefits of long tail keywords, fixing the alignment of images in based on features introduced in Wordpress 2.5+, and how to reduce your eBay and Paypal fees. (more…)

Every so often I come across a website that I say to myself “I wish I had thought of that”! The ideas I like do range from being very simple minisites to the more complex large community websites. What I’ve found recently that I particularly like is RankNoodle.com. I cannot fathom what possessed the site designers to choose such a name, but it’s memorable! (more…)

If you’re going to create a new website, the choice of content management system (CMS) is pretty important. Once you have chosen a CMS, you then develop the website using the CMS as a structure. Generally speaking, it is well worth using an already existing CMS as the basis for your website. It makes no sense to code up a whole new website from scratch when so many different web based software packages exist, most available for free.

For example if you are starting a news-based website or blog, then you can use the freely available WordPress CMS. If you are creating a e-shop or e-commerce website, then you can use ZenCart or CubeCart to get you started. The huge advantage of using a popular and existing CMS is that you grab a free website template that will take care of the majority of the design for you. Why reinvent the wheel? (more…)

If you’re looking to buy a website, it can be exciting to know that you’ll be taking on an established site that will hopefully make you some money. You shouldn’t rely solely on what the seller states about the website. The seller may have forgotten something, intentionally lied about something or made some assumptions that aren’t obvious. However, to make sure you don’t get ripped off; here are some of the things to check when buying a website. (more…)

I’m working on my eco-portfolio of websites (see EnviroGadget), and hence my latest new project is Daily Eco Tips. I purchased this website from someone who hadn’t updated the site in 3 months, so I thought it was a good candidate for being sold. I really liked the domain name and the site itself, so it was more a site of passion than of profit. I should be able to make some cash through the site too, but that’s a bonus rather than motivation. (more…)

When you decide you want to design a new website, it’s often difficult to find an idea that you can use, let alone one that might actually make you money. Have you run out of ideas for a website? Are you keen to create a site rather than buy a potentially expensive yet established website? Then how do you go about coming up with ideas? Here’s my little guide on idea generation that I personally use to come up with my new concepts. (more…)