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An aspect of Web site design and construction that I don’t often see discussed, at least in IM circles, is graphic design concepts. I find this kind of strange. After all, we are dealing with things like shape, balance, color all in 2 dimensions. I suppose that no one eager to start earning money online really wants to hear that they need to take a course in Graphic Design 101.

Actually, I did take a course in graphic design many years ago. In fact, I took a few courses in it along with courses in drawing, painting, sculpture, and art history. Four years worth. I was a painting major my first time through college and obviously that didn’t stick.

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I’ve been using the BayRSS plugin from Azlan Kasim for several months now, both here on IMMania.com as well as on several niche affiliate blogs. This is a fantastic WP plugin and has worked for me without a hitch. My approach to using the eBay affiliate program, now called ePN since the migration in-house by eBay, is to rapidly blast-test products from eBay using Adwords and then breakout the winners into WP blogs to leverage longer term free traffic.

Gotta love that free traffic!

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I posted recently about how I was attempting to get my brother interested in trying his hand at making some part time money online. The first hurdle in this effort was to persuade him to take the laptop I had purchased on eBay back home with him. That actually turned out to be the easy part.

The harder part was seeing if he would actually find a way to connect the thing to the Net.

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I’m currently in the process of overhauling my oldest affiliate content site. This has been a very tedious process to say the least. The site was originally setup to use SSI (server side includes) since at the time, it was suggested to me to go that route in order to include things like a common sidebar navigation and footer includes. The concept is definitely sound, but the method to implement it is kind of outdated.

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One aspect of Website development that seems to trip up a lot of new IMers is the transferring of files up to their Web server. This is done using FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Perhaps some of the confusion stems from the numerous varieties FTP clients that are available. Many of the WYSIWYG HTML editors have an FTP client built-in. However, I’ve found some of them awkward to use, especially the one in Nvu.

The other way to transfer files is to use the File Manager feature available in cPanel if your Web host supports it. However, after a few go rounds with this method, you’ll be desperately searching for something much less frustrating for transferring files.

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