Do you want to know the difference between
Web Design and Web Development?

In short, Web Design is one piece of the Web Development pie.

More specifically, Web Design is the process of creating your look for your web site.

Whereas, Web Development is the process of creating your web site.

What are the all of the pieces of the Web Development pie?

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“How can I help you?”

If you’re a shopper - you’ve probably heard that question dozens of times…

My question to you is:

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Let’s throw everything you & I know about web design aside for a moment –

Now, let’s see how web design history can help us make better decisions for the future.

For starters, let’s see what the top 100 most successful web sites have in common:

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Imagine making one change to your web site…

doing nothing else…

and earning an extra $1,000 a year…

That’s exactly what Tom did in the beginning of 2007 with his BigHairySpiders.com web site.

How did he do it?

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Imagine if you could go wherever you want and spend as much time as you want — whenever you wanted?

Affiliate Programs, the third method of online income from my original post “Online Income - Overview“, are a good start to achieving that personal freedom through passive income.

Even if you’re not interested in having more personal freedom, passive income is a great sustainer — helping your business survive through lean times.

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Can you imagine generating income all day, everyday, in a setting that no one has to physically operate?

How much freedom would that that give you to do what you really want to do, when you want to do it?

I’m a firm believer in passive income, and enjoy brainstorming with people how they can create passive income in their lives through the Internet.

Even if you’re not interested in having more personal freedom, passive income is a great sustainer — helping your business survive through lean times.

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As discussed in my initial blog post “Online Income - an overview“, the first method mentioned was Product or Service Sales.

In a nutshell:

1. You offer a product (or products) or a service (or services) online via a web site.
2. Visitors browse your site, and order your product or service, online.
3. The money from their purchase is wired into your bank account.
4. You fulfill the order.

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“How do you make money online?”

Once people realize I’m in the web design and development business, I usually get asked that question in some shape or form.

There are literally hundreds of ways to make money using the Internet, however, in terms of what we do — web site design and development — I sum them up into these four methods:

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Very rarely does a book do what “Web Copy That Sells” did for me.

It:

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We call it the Showcase Effect…

it’s the reflection that appears around the bottom of a photo, giving it the artistic showcase look, making it look like it’s popping out of the screen at you!

Back in June & July of 2007, when we were creating the design concepts for our new web site, our inspiration for this came from two places:

1. Seeing showcased artwork in a gallery, and
2. Cover Flow, which is part of iTunes and MAC OS X’s Leopard.

As you can probably imagine it plays an important role in the simplicity of use in our new ISG Web Site.

Over the last few weeks, we’ve made it available in our ISG Content Manager on select web sites. It allows you to Showcase photos, videos & PDFs (check our News section to see an example of showcased PDFs).

If this technology interests you, or you have questions about creating and achieving your goals on the Internet, Contact Us, and we’ll get help you out right away.