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3 Winners Of A Fantastic Free Custom Ebook Cover Design

Sunday, September 21, 2008

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It’s time to announce the winners of the free eBook cover designs! If you happened to sleep in last Sunday morning, you really missed out on more than you think! You see, it was a time-sensitive contest, and I had a PDF Download available for those who showed up on time. However, I hadn’t  announced that [...]

Create A Nice Logo Fast With No Design Skills

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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Ok, before all the professional logo designers start running at me with fistfuls of freshly sharpened pencils, let me make something clear. This isn’t a tutorial on how to brand yourself or your business with an award-winning, innovative logo design. It’s simply an outline of how I create a decent looking logo quickly to add [...]

How Powerful Is A Premium Wordpress Theme?

Monday, August 18, 2008

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It Makes My Life Easier I’m at a point now where even if I build a static site, I create it using Wordpress and use pages only instead of posts. Aside from the obvious, that it’s crazy simple to update and maintain,  I’ve always been able to get better (and much faster) search results using Wordpress [...]

You Suck At Photoshop

Thursday, March 27, 2008

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If you suck at Photoshop and enjoy being insulted while you learn, then check out Donnie’s Photoshop video tutorials! The one below is really just taking shots as his failed marriage, but you can be the butt of his jokes as well if you watch his other clips. You’ll laugh! You’ll think Dane Cook is teaching you [...]

IE6, Who Do You Think You Are?

Monday, March 24, 2008

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Today, my friend was kind enough to point out some errors in my site design that I had overlooked. My transparent .png images were not transparent (they were gray), and my content was pushed down about 300 pixels too far. I said, “No! Say it ain’t so! What browser are you using!?” He said, “IE6“. I said, “Upgrade [...]

    Starting from square one and documenting the journey to success is nothing new on the web. Do a quick Google search for "make money online" and you'll be overwhelmed with a vast library of people following the supposed path to riches. Even though I've been making a full-time living online since the year 2000, I cannot offer you such a narrative. Why?...(read more)
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  • Tara @ Home Business Blog Hi Jay…. I agree that outsourcing can be very beneficial. I have a few guys...
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  • Missy I’m a hybrid control freak. You know the web 2.0 variety. Half messy, half not.
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  • Jay @Joe: So, you move around a lot as well, do you Joooooe? So, you also have the “Fear Of...
  • WordVixen OK- so to be successful, I need 37 beers, a bottle of rum, a picture of SuiteJ’s wife and...
  • Jay @Anna: Hey! Thanks, glad you liked the article, and Joe is right. Sometimes people try to make simple...
  • Jay @Max: The “McDonald’s analogy” is getting pretty old at this point. Did you come up...