Most online marketers will say “the money is in the list.” One of the best ways to build a large list of contacts is to create a landing page. With a large list you can continue to offer products to them to make money quickly and easily. For example if you created list of 3000 contacts and only 300 of them bought a product for $100.00 you’d make $3000.00 from one email.

These are just some of the questions you should be asking yourself when evaluating your website. A beautifully designed website won’t sell much if you’re not driving traffic to it. Getting lots of traffic won’t generate sales if your visitors have difficulty navigating your web pages or they are not converted by your content.

Many website owners look at their site from their own perspective and fail to see it from their customers viewpoint. Most visitors arrive at your site and ask “how can I benefit from what’s being offered on this web page.” They are mostly interested in what’s in it for themselves.

The difference between a good web designer and a great one is the ability to know how to take short cuts and save time without compromising the quality of work. Pixelsurgeon’s Jason Arber has put together 20 top tips and tricks you should be using to give your work that all-important professional edge.

1. Planning. When you’re itching to get started, it’s easy to overlook the most obvious step: planning. Whether it’s drawing wireframes and site diagrams in OmniGraffle or Visio, or even on a scrap of paper, you’ll save time by having an overview of your design at the site and page level before you start building. Obvious errors can be detected and solved before it’s too late to go back and it makes explaining your ideas to clients and colleagues a lot simpler than waving your hands in the air.

Over the last few months me and my designer-developer buddies have been sharing our favourite web design tools, tricks and tips.

Our final conclusion was that it’s very exciting to be a designer these days. The web is quite gushing with many cute designing apps and tools.