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NHG...

You keep talking about all these projects you have done, but your portfolio is non existent.  Let me know when it`s up I`d love to take a look.

As for wordpress.  I think it`s over rated.

Hype.  I guess you could call it the web 2.0 blogging tool...


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The portfolio should say it all.


www.carboninterface.com

You know what I think of Word Press... Don`t get me wrong... I love the application.... But anyone with an HTML editor (dreamweaver per say) can rearrange the coding and use it to their likes..

Have anyone of you tried Joomla? I think Joomla or drupal by that matter leaves word-press in the dust. But does any one here talk about Joomla? No the learning curve is lets say.. kind of extensive (unless you have time and resources on your side) other than that you are looking at about 1 month or longer...



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Edgar Monroy
Web Developer / Owner / Consultant
When starting your own business the need to "know-how" is greater than money!
http://www.nuevolution.net

Can you put that one in English? I have no idea what you`re saying. Rearrange what coding with dreamweaver? (And who uses Dreamweaver?)

The tags... Plain enlish.... 

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Edgar Monroy
Web Developer / Owner / Consultant
When starting your own business the need to "know-how" is greater than money!
http://www.nuevolution.net

CarbonInterface...
You got some nice artwork... is that all you?


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Edgar Monroy
Web Developer / Owner / Consultant
When starting your own business the need to "know-how" is greater than money!
http://www.nuevolution.net

WordPress is the best stand-alone blogging platform out there. For the business person, it beats any other conventional blogging system (ie: Blogger, TypePad, BlogHarbor, etc.)  If you just want a standard blog and want to tweak, twitter, and otherwise play with your site, WordPress works well.

It is relatively easy to setup and maintain... IF you have a technical/coding background. If not, you are opening a can of "web programming" worms. (Costs in dollars or hours.)

As an entrepreneur, business owner, or sales professional though -- your focus is (or should be) on connecting and converting through online persuasion. NOT on playing with the code on your site, handling continuous upgrades, or managing multiple sites. (Ie: with a conventional blogging platform you will need a seperate company site along with a seperate sales site..)

We`ve been marketing with New Media for three years now, growing a million-dollar business from the middle of the Pacific using Web 2.0 tools like blogs, podcasts, social networks, online video, etc. We believe whole-heartedly in the power of New Media. But "blogging" in the conventional sense has it`s own pitfalls.

Through our own experience, the experience or our clients, and  thousands of hours of testing we`ve found an easier way to combine and leverage multiple New Media channels with proven online persuasion tools. That  is the BLOG i360 New Media Marketing system.

With a system like this the technology is automated and the persuasion optimized  so you can focus on what  you`re supposed to as a business owner... making money!


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John Paul Micek
Business Acceleration Coach

Win more traffic, customers, & cash online. Grab a free excerpt of the hit book `Secrets of Online Persuasion`

Simple strategies for creating raving fans online at the Tribal Seduction New Media Marketign Journal

The tags? You mean, the code? ("Tags" and "a Tag" is something specific in WordPress.) Of course you can manipulate the whole program ... that`s the point. You don`t need some program like Dreamweaver. I change the program to whatever I want in a text editor.

John — in the interest of constructive criticism, the design of the Blogi360.com website is unconvincing. If the best that product can do for its own web presence is create one long page of text with embedded objects, then it clearly is not built with user experience in mind. I would not recommend that to any of my clients.

Nikole — the main code problem I had with Wordpress was horizontal & non-chronological presentation. I also ran into a lot of CSS layout issues although its been so long now I couldn`t tell you specifically what those were anymore. I do remember trying to set up a horizontal, tableless photo gallery for like a week and finally gave up.

I still use Dreamweaver, but it`s hardly more than a glorified text editor for me at this point too. The CSS dialog box is still nice though.

Craig — you may be on to something there! I hadn`t thought of that. Kinda like 1994: "World Wide Web? You mean America Online right?"

Edgar — my experience with Joomla is that you literally have to be a PHP programmer to get it to output valid code. Totally ridiculous. Drupal was better but still required hacking the PHP to create a new template. Also ridiculous, but at least it outputs valid markup. It`s back office is way nice though.

—paula

RabbitMountain,
I hate those long Blogs.. About two years ago there was this E-marketing guy that used to send me an email with something like that... ONE LONG SCROLLING PAGE... His name was Russelle something.. I forgot.. But blogi360, is not a bloggger, it`s more like... a marketing tool...

Did someone SAY AOL? whatever happened to AOL? "Amatures on Line" I remember the good ol Chat days when it was fun...
As for Joomla.. its a powerful tool once you know how to use it...


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Edgar Monroy
Web Developer / Owner / Consultant
When starting your own business the need to "know-how" is greater than money!
http://www.nuevolution.net

BLOGi360.com is the sales and membership management site. It is not running on the BLOG i360 system due to the requirements of hosting management, auto-site  installation, and a host of other complex technical actions that the system does for members.

A few examples of sites running on our system are:
http://www.askthefitbastard.com/blog/
http://simonleung.com/
http://advancedbusinessblogging.com/

Each of these sites averages more than $1,000/day. That is our main focus -- helping business owners make money.

BTW -- re: "long sales copy". You and some others may not like it, but marketing study after study shows that it is what generates the highest conversions. Check out books by Dan Kennedy, Joe Vitale, Jay Abraham, Joe Sugarman, or any other top-rank marketer that makes multi-millions of dollars per year and you`ll see that same advice.

In beta we`ve averaged two-dozen new member sign ups per day. Since no advertising is being done at all, and as you pointed out, no other "relationship building" is going on other than the sales copy, it would be hard to argue it`s effectiveness.

Normally I would not reply to such "constructive criticism" with anything more than a "thank you." But seeing that there may be other business owners who will read your comments, possibly perceive them as coming from a"expert" (since you are a web designer) and think it is correct from a marketing standpoint, I had to expound.

Enjoy!


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John Paul Micek
Business Acceleration Coach

Win more traffic, customers, & cash online. Grab a free excerpt of the hit book `Secrets of Online Persuasion`

Simple strategies for creating raving fans online at the Tribal Seduction New Media Marketign Journal