March 09, 2006

Why do some people bother buying?

I am the author of the product to the left which is a series of tutorials that show someone how to use NVU and some other free programs to build and attractive, functional website. The biggest problem faced by people wanting to start something of their own online is not understanding how to put it all together. On newsgroups and discussion forms you can often see posts from people looking for help. But the topic covers a broad range of knowledge, and it isn't something that can be answered in one reply.

A reason for a refund I issued today was because the customer said:

The templates, I have them already free from the internet.

Yes, the product offers a link to some free web templates and shows one how to edit them in NVU, but I'd like to think that a person's entire reason for buying my product isn't just because they want access to free web templates. That's crazy! The free web templates are used in examples of how to work with the programs. I never thought someone would buy this product because they figured it was a resource, full of free templates.

To close it off the person said:

When you have a good deal in the future I do not mind buying it from you.

Hello?

Pleezze... don't do me any favors.

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August 02, 2005

Sample templates

For those of you who are do-it-yourself web site builders, I posted a screen shot of some templates that buyers of my "First Business Website Toolkit" could use if the hosting accounts they sign up for have Fantastico installed.

These templates are not limited to toolkit owners. Anyone how has a Cpanel hosting account with Fantastico installed can get some mileage out of them.

The screenshots may not do them justice, so I've put up a page that links to the full templates.

You can see the samples here.

Many businesses that I work for prefer to have a custom designed web site, but these templates can be handy for those doing their own work. You can change some of the images, and layout a bit, and then, you don't have to worry about your site looking like someone else's.

For those of you who are looking for more templates and plan to put up a lot of web sites, you can find a lot more here. This URL was built using one of the templates.

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July 05, 2005

News Briefs

I wanted to share with you some of the RSS newsfeeds I subscribe to. You can view the links and excerpts of the posts here.

The last time I checked there was about 300 links, so the page loads pretty slow.

Enjoy!

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