Keep an eye out for my 2 new websites, They are both currently under construction.

But I wanted ALL OF YOU to know…..

I am sparking the beginning of an entrepreneurial adventure in the world of Beauty!!

At www.beatifulskinrapporto.com I will be featuring Products for sale from Jordan Essentials, Seriesse, S-Force Anti-Aging & Wellness and MUCH MORE!!!

Then my open forum Beauty Blog will be held at www.skin-care-secrets.info come on in and SHARE YOUR SECRET with me……

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every thing you do - you need to also be doing it on your website …

build the right tools for the right people.

say no to project creep…

Dont use one style for a different purpose - visitors simply wont get it.

Dont make your visitors think.

Tell visitors where to go and what to do next… especially MAKE THEM TAKE ACTION.

Be memorable

Add spell-check to your domains…
get typo domains

do NOT make www. mandatory for your site.

have a list a blog and a feed

If you want and can build for all three browsers

Don?t make a splash, make a gateway.

Think ?Landing Page?, not home page.

?What?s the next action??

Link on verbs not nouns.

Design from the bottom up.

Tell them ?You are here?.
Users need to be able to see where they are within the site at all times.

Put search everywhere.

Simple.

Use a high-contrast palette.

Never make people do what computers can do.

Don?t be so nosey.
Yes your web site can be a treasure trove of valuable consumer
information. But people are generally disinclined to offer up information
unless they see clear value in doing so and they feel they can trust the
people behind the site so also brand yourself…

Optimize for speed, but support broadband.

No ads.

Design for disaster.

Cancel the cancel.

Put your site content on an Atkins diet.

Write like your audience thinks.

Track from day one.

Build tweakable sites.

it’s Just like having a baby.

I am so proud of what our Company did for thier hard work and final sprint to the finish line for this project… I love our vision for the look and feel of the site.

The love my Dad has for working on planes for 30 some years now at GE…

I grew up with mirroring such a great dream of flight. I am personally proud of all this website serves… I hope it helps save lives and helps preserve the heritage and legacy of this era for future generations…

Like alot of my work in Texas, great ideas never fully saw their time of day or fullest potential realized by a shrinking market with no use nor vision for cyberspace. This great design concept was delivered but never produced or animated… too bad it would be a great fun project to still do for a future account…

I am proud today to make mention of a great website I just built practically single-handedly in the matter of 2 and a half weeks

The Permian Basin Veitnam Veterans Memorial PBVVM website is a WAMP based platform project that I designed, host, programed 90% myself and even built training maerials for the veterans that update the CMS.

It meant alot to me to do it, since I didnt signup to serve, it is meaningful to me in more ways than one since I was able to contribute in thier honor in this manner.

One time I was really down hard on myself for not signing up one dark night speaking to a close friend who was a Marine now stationed in Africa I said to him “Man I guess I should had went and finished getting enlisted”… He said THE MOST comforting thing I think I could had ever heard… He replied cutting me off “Aaron, the place you belong is doing great honorable things like this site you just finished reaching so many lives in this way at our homeland strengthening our family’s hearts… doing things like this in your line of business is where you belong and I’m glad you are doing it for us while we are out here…” I have taken this with me everywhere I go now… knowing - reassured I have hnored those who I am inspired by that serve our great country… Semper Fi !

With the Paypal friendly e-commerce developed and seamlessly integrated, the solution has already provided return compensating the non-profit meeting TCO

I really fell in love with the vision for this site…

The panels of sliding glass give it a really neat feeling - its too bad the broadband flash version of the site came under soo much scrutiny. But that why we must deal with the target audience and thier expectations - even to thier own limiting. no matter how we try to expand thier experiences… but I am proud to always try to push the envelope and participate and share in thier Company’s dream…

…we took it a horizontal way, the same way I built Bioré.com

I think the colours capture the eras of all the clothing even with a contemporary feel…

One of a kind items - I love alot of thier dishes and table setting pieces in store. I just dont have the money nor place to let them breathe once again. They have alot of neato Vintage stuff…

I believe this is a prime example of clean polished corporate identity that is timeless for the Rehab industry it is positioned .

Clean - Crisp - Fastline - Smmoth Vectorwork

the glow emits a spiritual connection to excellent health.

The three “EEE”s stand for Efficient/Effective/Exercise

EuPraxia we registered EuPraxia.com we termed this Identity by creating the Latin & Greek conjugate Eu & Praxis

The website is a successful example os a software as a service (SaaS) project solution.

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The Team worked over 4 months at least on this site doing literally everything ! Everything you can imagine from Coordination which allowed me to delve into the Marines History book; read the book at night and write the Chapters online the next day for over three weeks I did this… practically all I did in that span of time was content and enter inventory… we worked intensely but the high organization and standardization methods kept us in a smooth balance to release this 500+ page website ! OOOOORAHH!

The neatest thing I like on this that I had never done before is studied a color blind color chart. I used this color blindness chart and applied it across the board for the site because I learned alot of veterans who try to use the Internet have grown to be color deficient of red in sight…

It just so happened to work out that using the blues and off khaki ended up being the oldest Marine colors integrated with the newest…

Blood Red, Gold Yellow, Navy Blue, & Dark Khaki…
awesome!

So much work on so many fronts went into this project…
…truly it was boot camp I never had in N.J.R.O.T.C.

After Server log investigation and traffic study, I found it neat to watch our veterans and active duty soilders even in germany going online travel ‘hops’ across Iceland to reach the states and finally onto MAE West to hit the site… In all I calculated that over the 2 years hosting the website we grew thier e-commerce profit 300% !

Semper Fi …

I know R.L. Ermey would be proud !

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uncharted territory for me using the off manilla color…
I was given 5 word documents for brochureware and I chuncked this site out in 3 hrs concept to completion…

I came up with a creative direction that they liked and having thier vision statement in hand I moved forward blazing a trail for the presentation they needed thier site for on that next morning in Kansas…

Authority isn’t in control, it’s responsibility…
The number one problem with web strategies is that decision makers excercise too much control and not enough responsibilityto making the information powerful for the customer…

7 most common mistakes oline…

1. Not Taking the medium seriously
(to be on the net is NOT enough you must be of the NET)

2. Trying to do everything for everyone in one solution. (Not creating a niche catre.)

3. Technology for technology’s sake.

4. The marketing brochure trap
cannot tell if they are still on the same site or not… (Uniformity; medium communication is key)

5. The introverted Website

A company’s website is a remarkable mirror of the company’s organization and philosophy.

If the company doesnt know what it is doing internally, that eventually shows itself on the site.

I believe now this is evident more than ever. An intoverted site means organized by internal issues rather than the customer’s needs….
An introverted website is normally organized around contentmirroring it’s physical counterpart. (which we have none…)

The company simply looks atit’s resources, products and services and puts them on it’s site. reinforcing it’s brick and mortar appearance on the web. These sites do not scale well.

They normally become quickly less organizing and more confusing as the company adds content and recieves more visitors. They do not promote loyalty and don’t make anyone feel at home.

The homepage continues to attract everyone and spirals out of control, forcing the company to TRY TO PUR EVERYTHING ON THE FRONTPAGE to accomadate the wishes of all its customer groups simultaneously.

6. Taking yourself too Seriously
If you focus on shopping, etc and not know who your online customers are, how can you possibly build a site to accomadate them.

I; man! I would simply ask the person who is developing it do you shop online?… I’d also mass email our customers what they would want in your site… For god’s sake ask your customer base…. not just send them a bill every month.

Without asking the right questions to the right people upfront, it doesnt really matter which designer/developer they hire - they will blame the designer when the site doesnt live up to their expectations.

Most web strategies fail because they start with the company’s mission statement and end with a call to action. If the web team gets bounced between the marketing and IT departments, your company is already in trouble. The more any of these groups own the site, the morelifeless it will be. If your customer service is in charge of your site , we might have a chance. If your customers are in charge, you’re futurizing!

Customer led-companies have extraverted site naturally. Rather than doing everything for everyone, a customer led company aligns divisions in the company with important customer groups… No one can please all the people all the time, the catch is knowing when youre turning the eyes of the majority.

7. The biggest trap of all E-Commerce

Good ecommerce companies automate their best sales people.
Beware most e-commerce sites are modeled by the web team and they are the only group in the company that communicates with online customers, reinforcing the bottleneck between customers and company representatives… This model doesn’t foster the employee-customer conversations that deepen the relationship and thus encourages loyalty! Instead there is a better more appropriate way to grow a business online.
A number 1 goal should be not to sell other things but to push the same service offered elsewhere in other mediums without regard to whether they are hurting the offline business…

number 2 become a customer led e-business. the company does not list the services or products on the homepage it utilizes the second level nature of neighborhood sites for sub affinities… an intense focus on the customer is a natural outgrowth of the business’s philosophy if it truly exists…