One of my resources that I’ve mainly been keeping to myself over the past 2 years is a talent web designer who lives in a small (population 10,000) Australian town of Maryborough.

Ryan Jackson AKA DesignGuruRyan, developed the template for this blog and designed and created almost all my product and affiliate sites too. (I take credit for the ugly ones…)

Besides my sites, Ryan’s also been involved with the site design for Mike Filsaime’s 7FigureSecrets and Chris McNeeney’s DayJobKiller product websites.

During our discussion, we talked about:

• Offline design vs online web design
• Incorporating direct response marketing elements into your web design
• The rise of “Web 2.0” design elements in websites (and how to incoporate them)
• Bootstrapping design resources for marketers on a budget

You can find out more about Ryan at:

• DesignGuruRyan
• Dressed2Convert

The resources he mentioned during the call:

• PSD Tuts
• Color Lovers
• Smashing Magazine
• Tutorialized
• iStockPhoto
• DaFont

Check out the Friday Podcast below:

Friday Podcast: Web Design Conversion with Ryan Jackson [ 31:02 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (435)

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In response to an earlier post “3 Blogging Tips from WordPress Guru Gobala Krishnan“, Joe Whyte asked: “I was reading through the secret blog weapon and I was just curious if you know people in america who have had success with this because foriegn search is different then american seo.”

So I thought this would be a good opportunity to review how some of the bloggers have done since launching their blogs.

Here’re 3 bloggers who’re using the system:

• SimCooks.com

California-based Yich’s food and cooking related blog is about 4 months old.

Check out her blog for lots of pretty food pictures and good content too.

In that time, she’s developed quite a following and the search engines like her content too (more…)

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