Monthly Archives: October 2006

Awesome Web Design for Less Than $1400

Would you like to have your website re-designed by a top-notch web designer for less than $1400? Would you also like to have your website seen by half a million people for free?

Ben Hunt from Web Design From Scratch is currently working on a project called “50 redesigns from scratch”. The project consists of redesigning 50 existing websites and then publish the work done in a book. The redesigned wesbsites will serve as examples of “web design mistakes” and illustrate several principles of web design.

Check out this example of a redesign done on www.sunhome.biz. The result is just stunning.
To be part of the project and submit your website, you need to contact WDFS and pay a one-off fee of £725 (or $1350):

We can only include a limited number of sites in the book. If you would like your site to be included, we’d love to hear from you.

A one-off fee of just £725 (around US$1,350) gets you:

  • A professional redesign of your site’s home page by Ben Hunt
  • Your site included in the book, and featured on this site, where it will be seen by like half a million people – guaranteeing great exposure
  • All graphics files of the new design you need to help you implement your new design

Web Design From Scratch being quite popular, this project will reach the ears of many people and the websites featured on the book will naturally be seen by thousands of people. That’s quite a low price for a great web 2.0 style redesign and free publicity.

If you want to be part of the project, check out this page (I hope Ben is still accepting websites).

Interview with Digg Founder

Michael Zhang from Folksonomy just published an interview of Kevin Rose, founder of Digg. The interview is short but concise. If you don’t know the story behind Digg, you might wanna read the interview.

Surprisingly, when Digg was created, people behind it didn’t really mean to create a business, they just built a service that immediately took off thanks to its uniqueness. It’s also hard to believe that Digg is only managed by 16 people…

The Bush Says He Uses The Google

“The Bush” says he uses “the Google”. On a recent interview, he said that he uses “the Google Maps” sometimes:

HOST: I’m curious, have you ever googled anybody? Do you use Google?

BUSH: Occasionally. One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very interesting to see — I’ve forgot the name of the program — but you get the satellite, and you can — like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes.

Damn, and now I’m thinking about people who sometimes say that French use “the” everywhere when they talk in english 🙂

Live Search Ads New Operator to Find Outgoing Links

Live Search has released a pretty handy operator that allows you to see what are the pages a website links to. The operator is LinkFromDomain. To use it, you need to type LinkFromDomain:domain.com. Here are the pages SEOPrinciple links at.

This operator can come in handy for a link building strategy. For example, you could see where your competitor links at in order to find sites related to yours.

Adhemas Batista: Gorgeous Design

Today, I came across Adhemas Batista’s website, a graphic designer based in Brazil whose work is just stunning. The guy is a 25 years old freelancer full of talent. He’s done commercial work for brands such as Mizuno, Symantec, Palm Treo or Johnnie Walker. His work also consists of book covers, typefaces and logos.

If you need inspiration or if you’re looking for an excellent graphic designer, check his website out!

Belgian Newspapers Are Still Angry

Do you remember when Google was ordered to remove all content from belgian french-speaking newspapers? Well, it now appears that Copiepresse has made the same kind of demands to MSN. (source: Seo by the Sea)
One of the newspapers that asked to be removed from Google index was Le Soir. I believe they forgot to ask Google not to bid on their domain name. As you can see on the screenshot below, a search for lesoir or lesoir.be on Google.be brings an ad from…well, Google News Belgium.