Saturday, January 1, 2011

Happy New Year 2011 From Snerdey

Wow it's already January 3, 2011

Officially the 1st Monday of the new year. It's also the 1st post of the year. Lot's of 1st will all be happening this year. You know you hear people say the're spinning plates, wearing many hats? That's how most web designers are. They are happier with lot's of things to do everyday or a weeks worth of work done within a day. The one thing that most designers are is fast.

If they are not careful they'll overlook something, save an email in the wrong place.. lot's can start to snowball when we focus on one website too long. This year will be no different except busier than last year for me. History has proven this since day one and my calendar is looking more like a menu in a restaurant. I'd like to personally thank all of our clients, partners, affiliates and so many friends for your support throughout the years. Here's to your continued success!

What's new this year?

With each year that comes and goes it's always the 1st day of the new year that is full of visions both past and future. We're lucky as humans as we're able to make choices everyday that have a direct affect on tomorrow. Here's to yours, ours and loved ones that the year 2011 brings many of your good visions to light. That you're able to close the door to the past and enjoy the new year as it's intended to be... full of life, love and happiness.

It's not always about sales and specials :)
Did I just say that?

There's a new calendar on my desk with January 01, 2011. Oh man, it's good to start the new year on time and I'm thankful to have so many happy clients. When your're a freelance web designer that also caters supplies to webmasters both newbies and seasoned coders as well as maintain you own clients websites. There's also 2 data center accounts for hosting, emails for clients and about to add a 3rd as I don't like keeping them all in one data center. You just have to wear a lot of hats in this business. Sometimes those hats are full of information and experience, some are still learning as well so I have to rely on my network of partners, affiliates and team players that all share the same goal of customer satisfaction.

Customer satisfaction has always been the #1 goal of my work. Many times in the beginning I quoted low knowing I could knock out a job real quick and save them some money, get me a sale. Well over the past years there's been a lot of changes to the web and lots of new rules of the road if you will. With search engine companies switching up search results one really has to tend to their website. So many website owners tend to just create the few pages and walk away from it. That's like starting in a race and running 10 feet to stop. The rest will indeed pass you by with fresh content, new pages, blogs, tweets.. social marketing .. heck, all kinds of marketing not to mention common SEO practices.

Snerdey has the support of 100's people behind the name. I love to consult with clients, kick the can around with ideas then come up with the design with not only what they want but most importantly .. what they can afford. Which brings me to something that one needs to consider when starting a new website. As with just about anything in life.. you get what you pay for.

So before you spend a dime on anything. Feel free to contact me and I'll be happy to take the time to review what you have in mind. I'll be happy to supply you with a list of options or even if need be refer you to one of our partners we trust. It's all about who you know.. not how much you pay.

Best of luck to everyone with this new year. Thank you for choosing Snerdey.com for your website services. As promised our rates are still the same as they were in 2004 with no plans to increase. Money is important but it's not everything :)

Snerdey was established June 2004 and now in it's 7th year.. our official celebration will be June 2011. Be sure and sign up for our new upcoming newsletter so you don't miss out on the good deals and freebies we've got planned.

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Respectfully,
Snerdey

Monday, November 8, 2010

Free Science HTML 5 Website Template

Today is another Freebie Template Download from TemplateMonster - it's an HTML 5 website designed for a Science niche. You're free to download it and use it for your project.



Click here for more Website Templates to choose from.

Any questions just let us know.
Snerdey

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Why Use Website Templates

Before Snerdey.com was created I was actually in the process of creating a niche site for the local community. Like many new business owners I had no clue about the web much less how to create a website. I visited really cool websites that I liked, viewed the source files and pasted them into my editor.. LOL!!! I mean, I looked at all that coding thinking there's no way I have the time to learn what all that means and still create a website. No, I was not going to copy anyone's code just wanted to see how it's put together.

My first software was FrontPage - wow, it was really easy to use and create sites. It worked for me but what I did not know was that the website I created was not going to be a seller. I mean, it was covered in ads, banners, buttons, scrolling text.. you know all the neat things back then. I started seeing that nobody was sticking around, no one signing up and of course no sales.

I asked a few close friends to look at the site and just so happens one of them was in school learning about the web. He advised that they were using templates to create test sites. I quickly ask hows a template going to help my website.

Easy he said.. you can have a much more professional website for 50 bucks or so and just change out the logo, text and edit the pages. I searched the web and found a template I liked. Also invested in Dreamweaver Editing Software package as I was hooked and knew I wanted to be in this field. Besides it was the suggested software for the template editing.

Took me a little time for the learning curve but what a website I created. I did not change much as it was professional design for my niche. I advertised it and within a day people were signing up and sales were happening. A couple of years later I was made an offer I could not refuse and sold the site :)

Why use a template.. for about 50 bucks and up you can have an excellent looking website. Sure, others will also purchase the design but they are sold world wide and it's not so likely that you'll see the same template online in the same niche. If so, I'm sure there are many changes to it. If not then modify yours a little bit more to give it that unique look.

I then created www.snerdey.com and the reason is to sell templates at a discounted rate to help people save money and time. Sure, we also offer custom editing services as well as custom website designs from scratch. Just depends on your budget and how knowledge you are to the different types of templates as there are many types. These include osCommerce or online stores, flash 8 websites, moto cms - content management sites including Joomla, Dupral and even WordPress Themes. Visit our website at Snerdey.com for the entire collection of 10,000's of website templates!

At Snerdey.com we are TemplateMonster Affiliates. Meaning we have their templates on our website and have discounted them each at 10% off everyday. We mostly sell to webmasters and new business owners that want to do it themselves.

My personal favorite Do It Yourself Website Templates are the MotoCMS or Formally known as FlashMoto. They are fantastic designs and search engine friendly. No special software required and even better you can edit from just about any internet browser connected to the web. Also they do not require a database so say goodbye to MySQL Injections Hacked Sites!

I do suggest that if you have never purchased a template before that you do some research on all the types and what will work for your business model or idea. We're here to consult at no charge to help point you in the right direction 24/7 we also offer Live Chat as well as Toll Free Sales Department at 877-619-6609 feel free to call anytime!

Best of luck to you all in your ventures.

Best Regards,
Snerdey

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Branding that works..

There are things you just don't think about when you create your business. Simple things of all kinds of course. Sometimes it's the big part of your plan that really needed some thinking time as well as a little research..

I spent much of my youth in this small town so it somehow just felt right to start my little idea of offering web design services to locals and the web of course. Everything was set to go and ready to start the marketing phase of the business. My plans were to get 3 billboards. One on each road leading into the town. Now, I was also promoting the local business directory I created to help promote the whole town.

Checked with the city and ... There are no billboards allowed. One does not always look but yeah, the town is not going to have them within the city limits. Wow, this took some time to think.. hmm, what could I do.

Well, this is what I came up with as my work around for the lack of billboards.


Yes, this is a car wrap. You're able to see out the windows and let me tell you what. My phone rang day one just driving it home from the sign company. By the way http://www.larryperezsigns.com/ is the company we hired to make this. Outstanding work and this car turned heads for a couple of years.

The car became a nightmare in repairs. It was purchased used and was just to be driven around locally. Picked it up for about 6k and the sign itself was about 1,400 as it had artwork to redraw the hippo.

The car alone brought in 1 custom website order / week just sitting in a parking lot downtown.

One of the lessons learned.. get a new car or at least something reliable and go for it with the design! Here's a truck of a clients website. We supplied the art for the sign.



So if you really want to bring targeted traffic to your website.. show everybody with a car wrap. Those that need it, want it will indeed remember your site or at least your company name or logo etc.. this one has a beautiful woman on the side.. sexy stuff sells :)

Best of luck to everyone.
Snerdey

Monday, September 20, 2010

40% Discount TemplateMonster - Flash Photo Gallery Templates

This is a special discount sale from TemplateMonster and now you can purchase any of the "Flash Photo Gallery Templates" on Snerdey.com for 40% off the normal price. All sale prices are marked in Red.

Just visit this direct link to our website to view them all.

This is a limited time offer so please do not delay.

Thank you,
Snerdey