So I’ve had my designer do some designing for me, and this is what she came up with. I’ve got two options here, but I want to hear what my readers will like better, and how I can improve the blog theme. If you want to go ahead and help out with the design in a more significant way, maybe by editing the themes below or creating your own design, I’ll certainly make sure you get at least a footer link and an ad space for a few months for helping out!

Design 1: This one is a bit more like this theme, but cleaned up.

Design 2: A bit… different, but might be the change the blog design needs.

So which one do you like? What should be changed? What should be added or removed? If anyone wants to help out in the design process or wants the file PSDs, just use the contact form to reach out to me!

(Also, I want to give a shoutout to Dukeo who helped me with another project I was working on! Did a great job coding up a blog theme for me! Check out his Affiliate Marketing blog for some great content while I work on repairing my own blog).

What color does is exude feeling and emotion. Many of these feelings trigger what we affiliate marketers like to see… leads and sales. If you plan on becoming a great marketer, you’ve got to understand how to get people to buy things as efficiently as possible, taking into use words, design, and color to put people into buying moods.

Let’s do a quick run down of colors and what the say. Info is from Goodell Group.

Blue
Here is the all-time color favorite for most folks, especially men. It?s a cool color that is extremely versatile going from the darker side of midnight blue to the lighter of baby blue?all of which inspire us in so many different directions.

Blue is a very trustworthy color, which is why so many companies use it for every part of design. It is also a very well founded base color. Think about the sky and sea when you see this color, and imagine how vast they are.

Yellow
Along with red, this color raises our blood pressure a bit and catches our eye. Yellow embodies life, joy and offers a high-impact visual. It adds brightness to our lives.

There is a reason smilies are yellow. That shit makes you happy. In Asia, yellow is a color associated with royalty, riches, and success.

Red
This color is the attention grabber. It is considered the hottest color with the highest impact for attention and action. It has a strong masculine appeal.

Red makes people want to buy shit. When you go in a department or grocery store, what do you see? A bunch of big-ass red signs that say SALE! BUY ME! SAVE .30 CENTS WHEN YOU BUY 50! It is ridiculous, but it works.

Green
This color leads the pack for symbolizing a healthy lifestyle.? Green is often used with health food products, recycling, vegetables and even mentholated tobacco products (to emphasize freshness??).

Green is naturally associated with nature… naturally. If you are pushing health junk, slap some green on it and some hippies are sure to buy in.

Brown
Although considered a masculine color, it does have a strong appeal to women as well. Symbolizes home and hearth.

Some feel the color is a bit dirty, too. Rust, shit, dirt… it is all brown. It depends on what tone and message you want to use it for, but brown can work for or against you.

Black
Black is the embodiment of sophistication, gives an expensive message. It also lends itself wonderfully as a background color to accentuate other colors, such as: yellow, red and orange.

A very strong base color that pops out of white space. Don’t overuse it as it may send out the wrong message. Dark dankness ussually doesn’t sell unless you are pushing.. i dunno… how to go to hell ebooks. NEW NICHE!

Orange
This is the color of harvest, the “feast” color, and it evokes strong emotions regarding holidays, home, eating.

Thanksgiving, turkey, orange juice, and a lotta other good foods are orange. Orange is prominent in Asia alongside red and yellow as a holy color. Bright oranges can catch attention easily. Its like the best parts of red and yellow combined… hmm…

So, learn your colors, split test your ads and landing pages with them, and see some mutha farking profit, yo! I’ve got an experiment with color I’m working on, so when I get it all fired up, I’ll let you know my results.

The goal of the project was to basically create an advertisement of one of our friends – show what they like to do and exemplify that in the design. She likes biking, so I took her out to a park and she hopped right on.

She is a very close friend of mine, with an adorable smile. I wanted to to express her childish side, which isn’t hard to do with a smile like that. I told her to ride around the park as I took photos, and she did absolutely great. Her friends came along as well, which made it easier to get a natural smile.

The idea was to make it look like something a teenager might do. It was originally going to be a photo album look, but I changed it, boring the polaroid image templates and creating a cork board look. With the addition of tape, sticky note, and a few hand drawn pins on Photoshop, it was finished up.

It isn’t spectacular, but it will be good enough to get me my A. I hate the phrase I paired with it, but at 3 in the morning of the night before it’s due, I needed some filler and needed it quick.

Just a little detour from writing here.