A4U Gold Jewellery Competition – Design & Copywriting

Author: admin May 29

In my previous A4u Gold Jewellery Competition, I covered the process I went through to select the niche and domain name. In the same night I created a design for the site, converted it to HTML and wrote an article, including at least 2 variations of each sentence for spinning.

Design & HTML Creation – 1 Hour

Firstly when creating a design I like to look at other sites in a similar niche and see what I like and dont like. Usually I will find 2 or 3 designs which I like and will create a mashup of them in Photoshop, taking the best parts from each design. I dont like to use existing themes, this is just my personal preference, I like to buid everything from the ground up (although the theme for this site is one that I found on the net, I’ve done a few tweaks to the source code here and there to optomise it a bit more, however once I get time I will redesign it from scratch!). By designing it myself I dont need to make any compromises on content or layout, and by coding it myself I can make sure the SEO is effective as possible. Once I have the design created in Photoshop, I’ll create it all by hand in dreamweaver as a standard HTML page. Once I have the complete HTML page I then chop it up into a wordpress theme – job done! The whole thing so far, except turning it into a wordpress theme has taken me 1 hour, and I imagine it will take another 15 minutes to convert it to wordpress.

Copy Writing – 1 hour 15 minutes

I had to take my car for its MOT this morning so thought this was the ideal time for me to put my new netbook to use! I grabbed a few articles and resources from around the net, saved them on my USB key and off I went. While I was waiting for the car to have its MOT (it passed by the way ) I managed to get a 600 word article written out in just under 45 minutes. When I got back I copied it over into The Best Spinner and set about rewriting each sentence, one at a time, at least two variations of each. This took another 30 minutes and now I have my original 600 word article, and 2 variations which can be spun together and combined with the auto feature in The Best Spinner to give me plenty of unique articles for publishing elsewhere and article submissions.