Yes, I designed Social Triggers myself. No, I don’t know much code. I know how to hack around things with tutorials, and make things look nice, though.

Plus, while I personally use Thesis (I prefer it since I’ve used it for like 2.5 years now on other sites), there are other popular frameworks like Headway and Genesis which empower you to make nice looking designs.

One of the main reasons for this webinar was this:

People have the power to make their own web design with new frameworks. The tips we shared in this webinar will help people make smart decisions… based on design theory… and conversion rate testing… about their web design.

I’m sorry I didn’t see that question on the webinar. We literally had hundreds of questions flowing through every few seconds, heh. If I did see it, i’d have gladly answered it though. You know Brian Clark and I are friends, right? I’ve known him for about 4 years now.

And it didn’t cost me thousands of dollars.

Thesis costs 80 bucks.
My Skin cost 50 bucks.
A few premium plugins later, and some graphics. And Im in a few hundred bucks on design work for something I would have paid thousands of dollars for a few years ago.

That coupled with webinars like this and well there you have it. FREE education to boot.

Thanks for sharing and keeping my mind honed and fresh on these topics. I made a few changes to my own site after listening in.

Kudos.

But how much code do you know Derek? It seems that most people can’t cut the mustard without a fairly good knowledge of this stuff.

You’re using Thesis. Did you edit it all yourself, or did you outsource? Let’s face it: the average Joe couldn’t replicate Social Trigger’s design.

Which leads us to the question I knew you couldn’t answer on the Webinar, but perhaps you can here. Was Brian Clark smart spending a thousand dollars getting a professional design on Copyblogger, long before he started making money from it? Would you recommend that to beginners?

No worries, we’re cool. 🙂

Thanks Derek.

this is the first time that I come to your site, and I already luv the writing style. It made click ! and I signed up for the webinar.

Found you through Corbett Barr’s Twitter follower circle. Absolutley LUV your Twitter bio 🙂

Yea, an hour is a nice time for a webinar. However, when we record the replay, you can always watch the replay at your convenience.

You should sign up anyway. We’re going to record the webinar, and if people really want another opportunity to see the webinar, we’ll consider holding a second one at a later time.