Chromand - Desiging, Developing, and Marketing for the Interwebs

Informative Posts, stuff that I think is really cool or useful.

Ever wonder why World of Warcraft has such a devout following? The reason is because of a concept known as addiciton based game design. It’s used in a variety of games to draw the user in, and get them hooked. It has made Blizzard millions, and these concepts can be used when designing web applications and other kinds of programming as well.

Today is a day that many think, hope, and believe that change has to come to these United States of America. During Barack Obama’s Inauguration, two things stood out to me. Firstly, how embarrising must it be to flub on your oath in front of the entire nation like he did? Secondly, he made the statement “The world has changed and we must change with it”. This is a very true and thought-provoking statement, especially with the rapid expansion of technologies of our world today.

Burger King is undisputeably the king(no pun intended) of off-the-wall advertising. And they have done it again with their latest program: Whopper Sacrifice.

Developers and Designers have an old saying: “Don’t reinvent the wheel”. People shouldn’t waste their time re-coding things that have already been done. I toyed around with the idea of making a “Press++” theme for Wordpress, which would be a theme that would turn Wordpress into a more robust CMS, and add a lot of [...]

The biggest thing that kills people’s internet dream of making money online is that they have been so poisoned by the idea of “I made $xxxx in x hours, and you can too!”  that they don’t realize how much effort it takes, especially when getting started.

The number one thing that kills most blogs is that people cannot update them regularly.  Maybe they lose interest or move on to other projects, or are just to busy. I’ll be honest, it’s happened to me before.

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I recently signed on to be a member of PayPerPost, a blog network that pays you for making certain types of blog posts.  I had read about it on the DigitalPoint Forums, and it got a lot of positive feedback, so I decided to sign-up and see how it all works.

Kaboodle and ThisNext are really good tools for helping get traffic and sales at your e-commerce store. They are stores that let anyone list any product from any store, and share recommendations, wishlists, and so on.

We see social bookmarking sites, like Digg, Reddit, and Stumbleupon, as a way to market our sites and drive traffic.  But so many people will go in, drop a lot of submissions to a lot of different sites, and forget about it. They cross their fingers, hoping to make the front page.  Like anything else, [...]