The Birth of a Theme

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I’ve beavered and bustled, torn out not a little hair and become even more of a grumpy old woman than usual - but I have completed (more or less) the theme and the site using FirePow, and an HTML template version of the theme that I developed for the products that are being promoted. It has certainly been an experience. Just for good measure I also decided to use PopShops to generate the product pages that I wanted for the second part of the site.

Halloween Funny Stuff has finally opened it’s doors to visitors. Is it perfect? Not by a long chalk and I suspect I will be tweaking and twittering with it for a while, but does it do the job – yes, I think so. My good friend Ron Rink tells me he likes it because it is clear and easy to read. That pleased me enormously, being somewhat visually challenged myself so I have achieved one of my aims. Other friends and colleagues have spoken kind words about the graphics, which really is a turn up for the book as it is a well known fact that graphics and I have a love hate relationship – I love to hate them! Why something which should be so simple causes me such grief, I don’t know – but it does.

Using PopShops to generate the product pages for the second half of the site was a pleasant experience. It was simplicity itself. The only thing I would say is that if you are going to use the autogenerate for later product pages from the datafeeds, do make sure you pick your ‘front page’ products with extreme care or you can end up with a few ‘sillinesses’ as my friend Philoscribe would say. You do also have to keep checking on the product status – but that is the way of the world for anyone involved in affiliate marketing

The job now is to develop the site and this is where we shall see how FirePow operates, certainly in terms of setting up the site, it worked well and there are plenty of training videos to help out with both basics and more advanced options. In the meantime, I’d be interested in your comments.