Welcome to the blog for Spitshine Design

Here you can find tips, tricks, tools and tutorials as well as other musings from Mike Stickney, Web Designer and Online Marketer.

Landing Page Optimization and Buyer Modalities

I’m in the middle of reading the book Web Analytics 2.0by Avinash Kaushik (very good book by the way…). In the book, Kaushik (very briefly) brings up the topic of Buyer Modalities, and it reminded me of a project I had worked on a couple years ago around the topic.

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Spitshine Design is now on Twitter

So, I finally stepped into the next level of social media and signed up with Twitter. Check me out at http://twitter.com/spitshinedesign. Read the rest of this entry »

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Online Portfolios – How much is too much?

I’ve been updating my online portfolio the past few days, and have come across the question of what is the right number of portfolio pieces to have on ones site?

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jQuery Video Tutorial Series

I’m pretty new to jQuery, but I’ve recently been more and more interested with it, and been playing around a little bit. Being new, I was looking for some true “beginner” tutorials, and found the perfect series of jQuery tutorials on net.tutsplus.com.

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2010 Web Design Trends

The other day I read a post on smashingmagaine.com (a great site on web desing by the way), titled The Current State of Web Design: Trends 2010.

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Creating an A/B experiment in Google Website Optimizer

Having just started using Google Website Optimizer, originally I wanted to write a tutorial of creating an A/B landing page experiment in GWO. However, I don’t think I really need to.

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