It might be the last of my fever wearing off after yet another dose of the lurgey, but i’m feeling incredibly generous and helpful today. Yes, that’s right folks I’m going to reveal to all you loyal readers the stunning cutting edge technology I use to design my rather nice (if I do say so myself) affiliate landing pages.
Regular readers will remember that I showcased a design I’d come up with in a previous blog post. For irregular readers here’s a refresher (and remember to visit more often in future – I’m not always going to be this kind with my catch up information!)
*Click image to visit the page this is situated on, my apologies for the distorted image I don’t have that much space to play with here!
Get Ready For A Massive Revelation – Here’s The Tool I Used To Create This Design…
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Whaddya mean “What the f**k is that?” That’s my patented mystery landing page construction method! Ahh, come on you guys know me by now. Cutting edge technology? Pfft! Pen and paper rules!
The point I’ve somewhat laboriously been making in this little bit of affiliate prose is that it doesn’t take a high tech solution to put out something that looks really good in WordPress, or any other platform for that matter. Once you have a page structure drawn out, it genuinely takes very little HTML knowhow to create a framework that you can use again and again to create beautifully structured pages to display your carefully crafted content in.
It Really Isn’t Rocket Science
The above design really only requires a very basic bit of HTML which I think most people new to HTML could learn in a few hours. All you need to do is just draw out the boxes you need to create on a page and use it to work out what table elements you need to create the perfect page structure. Once I have a template set up I save it in a text file, I then utilise high tech cut and paste skills to pop in the appropriate image URL and written content.
The beauty of the above example is that the vast majority of it never changes. Instead of a quick product post I can easily create a lovely optimised landing page that gives users a good range of choices that’s relevant to the product they’re looking for.
You can too… now get your pen and paper out!
P.S. I made this post because I found the original drawing for the page in amongst some paperwork and thought some people might find it interesting. I hope it helps 
July 26th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Hold on to that drawing Kirsty! It’ll be a nice memento when the site starts bringing in thousands in affiliate commissions a day!
July 27th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
My secret weapon is a Rotling Tikky II 0.5 and a grid notebook.
July 29th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Ooooh the Master has revealed her secrets! Once again another wonderful post Kirsty and very helpful. I suppose we sometimes forget the virtue of the ‘ol pen and paper.
August 8th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Hi Kirsty,
If you do not mind, how long did it take you from that peace of paper till you got it finished and installed on the server?
I am myself struggling with too long site delivery times.
cheers, dejan
August 13th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Your content is organized really well! Are you using the WP eCommerce plugin for all that??