design reverb

Crazyegg is site tool which tracks what your visitors click on. It gives you an inside look at where you visitors click and where they click the most.

They have three types of visualizations, to help you see what’s being clicked. You can view your results in Overlay, List and Heatmap. Overlay gives you details of each individual element. List is a summary of your “raw click data”. Heatmap, well Heatmap is pretty cool. It shows an hot and cold type of infrared style image. It shows you which areas are “hot” and which areas are “cold”. Very, very cool.

Give it a try. They have a free version. It will track up to 5,000 hits a month, and you can track up to 2 pages. Their Standard Plan is only $19 a month, and tracks up to 25,000 visits, and unlimited pages. Plus the Standard Plan has live updating whereas the free only updates every few hours.

Crazyegg should definitely be a tool in your SEO toolbox. Especially those of us using google ads, or any ads for that matter.
Check it out – Crazyegg.com

How much time it takes for a design, a graphic, or even coding is often irrelevent to how much it is worth. Designers often take years fine tuning their style, methodology, their “craft”. Clients are not just paying for the designer’s time, they are paying for their knowledge and experience.

Ellen Rohr has written a good article on how to charge clients. Good read for those just starting out.

Legend has it that Pablo Picasso was sketching in the park when a bold woman approached him. “It’s you — Picasso, the great artist! Oh, you must sketch my portrait! I insist.”

So Picasso agreed to sketch her. After studying her for a moment, he used a single pencil stroke to create her portrait. He handed the women his work of art.

“It’s perfect!” she gushed. “You managed to capture my essence with one stroke, in one moment. Thank you! How much do I owe you?”

“Five thousand dollars,” the artist replied.

“B-b-but, what?” the woman sputtered. “How could you want so much money for this picture? It only took you a second to draw it!”

To which Picasso responded, “Madame, it took me my entire life.”

Read my other article regarding how some clients react to design charges here.