truthseeker

Hello Hackers,

I have an opportunity to market a brand new online shoe site. A few avenues that I am investigating: 1. Blog about fashion/shoes. 2. Stores on shopify, amazon and ebay.

With Google Adwords, facebook ads out of the question for the category, do you have any suggestions for marketing the ecommerce site?

What kind of budget should I be looking at? Would 1000$ a month get enough visitors to the site? Are there any effective channels that work well for ecommerce sites?

thanks

Hello HN,

I am a hacker who can't design. I can put together css/html but can't create a shiny button if my life depended on it.

I am lost when it comes to layers and other photoshop stuff. I would like to change that. I am not sure if self learning is going to be easy. What are some resources for learning photoshop quickly. 1. preferably online classes with someone to mentor. 2. Dead simple screencasts ala railscasts.

thanks

Who are the Dieter Rams of this generation?

Specifically I am interested in learning from the work of exceptional designers (preferably but not limited to web).

Personally, I love the work Wolfgang Bartelme did for taptaptap and sophiestication products.

Any others?