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I'd also really like some pictures of the finished product.

That's actually very useful for me though. Especially if a site has a lot of tests, or I'm running tests for a multitude of clients. It means I have to babysit the tests less frequently.

I really recommend the book, it's a great read.

Picking a color scheme. What colors work well together? Why do they work well together? How do I find good color schemes? Is there a formula or something?

White space. How much should I have? I normally just operate in increments of 5px until I think something looks good. "Looks good" ends up being smaller than other sites when I actually compare though.

Font choices and colors. I always just use arial for body text and I'm fine with that. My headers always look very bland though. What fonts compliment what? Should my headers be darker or lighter than my body text?

Gradients and box shadows. I know they can look nice and I know some people do it well, but whenever I add this kind of stuff to my graphics I think it looks corny.

Those are some things I find frustrating when designing.

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    {
        echo '<br /><span style="background: #FFFFFF; color: #000000;">' . (NULL != $key ? $key . ' = ' : '') . $value . '</span>';
    }

    function s($num)
    {
         return $num == 1 ? '' : 's';
    }

    echo 'Showing ' . $results . ' result' . s($results) . '.';

When I submitted my URL I got "constituent", which seems unnecessarily long. You should consider having a list of short adjectives and a list of short words, preferably with both being one syllable. Then you grab one from each and you get short URLs that are still easy to remember like "redbear" or "fastbulb". The best part about this idea is that it reminds me of the monster names in Diablo 2.

Are the categories grabbed from Amazon too?

I know it's stupid but I can't stop working on it. Apparently my 7 year old mind finds it hilarious.

I'd put something like:

"Hackathonia is a great way to find "Hackathons" near you. Hackathons bring bright, motivated people together to build amazing apps in competitive yet collaborative, team-based competitions."

That way you get to the meat of what you do faster.

Just a small quip: There's a tiny bit of side scrolling for me . I'm running 1024x768. If you change the margin on your #wrap div to margin: -10px auto 0 auto; it'll center it.

For example if you wanted to launch a site that listed the best places to rock climb, then you'd want to do some guest posts on popular rock climbing blogs.

It's from the Terran Academy in StarCraft, and I've heard it in other places but don't know the name of it.

You should really change your tagline to be more of a description of your service than a marketing phrase. "Since cold leads don't fit in the microwave" tells me nothing about your service.

"LeadNuke is the missing link in your existing sales pipeline; it helps you kick-start the sales process."

That doesn't really tell me anything either.

"LeadNuke is a streamlined process that helps you find, track, and follow-through with news articles, blog posts, and RSS feeds from your industry, turning them into meaningful sales leads. LeadNuke helps you generate qualified leads and initiate a dialog with prospects who actually need your product or service."

This also doesn't really tell me much.

I looked down your home page further and I'm guessing this is some sort of email marketing service. You should definitely use the word email in your descriptions so people know that's what it is.