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I’d venture to say that most anyone you ask will say that a product’s landing page design plays one of the most important roles in generating conversions. After all, why else would we have tools and products dedicated solely to studying visitor analytics, data tracking, a/b testing, and so on?

Common sense, right?

Granted, there are certain things that are known to work when building landing pages. That is to say that there are principles that are tried, true, and proven as it relates to creating landing pages for working to sell products to users.

The thing is, all of these principles can be dressed up differently depending on the color scheme, company branding, culture, verbiage, and so on.

With that said – and I’m sure there’s an answer for those of you who are designers, marketers, and/or usability experts who are reading along – how much, if at all, does the consistency of landing page design matter for products that belong to a single brand?

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Anyone that does design or development (or even writing, really) as either a hobby or for a living knows that feeling of going back and looking at their old work – and cringing.

We know that we’re making progress in our work when we look at something we once did and think “What was I doing?”

The funny thing is, whatever we’re designing, developing, or writing today is going to be treated that way sometime in the not-so-distant future, right?

I digress on that point.

Anyway, for me, one of the things that I find myself debating is how long I should keep some of my open source code repositories around.

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Periodically, I’ll receive emails from others who are have stumbled into a problem with WordPress, and they aren’t sure how to solve it; however, before I can reply, I end up hearing from them again.

They end up sharing something like:

Nevermind! I figured it out. In case you’re curious, here’s the code that I used…

I love it when that happens, but who doesn’t, right?

And from there, I normally like to take a look at the code, ask any questions, and/or make any suggestions (if there are any to make).

This past week, someone sent me something that they had done that was really cool, and they mentioned that I could share it on my blog, if I wanted.

Instead, I asked:

Word up.

Filing this away for future reference unless you’d want to do the first guest post I’ve ever had . . . . . . . :)

No pressure.

He obliged, but this was interesting, because I’d been toying with extended guest posting for sometime.

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