Sup everyone,
Kinda hit a speed bump at the Landing page process, first of all I've just been using an editted version of besmirs LP... finally decided I need some new ones to test... should'a figured this out before I started my follow along.
But anyways,
So I'm a complete noob at this, and I see alot of people here having workers building their own LPs/Banners... and alot of people suggesting wysiwyg web editors, dreamweaver, muse ...etc. Which all sounds great, I want to hire some guy eventually and will learn how to make LPs too from the best program up there.
But I also want to learn how to rip landing pages as well, so I can edit em and get some things going while I learn how to make em from scratch.
So how does one go about ripping a LP? Especially the quiz-like ones... also I hear of alot of problems arriving from ripping peoples LP, such as leaveing images, scripts n codes in there ... etc.
Also, which one of those LP making programs do you suggest? I tried to download muse off piratebay but it didn't seem to work. And is there someone or a service you can suggest who makes LP's for $?
So ya... any help here would be great. Thanks!
You can get a 30-day trial of Muse, which is long enough to get a fair bit of work done, and avoids the hassles of pirating it. Once you've got some campaigns up and running it's also pretty affordable per month, too, particularly given you can now roll it into the whole Creative Cloud subscription deal.
As for ripping an LP - use the "Save As" function in your web browser to save the code, then you basically have to go through the HTML line-by-line and check there are no hidden scripts, links that go somewhere you don't want, etc. It's a bit of a pain in the ass, but necessary.
(I tend to re-code from scratch if I'm "inspired" by an LP - it's often quicker and means you don't end up making the same technical mistakes the original LP designer may have made. However, that requires a fair bit of technical knowledge.)
Remember - most people (me included) would recommend using a ripped LP only as a jumping-off point. Like you say, edit, innovate, test and figure out how to do waaay better than the original LP!
Thanks caurmen!
btw, when we go through the HTML, couldn't we find the hidden scripts pretty quickly by ctrl+f then "script" ?
Or is it a common practice in AM that people encrypt script in there?
What exactly should we be looking out for that we don't want? image sources that links to other peoples hosted pics?
for example I found this thing <input id="hidLocation" value="http://cpv.idtrackid.com/" type="hidden"> what is that?