Make some easy cash from the bookmakers

Sounds far fetched? Well yes I thought so too until I got stuck in and actually did it myself. The process I am referring to is called matched betting. It’s a relatively simple way to win at the bookies by not gambling at all. All your bets are laid off at the exchange making them risk free. Then you unlock free bets and casino bonuses which we can hopefully win some money from.

I have made quite a lot of money from this and because it is risk free it is worth doing. You sign up to a bookmaker and then place a bet. You can then lay that bet at Betfair and once it settles you break even on that bet BUT then you have a free bet to use. You can punt the free bet on whatever you like. If it wins you are in the money. If it loses you have lost nothing! Pretty cool right.

Ok so maybe it isn’t as simple as I made out but sites like BonusBagger make it easy to learn. Follow their Oddsmonkey review and sign up there as well. They basically give you step by step instructions on what you need to do. Also read this to find out more about matched betting in general.

Once you have soaked up all the info you will be ready to start betting. It’s really exciting knowing you can’t lose and once you hit a big winner you will be telling everyone you know about it. I have got all my friends involved and they are loving it as well.  There are also casino bonuses that you get when you sign up to some bookies. You might get some free spins on a slot machine or something. I won £400 on one! It is really thrilling when you win I honestly can’t tell you.

Since starting this a month ago I have made £670 which isn’t bad at all really! Obviously that includes the £400 win but even without that it is a tidy sum of money for having a bit of risk free fun with the bookies!

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xara web designer and website templates

Let’s start on a positive note!

When I started out with web design many years ago I used to make many websites for friends and family. It was just a bit of fun. Later when the internet was still in it’s infancy I made websites for local businesses and made a bit of money doing it. If those sites were still alive today they would look pretty bad. The internet has moved on and websites are now often design master pieces. Not being someone with any design talent I had to leave my web design days behind me. Or so I thought.

A friend recommended a piece of software to me that was supposed to make designing websites really easy even for someone like me. My main problem is I can’t code. It might as well be a foreign language to me and I guess it is. What I needed was a what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) type of software. I didn’t think it existed.

Now this website you see here was not made with the software I am about to tell you about. This was made with wordpress. My internet host told me this was the easiest way to set up a blog so I took their advice and went with a one click wordpress package. It was a bit too easy if I’m honest. It’s perfect for what I needed but what if I wanted to design it my way and put things were I wanted them on the page. I was back to the coding problem.

Anyway the software my friend told me about is called Xara Web Designer. It’s from a British company and I personally had never heard of it. I watched a few youtube videos on it and it looked like the thing I had been looking for. You could essentially drag and drop pictures and text onto the page and then move them and style them however you wanted. I decided just to but it as it wasn’t very expensive, around £70 for the premium package. Some web design software can be hundreds of pounds so mentally I was already willing to invest a few hundred so when I saw this price I jumped on it.

I have to say I have enjoyed every second using the program. It’s an absolute dream for someone like me. I can make a page however I want without writing a single line of code. You can check it out on the link below, this is an affiliate link so if you aren’t cool with that then just google “xara web designer” and you will find it.

http://stats.xaraonline.com/ID.1285014/product.MX9368/redirectid.WebDesignerHome/affiliate.html

Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xara

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So if you look at the picture on the right you will what the main screen looks like. On the right of the page are the widgets. You just drag them onto the page and they are there. You can then double click each widget and customise it as much as you like. Makes it really easy to add navigation bars and image sliders and all kinds of fancy stuff.

The software also comes with a load of built in templates to get you started. You can change the image and text on the templates to fit your needs. This makes it really fast to get a website going. The software comes with about thirty templates. A lot of them are quite poor but there are about 4 or 5 that are really nice and professional looking. If you exhaust them there are a bunch of websites offering third party templates for the software. One such site is xara templates there are a few free templates on here which are quite nice but the premium ones are excellent. I got one with a video background and with a very modern parallax effect. It really takes your site to the next level when you add these more premium touches. The template I got was ‘Professional’. I used it to create a website for a friend who was setting up a new business. He was over the moon with the result and suggested I start doing web design full time. I had to laugh as the software and template had really done all the hard work for me, but it did get me thinking.

People appreciate good quality work and aren’t really too bothered how it comes about. I have a strange view that most other people don’t share. If i haven’t created something from scratch I feel like I’m cheating people but using software and templates isn’t cheating. There’s no such thing as cheating n things like this really. It’s like saying a joiner is cheating for using a hammer. So with that thought in mind I did a couple of more websites for my work colleagues. I did the same again and went and got a template and then customized it to fit my friends niche. Both of them were thrilled with the result and later on they recommended me to some people I’ve never met. Now I have a couple of jobs a month rolling in. It’s given me a massive confidence boost. I’m not earning enough money to quit my day job or anything but it’s a nice little bonus and the joy it gives me is worth much more to me than the extra income anyway.

So what I would like you to take away from this is you can do anything you want. I never thought it possible that I could make websites but here I am doing it on a semi professional basis.  So if you want to do something do not dismiss those thoughts as “dreams” you can probably make it a reality. All you need is the right tools and the mind set to get it done and go for it. If it doesn’t work out then so be it, at least you won’t get old wondering if you should have gone for it when you had the chance.

and if it happens to e web design you are interested in then I hope this gives you the confidence to do what I have done. So try out xara web desinger and if you need to get a template from http://xaratemplate.co.uk the premium template only cost me £3. You can’t really grumble at that price. If you haven’t got the software and fancy giving it a go I believe you can download it and have a free trial. If you do please use my affiliate link and then if you do buy I get a little bonus from Xara. I don’t want you to think I have written this article just to advertise my affiliate link. Everything I have written here is true and like I said earlier you don’t have to use my link but still check out the software.

Xara have a lot of other cool software too. Their graphic design software is quite fun to use. I have just downloaded the trial of their 3d software. I haven’t bought it yet but am consdering it so I can add even more design aspects to my wesbites. I made this with the software.

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Thanks for reading.

John

 

Welcome to STOMP!

Welcome to our site. My name is John and on this blog I will be highlighting great websites and terrible websites. A few years ago I was the victim of an online scam that cost me a great deal of money. A long time since then I stayed offline and wanted nothing to do with the internet. A few years later though I realised I needed to use that experience to make sure it never happens to other people.

This blog will be my contribution to a better internet. I will give you my honest thoughts on many popular websites and also some websites that you may never have heard of. The internet is a great place if you look in the right places. Hopefully I can steer you in the right direction and help you make the most of the internet.

If you are using the internet to make money, research topics, communicate with family and friends or just to fill in time you still need to be aware that their are sites out there wanting to take advantage of your trust.

Hopefully I can focus on the good sites I find but when I come across something I find suspicious you can rest assured I will highlight them here for all to see.