We have a proposition for you. We want to give you $50, $100, or more! For over five years, XD Web Solutions has been very grateful to those people who have referred our web design services to others. We recognize that word of mouth recommendations are one of the highest compliments any company can receive. So we’ve developed the XD Five Star Referral Program as another way of extending our thanks to you for sending new clients our way and having confidence in our abilities.

All that needs to happen is this: you send a friend or colleague our way who needs a redesign of an existing site or a completely new site. If we end up taking on the project for them, we owe you a %10 referral fee.

That could be $50, $100, or more for you depending on their project cost.

Example scenario:

Your friend: “My business needs a new website.”
You: “You should hire XD Web Solutions. Those folks can help you get started!”
(He hires us and his project contract agreement is $1,000)
Us: “Here is your $100.”
You: “Thank you.”
Us: “And Thank You!! Send more our way!”

Payment will be made by PayPal or check (or cash if you’re near me) immediately after every project — No need to wait until you accumulate a certain amount, No quota, No work, No time limit, No risk, No website, No fees needed for referring us. Amazingly easy!

• Just make sure they mention your name when they contact us. Obviously!
• No limit. We love building websites as much as you love getting $100. Which means we’d be insane to cut off you and us both.  Why not refer 10 friends at once? One friend per month? 1,000 friends by 2012? Think big!

Please read all the Restrictions and Limitations.

Really, it’s plain and simple. However, I guess I should throw the “rules” out there.

1)     Receive 10% of web design services rendered in referred client’s contract agreement only after we have received full settlement from the clients you referred to us. Payment by referred client must be received in full by XD Web Solutions before referral payout is made.

2)     There is no limit to how many people you can refer.

3)     Referrers cannot refer their own web site.

4)      All payouts are made in the US dollar and are to be paid in the form of XD’s choosing; typically PayPal or check and received by referrer following full payment made by referred client.

5)     You MUST NOT make claims/promises of features we don’t provide, engage in spamming or use any unethical methods in your referral activities. If you are unsure of what we offer, visit our website or call us for more details.

6)     XD Web Solutions reserves the right to modify, suspend, or cancel the program at any time and for any reason during the duration of this referral program promotion.

7)     XD Web Solutions will make the final decision on any questions or conflicts with referrals. If the same referral comes in from different sources, we will resolve the conflict by going with the first person that referred the new client to us.

8)     All information submitted is considered private by XD Web Solutions and this information will not be shared with any other company.

Go back to the Referral Program details.

So as a designer, I was curious as to what grade my own site will receive and if I designed my site properly. And, yes, I am not ashamed to say that I did not get an A – at least by the SiteReportCard’s website. Am I shocked? NO.

SiteReportCard is a very useful FREE service that helps you identify broken links, website load time analysis, HTML validation, and much more.

My site, and any site that I create, is already built with web standards in mind and is XHTML and CSS validated.

But I wanted to see what this site had to say about mine. So what were my results?

Well, there were 6 warnings, a high load time, and several possible misspellings. However, here are what the results indicated:

• the warnings were not completely valid/useful so really not much to correct;
• the high load time of 190 seconds is misleading as that’s the reported load time for someone using a 28.8K speed modem;
• and the misspellings included my company name (yes, it’s spelled funny – Xtreme Designz), blog (not sure why their dictionary isn’t updated to include that web 2.0 term by now), the word Skype, and e-commerce (though there are several ways people spell this word, including “eCommerce” with the capital “C”). It did find a legitimate misspelled word for which I am very grateful!

So what do I give myself overall? An A of course!!

Try using this FREE service on one of the URLs on your site and see what results you get. It’s at least a good start to figuring out how to make your site better.

Oh and if you need help in making some of the corrections for your site, don’t hesitate to contact me. I’m around!