| 1.) 8:00 AM: REGISTER A DOMAIN NAME. This takes | | | | e-commerce functionality later down the road when |
| up to 24 hours to go through so start out by getting | | | | you learn how. At first you can simply try and create |
| yourself an on-target graphic t-shirts domain name. | | | | buzz around your t-shirts and sell them later. |
| One that happens to be available right now: It | | | | 4.) 9:00 PM: DESIGN YOUR GRAPHIC T-SHIRTS. To |
| includes one of the most searched keywords in | | | | have a line of t-shirts, you only need one t-shirt. To |
| terms of graphic t-shirts: graphic tees and is fairly | | | | begin with, come-up with an idea. Refer to my guide |
| easy to remember. | | | | on how to do so if you need help. Adobe Illustrator |
| 2.) 8:30 AM: HOST YOUR DOMAIN. Find cheap | | | | and Photoshop are a great place to start. Look for |
| hosting for around $9 per month with minimal | | | | free vector images if you want to add anything |
| bandwidth to begin with. You can later upgrade later | | | | besides text to your graphic t-shirts. Your tees |
| once there is more demand for your graphic tshirts. | | | | should deliver a message and look cool at the same |
| Make sure you have MySql and php abilities and at | | | | time. Also, try and make them original so that your |
| least 5 Gb of space. | | | | website in particular stands out as a place to go for |
| 3.) 9:00 AM: BUILD YOUR GRAPHIC TEE WEBSITE. | | | | great graphic tees. |
| Hopefully you know some html and/or php - MySql. | | | | 5.) 12:00 PM: PHOTOSHOP YOUR DESIGN ON TO |
| (If you don't, you have many options, which I will go | | | | BLANK T-SHIRTS. Until you have printed any graphic |
| through later. ) Start simple with your graphic t-shirts | | | | tees, simply take your designs and Photoshop them |
| site design. Be minimal and use large images. Follow | | | | on to blank t-shirts. One color of each design will do, |
| the example of the leaders in good design such as | | | | with other colors available. Place your cool graphic t |
| Threadless or Indie Shirts. Avoid using unnecessary | | | | shirts on a background that is plain, making them |
| Flash and keep your code clean. Include strong calls | | | | easy to see, or that says "urban". You can start |
| to action: "buy", "buy", "buy". Remember your goal: | | | | printing a limited number of t-shirts right after your |
| you want visitors to not only like your website, but | | | | website is launched, and based on demand. Crop |
| to purchase your graphic tees. First mock-up the | | | | these to the right size and upload them to your |
| design in Photoshop, then code it. As for creating the | | | | graphic tee website. |
| e-commerce functionality, you may need to rely on a | | | | 6.) 5:00 AM: ANNOUNCE YOUR NEW GRAPHIC TEE |
| web developer if you have only basic skills. | | | | WEBSITE. Use an online press release agency, go to |
| Otherwise, there are solutions through Wordpress | | | | every single graphic t-shirt blog you know - or that |
| and Joomla extensions, Paypal, and countless online | | | | you find through Technorati - and post information |
| services to help you with this. Good luck. This will | | | | about why your new graphic tee website is the best. |
| most likely be the most stressful part of your | | | | Once your site goes live, be sure to use |
| endeavor.For those who do not know how to code | | | | StumbleUpon to drive traffic to this fresh content. |
| html or know anything about making a website, install | | | | Digg a blog entry about your website if you create a |
| Wordpress to post each graphic t-shirt one by one, | | | | blog (it's a good idea). |
| each with its own post. This is a different kind of | | | | 7.) 8:00 AM: (if you are still awake) GO TO BED. YOU |
| website for graphic tees, but will still work. Just make | | | | JUST CREATED AN ONLINE GRAPHIC T-SHIRTS |
| sure to eventually customize your look and add your | | | | STORE. |