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We’re right in the throws of finishing off a truckload of new projects, but it’s been a while so I thought I’d take a while to update this poor, neglected blog with some recent work.

First off we’ve got DylanBland.co.nz, the blog of a New Zealand based entrepreneur. Dylan was one of the easiest clients I’ve ever worked with and I thoroughly look forward to the guided tour he’s promised me next time I’m in Auckland

Secondly, a rather prominent site, . and Chris Garrett (not me, the other one) are 2 of the biggest name’s in blogging, so when they asked us to design & build a site for their upcoming book we were more than happy to help them out!

Once again, Chris, Indranil and Dave did an awesome job and left us with two very happy clients Indranil unfortunately broke his leg a few weeks ago, so best wishes to him!

We’ve just finished off the redesign of Business Pundit for Seawaves Technology. With a simple brief of “don’t want it to look like a blog” and “big bold headers” Chris had plenty of creative freedom and responded with this fantastic magazine-esque design which Indranil then coded in record breaking time.

This was a fun project to manage and I think the whole team learnt a lot in the process. We’re looking forward to some more projects like this

The guys over at Performancing have just released Simplicity, a premium quality Wordpress theme designed and built by us.

It’s clean and easy-to-use layout harnesses effective typography, subtle stylisations and balanced proportions to make for a beautiful Wordpress theme. Features include native Tagging, Gravatar and Widget support.

The Performancing team think the theme “would do very well as a financial blog as well as tech and web 2.0. It would also work well for any environmental or “green” themed blog”. We agree!

Check out Simplicity over at Performancing now »

I’ve just managed to rope my good friend David Peralty into recording a 449 podcast, which we’re hoping will become the leading audio solution to all your blogging problems.

What we need from you is questions… Questions about Wordpress, blog design, code, promotion, marketing, SEO and anything else blogging or small business related.

So here’s the exchange: leave a comment or with your questions and we’ll answer it in the podcast. You can then download it to your portable media device and consume at your leisure.

We want to solve you problems! Just let us know what they are…

My friends, it gives me great pleasure to announce SpringLoaded, the 449’s very first free theme! With support for Widgets, Gravatars and a handful of other nifty plugins, SpringLoaded is one sexy little number designed and built by the 449!

Chris (Rowe, visually gifted) worked his magic on the design and Indranil brought code excellence to the table once more (despite a very challenging layout) to ensure a fantastic and highly functional theme.

Check out the full demo or download it and give your blog a spring kick!

We’ve got many more themes in the pipeline, including some awesome premium ones which will be both amazingly good and highly affordable, so stay tuned!