Affordable blog Design fresh from Bristol, UK

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

David and I are back to answer more bloggers questions! Episode 2 sees us tucking into Blog Networks, Expression Engine vs. Wordpress (with input from the legendary Andy Clarke), letting people post to your blog (and David shows us with a snazzy plugin).

We’ve even got some out-takes right at the end!

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 »

What do you get when you mix a professional blogger, a blog designer, Skype and some sound bytes from law & order? The FourFourNiner of course!

David and I got together on Skype last week to answer all your questions about blogging and bring you the very first FourFourNiner. In this episode we cover all kinds of things, from SEO to relocating blogs and even how to get a job as a blogger. It’s an action packed 30 minutes and guess what… There’ll be more next week!

Here are a few links which we mentioned in the show:

• freelancewritinggigs.com
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• teevieo.com
• & wordpress.com
• sensationalcolor.com Live In Full Color
• Transcending CSS by Andy Clarke
• W3schools and A list Apart

and also thanks to everyone that supplied questions: Grant, Andrew, Titus Ferguson, and Kate Smith.

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