Just a Wee Bit Early on the Pink

I have a history of doing things early, as many of you know – and the Pink for October deal is no different. The truth of the matter is that I have been waiting for months to participate in the pink thing, and I couldn’t resist changing over!

I promised you all that I wouldn’t do an official reboot of my design here, so I hope that the pink rendition of my current site will suffice – but if you want to see some real pink eye candy, you must take a look at Natalie Jost’s blog, Standards for Life. Simply amazing.

I’m sure you will start seeing all kinds of pink across the blogosphere, so feel free to link drop in the comments section here if you stumble across some cool looking sites that went pink!

Blair Jennings

This was yet another South Carolina political theme, one that was pretty graphic heavy. Included in this design, was the popular video on the homepage, specific pages for political views as well as a section used for Blair’s news. I would say that this is my favorite political theme that I’ve done so far, and look forward to working on more to come. Visit the Site →

WordPress 2.3 Update

I’m having writer’s cramp again tonight, so I thought I’d make an announcement that my site, as well as the Revolution sites have all been updated to WordPress 2.3. If you come across any major issues while on any of them, please let me know.

Functionally, none of my sites were affected with the exception of the Google Sitemap plugin I was using. Thankfully the WordPress forums had a sticky post on their forum on where to update the plugin so that it was compatible with WordPress 2.3. Other than that, clear sailing…

So I’m really pleased to announce that the Revolution theme site, the Revolution demo site, the Revolution News theme site and the Revolution News demo site are all powered by WordPress 2.3!

The 4 Hour Workweek

Last night my wife Shelly and I went on a date, which is something all by itself I can consider a miracle. When you have a 3 year old, and you’ve only had your in-laws watch him, the thought of leaving him with someone who isn’t kin can sometimes be a very scary thing.

Until you start to burn out with work, and feel the need to date the women you married five years ago. Having children definitely affects your relationship – in so many different way – both rewarding, as well as extremely tiring.

Anyway, on our date last night, we went to the local Barnes & Noble bookstore to have some coffee and to browse through some books. I can tell that Shelly’s inability to escape “mom” mode even our date took hold of her, as she went straight to the children’s books. I, on the other hand, had the same issue – my inability to escape “web design/internet” mode – which took me directly to the web design section.

In that section, I happened to come across a book that I’ve heard a lot about of late, one whose author’s blog I actually was reading a few weeks ago. So I decide that this was a twist of fate, picked up the book, and randomly started reading somewhere in the middle.

The book is called “The 4 Hour Workweek”, written by Timothy Ferris – not quite sure why it was in the web design section of the bookstore, but nonetheless I found that the first thing I read resonated IMMENSELY with some stuff I have been feeling these days with my freelance work.

I won’t go into detail what exactly it was that I started reading, but what I can say is that I bought the book, and have every intention on figuring out how I can work from home for 4 hours a week, and make the same in a month that I make now at my day job in a year. If I ever become successful with that, you will all be the first to know.

If you’re looking for a decent read, check out this post where Timothy interviewed Matt Mullenweg of WordPress. Even more interesting is the first comment, which links to a particular theme we all know.

The John Chow Revolution Theme Review

I was asked by many people to make an announcement when John Chow’s site posted the review on my Revolution and Revolution news themes.

Well here’s the link to that review. Feel free to leave a comment over there with your thoughts about the themes!

I would say that for the most part, it was a positive (and extremely thorough) review. One thing that Michael failed to mention in the review, which got hammered on in the comments section, was the misconception that the only difference between the $59 version and the $199 version was the removal of credits. And a few people posted their opinions on that.

Anyhow, here’s what was left out of the review:

This package also includes one hour of free consulting which can be used for customization, site development or blog strategy.

So for those who think paying $140 to remove credits is a lot, consider that you get a free hour of consulting as well, and that is a majority of the $140.

There has been a lot of helpful (good and bad) feedback left on the review comments thread, and I plan on taking it all into consideration when I release the Revolution 2.0 theme. I’m really glad that I chose to invest in the review, because I think in the long run, it will be well worth the money.