In my Week in Review post for October 20th, I mentioned that I had been working on a “secret” project for a client of mine and that we would probably be launching the site on or around November 3rd. Unfortunately, we didn’t make our November 3rd launch…but November 11th is just as good. The project as you might be able to tell was a redesign of Cuzoogle. Cuzzy had been talking about redesigning his site for awhile now and giving it a more updated look. We both sat down (cross-continent) and came up with an interesting layout that would allow for him to put in his necessary ad spots as well as something that looked fan-freakin’tastic!

While this project wasn’t a completely custom theme; we did start off with the basic layout from the Simple Red Theme from Easy Wordpress that Cuzzy had been using. The biggest challenge in getting everything looking as it should were the widgets that Cuzzy uses for advertising. They took some tweaking, but they all fell into place like they should. The new theme is in between Evolutionary and Revolutionary when it comes down to it. Since the original theme had a lot of good quality stuff already built-in, we didn’t need to revolutionize the theme…however, the design elements added were HUGE improvements over the old version.

This is a quick breakdown of all of the new added features… (more…)

PSDTUTS - Dramatic Car Color Change Tutorial
CSS-Tricks - About the CSS-Tricks Redesign (LOOKIN’ GOOD!)
Smashing Magazine - Black Magic Free WordPress Theme
Photoshop Lady - Professional Design Studio Web Template
Abduzeedo - Awesome Floral Type in Fireworks and Photoshop
Bloggin-Ads - 10 best Ways to Promote Your Blog: Part II
Buzz Pirates - Billy Mays…You, Sir are on Notice!

The guys over at WooThemes have a crazy scary deal going on now through tomorrow at midnight. To celebrate Halloween they are offering up for a limited time a three for one deal!

So, what that means is if you’re in the market for or have been contemplating purchasing one of the killer premium themes from WooThemes…now is the time. If you purchase a single-site license for any theme…you can choose two more for the low price of $70 ($150 if you want the developer license). 

Buy a Single License for $70 USD and get any 2 other themes (on Single Licenses) of your choice; or

Buy a Developer License for $150 USD and get any 2 other themes (on Developer Licenses) of your choice.

That’s a pretty sweet deal, but there’s more! If you’re interesting in joining the WooThemes Club; you can also get a bonus deal. If you sign up between now and tomorrow at midnight for either a three or six month subscription they will toss in three months free of charge. So instead of three months you get six, and instead of six you get nine months…THAT’S A KILLER DEAL! (pun intended).

GrandmasterB is also going to go in on offering up something special. If you purchase a theme during this limited time special offer using my link, and verify the purchase via email and comment here. (more…)

Hey there everyone! This is starting to become habit. For the second time in less than a month my week in review post has run late into the week. I apologize for the delay in getting new content on the site, but you know how life goes…sometimes it just takes over. This has been a busy week for GrandmasterB, as I am putting the finishing touches on a custom theme for a vBulletin forum for work. I’ve been working pretty much non-stop for the past week trying to get all of the bells and whistles installed and working before the big day on Saturday.

FOOTBALL SEASON IS COMING

What big day you ask? Well, this Saturday is the kickoff to the Mountain West Conference football season! While I’m not the biggest college football fan; I am a fan of the network being broadcast nationwide on DirecTV and being the first network dedicated to a single college sports conference to go into nationwide coverage…pretty damn cool. The new forum isn’t quite live yet, but will be launching on Saturday morning for fans of the conference to jump on board and chat it up about their favorite Mountain West Conference teams.

…keep reading, trust me!

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