The results?

I’m now working with two established bloggers in an attempt to redesign their wordpress blog. Who they are is something you’ll find out soon enough. A lot of things aren’t finalized yet so all I can tell you is that one’s a multi-authored blog, blogging about blogging and the other is a young blogger who blogs about apple, technology, cameras and writes tutorials and reviews. The guessing game begins!

Why I’m doing is?

Well, it’s a new year; my portfolio is severely out of date, and I’d like to try something different for a change. To tell you the truth, I’ve been making websites for myself the past few years and I’m tired of being my own client (for the most part). In an attempt to show off what I’ve learned over the past few years, I thought this would be a great opportunity for the both of us. It’ll be a great way to get my work out there, showing the quality I provide through my services as a web designer and developer.

What’s the catch?

They’re getting a brand spankin’ new blog to further build up their blog’s brand, uniqueness, and authority. No seriously, all that I require is that you’re blogging on wordpress and that you already have some establishment set for your blog. I’m currently not considering “new blogs” as of yet, that’ll be another time.

Now it’s your turn!

The blogosphere is way too big for me to be going around looking for potential candidates, reviewing them and all that jazz. So if you feel that you need a refresh for your blog, shoot me an email at freebies at ptahdunbar.com with the subject line “Free WordPress Design” and fill me in with all the details of what you want, how you want it, and everything else you think I should know. I’ll reply back telling you whether I’ll consider your blog or not. There isn’t a time limit for this offer, so you’ve got plenty of time.

So what’s next?

Since I’m going to get a lot of creative freedom with these projects, I plan on writing case studies for each one of them I take on throughout this campaign. Somewhat similar to the series I did with the design of this blog, only better. The first will be on the multi-authored blog I mentioned earlier which should be going live this weekend.

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“I’m shaking up the paid themes market and proving something here” says Small Potato.

I think his words got taken very seriously towards WP theme designer Brian Gardner.

Brian announced early this year that he quit his job to work full time on iThemes, his new company along with Cory Miller.

No release date was ever given, and you could almost think that Small Potato pushed him to launch iThemes a little bit sooner than he’d anticipated. God I love competition!

Anyway, iThemes launched today including not one, but one theme in FIVE new different colors! Wow. Talk about variety. There’s also a special offer taking place throughout the week. You’ll receive 25% off all themes until Thursday, Jan. 31^st. I’d taken advantage of that if I were you.

What can you expect from iThemes? iTheme features:

• Easy to Customize
• Easy to Use
• Clean & Valid Code
• Widget Ready
• Search Engine Optimized

Essence is the first featured theme of many to launch out of iThemes.

Here’s what it looks like:

Essence Series includes:

• Static home page
• Elegant look and feel of traditional website
• 7 inside page layouts
• Integrated blog templates
• Two header options: Text or graphic

You can get this in sliver, blue, red, dark, and golden.

Buy a Single-Use Package – $99.95 or buy a Multiple-Use Package – $249.95

There’s one more thing,

Brian Gardner’s Revolution Theme got a face lift today too, here’s how it looks:

What exactly is a theme’s club?

Well, basically it’s a subscription service you sign up for, in this case, you’d pay only $5 dollars, to join in for an entire year! You’ll be able to download each month, a wordpress theme custom made by Small Potato. Small Potato also guarantees at least 12 themes during your 12 months subscription. SP also claims “Some months will feature multiple theme releases.“

What about the quality?

When you sign up today for his super themes club, you’ll be able to download “Gossip.” Here’s a preview:

Click here to demo Gossip

Get involved

Small Potato is also giving everyone a chance to collaborate with him in having your own wordpress theme featured in his themes club! All you have to do is request for your design or theme in his forums. That I plan on taking advantage of!

It’s only $5 bucks for an entire year! What are you waiting for? Go sign up!