Deaf Musician

Is it just me?

Your favorite juice company gets a new look. I like it. It’s refreshing considering the old logo was around for quite a few decades. You can read more about it at Brand New.

It’s been six months and I am already talking about the third redesign, I must be crazy! I’ve already began working on the new design for this site and hopefully get it up as soon as I get done with our contest winner Mark’s website. There’s over 100 subscribers to this site, which I guess is a good sign? I haven’t promoted much besides commenting on my favorite blogs.

Ok, ok… enough talk! Here’s the sneak preview of the third revision to this website:

It’s still in works, the design is almost complete and coding will begin soon. But, what do you think so far?

Here are some things coming up:

1. My first theme, DM-Bloodless, will get some major coding revisions… I will correct few of my mistakes and also make it WP 2.3 compliant.
2. My Green / Brown theme will be launched for free also WP 2.3 compliant.
3. This current theme called, DM-Dead Poet, will be launched for free also WP 2.3 compliant.
4. I am in a process of writing a post about why you need a professional looking blog if you want to be taken seriously.
5. I am also working on a premium newspaper / magazine styled theme. Don’t worry, it’ll be affordable to the majority.

Lots of things happening. Stay tuned.

Here are some new brands this week. You can read more about their identities here: Toys R Us and Holiday Inn.

HT: BrandNew

Have you guys seen the new logo for Beijing 2008 Olympics? Here it is, I wonder where they got the inspiration from. Hmmmm.

What do you think?!??

Well, two weeks ago I decided that I will do a custom theme for the first two winners of the contest. And I am pleased to say that it’s done! The second winner was very pleased with the design. I am still in the talks with Mark, THE winner, and will be releasing a theme for him soon.

It took a lot out of me, but I finally completed it. The client was great to work with since he had a lot of ideas and knew exactly what he wanted. That’s the good news… the bad news is that, me being generous to the WordPress community, I told him that I will be releasing this theme for free to the WordPress community, and here’s what happened:

DeafMusician: I want this theme to be free for public since it came out really good.
TechGuyTales: What’s your paypal account?
DM: Why? It’s *********@******.com
DM: (5 mins later) Uhm… Hello?
TT: How about now?
DM: Ooooooooooooooooooooooooh. Never mind!!!! Thank you, sir.

So, I regret to inform you that I won’t be releasing that theme since it was purchased for exclusive use. It doesn’t mean I can’t make another similar one and then release it!!! So, look out for that soon.

The Website & Logo

There are some pages still under construction, but TT was really eager to get the site up, so he released it prior to being it finalized. This was my first office type of website. The directions were very clear: posting memos on a board and in the sidebar some stickies and stuff. I didn’t want crumbled paper style memo, I wanted a professional looking memo, yet still make it look like a paper. I think I achieved that. I also added the twitter updates on the top, since he wanted something quick he could post. The logo was already done, but I gave it a little boldness to it. The design is very clean and easy to read. So, without further ado, here it is:

Go see it live. Please, please… let me know how you guys like it! I always appreciate feedbacks.