Entries from November 2007 ↓

Since its the holiday season I’ve been doing a lot of thinking as to how I could help out those in need by doing something for charity. Well last weekend I came across this site via Jonathon’s blog and I’ve decided to try something out.

Basically, the concept behind ThousandDollarProject is that every 1000 hours the owner gives away $1000 to participants of the blog along with other great prizes as well. So far it’s getting some pretty nice traffic because of this and I believe it’s currently seeing about 4000 unique visitors daily and its growing pretty fast. In addition to the general concept the owner is also running another contest to try and raise $5000 for charity over the next 30 days. Basically you can pay $17 and choose your own subdomain on the ThousandDollarProject site and you get wordpress installed on the subdomain. You can use this blog anyway that you want as long as you don’t violate any of the content guidelines that are listed. The best part about this is that most of the $17 that you pay goes to charity, so in my opinion it’s really a win win situation.

So Here is What I Decided to Do….
I chose the subdomain DailyDeals and I plan to post 2 daily product deals per day from now up through the end of December. At the end of December any revenue that I generate from this I plan on giving 50% of that to charities here in the Kansas City area. At this point I’m not sure how successful this will be but I want to try and do something to help others out during the holiday season. So if you get a chance check out DailyDeals and help spread the word! I’m going to try and give a status update about the progress of this during the month of December so we’ll see what happens.

I saw this video the other day on Yahoo and though it was great.  It’s definitely a great example of some great viral marketing by the creators.  Watch it below and let me know what you think.

Last Saturday I went to 1 of the 9 Garth Brooks concerts in Kansas City with my wife Amber and brother Kyle. What can I say, the concert was an awesome time and its defintely something that I’ll always remember. I’ve been to several concerts in my life, but I can honestly say that none of them have compared to this. Overall the energy at the show was amazing and I don’t think I sat down in my seat one time over his set that lasted nearly two and a half hours. The only negative experience that I had was some moron drunk chick behind us kept spilling her beer on my wife. So here is little bit of advice, if you can’t consume alcohol in public without acting like a dumbass then just stay at home.

I hope that I get a chance to see him again someday, but if I don’t then this show definitely lived up to all my expectations. If you ever have the chance to see Garth live then I highly recommend it.

Ok, so lets face it not everyone is a great designer that can build or customize their own Wordpress theme to fit their tastes. However most people would like to have a blog design that stands out and distinguishes them from the rest of the crowd.

I actually came across this really cool WP Theme Generator the other day that basically lets you pick out the color scheme and layout to be applied to your own custom theme.  Once your done choosing everything you want then you can just export the theme and simply upload it to your Wordpress installation and your ready to go!

So now really you’ve got no limits as to what you can put out there for your own blog. You can choose the most hideous color scheme around and this tool gives you the creative freedom to be able to do that.  So if your looking for an easy way to quickly customize a Wordpress theme for yourself then I would definitely check out the WP Theme Generator.