Some people messaged me complaining that Internet Explorer didn’t like my template, that it kept hiding the BG image, that it was all wonky… At first I thought it was a connection problem… then I accessed the site from the Gym’s cafe… and hell it looked awful! But the last drop was really when Vic checked the site from my laptop here at home using IE7…
Then I thought… ok… time to do something about it then!
And here’s the result!! A work still in progress but in my opinion it looks cooler than the last…
I’ll twit when the stuff’s all sorted…
Meanwhile I want to say that the Pimp My Blog Awards was not in vain! I will still use the the designs to produce T-Shirts that will be sold on my CafePress Shop (the money raised with the sales will go to the Crossed Waves Initiative’s project Urban Angels that works with the intuit of training and deploying personnel to Urban centres with the mission to act as Outdoors Counselors and develop activities to get our kiddos out of the streets and giving them something useful to do (they’ll be involved on workshops in areas like internet & new media, film making, photography etc)! Did you know London has one of the highest suicide indexes in the world??? wow!!
I’d link the Urban Angels website here but the CWI’s website was attacked by hackers not long ago and I still haven’t had the time to get it up and running… but I’m working on it!
Here’s the deal… I’ve got this new template and all… and the coolest thing about it the header carousel.
The way it works is that every time someone loads a page on the blog this person gets a different one of the 10 options available .
The problem is that me being me have no time to design all the 10 different headers…
Because of that I am counting on you, to help me out on that… No… you don’t need to be a master designer to do it… you don’t even need to send me the whole project ready if you don’t know how, you can draw it in a sheet of paper and scan/photograph it and send it to me, if your idea for the header makes it to the Top 10 I’ll make it digital (although if you can/know how to get it internet worthy… well feel free to do so!!!) just free your inner child, get CREATIVE!
The rules are simple:
Design a header for my blog (the size should be 860X296px (5.94”X2.04”In)) and send it to pimpmyblog@urbanvox.net until 26/11/08.
Place this badge somewhere on your site
The theme is ALL THINGS URBAN, but if you know me a bit better and/or have been following urbanvox.net for a while, then you can do something related with the blog’s content, me, living la vida loca, etc etc etc
I will publish the artworks on the site as I receive them but voting will be available only between 26/11/08 and 30/11/08. And the winner will be revealed on The M Word Webcast on 01/12/08.
You can submit more than 1 design if you feel creative enough!
The top 10 designs (as elected by you and anyone else you can recruit… so spread the word! Tell your mum, dad, son, pet, etc etc to come along and vote) will be displayed on the header of urbanvox.net with credits and all, and their designer will win exclusive urbanvox.net badges like this one
top 10 badge
The one voted NUMBER ONE will get a goodies bag with some cool prezzies inside and a badge like that one
First prize badge
to show off in your website.
Simple enough uh?!?!?!?!?!
So what on Earth are you waiting for??? I NEED a new header and the prezzies won’t win themselves! (lol)
@ Echo off
@ Echo Hello there!!!
@ Echo Are you old enough (or at least been using a computer long enough to have met Microsoft DOS (or Lotus 123, or editing .bat files etc)???
@ Echo hehehehe well… I am… and that’s why when I saw this template I couldn’t resist and installed it… heheheheh… It is a bit complicated (I am sure some people won’t even be able to read this post at first… heheheh… but it reminds me of my first dealings with computers some 13 years ago… (OMG… I am so old!)
@ Echo Ah… btw… if you are wondering… @ Echo us how you started every line if I am not mistaken… Can’t quite remember why now… Good job I VERY rarelly have to use DOS… hehehehhe
@ Echo great fun all in all…
I think I’ll keep the template till I get some’t that goes with the new template for Urbanvox.net by Joomla! heheheheh
Loads of news but will post later… TB’s playing on the playstation so loas of Daaaddy… can u do this or thaaaaat??? (notice puppy eyes).
Tommy is absolutely hooked on Power Rangers Time Force. Well… this is the latest crush anyways. He is a fan of all power rangers related things, but this one is going the extra mile. I have to admit it is quite hooking… the first time you’ve seen all the chapters… but round the 3rd time it has started doing my nut. You know when the Rangers finally corner the monster, gang up together and shoot the monster (right before it grows up to Godzilla proportions)? Well that’s what I feel they are doing to my brain at the moment. Tha have decided to wage war on my sanity!
But what sort of parent would I be if I retaliated fire with fire? Daddy almost always let TB get away with murder…But I say ALMOST… I am still bad cop and Vic is still the good cop of the family. FUN
Still can’t wait for full time school hours to start tho…
Talking of school, Today he has arrived specially mucky from there. Apparently they’ve been “making mess and muck with flour, paint and other things”. Tuesday he arrived covered in yellow paint, today was something I couldn’t quite identify (lol). He’s having fun, so can’t complain!
Kathia’s back to be my guinea pig! hehehe… Her internet design classes that had to be halted because of work related issues have now resumed it’s course. And we have sort of set the time for my Internet Presence Workshops to start by the end of July! yay!
Responding to Vic’s Comment: NOPE I am not talking about you when I talk about my internet helper.:P I am actually talking about Giovanna. She wants to learn how to “play” with websites so she can help up keeping the ministry ones up to date (and of course making some money out of it as well.. fair enough). Oh… and BTW… her photobook is ready and sent to the printer… not the best photos I’ve ever done but some of the pics look GREAT!
I really do hope she can make her career work. She’ll need to put a lot more into it, of course, but I hope she can do it.
I didn’t do everything I was set out to do, but all in all it was a good day!
To close up the day here comes a small review of a movei that i thought it could be better in the beginning but as the plot developed got me more and more gripped: Doomsday! Check the trailer and then keep reading.
OK, OK, I am in an apocalyptic mood lately. And in fact I think I am actually starting to believe the end of this age is near. But u gotta admit, the signs are all there! hehehe… Back to the review, I can describe the movie with one phrase: BRITS RESPONSE TO MADMAX.
10 years late and packed with HOT nude or semi-nude chicks but still on the same formula. GREAT formula tho! It worked! The last hour and a 1/2 of the movie got me glued to the sofa. If you like action packed movies this one is basically that… And the formula: Hot girls + violence + lots of blood + cars + shoot’em up + no-men’s-land + Anarchy still = REALLY worth watching!
But be prepared, it DOES appeal to the MADMAX outfit down to the figurine and hair style of the characters (the bad guys I mean… well the anarchic ones because there are some twisted medieval figures as well… kinda cool to see Emma Cleasby kicking some serious butt).
And seriously… I really didn’t know a Bentley Continental GT could do half of what the one in the film does! lol. Maybe that is why the guys from Top Gear “love it” so much. And it seriously made me consider changing my mind over Brit cars… lol.
Catch phrase of the week: “…If you are hungry, try a piece of your friend!” (huahuahua)
Restless… fidgety… And again out of energy… I need a break…
I can’t deal with pastors from all over the world at the moment… Hell… I can’t deal with myself at the moment.
And the worst bit is… I don’t know what the heck is going on!
Well… got things to do…
zya!
PS… solved Firefox’s problem… By unistalling it… Instead I am using a browser called Flock… and I am LOVING it! They call it the Social Browser… hehehe follow the link and find out why!
