Remember when the Revolution WP themes were free? Well, I hope you guys all took advantage of downloading those prior to it going back to premium. I think it was towards the end of 2008 where the big buzz was the fact that all the Revolution WP themes were available for download for free but the catch was you was paying for the support.

All that changed in 2009 because all those themes are back to premium and you need to pay for them. But as I was looking around, it seems that if you downloaded it already when it was free, you are still available to use it (with no support, of course).

If I am wrong, someone please let me know.

But I was bringing a friend into the online money making world and we came up with a killer idea, killer domain name that is extremely brandable, killer plan, low competition and now we’re pretty much set to get things rolling.

There have been good things and bad things while working with others on joint ventures and I’ll probably post that at some other time. I’m actually hoping to get those posts out this week.

But anyways, we decided that we would use the Revolution themes to experiment with because it would make our site look professional and we kind of wanted a setup like Crack.com where we could have plenty of different options right on the homepage.

Plus, if you guys remember when we sold ListLunatic.com, that was a Revolution theme too. So, why change success and things that work, right?

A lot of people that I know have downloaded the Revolution themes before when it was free but of course, not many of us are css and html savvy. I think a lot of people postponed even attempting to use it simply because they didn’t know how to change anything to make it custom to what they want. Well, there are plenty of useful articles that I have found to support Revolution themes for customizing but the main one you need to know is:

Set Up Your Blog with Revolution Magazine Theme

Forest is definitely knowledgable when it comes to design work with websites and I’m sure you guys remember him being part of our team that sold ListLunatic.com… matter of fact, he was the one that made that killer header for that site.

But this is your opportunity to try out the Revolution WP theme that you downloaded months and months ago when it was free.

What are you waiting for… try it out!

As you guys are aware, I was Designing Blog Headers for FREE but I had a requirement on them. Of course, I will still have the requirement except I’ll be changing one thing: I will design your blog header for your NEW blog as well!

Now before you guys all jump the gun and not fully read this post, I will still require do-follow sitewide backlinks on your blogs footer as long as you use my custom header. (I’ll send you the exact writing after you guys contact me and we work it out). We’ll get that part out of the way in the beginning because a lot of people tend to not read past the first paragraph or two. Matter of fact, some people just read the post title and try to contact me and I have to deny them.

Now the difference between this time and last time is the blog requirements. Previously, I was requesting that you guys have at least 100+ posts or if you didn’t quite have 100, you needed a Pagerank of some sort.

I felt that was pretty challenging for some and unfair as well.  I mean, people could take months to get to that point.  And I know how it feels.

This time around, I’m going to be changing that a little bit. Your blog just needs to be at least one month old but you have to have been actively updating it. Now, I’m not saying you needed to update it every single day but say you have been actively updating like 4-5 times a week since you started the blog, that’s good enough.

My main concern is you would need to prove to me in some way that you have been, and will continue to, keep the blog updated regularly.

Here are some of the new custom headers examples I have made for people:

So, feel free to contact me if you are interested. Please include your blog information (URL, the age of the blog, how many posts, etc) and what you’re looking for within your header design.

Anyways, I hope you guys take advantage of this.

Please note: I may not be able to get to everybody’s header design depending on how many people contact me. I will try to get to all of them but I cannot guarantee that.

It looks like the day I posted that I would design your blog header for free, a lot of people jumped on that opportunity and I was hit me tons of e-mails (which I’m still trying to respond to so please be patient). I just wanted to toss out a few updates because it looks like some people didn’t read the first post, and I just wanted to add a couple of things as well.

1) I will only design blog headers for free in exchange for a do-follow link or two in your footer. Someone brought this to my attention when I went to check and it was no-follow links. Well, I’m trying to build some do-follow backlinks, not necessarily getting my design work out there.

If you do not support do-follow links on your footer, unfortunately, I’ll be passing on the opportunity to design your blog header for free.

2) If your blog does not meet the requirements or if it’s brand new, you do not qualify for a free blog header. I mentioned that new blogs would not be eligible for this and I requested that people have at least 100+ posts. And if you have close to 100 but have a Google Pagerank, I would consider it.

For some reason a lot of people are proposing things to me for their brand new blogs but the whole purpose of this little project is simply to build some backlinks. And although, I may still design new blog headers for people, I can’t guarantee I’ll get to all of them.

Like I said, I’m putting those with 100+ posts first and then moving down the list.

3) Multiple blog header requests will be taken. A couple of people asked if I would design a free blog header for various websites they own and my answer was “if they meet the requirements, then YES!” So, if you have multiple blogs that have 100+ posts, Pagerank, or whatever, then I will in fact design those as well.

4) I will do adult sites and select others. In the first post, I mentioned that I did not want to design adult, illegal, hate, spam, etc type sites but I will. The only catch is the fact that they will not be my first priority and if I can’t get to it then you’ll understand why.

5) Please at least read the post before contacting me. Can you guys please read the post before contacting me? It looks like people are contacting me without bothering with skimming the post at all. I know there are tons of people out there that do that (especially for contests), they read “free” and that’s all that matters to them.

I bolded the main things you needed to know, at least look at those before contacting me.

Anyways, that’s just a quick update on getting your blog header designed for free by me. Let me know if you have additional questions and I will answer them!

Yes, you’ve read correctly, I will design your blog header absolutely free of charge! Nope, I’m not smoking anything, I’m not drunk and I’m not about to do this just for anybody.

I’m sure for those you guys that have used my services before, you obviously know what kind of designs I’m capable of doing. And if you need some examples, feel free to check out my banner designs page. But since I haven’t updated it with new designs for quite sometime, I figured I’d just post a few of the headers that I have done on here.

Header Examples:

I guess you guys can be the judge on if it’s worth it to you or not. I mean, you’re not losing much especially since you’re not paying a single dime out of your pockets.

So, what’s the catch exactly?

Ahhh… yes… the catch… right… well, there are just a couple of minor catches I do require but it’s nothing too drastic or anything so you don’t have to worry. I would require a simple do-follow link or two on the footer of your blog.

See, that’s not too bad! The links are out of the way so it’s not distracting anyone. Plus, you probably already have a link or two on your footer from your blogs designer. This is basically the same thing except there will be a link next to your blog designer’s link like “Custom Blog Header by DatMoney.com” or something on those lines.

And just as long as you continue to use my custom header, the link should stay there as well to give me credit.

I don’t foresee too many people jumping on this opportunity but in the extreme case that everyone decides to bombard me because they read “free” in the post title; I will have to put some sort of requirement and restriction.

If your blog has over 100 total posts and gets updated regularly (meaning it’s not a dead blog) then you will have first preference. And if you are close to 100+ posts but you have a Pagerank, then I will consider you as well.

I’d like to mention again that the links should be do-follow.

Oh, before I forget, please no adult, illegal, hate, spam, etc type sites!

This offer doesn’t last forever as I’ll only take requests through February 22nd, 2009.

Please contact me with your blog URL, size of the header, anything specific you want in the design, etc if you’d be interested in getting a free custom header designed by me.

Did I mention FREE?!?!

Have you ever needed a new avatar and/or a character to separate yourself from the thousands of other bloggers out there? If you didn’t know, there are tons of avatar and character creators out there that can help you in a matter of minutes.

Avatars are a good way of making you distinguished and recognized by the masses. It can even get the attention of those who may not have even known your site existed.

I’m not going to lie to you; ever since I put up the BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog widgets there have always been certain avatars that stand out more than others. For instance, as I wrote this post I saw an avatar of a female’s ass. I mean literally, a female’s ass on one of those widgets.

Normally, I’d be curious enough to click on it to see who BlogCatalog approved to have an ass as their avatar. Luckily for me, I can just move my cursor over the image and the title tag states “Sexy Celebs Celebrities”.

Eh, probably not my type of site to visit. But do you see how important it could be? I would have never known about that site if that avatar didn’t stand out like it did. I’m sure cartoon characters are just as good, especially the fact that it will be remembered by most if it’s unique.

If you are cheap (or too poor, or maybe just don’t think it’s worth it) and don’t want to spend $600 to get one professionally done for you, just make one yourself with the various free avatar and character creators on the web.

I’m sure you have seen a lot of people with personalized Simpsons or even South Park avatars before, well, you can make one as well in a matter of minutes. Just go to the South Park avatar creator page and just pick out what you want created.

I made one myself just for the hell of it and you can see it below. For the record, no it’s not one that resembles how I look, how I dress or whatever.

I made a random avatar in which the character just came back from laser tag, so he’s smokin’ while taking a break and holding up a sign on who he supports (sort of like the presidential elections). Oh, and he has a hoodie on because it’s winter time.

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