I’m probably different from most people as I have been looking forward to this long weekend because of the amount of time I would have to get a lot of work done. There were a lot of projects on the plate, but there were two projects that were very important to me.
Hopefully by now, you can you see that MrGaryLee.com has been updated and upgraded with the latest design from Unique Blog Designs. I was thinking about creating a logo similar to BCMBlog.com, but after some discussion with some friends, I thought the eyes were one of my recognizable images, so I decided to keep it for now. If you want to know what the inspiration for the new design, you can just look back at the Blog World Expo posts and you probably can tell why I wanted to step up my game and get serious about blogging, starting with my design.
PinkDeals v2.0 - Next, Danielle and I finally launched the new PinkDeals.net after receiving the newly designed template from Nate Whitehill and his crew at Unique Blog Designs last weekend. I came back from my Thanksgiving Dinner and once I saw the amount of traffic the original PinkDeals was receiving, I wanted to get the new PinkDeals up and running as soon as possible, so I stayed up til 3am working on transferring the appropriate files to the PinkDeals server to get it up and running for Black Friday. Once it was launched, we saw some great improvements in some key metrics of the site - i.e. Percentage of Direct Traffic, Bounce Rate, and Page Views per Visitor! Black Friday turned into one of the highest traffic days Pink Deals has ever experienced. It goes to show how much design can influence the amount of total traffic your site can receive. Thanks again to the crew at UBD for putting up a great product and also providing us with the help necessary to get all our plugins working correctly. We’re looking forward to the upcoming holiday season and if you could do us a favor, just spread the word to your lady friends out there and just let them know about the new Women’s Deals Site called Pink Deals dot net!
So, what do you think of the new designs? I know there are going to be some tweaking that I will have to do, but let’s hear what you have to say!
By the way, if you’re serious about blogging, what are you waiting for? Contact the crew that designed blogs for Shoemoney, John Chow, Darin Carter and Greg Morgan (just to name a few) - Unique Blog Designs!
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I like the new design. It’s clean and easy to read. Congrats to the people at Unique Blog Designs for putting together another winning theme.
It might just be time to invest in a redesign myself …
Jason . . you hit the nail on the head . . . “invest” is the perfect word to describe what you’ll be doing . . .
Nice theme Gary.
The Unique Blog Design guys are doing some great work, just wish they supported other platforms other than Wordpress - ie; Blogger.com
Cheers,
Adam
actually . . . i talked to Nate and he said they are going to be opening up their themes for other platforms, so you should definitely go ahead and ask them to help you out. Let me know how it goes . .
Great design, kudos Gary.
I visited also the Pink deals blog, man it looks an awesome idea.
I wonder how do you get the deals.
I have an Italian blog and I would like to start a new blog like Pink deals in Italian but I do not know where to get the deals from :)!
Let me know, email me if you want!
Thanks
Francesco
I get these deals from affiliate sites like commission junction and linkshare . . . feel free to contact me if you need help setting it up . .
Looks amazing Gary! The lads at UBD did a fantastic job.
Thanks Dave . . . i really can’t take that much credit since it was Nate’s design and their new coder Chris who did all the work . . . i was thinking about modeling my site after your blog too . . . .
Looking good boss, i better see you online tomo, sorry your football games and deals on electronics have distracted me, i am weak, oh so weak!
yes . . our games and deals can do that to you . . . just imagine what our women can do!
The site looks fantastic! Good job indeed!
Sweet theme dude!
Looks good!
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