I created a header logo, background graphic and favicon for the brand new Christian personal finance site Genesispf.org.  I like how it turned out!

Studenomics re-designed their website and launched it within the past week. The blog is using an implementation of the Thesis Wordpress Theme, skillfully crafted by Larry at EmptyCabinMedia.com. I was brought in to put the finishing touches on a logo design, which I think turned out pretty well.

I worked with Matthew over at Discipleship Guy to come up a with a fresh new look for his brand new Thesis Themed blog.   We collaborated to come up with a cohesive header, website background, favicon and twitter background.  I think it turned out extremely well, and I love the way it looks.   Give Matthew’s new site a look, it should be interesting!

I worked with Flexo over at Consumerism Commentary to come up with a new logo for his personal finance awards site at http://plutusawards.com. We wanted something that had an iconic looking award, that would give the idea that this was an awards website. I’m happy with the way it turned out!

I worked with financial advisor Pamela Otten to create a complete web identity package. First, we created a logo to brand her identity as “The Financial Mom“. Next, we created a website background and favicon, and set up her copy of the thesis theme with some custom.css to display them correctly. Next, we created a background for her twitter page, and then created an avatar and welcome graphic for her facebook page.

I’m pretty happy with the way the complete package turned out, and I know Pamela is going to be a force to be reckoned with in the personal finance blogging world once she launches her site and presence. Good luck Pamela! Check out her different sites (twitter, facebook, website) by clicking on the screenshots below.

I created a new header graphic for my good friend Matt over at DebtFreeAdventure.com.   He recently upgraded his wordpress theme to use the Thesis Wordpress framework – a theme I highly recommend for it’s flexibility and ease of upgrades. I think his site looks awesome now!    Yes, it even looked great before the header graphic was added.

I worked with my friend Neal Frankle over at http://wealthpilgrim.com on an ebook cover and other promotional materials for his new online course called “Money School For Couples – How To Save Your Marriage And Your Money At The Same Time“.  It sounds like it’ll be a great program with online videos, workbook, excel spreadsheets and more.   It should be launching soon so stay tuned to his blog!

I’ve written quite a bit about the Thesis Wordpress Theme here on this site, mainly because I use it for all of my sites and i can vouch that it’s a great theme – with great SEO and ease of use.

In the past few months a lot of great new premium themes have been popping up that are really competing with Thesis, or in some cases even attempting to surpass it in ease of use.

One great new theme that I discovered a while back, but that has made some great strides in recent months is the Frugal Theme from Eric Hamm. I used the Frugal Theme for one of my sites back in it’s 1.0 iteration, but at the time it didn’t have half of the features that the current 3.0 version does. I’ve been extremely impressed with the wide selection of features that the 3.0 version of the theme has including great SEO options, layout settings, content management system options and a ton more. I think it really could be one of the more impressive newer premium themes options available, and I urge everyone to give it a look.

Some of the features of Frugal Theme (from their site):

• With frugal you’re giving your Wordpress website a boost in SEO with In-Post/In-Page SEO options, along with full control over the layout of your many page titles, NoIndex/NoFollow options, Canonical URLs and much more!
• frugal is built off a framework design with many different hooks to give the user plenty of room to add custom content and grow as their website’s content requires it.
• With frugal, when it comes to dimensions, you’re just a few mouse clicks and keyboard strokes away from the width of your choosing. All of the many sidebars have width control, as well as the main content column.
• Also, you’re given all kinds of layout options such as: sidebar right, sidebar left, double sidebar left, double sidebar right, double sidebar (on either side of the content) and no sidebar. And that’s just the main content area…
• Your CMS Page Templates have their own set of sidebars that give you both layout (left sidebar, right sidebar, double sidebar and no sidebar) and sidebar widths.
• And don’t forget your Static Homepage. If activated it gives you TONS of layout options to effectively feature your content. More on that further down the list…
• Gives You Full Control Over The Design Of Your Website With NO CODING NECESSARY:cc_font_options
• Continuing with the NO CODING mantra, frugal allows almost every aspect of adjustment for your fonts; all from your frugal Theme Options area. We’re talking FONT: type, size, color, link color, link hover color, weight, alignment, line-height and letter-spacing. Now that’s what I call FULL CONTROL!!
• frugal offers a WIDE ARRAY of CMS (content management system) options and page templates that give you all the flexibility you need to grow with your Wordpress website.
• You’ll not only find a robust static homepage option to showcase your featured content, but you’ll enjoy the benefits of the multiple CMS Page Templates that house their very own sidebars and layout options.
• With the Static Homepage you can activate and customize a page that takes the homepage of your Wordpress Website far beyond the latest posts or a simple static page. You’re given the ability to showcase latest posts, specified posts or posts by categories. Also show case a specific page and add content to many of the different homepage widgets. It even gets its very own sidebar!
• With frugal you can either choose to stick with the stock text logo, add your own image logo or even turn your header area into a custom hook to hook a fully custom header into its place. And with these options comes the ability to easily adjust fonts (and you know I’m not talking just font type) margins, padding, width, height, etc…

Check out this video giving some details of the theme, I think you’ll be impressed.

So those are just a few of the options of the Frugal Wordpress Theme. Find out more details at the Frugal Theme Website:

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Created another Thesis theme header for Marelisa over at the Abundance Blog.  I’m really happy with the way this one turned out!

I did some work for a group that I’m involved with, the Minnesota Christian Ashram. I did a whole website package for the group including setting up a website/blog based on wordpress, setting up thesis wordpress theme for the site to run on, and then customizing the site background, favicon and doing a custom header.

After the site was setup I also created a custom facebook page for the group that included several custom graphics. All in all I think it turned out extremely well.