Alright, as you all know about my Pimp my Blog Program, in which I am offering a free custom wordpress design to my email subscribers. The winner will be picked by random drawing. Before I launched the contest, I had it in my mind and decided to begin with Simon Emery’s Blog.

A little about Simon - Simon is a one man team behind one of the coolest plugins for wordpress. OIO Publisher. I liked his plugin so much that I decided to reward him for his work through this. As I mentioned that the winner was picked by me before I started the contest.

Simon’s blog was running on a customized version of a free theme called The Morning After. I took his blog and with the help of Uzzz Crew, the site is now officially Pimped! Check it out.

Quote from Simon Emery:

It was great to be chosen as the first recipient of the “Pimp My Blog”
makeover, and I’m extremely pleased with the results! I’d always wanted to try
out a dark theme, and Syed definitely pulled it off with flying colours. The
design is clean, fast-loading, standards compliant, and most importantly
unique. There’s no under-estimating the importance of having a quality unique
design, both for visitors, and to inspire yourself.

If you’re looking for something to give your blog that extra kick, then I’d
definitely recommend checking out Pimp My Blog.

Thanks,
Simon

Simon asked for a custom homepage in his wish list and a dark design with a wall. I made sure that his wishes were fulfilled. I made a custom design with a brand new logo, and fulfilled all his wishes and added a wall. Wall of Ideas is the wall that is below the About text. The blog have the officially Pimped Logo in the footer.

I have compiled a video of the development process which I made as I was developing. Which will give you everything in details.

Now Don’t miss out on the great opportunity. Do you have a wordpress blog that needs a better look? Well you better subscribe to my blog via email. Use that same email to post comments on the blog. Each comment will get you an entry in the random generator. The winner will be picked once every month. Simon was the winner of March 2008.

Another advantage of this would be a backlink from the pimp my blog program page, as I will add the thumbnails there for people to see your site.