More and more people contact me to design them wordpress themes for their Make money online niche blogs. Quite many of them would want the design done for the price of 30-50$, but those people get a big NO as a reply.

My current fee for a custom wordpress design is 170$, you can’t say that i overcharge, i saw designs that cost 400-500$ and they can’t match the quality of my designs.

On wednesday Max Teitelbaum contacted me to design a wordpress theme for his new blog: MoneyBites.com

He supplied the icon in front of the logo and told me that he wants space for 125×12px ads, and a spot for subscriptions to his feed along with the feedburner widgets integrated.

He also specified that he wants the design to be AD-Optimised and the main colors should be silver and blue along with a web 2.0 feel.

Overview of the Logo:

The Icon was supplied by the customer, he supplied 2 versions of the icon: a silver one and a gold one. I decided to use the silver one to fit the concept of the top-part of the design.

The main font that i used is Myriad Roman Font along with the silver gradient from the web 2.0 gradient pack made by dezinerfolio and a few font style tweaks.

The main idea was to create a sleek logo that would fit the top part of the design that would blend in perfectly with the other elements.

Overview of the design:

The customer requested that i put recent posts and popular posts above the content. Said and done. I implemented the icons provided by the customer in the sidebar elements.

At the posts i used a bit green for the tags and the posted by lines to have some diversity and to not create color blindness to the visitor.

The other icons i used are the icons from FAMFAMFAM (his icons are widely used on the web and they are used by popular sites like stumbleupon also)

In the footer i put a grey bar with 40% opacity(what do you know? it turned out great) On the left part i put the golden icon of the website and on the right part the powered by wordpress line(the font is arial).

The job was completed within 48 hours(including revisions), this is the bad part of working with customers who live in a time zone far away from you. You can talk to them once, max twice a day.