I'm really excited to finally announce the new Logo Store. Over the past two years, I've accumulated quite the amount of logos that I've designed in my spare time. With over 50 logos to choose from, clients can now pick their logo and purchase it using the logo store order form. From there, I will input the client's company name and color scheme (if necessary). 

The pre-designed logos start at $150, which is a big break from complete custom logo design. Or, if a client wants to use the logo exclusively, they can purchase it for $300 and it will be permanently taken off the market; the logo will be theirs alone. 

In this economy, many individuals as well as businesses are not able to spare the cash for completely custom design. That is why I now offer both custom design as well as pre-designed options for both web design and logo design. Hopefully this will help with the smaller budgets most of us are facing these days. 

If you have any questions, comments or concerns please don't hesitate to let me know!

I have the great pleasure of introducing one of the many brand new features of my website: The Web Store. The store allows a user to choose from a bevy of pre-designed websites that will enable them to skip the much higher costs attributed to ordering a completely custom-designed website. 

While I was reluctant to offer such a service before, the state of the economy and demand for lower prices has changed my mind. In the end, it's been developed into something I'm really excited about, and I know clients will be excited too. 

For just $400 (rather than 2k to 3k for a custom website), I will set up their pre-designed website and make all minor changes required to it in order to fit their brand identity. Once I've finished, they'll be able to use my awesome new content management system (CMS) to add and edit their own content. If the website is three pages or under, the monthly costs for hosting and CMS are free.

The new pre-designed websites combined with the content management system empowers clients to take control of their own online image in a way that was not possible before, or as cheap. From now on I will also be including the CMS with custom web design orders, so clients never have to pay for changes again. 

Be sure to check out the features of the new CMS! And as always, your thoughts and comments are appreciated.

Two of my websites have been nominated for Website of the Year on CSS Creme. I'd love to have your votes! Here's the two websites that are nominated - take your pick, and vote for one if you have the time!

Arora Designs (view site) - Vote Here

Beautiful 2.0 (view site) - Vote Here

Beautiful 2.0 has become a much bigger hit than I had anticipated. In just two weeks, it has been awarded & featured by 23 prestigious websites. When it was launched, the Alexa rank was over 10 million - that's 10 millionth most popular website. Today, it stands at just over 800,000. At this rate, the site will reach its initial goal of 500k in a few days. The goal beyond that is to be below the 100k mark, and sustain it.

Some of the interest with Beautiful 2.0 is the fact that it is not only a css gallery, it is also a flash gallery, web 2.0 gallery and overall artistic resource. The site does not feature every excellently rendered css or flash website; it caters only to those websites that show exceptional artistic quality. It has become extremely selective, only admitting about one tenth of the submissions it receives on a daily basis.

This gives artists and designers a chance to forget about having to have a huge amount of content, being popular, mainstream or even likable to most css galleries. It gives them a chance to be noticed for the pure artistry they have achieved in their design - even if their website just so happens to be only one page.

Beautiful 2.0 doesn't look at W3C compliance, clean code or cookie cutter css. It looks at the visual communication and artistic quality of the website itself. It's a breath of fresh air to most web artists out there. On the contrary, it isn't going to be very popular with most web designers out there that follow trends or think as long as everything is correct, functional, and clean, they will be admitted to any high quality gallery. Not this gallery, sorry.

If you're interested in seeing the daily submissions, check out beautiful 2.0 or subscribe to the feed. You can also follow Beautiful 2.0 on twitter.

Thanks for all the support!

I am pleased to anounce that a project I've been working on for nearly six months (off and on) is finally complete. The name of the site is Beautiful 2.0 - it is a web design and CSS gallery that is dedicated to beautiful web 2.0 websites. It is much more "pure gallery" than many other CSS gallery websites out there. It is much more geared towards artistic sites that are extremely well designed. Most websites that are considered and placed within the gallery could be works of art you might (might) hang up on your wall.

The site features 10 website submissions per page, with access to an archive that opens up on a per-month basis. One of the things I am most proud of (sadly, nothing to be proud of for you uber developers out there) is the fact that you can search for website submissions according to color preference. So, not only do you see the latest submissions, but you can also search by date and color.

There is no rating system, as I did not want to have to explain myself or those I trust to submit websites to me. The goal of "pure gallery" was something very important to keep in mind whilst building this website. I did concede, however, to allowing comments on each submission. This should allow people to compliment, rip apart, or otherwise start a dialogue based on each submission.

Please take a look at the site - add it to your favorites, follow it on twitter (you'll see the twitter link in several places) or tell someone about it that you think might be interested or might even wish to submit a website of their own.