I’ll be the first to admit that I am easily pleased but I can not tell you how happy I am with the new site layout. I want to run around like a little child showing it to everyone!!
May I take this opportunity to say a massive public thank you to the team behind the genius that is Word Press and the equally talented people at BytesForAll.com “Thank you” 
This has been a long 24 hours but also very fun and rewarding and that is due in no small measure to you guys.
I have to give the biggest praise to God though. I didn’t get to bed until a little after 1am this morning and was up with the children by 6:15am. In less that 16 hours, He has guided me to manipulate this site’s facelift and it’s been a blast! Praise God!
Here’s to many more happy posts
Love El x
The first project Give A Brick is supporting is the building work at 
What should Give A Brick support next? If you have an exciting community project that, 
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Hi El! Great Job! I have tried to get into wordpress, but struggled with it a bit. I think its one of those things that you have to bite the bullet and cross the knowledge (and pain) threshhold.
Now how can I help? Well, I have a small network sort of Art and Blender3d related. Take a look at my youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/Roytheartist) (I must make it prettier) Some of my watercolor tut’s have had 4000 plus views in 7 months. I average 2-300 views a day across the channel.
I also have invented SimmTrace, and about to sell some on ebay. Details on http://www.simmtrace.com/ Now howabout a competition of sorts? If your readers like the idea, send you photos of views landscapes etc (their own photos) They would like turned into a watercolour, then buy a brick to cover entry, winner gets thir view drawn with SimmTrace and painted in watercolour by me. I would make a video of it being done to post as an advert for st and give-a-brick. Would this be of interest? Oh and I could blog details of the compo, and a vid to promote prior to the ‘cut off’ date. Let me know.
Roy.
Twitter: GiveABrick
August 7, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Hi Roy,
I was very, very fortunate that this time round, Word Press was a breeze. But I say ‘this time round’ because I have played with it before. This time it was with a lot more purpose and I am convinced I had help from above. I didn’t know God ‘did’ WordPress but honestly, it was really, really easy this time. I went to bed last night in something of a daze when I thought about how much had been done in so little time!
Thank you for your kind and words
And yes please, if you’d like to help like this, that would be awesome
Thank you so much!
I’ll need a little time to have a look at the vid and think about timing of a competition (any specific thoughts you have on this, please drop me an email) etc. but thank you so much for your enthusiasm and support, it means a lot.
And when you get back on Ebay, don’t forget that conversation we had in late 2007
Many thanks again and have a good weekend,
El x
Twitter: GiveABrick
August 7, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Hi again,
A thought just popped into my head: Does YouTube allow you to customize your page at all? Another ‘to do’ for this week is GAB badges for websites. When I get this done and assumming there is room for some customization on YouTube, I’ll send you a badge
Love El x
Twitter: TheDrEgg
August 9, 2009 at 9:12 pm
I rather think you can embed YouTube into your own website somehow, so it all looks joined up.
What badges?
Egg
Twitter: GiveABrick
August 10, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Hi Egg,
Thanks for the tips RE YouTube
As for badges, really we should call them ‘bricks’ shouldn’t we?! They’ll be little mini Give A Brick logos in a few different designs that people (such as Roy) can add to their website to show their support for Give A Brick. Will also help raise the profile of the charity too and that’s always good
Elx