Ever since I got my own domain, bossming.com, I’ve been using one of those standard and rather dreary templates.

Super uncool for the co-founder of a Blog Advertising Community servicing over 85,000 blogs!

Back from Australia after my roadshow, and fresh with inspiration (Blogs there are soo beautiful, like eatshowandtell.com, by my friends teresa, howard and linda), I thought to myself, I need one of thoseeee!!!

Whilst I could have bothered the nuffies to get it done, I decided not to, as they are all so cooped up with more important work, so I hired a freelance designer to get it done.

That freelance designer is Lionel from Nitrodesigns. Definitely a good dude, and as you can see from this blog, very proficient in what he does!

When Lionel gets a task like this, he really gets stuck in it. Asking me questions about myself, digging deeper for information and so on.

The results, as you can see, reflects his dedication to the task.

For example, check out the thoughtful logo he had designed. On top of the I, instead of putting a dot, he put in the chinese character of my name, and at the end of it, there are three “shout lines”, just like the nuffnang logo! Cool eh.

Moving around to the header, he used a caricature which Wealth Magazine comissioned (And I subsequently bought over), which I love, and incorporated sketches of a living room. This is very apt I feel, as through my blog, I’m inviting you in to have a chat and dialogue with me.

Plus, I specifically instructed him to put the twitter widget on the side bar. He took it a step further and put it as a speech bubble, integrating it seamlessly into the setting.

Lastly, if you scroll down to the footer, you’ll see a landscape. In it, you’ll see a plane, a squash player, and photographer, representing my hobbies, and the things I do.

Cooler yet, you see that blue tinge?

Its there because its 1630 in the afternoon, at dusk, it will turn to an orangey colour!

A fresh blog template! I’m ready to roll!