When I was in high school, like most people of my age I used to drink a lot of beer. Please don’t take example from me (and think that if you will lead alcoholic lifestyle you will end up running a successful blog like toptut.com!), but overall I can’t remember even one Friday that passed without going to the pub and then without forgetting how I got back home.

I always had this (still do!) habit of collecting stuff from the pub, which pub owner would rather call “lifting”. All those napkins with beer brands’ names, and once, when I was completely drunk, I was even lucky to “borrow” a Corona glass that I still have with me here. But, these were the awesome high school times, now I don’t go drinking all that often and never get drunk til the point I’d actually steal something under everyone’s nose but it doesn’t mean my collection of alcohol trophies is not growing. While buying will never be as exciting (and as cheap…) as stealing, still and all there are things you can’t borrow from a pub… for example, Corona T-Shirts? I am talking about Corona just because it’s my favorite, but you can also purchase Miller t-shirts, or even Duff T-shirts and everything else in between). And not even only t-shirts, but also other merchandise with sleek and stylish design, related to beer and liquor brands. Most of the t-shirts tend to have the hot vintage design, as if they were printed and designed 50 years ago, but if you are not a fan of memorabilia, there are plenty of stylish bikini suits, flip flops and hats with well known alcohol-brands on them, all of which you can’t purchase rather cheap online.

I just bought me a nice Corona hoodie, so I can work by the computer remembering the good ol’ days..

As being an owner of a rather popular blog, I often get offers from various designers to make me a logo, a new wordpress design and other service exchange offers. Unfortunately, I am unable to get back to everyone (and I apologize for having to neglect some offers as I often just have no time to politely refuse).

But, I do think now that it’s time to make a little makeover for toptut.com! With all the bloggers switching to magazine style wp themes (even John Chow and Pro Blogger did!), why don’t we follow the wp herd? We, at Lorelei Web Design, don’t trust anyone else’s skills when it comes to doodling a new layout, so I went ahead this evening and made a sketch of future magazine-style layout for Top Tut:

What do you think? As you can see, the layout is not very complicated, and is not really a “magazine” style theme, apart from maybe the  grey column that will pull posts from the “featured” wp category. There is no need for any special fields in admin panel, no special plug ins (don’t forget I code myself as well), but I thought it could be fun to announce this request and see what other’s can offer me.

I am open for any offers, bear in mind that we can work out some deal of services-exchange, or ads space on toptut which is otherwise SOLD OUT for anyone else, in this case you will as well get a lifetime footer link with credits for your work. Needless to add that I am looking for a combination of a best coder with the best price / deal.

Please email me your offers with previous examples of your work / portfolio page, make the email title “toptut coding” and send it all to - lorelei [at] loreleiweb [dot] com until November 30th.

The “winner” with the best offer will also get a review on toptut.com (worth $150).

Good luck, and looking forward to hearing from you guys and girls!

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