Client: Us!
Web Site: Crunchy Mustard
Designer: Lara Chelak
Content Management System: WordPress
Style: greens, aquas, strange, unique, simple
Status: Online
Project Summary:
Crunchy Mustard is a personal blog of mine and Christian's along with our friends Yurij and Ryan. This blog was launched a few months back and features a wide variety of absurd news stories and findings.

I decided on this excellent graphic from Simon Oxley because of its absurd nature and the way it fit into the theme. I put a fishbowl around it and voila: a strange blog logo (but a perfect fit!) was formed.

The aquas and greens fit together naturally; they're reminiscent of a pond scene. The blog is run strictly off WordPress with your basic features in the sidebar. These include: an about blurb with some pretty funny author photos, the top commenters for the month (along with a link back to their blogs!), your basic blogroll, search spot, category display, and meta section with RSS and login "stuff."

Our extra cool features include: a small sidebar chat room (it pops with each new message!), and a display of recent readers via mybloglog. Not found in the sidebar are these great plugins: ajax comments for the permalink pages, and a special "dofollow" feature to allow our visitor's sites to be crawled by Google!