Posted on August 23, 2008 by Nate Whitehill

Today, August 22nd, 2008, is the 1-year anniversary of Unique Blog Designs. One year ago, UBD was born with the redesign of John Chow dot Com.
Fast forward one year, and we have worked with over 200 clients, including John Chow, ShoeMoney, Zac Johnson, Uber Affiliate, Fat Man Unleashed, Alex Shalman, MakeUseOf, Here.org.uk, Blog World [...]

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Nate Whitehill

I am happy to announce that my long-time friend and business partner, Matt Blancarte, has unleashed a new design for his personal blog, Matt Blancarte dot Com. I have known Matt since we were juniors in high school, so it is cool to see his new brand materialize online.
Matt has been working with UBD since [...]

Posted on May 11, 2008 by Nate Whitehill

Let me get straight to the facts:

I started my blog in January of 2007 (almost 1.5 years ago).
I started a blog design company in August of 2007 (almost 9 months ago).
Since then, I have been using a free, but highly customized theme by Ed Merritt called Ocean Mist…until now.

Welcome to Nate Whitehill dot [...]

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Nate Whitehill

It has been exactly one year now since I wrote my first post. Funny story: Vinay Menon was the first person ever to comment on one of my posts. I became friends and have kept in touch with him and his business partner, Anthony, over the past year through our mutual interest in exotic sport [...]

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Nate Whitehill

It took me 362 days, but, today, January 10, 2008, my blog finally registered over 1000 RSS subscribers, 1009 to be exact. My first blog post ever was on January 13, 2007. What can I say? It’s been an incredible journey and one that I plan to continue for as long as possible.

On August 8, [...]

Posted on January 02, 2008 by Nate Whitehill

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Nate Whitehill

Magazine-style Wordpress themes have been all the rage lately. What is a magazine-style Wordpress theme? Well, unlike a traditional 2 or 3 column Wordpress theme, a magazine style theme attempts to resemble more of a web-based magazine, instead of a traditional blog layout. Superbloggers such as ProBlogger and Emoms have embraced the magazine style layout [...]

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Nate Whitehill

Yaro Starak just posted a great video addressing the question of, “Does blog design really matter?” Yaro echos a lot of the same sentiments I have been expressing about the importance of a unique blog design.
In the video, Yaro says:
Blog design matters. Having a unique design is better than using a theme that someone else [...]

Posted on August 18, 2007 by Nate Whitehill

This is a follow-up article to my original post, “What Motivated You To Start Blogging?”
During my seven months of blogging, I have constantly been in awe of the diversity of the blogosphere. With tens of millions of blogs now in existence, there are people from all walks of life using blogging as a means to [...]

Posted on August 11, 2007 by Nate Whitehill

In today’s uber-competitive online world, people are using every tool in the book to try to improve website conversions. I am going to show you one tool I have been using that has helped me increase my newsletter signups by 136% in one week. Not only that, but this tool also helped me DOUBLE my [...]