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Justin just alerted me (Thanks to Google Alerts) that Nudjit.com - our gadget review blog - has been nominated for a logo award at LogoDesignLove.

The process is simple. If you dig our logo (and we hope you do) you simply comment on THIS POST nominating Nudjit as your logo of choice.

The list of blogs we are competing with is fairly esteemed, the likes of Gizmodo, Boing Boing, GigaOM and OHGizmo! are all present and accounted for.

We would absolutely love your support so head over to the LogoDesignLove blog and leave your comment in support of Nudjit!

Thanks to the LogoDesignLove bloggers for recognising Nudjit so early in the game for us.

So I have been thinking about this for a while now. Not the actual getting of the tattoo, that’s been decided, it’s going to happen. What I’ve been thinking about is how much of this whole event to publicise on my blog.

It’s tricky you see. I want input and as many brilliant minds and artists to help me out. I have started on the design and have a clear idea of what I want, where it will go and what to include. But it’s never enough.

But at the same time, putting a tattoo design on the Internet is tricky. I am not saying that the design is going to be so wonderful that it will be downloaded and copies. But I am saying that there is a chance that happens.

So my question is this; If I post it will you help?

Basically, if I post the developments of the tattoo and design on here will you give me input and do you think that there is any risk of my design being hijacked? Or am I just being paranoid?

I want your help to ink me, permanently. Collaborative online tattoo design. What do you think?

If you are a tattoo designer, know a tattoo designer or think you can help me design my newest tattoo then leave a comment on this post and I will contact you!

Apparently with mumps comes time to redesign your blog! So as of this evening you will see a new look and feel for nicharalambous.com.

Something smoother, cleaner, more generic and simple. Colour is sporadic and I have chosen to move things back to a very basic feel.

Did a bit of customisation here and there, tweaked the style.css and the images that build the theme. And what do you know, I have a new theme. I think I’ll be tweaking it more and more as things progress. But I like what it has turned in to and hope that it has become easier to read, understand and subscribe.

Let me know what you think.

Oh, one of the main reasons for the redesign is that I realised that I have only been working with Wordpress since January of this year. It’s really incredible what one can learn in eight months. I have done a boat load of template designs, redesigns and tweaks since I put the old nicharalambous.com theme. So I thought it necessary to work on my own blog since my skills are somewhat improved from the last time I did this!!

Hope you enjoy the theme, I do.

I know that many bloggers aren’t in to the whole optimization concept. Whether it be optimizing writing, appearance, communication or any other aspect of a blog. But David Airey has a blog that have not been able to get off for the last week or two.

He talks about a variety of topics in a succint and simple way that makes sense to me and clearly to others as well. I think the blog will (might) appeal to the Quirks, Cherry’s and Jo’s of the SA blogosphere as well as any blogger who is in the process of a redesign or generally looking to spruce up their template and approach to blogging.

Some featured articles that I found that have definitely helped me at SA Rocks and soon on this blog too:

5 important design aspects of any website or blog

6 tips to improve your blog articles

Top 5 essential WordPress Plugins

Are these good or bad business cards?

Some points I particularly like from articles that I have read on his blog: Link your blog posts to and from your blog posts. This will help to keep the reader on your site for as long as possible.

Clean things up. Get rid of anything unnecessary in your sidebar.

Choose a colour scheme.

I am sure that many in the SA blogosphere will glance over the blog and palm it off as useless gimicky rubbish. I don’t think so however.

If this sort of thing interests you then do yourself a favour and visit his blog. Just like most how to sites suggest, David has contacted me and thanked me for my comments. Nice touch and one that I think many of us overlook. Person to person is always best. Always.

I have recently done an overhaul on SA Rocks with the help of Vince.

Some very specific things came out of the redesign. I know that the following thoughts/tips/ideas wont be shared by everyone but this is what I learnt and think should be remembered:

1. Content is king (Cliche, i know)… always.

9. K2 is not so shit hot, make sure to choose your template/theme carefully. Ensure that you can work with the CSS and the basic theme setup.

I think that is it. I tried to get to 10, but fell short. Alas, what can one do!?

I hope this helps and I hope that everyone has some thoughts on the SA Rocks template.