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Moderator Positions

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Now that we are ready to roll out the Get Free Web Designs forum, we’re currently looking for a few people, maybe 4 or 5 to help around the site and join our support and moderation team. At the moment, the available positions are for forum moderators only. You will not be required to approve [...]

Forum Status

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Just wanted to give everyone who follows the Get Free Web Designs blog a status update for the community forum coming to GFWD. The plan was to launch our forum sometime today (Friday), which is still the plan, however there might be a slight delay, not because the forum isn’t ready, but because I’m in [...]

Design Submission Advice

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

After approving 500+ submissions on Get Free Web Designs to date and giving each designer some advice on how to get the most exposure for the design templates they submit, I figured it was time for a blog post on the subject. We are really thankful for all the support the Open Source Web Design [...]

We Have Bakies

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

Ok, after a little searching of my backups and making one small change, GFWD’s now has the bakie smiley available: :bakie: Oh how I missed tasty bakies, as I’m sure you did too. To get the bakie to show up in comments, use : bakie : but remove the spaces before and after the word [...]

Forum Release Date

Monday, September 21st, 2009

About a month ago I mentioned that a Community Forum would be coming to Get Free Web Designs but didn’t give an exact launch date: I can’t give you an exact public release date at this time, but it’s safe to say it will be within the next 30 days or less pending no snags [...]

Community Forum

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

First off, I apologize for not updating the Get Free Web Designs blog since July 18, 2009, however we’ve been keeping the design approvals moving along at a steady pace. So why the silence around the blog? Basically Aaron and I have been super busy working on various improvements behind the scenes for the site [...]

Join The GFWD Team

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

Over the past month or so Aaron and I have been hard at work behind the scenes working on our application code, HTML and CSS, basically getting things ready to launch some pretty amazing features and enhancements for Get Free Web Designs. At the moment I won’t mention any specifics of what new features are [...]

Let’s Make The Web Faster

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Doing some reading this morning, I came across the following from Google: What would be possible if browsing the web was as fast as turning the pages of a magazine? We invite you to join us in exploring and innovating across the entire spectrum of performance – from Internet protocols to the browser to website [...]

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