We don't usually do this but I recently wrote a guest blog post for Inspired Mag on how to launch a successful start up with no budget.

I speak about some of our experiences and give you tips on Social Media marketing, I suggest you check it out ;)

Here is a link to the article:

How To: Successfully launch a start up with Social Media and No Budget

We'd love to hear your thoughts.

It was 10 days ago that we announced a little secret was brewing at Obox Design. At the time we only had half an idea of what we wanted to do, but as we progressed further it became clear as to what we needed to create and what was missing in the theme Market.

These days it's not just good enough to have blog, or a twitter account, or a Tumblr account, or a Posterous account.

You need all of them, and that's where we step in.

When you knock on our door and ask, 'Trick or Treat?' there can obviously be no trick... only treats!

For the next three days we will be running an incredible 3-for-1 theme special at Obox Design!

In a nutshell: You are going to have to wait till the 2nd of November.

What I can tell you is that it started with our own CMS called OCMX Live (which we have successfully ported to Wordpress) and culminated in our Wordpress theme company.

We never like standing still for too long at Obox and we love to set challenges and deadlines which are hard to achieve.

Since launching Through the Lens we have decided to start updating all our themes to have a full width page templates. I am not sure how we let this slip under the radar previously but we have now corrected the issue.

It's finally time to expose you to Through the Lens, and I promise you it has been well worth the wait. Personally I wish we could have launched it the day I designed it but Rome wasn't built in a day...

This question has been in my head for quite a while now.

I started to question myself when I stopped obsessing over detailed design and changed my focus to minimalist work.

At about this time last year I wanted to be as good as anyone with as many styles as possible. It started with creating some dynamic layouts and then skinning them with different themes, grunge, hand drawn, minimalist and so on.

The intention at the time was just to get a taste of each so that when the time came that someone wanted that style, I could produce it.

It was my belief that you had to be good at any design style to be considered a good web designer. I used to think it was a bad thing if my portfolio had a ‘samey' feel to it.

You may have noticed that every Friday for the past 3 or 4 weeks we ran a special called 'OBOXFRIDAY'. What we were doing was testing what gave us the best return in terms of sales and of course, marketing.

The results were plain to see and so we have decided to create a permanent special that I am sure many of you will appreciate.

The next Two weeks are going to be huge at Obox Design and the people who will benefit are most definitely going to be you and you and you ;)

So I thought I would whet the appetitie a bit and just give you a slight idea of what to expect.

We've been wanting to create a business styled theme since we redesigned our home page.

What I have done is taken elements from our current home page layout and applied it to ‘Briefcase', our first business theme to come out of Obox. The research was done long ago, so it was just a matter of applying it to a cool style.

Problem with that is, lately I have been obsessed with minimalist design (Press, Platform, Through the Lens). So I have decided that Briefcase will have a minimalist style as well as the more conventional colorful and detailed design.

Here are two sneak-peak screenshots of a theme which we are confident will help your conversion.

It's a beautiful day in Cape Town today, so we are feeling rather kind.

If you are a developer and have been dying to get one of our themes we are offering you a 50% discount on any Developer package that you purchase from Obox.

Simply type in the coupon code "oboxfriday" when making your purchase and all the developer packages that you selected will be discounted by 50%.

That means you can get 4 of our dev themes for only $200, or maybe 1 for $50 or 2 for $100. Or, if you really like what you see, the entire set for only $300. It's crazy value. Crazy.

Remeber, all our themes come with full support and the OCMX Live add on.

The choice is yours! Happy Friday ;)

Go wild, go shopping

Please note that this deal with run out 8.30hrs from now, so get cracking ;)

UPDATE: This offer is now closed. If you missed out then don't stress because there will be more along the way.

It's not our style to give you full previews but we couldn't wait any longer, we really want you to see this one.

This is the full preview of Through the Lense. The intention of this theme is for anyone who wants to create a cool portfolio or maybe start a new CSS Gallery. The choice is yours, you can upload video's or photo's or both in each post.

We have made a few updates to the Selecta theme, majority of the changes were in the style department but we highly recommend downloading the updated file.

Click through to see full details.

Just a quick heads up that we are running a 2 for 1 special on any Single User purchase at Obox Design.

That means you can get Press and Left Handed for only $50...

Or maybe Hash One and Platform for only $50...

It's crazy stuff, that works out to $25 for each theme.

So how do you do it?

Simple, just choose your two favourite themes and then enter in the following coupon code:

OBOXFRIDAY

Here is a direct link to Obox Themes We do this because we want all of your to sample the awesome sauce!

Today we are super excited to launch two brand new themes in the Obox Signature Series.

Both serve different purposes, one is a video blog theme and another is a news content theme.

To top it off one of these cool themes is totally free! That is correct, no cost to your whatsoever.

So lets get into them shall we?

For as long as I can remember I have always wanted to create a gallery type theme.

I know that there are already many out there but there is something about the potential design of a gallery theme that always made me want to creating one.

Last night I got some time and inspiration to have a crack at designing one and came up with 'Through the Lense', the design is still pretty rough around the edges but the concept is there and it will be released in about 2 weeks time.

We have barely mentioned the second of our two new Wordpress themes that will be coming out of Obox sometime next week.

It's called Platform and it's purely a news / high content orientated theme. Think the NewYorker.com, Portfolio.com (still one of my fav designs ever) and even CNN.com. All those type of sites were used to gain design inspiration and understanding of making a site which looks good and hold a tonne of content.

I promise that task is more difficult than it may seem, much more difficult than I thought before I started designing the site.

Today is your lucky day though, because probably for the first time ever I am showing you a full screenshot of the site. No 'sneaky previews', this is a full preview.

It took us a while, we know, but finally you can now start earning money from Obox Design through our affiliate program.

The whole system was custom built from ground up but let's cut to the chase.