Friday, September 25, 2009

Blackened Out Needs Your Help!

Readers, you have stuck with us through thick and thin. You have watched us grow - more of the former than the later. And we love you, in a totally creepy way. Your comments have been always appreciated. The leads on Mexican restaurants have proved invaluable. And you have even helped Peter with his Asian fetish.

And so now we turn to you. Again this "blog" was started as a joke. We never thought it would last or lead to random interviews with real food journalists. Following a furious round of multiple intense boardroom meetings between Peter and I (read here: GChat, once), a decision has been made to start moving away from a blogspot and into the big time on the world wide web.

Here is the problem: Peter and I know how to find porn on the internet and that is about it. So anyone with internet hacking skills, web making skills, graphic design skills, nunchaku skills, or just skills, please contact us. Since we don't make much money on this, cash money would be limited, but available.

However, in this time of economic crisis we firmly believe the barter system is due for a comeback. So we are prepared to offer the following perks in exchange for services. Lunch or dinner for you and a guest on us. Having a party? How about we cook for you. Want a free subscription to Appetites, hell we will even introduce you to the scoundrel behind that site. A trip to Bud's Broiler on Clearview at 2 am with the Pope to scarf down arterial damaging cuisine? Well you may have to sign a waiver or something, but sure.

We literally know nothing about webpaging. So any help is appreciated. You make the offer, we will tell everyone how cool you are via this here spot on the internet, and everyone wins. Well, everyone except the Eagles, they suck. Help us, please.

Great line up next week - Rene's wrap up of Mexican eateries in the area, Peter interviews James Beard after running into him at a Big Lebowski costume party, and we end the week with a whimper.

Thanks,
Management

9 comments:

Robert said...

I just asked a friend who works at LaunchPad to recommend someone for my website, and he seemed to think there were a bunch of folks there who could help me out. I'll put you in touch with whomever he recommends.

Jeff Richardson said...

I've been very happy with TypePad. Register a domain through a service like Go Daddy and TypePad will host your website for either $9 or $15 a month depending upon how much you want to customize the site. There are great and easy-to-use tools for editing posts, including pictures, etc.

Keep up the great writing, and I look forward to Blackened Out 2.0!

-Jeff

CoastingThroughTheSouth said...

I use squarespace for my blog ( http://seersuckerandsazeracs.com ), and love it. I highly reccomend it.

Celeste said...

Count me as a wordpress fan. You can use your own domain name, if you want to, and still not have to worry about the techie side of things. Customizable themes, lots of widgets, etc.

2 Hungry Hippos said...

I recommend Designs by Kristy (www.designsbykristy.net). She does custom blog designs and blog sites that look like normal websites & have their own web address, but use blogspot behind the scenes, so it's easy for you to update. She just did our blog that we started for fun to review restaurants (& some recipes) on the Northshore and Southshore - www.2hungryhippos.blogspot.com. Reasonable prices, too.

Rene said...

Thanks for all the tips. We just found out that the domain name we wanted (twocoolestdudesever.com) is taken and that blackenedout.com was cybersquatted by some punk named Coons.

New website drops as the kids say soon.

Superdeformed said...

I agree with Ryan and Leo Leporte, square space seems like a good solution. I demoed it it it was pretty tech-idiot friendly and it can import blogger pretty good I hear.

CoastingThroughTheSouth said...

The fact that it could import from blogger had alot to do with my selection, but not everything. it really is a slick platform. Keep up the brain stormin' for domain name ideas. I got mine with the help of twitter. I threw out my ideas, and someone helped me improve it to come up with seersuckerandsazeracs.com

Anonymous said...

Hey Blackened Out! Ya'll rock and I'd love to help you out. I studied Producing film in school and a lot the same principals apply to webpages in terms of branding and advertising, title creation, internet networking, and image design. For a lunch I'd be happy to brainstorm with you and work on a logo design if you'd like. Send me an e-mail at sarahkayestevens@hotmail.com and I'd be happy to help however I can just to be a part of Blackened Out