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I’m not the most romantic husband. So Valentine’s Day doesn’t come easy for me. But last week I had an idea for a small way that I could show my love for Bethany.

I decided to create a custom wallpaper for her iPhone.

After a few unsuccessful drafts, I came up with a design that included the obligatory Valentine’s day colors and hearts. But it also included a few pictures of her and I that were located in the area of the bottom row of apps. After she went to bed, I took the liberty of loading the wallpaper and moving around her apps to make sure the images were visible.

The wallpaper can be seen below. If you’ve got a copy of Photoshop and want to tweak it for your own use, you can download the psd here.

If you end up using it, let me know in the comments. I’d love to know how it turned out.

I have a very small “side business” setting up websites/blogs and customizing templates for churches and individual. Over the years, I’ve become very fond of Joomla, a content management system (CMS) that I think works well for churches and small businesses.

A couple of years ago, I set up a site for my friend, Dug Harris. He was just launching South Loop Church and needed to promote his new church online. The site served him well, but recently, he and I were both itching for a redesign.

I built the original site by slightly customizing the Bliss template from Joomla Bamboo. You can find the old site here for a limited time (some of the links are broken now due to the update, but you can see how it looked).

The new site launched this past weekend. Of all the site’s I’ve set up with Joomla and customized, it’s by far my favorite. You can see it in the screenshot below or in full at southloopchurch.com. (To see the original template, click here.)

For examples of some of the other work I’ve done or to contact me regarding putting a site together for you, visit scottpress.com.

I realize that some people may look at this and say something like, “I could do that.” And you’re probably right! Joomla is an incredibly power and free CMS. There are plenty of great developers out there that make excellent templates for an affordable price. If you aren’t interested in having me set up a website for you, but you want to do this on your own, please consider helping me out by using my affiliate links. Before you make your purchase, just click on the ads to the right. I highly recommend these companies. Thanks!

Several years ago I put my first website together using Mambo, a Content Management System who’s project forked and resulted in the creation of Joomla. A couple of years ago, I began working with WordPress as well.

Because I enjoy working with these programs and I was looking for a way to earn a little money on the side, I created scottpress.com (a Joomla-based site). It’s a business/portfolio site of the services that I provide to individuals, churches and small businesses.

Recently, I’ve been busy working on websites for two church clients. About a week or so ago, both of those sites went live. I thought I’d share the links here.

Southwest Community Church	Northside Church
Southwest Community Church	Northside Church

If you know of anyone who needs to update their web presence. Send them to scottpress.com and I’ll get them set up with a great site powered by a powerful CMS (WordPress or Joomla) and a great template like Standard Theme or one of the ones from JoomlaBamboo.