Bento Blog Search & design contest
Posted By Biggie On December 23, 2008 @ 10:15 am In admin, giveaway | 14 Comments
After playing with the cool [1] Food Blog Search and [2] Veg Blog Search engines to search thousands of food blogs, I got to thinking. Why don’t the bento and packed lunch blogs have a similar search engine that brings up results only from our lunch blogs? So I’ve started to pull one together, including about 100 bento blogs on my [3] Lunch Links page (still adding blogs in multiple languages).
It’s still a work in progress and I’m putting together a standalone web page for it in addition to [4] the basic Google custom search page, If you’ve personalized your Google homepage, you can add a Bento Blog Search gadget to your homepage. All you have to do is click on this button:
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I do have a favor to ask in the meantime. I’m not the most artistic person around, but will need graphics for the header and search widget logos (see the [6] Food Blog Search widgets and [7] Veg Blog Search widget for examples). Are you graphics-minded? Here’s your chance to leave a lasting impression on the bento blogging community!
If this is up your alley, design a header and search widget logo and e-mail them to me at bentoblogsearch (AT} gmail {DOT) com by Friday, January 16, 2009. If I wind up choosing your design for the bento blog search tool, I’ll send you a bento box gift bag with [8] Skater bento box gear like those I’m offering for the Menu for Hope hunger charity and credit you on the Bento Blog Search website.
By the way, there are two days left on this year’s [9] Menu for Hope raffle, which ends on December 24, 2008. Odds of winning the Pokemon bento box set are currently about three times better than winning the Hello Kitty bento set, so it’s something to keep in mind. All proceeds go to the [10] United Nations World Food Programme, the world’s largest food aid agency. Specifically, this year’s donations will benefit the [11] school lunch program in Lesotho, Africa.
FURTHER READING:
- [12] Shopping guide for bento gear in the San Francisco Bay Area
- [13] Online store list for bento gear, and the international [14] Bento Store Locator with Google Maps
- [15] Bento recipes on Lunch in a Box
- [16] Bento FAQ and [17] Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and reviews
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URL to article: http://lunchinabox.net/2008/12/23/bento-blog-search-design-contest/
URLs in this post:
[1] Food Blog Search: http://foodblogsearch.com/
[2] Veg Blog Search: http://vegblogsearch.com/
[3] Lunch Links page: http://lunchinabox.net/links/
[4] the basic Google custom search page: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=partner-pub-9554220559859106:z7y8rgp5buw&hl=en_US
[5] Image: http://www.google.com/ig/adde?hl=en&moduleurl=www.google.com/coop/api/partner-pub-95542205598591
06/cse/z7y8rgp5buw/gadget
[6] Food Blog Search widgets: http://foodblogsearch.com/add-search-bar.php
[7] Veg Blog Search widget: http://vegblogsearch.com/widget.htm
[8] Skater bento box gear like those I’m offering for the Menu for Hope hunger charity: http://lunchinabox.net/2008/12/15/bento-prizes-on-menu-for-hope-5/
[9] Menu for Hope raffle: http://www.chezpim.com/blogs/2008/12/menu-for-hope-2.html
[10] United Nations World Food Programme: http://www.wfp.org/english/
[11] school lunch program in Lesotho, Africa: http://www.chezpim.com/blogs/2008/12/menu-for-hope-v.html
[12] Shopping guide for bento gear in the San Francisco Bay Area: http://lunchinabox.net../2007/04/09/award-nomination-sf-bay-area-shopping-guide/
[13] Online store list for bento gear: http://lunchinabox.net../2008/12/15/2008/06/09/online-stores-for-bento-gear/
[14] Bento Store Locator: http://lunchinabox.net../bento-store-locator/
[15] Bento recipes on Lunch in a Box : http://lunchinabox.net../recipes/
[16] Bento FAQ: http://lunchinabox.net../2008/12/15/2008/12/10/2008/12/09/2008/11/10/2008/10/27/2008/10/17/2008/10/1
5/faq
[17] Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and reviews: http://lunchinabox.net../2008/12/15/2008/12/10/2008/12/09/2008/11/10/2008/10/27/2008/10/17/2008/10/1
5/top-tips/
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