The Perceptus Back Story

A couple weeks ago we delivered a PDF file that combined bingo cards designed with our custom bingo card generator and a very nicely designed background graphic that the customer had designed in-house. The final result turned out even better than we expected. We hope that the event at the university in the US that contracted the job went well.

We do one or two highly customized bingo card designs every year. They’re a nice change of pace, and often, we can re-use a little bit of programming on the live site. This time, we made a small improvement to the font size of column headers that are mixed lengths. That improvement will be pushed to the print-bingo.com site in the near future.

If you are reading this, and would like custom bingo cards to suit your own complex requirements, give us a call or email.

It’s been a while since we’ve demo’d the custom bingo card design feature of Print-Bingo.com on the blog.  So, today, we took the Oscar nominees for best lead actor, lead actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, and best picture and put them into a custom bingo card design.  If you’re hosting an Oscar party, maybe you’d like to have some bingo fun to go with it!

Here’s our design for Oscars 2011 themed bingo cards.

Based on the “Nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards” from the Oscars site: http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/83/nominees.html

Look above!  The default WordPress blue Kubrick header graphic is gone.

It was finally time to make this blog a little personalized, a little bit custom.  We actually get a couple hundred hits a day on our corporate blog – much to our disbelief.

The new header graphic?  That cute little inukshuk was one of hundreds of impromptu inukshuks built during the best Olympics ever along the south shore of False Creek in Vancouver earlier this year.

Some technical notes:

• We’re using a child theme of WordPress’s default theme, this way, we should have minimal problems updating the WordPress software in the future. This page was useful: http://op111.net/53
• For some reason the image size was wonky – our image is 760×200 pixels, but websites gave different specifications – maybe it depends on the version of WP?
• We stole the curved border from the Kubrick header image, then knocked out the middle “blue”, and saved it as a PNG with a transparent middle hole.
• The inukshuk photo was flipped, cropped, darkened, fuzzed, and generally mishandled using the GIMP image editor.
• The images were all combined in Inkscape.

If the blog traffic continues to grow, maybe we’ll do some real customizations next year.

You’ve used Print-Bingo.com software to throw your own Bingo bashes – now dress the part!  Print-Bingo.com’s Custom Bingo Ware online store carries t-shirts, mugs and even dog tees.

This “I Heart Bingo” t-shirt is classic.

This “Hands off my dauber” dog tee proves that Bingo players have a great sense of humor.

This “Bingo > Stocks” t-shirt shows off your timely, cerebral humor.  Who would argue that playing Bingo is the better investment bet these days?

More designs are posted on the online store and more will be coming!  Visit often!

Lent is already upon us, so we invite you to visit print-bingo.com if you need a quick way to generate Easter Themed Bingo Cards.

Our Easter word list is only a starting point for your custom bingo card design. You are encouraged to add or subtract words in the design to get the bingo sheets that are perfect for your needs.

Basic use of our bingo card generator is free! Those who want every bingo design feature that we have available can upgrade for only $10.  Plus, as of a few days ago, you can now generate 1000 pages of cards at a time – it used to be 200!