For Immediate Release
January 17, 2001
Media Release

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About.com Awards Site Of The Week to Big Man Creative’s ExtremeDays.com

Also… January Press Sightings

Orange County, CA – January 17, 2001 – Jean Kaiser, About.com Web Design Guide, recently recognized Big Man Creative Inc. with two awards: Site of the Week for their creation of ExtremeDays.com and Featured Designer Site for BigManCreative.com.

ExtremeDays.com was honored as the Site of the Week for the week of January 5-12, 2001 and is now available in the Site of the Week archive. Extreme Days is an extreme sports feature film forthcoming from Truth International and the producer of Return of the Jedi and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Billed as “a coming of age story set against the backdrop of an extreme sports journey”, the film stars Ryan Browning, Dante Basco, Cassidy Rae, AJ Buckley, and Derek Hamilton. Big Man Creative Inc. was also honored as Featured Designer Site on January 11, 2001. About.com’s Web Design channel is available at http://webdesign.about.com.

Also during January, Big Man Creative’s founders Scott A. Shuford and Stefan Mumaw have been featured in several publications including Workz.com, Smallbiztechnology.com, and Christian Musician magazine.

WORKZ.com is one of only three Web sites to receive top honors from Forbes.com ("Best of the Web: B2B"), inc.com ("Top Ten Small Business Web Sites"), and Fortune Small Business magazine ("Highest overall rating" for being a leader in online content). Workz.com reaches more than a half-million visitors a month and 170,000+ subscribers to their free e-mail newsletters. Mr. Shuford was selected as one of three Web Site Review panelists for January 2001. http://www.workz.com

SMALLBIZTECHNOLOGY.com provides an online resource with news and articles, helping small businesses strategically use technology to grow their businesses. The company reaches between 70,000 and 100,000 small business owners each month via their network of content partners and syndication partnership with ScreamingMedia. Big Man Creative’s Shuford and Mumaw are the focus of an interview about web design issues for small businesses. http://smallbiztechnology.com/ctrmj/websitedesign.htm.

CHRISTIAN MUSICIAN magazine is published both online and off, featuring columns and clinics, gear reviews, news, issues, album reviews and more, specifically written for musicians who are also Christians. The magazine has a print circulation of 4000+, averages over 27,000 page views per month on their site, and has more than 10,000 e-mail newsletter subscribers. The current issue features a debate on Napster-related issues organized and moderated by Mr. Shuford. http://christianmusician.com/issues_napster.html.

About Big Man Creative Inc.
Big Man Creative Inc. is a creative services firm offering print, web & multimedia design services. Current development projects include work for Del Taco, Extreme Days – The Movie, Proctor Surf, and Langenbach/Catalog Specialists. Corporate headquarters are located at 23412 Moulton Parkway, Suite 220, Laguna Hills, California, 92653. Telephone: 949-206-9806. http://www.bigmancreative.com.