Write “www.FlashMint.com” at some original and unusual place or scene, take a picture of it, send it to FlashMint and get $850 in cash. Nice gift on the threshold of holidays, isn’t it?
The contest actually consists of two parts and you are free to take part in both of them or pick only one that you feel passionate about. However, let’s relate the contest parts as they take place.
Starting from today, we are launching a Christmas giveaway of $500 to anyone who will take a shot of “www.FlashMint.com” and will send it to us within one month, that is prior to December, 15.
Anyone from around the world can enter the contest with no age restrictions. We will publish all the submitted pictures at our blog allowing everyone to review the shots and to get inspiration from them. This may be anything from “www.FlashMint.com” written on your car bumber to the sign on the roof of the skyscrapper. (We are not responsible for any damage or self-injury you may get within the contest participation.)
We do not limit you in the number of photos you may send us, we will publish the best of them at our blog. However, please note that you should choose only one picture for the contest voting.
Entries must be received by Monday, December 15, 2008, at 11:59 p.m. EST. After the contest period expires (December, 15) there starts the 1 week voting.
You may also publish the picture at your website, blog, social network page and encourage anyone to support your entry and vote for it. This may be your relatives, friends or anyone you know. Besides, if you submit your shot at your own blog and send us the link, we will add 10 voting points even before the voting starts.
Interested in getting these points? Then please insert this code into your web page: Get the code here.
However please note that you may not spam or send bulk emails requesting to vote for your entry.
For this 30 day competition, please send us the high quality pictures with no Adobe Photoshop used; however, minor digital enhancement is permitted. Our Photoshop experts will easily disclose all your tricks, so this will not make sense to anyone to cheat on the contest.
Every visitor can vote for the photo he/she likes and we count the votings. However we do check votings from inside (IP of the voter, etc.) and cancel cheating votes + blacklist cheaters.
We also must have a way to contact you if you win a prize, please bear this in mind as well.
Every author sending the photo on the competition wants to hear the reference about it, so we would like to invite you to vote more actively on the website :). And, of course, your comments and notes are more than welcome. Because everybody wants to see any kind of replies about his/her work.
Any of your entries will never be used by FlashMint in any manner for advertising or sale without author’s permission. Photos must be appropriate for posting on a public website. Obscene, provocative or otherwise questionable content will not be considered. FlashMint retains sole discretion as to what constitutes inappropriate content.
So, think of the best and most genuine image and fly to the contest to get $500 in cash.
Happy competition and may the most creative one win! 
But this is not all! The second part of the contest is of great interest for the blogging community. Bring the largest number of visitors to our website from November, 17 till December, 15 and win $200, $100 or $50 for attracting the first, second, third largest number of visitors respectively.
What should you do? The rules are quite simple:
* write a blogpost about our Contest and link back to Flashmint website from your blog by adding a code fragment into the post: Get the code here.
OR
* just add the code fragment under your latest post Get the code here.
Of course you may slightly change in the text of the paragraph at your discretion, the only request is to leave the anchor texts just as they are, and the links should be “dofollow”.
Thus, if you participate in both parts of the contest, you may get $850 prior to the holidays and spend this money to whatever you like.
Do not hesitate to participate even if you do not feel confident that your blog can attract a highly competitive number of visitors! Besides, we will provide a free PR 5 backlink to all participants whose blogs will not have scored enough referrers for the first three places. Both contests results will be announced on Monday, December 22. Good luck to anyone!
P.S. Below you may see the minor sample of “www.FlashMint.com” that first crossed my mind when thinking about the contest. Enjoy and feel free to comment!
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Don’t chuck away such a chance to prosper!
Building a website is not so hard nowadays. But still there are certain little secrets and tiny ways you should follow in order to achieve the best results.
Of course there are a lot of different factors that can influence your success and it is hard to keep all them in mind. But in fact you should know only few most important secrets for your website to be a success.
So we are ready to disclose you 10 crucial points for your online presence to be an ideal.
1. An Eye-catching Design
What is attracting the visitors first is a very design of your website. It shouldn’t be irritating – neither dull nor too flashy.
The main purpose of your website’s attractive design is to keep the visitor and make him stay online for further actions. In this case even color gamut will influence user’s mood and can win his or her favor or quickly lose it.
So the first helpful hint for you is to think over your website’s design thoroughly. If you succeed at this stage you can make use of the following points.
2. Convenient Navigation
It is clear that you visit a lot of websites every day and not all of them please you while surfing. Coming to a website you want the interface to be easy and understandable, right? So let it not be a secret for you anymore – your visitors want the same.
Think about placing all the links on your website in such a way that the user won’t become irritated by not knowing where to click at. It is a significant point not to confuse the visitor of your website and thus not to make him leave and forget about its existence.
3. Proper Content
What the users like very much is a content they are promised to see on the website. You better not play with it.
Once disappointed the visitor may not come again to see whether something has changed. So make sure your website contains enough useful information to make the user interested and then your further updates will really make sense.
Don’t forget about some helpful information concerning your website operating. All the users appreciate the possibility to find the accurate answers for their questions.
4. Contact Information
It is essential some problems may arise during someone is wandering pages of your website. Perhaps not problems but specific questions for sure. Anyway you should persuade the visitor that he or she may always rely on your support.
It is not that good when a user can’t find the way to contact you. So be attentive to put all necessary contact information (e-mail address, phone number, a link leading to a special contact form etc) in such a way that the visitor can easily find and make use of it.
You should really mind that fact if you want your web presence to be evaluated not only as qualitative but also supportive and responsible one.
5. Search Option
In case your website is crammed with different information it will be very convenient for the user to find the necessary content with the help of search field. All he/she has to do is type some keywords and then check the results of the search process.
Providing the visitors with search option will let them find what they are eager to quickly and easily, and believe they will be much pleased with such possibility.
You can use either a Google Search or your Content Management System to establish a search function on your website.
6. Sign-Up Form
It is very important for the user not to spend hours in search of “Sign-up” or “Register” button.
Remember that all the necessary fields and links have to be easily found by the visitor. Otherwise you may start losing your clients as only a few will send you an e-mail asking where they should subscribe at.
Imagine what will happen when they can’t find an e-mail either, huh? So mind it.
7. Sitemap
Another useful option of your website is a sitemap which usually is of two types. One is for search engines and the other is for the very visitors.
A website map itself is a list of links leading to all the pages your website contains. So by clicking the necessary link each of the visitors may quickly get at necessary section of your online presence and enjoy his or her stay.
8. Web Browsers Compatibility
There is a number of web browsers used by the Internet users. And it is very important for your website to run properly in each of them, whether it is Internet Explorer, Firefox or other browser.
It will be better for you not to prefer only certain web browsers and avoid others. That will somehow show your respect to the potential clients if you try to make your website compatible with as many web browsers as you can.
9. Images
Building your website you of course paste a lot of images there to make your online presence look nice and eye-catching. So it is very important for all the pictures to be of the proper format – neither too large nor pixelated.
300dpi is considered to be the standard resolution for an image but in case of website creating you should choose lower one. Thus you will make an image file smaller and allow your visitors to download it quickly.
Some image editors has the “Save for webpage” option which helps you to save your picture automatically with a proper size and resolution.
10. Analytics
The last useful point concerns the very owners of the websites. Statistics and analytics function helps them to see how popular their web presence is and what aspects should be improved first of all.
With the help of statistics you can discover how do people find your website, who links to you, how many hits you have and so on. You will get useful pieces of information from the stats and be a breast of your website’s every aspect!
So make your online presence the most successful source on the web! And if needed, Flashmint will help you with this.
Hello there guys! Are you having a scary evening today? Hope, you are : )
The last day of October came and FlashMint is happy to congratulate everyone with All Saints’ Day! May you all have the most bobbish night today! We wish you guys have tones of sweets with trick-or-treating, light the brightest bonfires (but don’t burn your neighbors’ houses!), have cheerful parties and kikin’ costumes and may all scary stories be imaginary today!
Come on in and join the party. And yes… Trick or treat! ; )
It may sound unusual but in fact the color of the website template tends to be not less important than its design. Your template color gamut makes great impression on the visitor and can even make or break your site. Different colors may be associated with certain emotions and make the user feel in a special way while surfing your website.
Dividing the background color in dark, light and colored for convenience, lets discuss each of them separately.
The first thought about dark color is that it symbolizes something official and formal. It is also known to provide sense of possibility and potential. Touching the templates it can refer to Business & Finance Templates, Services Templates.
But also dark colored backgrounds may be good for portfolios and design-related websites as they generally concentrate on the content.
The other quality of dark colors is mysteriousness. And we successfully have embodied it in our Spiritual Templates which concern astrology, hypnosis and fortune telling. Quite a mystery, isn’t it?
If you want to dedicate your future website to some leisure time aspects it is better to use light or bright colors as they somehow relax the user and provide him with the corresponding positive mood.
It is said that white color contains light energy and purity. It stands for completion and means kindness. White color is always perfect for Wedding Templates.
Among colored templates there are a lot of blue, yellow, red and green tints. They are bright and joyous but what in fact do they convey?
Blue is a color of spirituality and inspiration, it can remind you of ocean or twilight which is very calming and relaxing. Our Marina & Water Templates are full with pleasant natural blue color. Besides blue color is helpful for communication and encourages feeling of peace.
Shiny yellow is full of creative and intellectual energy and tends to symbolize wisdom. Like a sunny day it brings you feeling of joy and happiness. It also clears your mind and makes you active. Our Children Templates are full of yellow tints– they are bright and cheerful, and it feels like the sun shines on you from the monitor!
If you heard that red is a color of blood and anger don’t be in a hurry to avoid it – there is another energy in it. Red is considered to be the warmest color and is associated with love and passion. Our Dating & Relations Templates are a good proof of this feature.
If you see our Flowers Templates you will definitely notice a lot of green there. And this is natural because thinking about green color one quickly imagines nature and fertility. Green is a safe color and means growth and harmony. It also contains the desire to expand and encourages new ideas.
Light or dark, bright and colorful – whichever template you need you will definitely find the solution at Flashmint.com. The whole palette for you to choose!
What color have you picked for your website?
