Win $100-$800 in Cash at Flashmint Contest!
The festival of creativity is going to take place at Flashmint.com. We are announcing a Contest for Flashmint Blog Design to begin at August, 1st. Those of you with creative minds are welcomed to participate and Flashmint will reward the most creative and original works generously.
So, here is what we need - a custom WordPress theme for our FlashMint Blog.
It should come with the following features:
- 3 columns;
- fixed width (optimized to 1024×768 resolution) and widget support;
- coded;
- the colors and style of the theme should correspond to Flashmint design!
How it works? Just submit a zip file and a screenshot (300*300px) in the submission form below from August, 1st till September, 1st. The winner, chosen by our team, will be announced in next 2-3 days and get the prize money - $500.
But keep in mind that all other worthy designs will be showcased at Flashmint blog along with the links to their developers’ websites.
Note that if your wordpress design is not chosen as winning, you are allowed to use it for any purposes providing that there are not any graphics associated with Flashmint in it.
To make your work on design easier, we are providing you with the The PSD of Flashmint logo so that you could apply it for your future design. Download it here
Hurry up! There’s not much time left.
But this is not all! The second part of the contest is of great interest for the bloggers. Bring the largest number of visitors to our website from August, 1st till September, 1st! The prizes are $300, $200 and $100 for the bloggers who will have attracted 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.
- just add the code fragment under your latest post. Get the code here.
- Surely you can make minor changes 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”.
OR
And if you do not feel confident that your blog can attract a highly competitive number of visitors, do not hesitate to participate! ALL the other participants whose blogs will not have scored enough referrers for the first three places will get a free PR 4 backlink to their website. Good luck!
Submit Your Wordpress Design Here:
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August 1st, 2008 at 3:50 pm
So, from what I can understand, you are telling people to design & code a full WordPress skin in advance, with no certainty that they gain anything?
Seems like a very unfair deal to me.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Thanks for your comment, Gilles.
I should have mentioned that at the end of the contest we will showcase all the deserving wordpress designs at our blog along with the links to the author’s websites.
I believe it is more than fair taking into account that it is a CONTEST. Which contest holders will give you more?
August 1st, 2008 at 5:16 pm
This contest is really interesting. I will try to join to this contest. Good luck to all of us.
August 1st, 2008 at 5:18 pm
1 month is enough to design the blog, Is their 1st, 2nd and 3rd place? or its just a top winner? do you mean a whole flashmint blog? coding and designing?
August 1st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Mark!
Only top winner, there is no need to have 2nd, 3rd places if we need only one design, I’m sure you understand (as it was mentioned, we will show all the designs with the link to the designers’ websites or online profiles).
The whole flashmint blog, it is just one page design.
Yes, coding and design. But, if you do not have the one who could code the design, do not hesitate and show only the design
August 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 am
Thank you for the clarification. I will try to join this contest too.
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Maybe i’ll try this contest too, but is that fixed width required?
If I design a layout, I will not design a layout with a fixed width…
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Harmen!
What do you mean, could you please be more specific?
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Well, I would like to create a layout, but with a width of like 800 or 900 px or more. Not with a variable width that depends on the width of a browser.
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:53 pm
We’ve just updated the rules, the width should be optimized to 1024×768 screen resolution.
Feel free to ask any questions.
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Okay
I’m busy right now
August 4th, 2008 at 8:42 am
interesting way of getting a cheap high quality blog design! well done
August 4th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Thanks for your kind words, Salvatore. Are you going to participate in the contest?
August 4th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
For the second part of the contest, how are you tracking how many visitors come from which blogs?
August 4th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
We analyze the logs of the server. This way we can get the number of visitors coming from the specific blog.
August 5th, 2008 at 7:50 am
Does this logo needs to be in the design?
http://www.flashmint.com/wp/wp-includes/images/head_blog.jpg
August 5th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Yes, Harmen, the Flashmint logo is necessary. Either this or the one at Flashmint home page.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
It would be nice if you can provide us with PSD of the logo. So we can easily incorporate it with the design. Do you think that’s possible?
August 5th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Darren, it’s certainly possible. I’ve added the zip-file into the post.
August 6th, 2008 at 5:36 am
Hello Admin,
Nice to meet you.
Thank you for the great contest.
I blogged about the contest, i even made a simple contest banner.
http://contestwinner.blogspot.com/2008/08/flashmint-blog-desing-contest.html
But I have a question, how can you track that visitors came from my blog.
August 6th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Hi m.dinesh,
Thanks for joining our contest. The way we are tracking where visitors come from is analyzing the logs of our server. Feel free to ask any other questions.
August 6th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Hi! I’ve made a post about your contest on my blog:
http://aboutblogcontest.blogspot.com/2008/08/win-cash-at-flash-mint.html
Hope everything is ok.
Best
August 6th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Thanks gLf,
Everything is okay:)
August 6th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Thank you flashmint,
Did you check the banner in my blog,
If someone clicks on that banner and gets redirected here,
Is it valid?
August 6th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Blogged about your contest here:
http://blogodise.blogspot.com/2008/08/flashmint-contest.html
Hope you get a lot of participants!
August 6th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
m.dinesh,
Yes, the visitors, that you refer to us with the banner, will be counted.
August 6th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
This is ridiculous. Seriously? I find this very insulting.
August 6th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
I blog about the contest and post it in bloggeries forum..
http://blogging-plus.com/2008/08/flashmint-contest-for-creative-minds/
August 6th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Michael!
What exactly do you find ridiculous?
Ghing!
Thanks for posting…
August 6th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Thank you Admin.
Hope you get good design.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Thanks for having such a contest. Am taking part in second contest thats having a link of your contest post in my blog. I have written a post and also having a banner linking to this contest. hope you will consider the visitors from the banner also. check out at
http://cmhashim.blogspot.com/2008/08/win-100-800-in-cash-at-flashmint.html
Thanks…!
August 7th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Hash,
Thanks for joining us! Yes, we will consider ALL the visitors coming from your website. Good luck!
August 8th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Do the entries need to be posted as a template or can wee just submit a standard xhtml file?
August 9th, 2008 at 9:36 am
I have written a post on my blog here
http://worthtovisit.com/2008/08/chance-to-win-prize-money-of-100-to-800.html
and linked to contest…..
August 9th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I post about your contest on my blog, too (:
August 9th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
suree, Fatih
Good luck in the contest!
August 9th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I put it right here, then (: thanks
http://www.mesgulsinyali.com/index.php/2008/08/flashmintcom-wordpress-tema-yarismasi/
August 9th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Thanks to all of you who made the posts on your blogs.
August 10th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Thank you for conducting the contest admin,
hope you get good number of participants..
I set u my forum signature as your contest so that you get few more participants.
August 10th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
If we aren’t chosen as the winner, is it okay if we give the design for download as a free WP Theme?
August 10th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Oh, and is there an age restriction? I’m only 16. D:
August 11th, 2008 at 6:53 am
Can I say one thing about the themes?
If I’m finished with this template and I do not win, I won’t Flashmint to use my theme. So, my template has a copyright if I don’t win
Not that I won’t win *err* ^^
August 11th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Hi Brandon,
1. If you are not chosen as the winner, surely, you can give away your theme but without Flashmint logo and graphics associated with it.
2. And we do not have any age restrictions.
August 11th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Harmen, the copyright is okay.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Check your mail Flashmint ^^
August 11th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Good job, Harmen!
August 18th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Better late than never… here’s my entry.
http://www.dulcenegosyante.com/join-flashmint-contest-and-win-100-800-in-easy-cash/
August 18th, 2008 at 9:45 am
I joined the blog contest too.
August 18th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
http://iluvcontest.blogspot.com/2008/08/win-cash-flashmint.html
I blog about the contest
August 19th, 2008 at 1:30 am
You can count me in!
http://work-at-home-wealth.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/16/contests-season-episode-1-flashmint-dot-com/
August 19th, 2008 at 5:12 am
nice contest, i will submit my design soon but is it must to code the design? or can i submit the design and then will code if i win
August 19th, 2008 at 6:21 am
btw forgot to ask what if i drive the most traffic and my design wins? will give both prizes?! coz am a blogger + designer
August 19th, 2008 at 6:44 am
and here i have blogged and the contest http://www.techtreak.com/2008/08/19/design-and-win-cash-prizes-at-flashmint-contest/
August 19th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Hi Admin
Great contest,I am also in
Please tell me if everything is fine with my blog post @
http://blogcontestsinfo.blogspot.com/2008/08/participate-in-flashmint-contest-and.html
Thank you
August 19th, 2008 at 8:01 am
I’d like to wish luck to all those guys who have recently joined the contest. Many thanks!
August 19th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Abhinav,
Everything is great except for the code fragment you added into your post. The text “Flash Web Templates” should lead to http://www.flashmint.com/.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:21 am
narendra.s.v,
Okay, you can code it if you win.
And if you win both competitions among bloggers and designers, you’ll get both prizes. I wish you luck!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:51 am
wow thats cool
August 19th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
ok
where do we need to send the visitor?
is it to
http://www.flashmint.com/
or
http://www.flashmint.com/wp/ ?
if visitors come to both of your sites from my blog
would they count?
Also how many visitors came till now from top blog
August 19th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Abhinav,
You need to send visitors both to http://www.flashmint.com/ and http://www.flashmint.com/wp/. As a result, we will count the total number of visitors you’ll lead to flashmint.com and flashmint blog.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:25 am
can you give more details regarding widget support? did u want there to be a space allocated for widgets? sorry i just found the instructions very broad.
August 20th, 2008 at 5:29 am
Cool.
Blogged at:
http://www.indocontest.com/win-cash-prizes-flashmint-contest/
August 20th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Many thanks, indocontest!
August 20th, 2008 at 8:44 am
den,
Yes, there should be the space for widgets.
August 20th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
hello im here dropping by…
http://iceman9.davaobloggers.com/2008/08/18/join-the-flashmint-contest-and-win-100-800-cash-give-aways/
cheers
August 20th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
This competition is getting bigger and bigger.
Even i was the first one to post about the contest, I cant guess in which position I am.
I even included the link in forums.
Just i will hope the best.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
this is nice!
blogged - http://candyxcolors.blogspot.com/2008/08/500-flashmint.html
regards.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
My entry:
http://contests.bloggingfromscratch.com/win-100-800-in-cash-at-flashmint-contest/
August 20th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Well, although I can not “design” worth the flap…I could not skip the opportunity to enter this giveaway; so I opted for the final option wich was to add the code to the bottom of my latest post (hope this does the trick)…
This is a great opportunity for all and everyone can end up being a winner!!! And that’s always a good thing!!!!
August 21st, 2008 at 4:43 am
here’s my blog entry.
http://techiecardia.blogspot.com/2008/08/wanna-win-upto-100-800.html
August 21st, 2008 at 7:26 pm
hi
here’s mine: http://blog.makemoneyonline-x.com/2008/08/flashmintcom-win-100-800-in-cash-at.html
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:27 am
ATTENTION everybody! I have a favour to ask of everybody who has added the code fragment into their blogs. Please check out the code which you pasted.
If you have a backward link to one of these pages: http://www.flashmint.com/show-type-flash.html OR http://www.flashmint.com/show-type-flash-cms.html, please remove “/” after .html.
Thanks.
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I dint add these links because they were not specified before.
I will add them now.
August 23rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Hi,
I’ve posted about Flashmint and the contest here:
http://sharkofmirkwood.co.uk/?p=194
If I have time, I’ll make you a theme… I jsut wish I found out about this sooner
August 25th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Hello admin,
I added the other link also,
I added in the main page and also in the post also.
THankyou
August 25th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Well, I worked on it for almost 2 days straight
But finally I’ve made a theme!
Submitted it last night
Good luck everyone!
August 26th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Shark of Mirkwood,
It looks great! Tx
August 28th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
@Shark Of Mind
In what LANGUAGE and TOOLS should I have knowledge to design wordpress themes like all of you people?
Can you please reply
August 29th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Really great contest!
I’ll join it,
August 29th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Hey,
Well, I don’t know how much you already know about it…
But for all web design, you need to know HTML, and for dynamic sites, like blogs and forums, you usually need to know PHP or ASP.
I used HTML and PHP for the Wordpress theme I made.
As for tools used, you can simply use TextEdit or Notepad to edit the code, or you can use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors, like Adobe Dreamweaver (expensive) or other cheaper or even free programs.
Using these, you can see what your website looks like, and as you edit parts, you can see it change, how it should look in a browser.
Sorry, I don’t think I’m very good at explaining it :S
There are many tutorials on the Internet that you can use to help you learn to design web pages and themes for Wordpress.
I have been learning for many years, but that’s how I’ve learnt.
So I’d recommend doing some searches on Google
Hope I helped!
August 29th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Hmm, I forgot to mention CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).
They are used a lot on sites to change how the whole site looks, and contain the information on colors, sizes, styles, and much more, on your whole website…
I use them in all my website designs, and almost every website uses them.
As I said before, you can find any more information you’ll need on the Internet.
August 29th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Thank you for the reply
Shark Of Mind,
I saw your website, you have a good unique theme which is different from other themes.
I know a little bit about HTML because i learned it from tutorials. I liked it because it was very easy.
I will learn css and php from these tutorials.
Thank you for guiding.
August 29th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Post corrected!
August 29th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Thank you for your efforts in cheapening the web design industry. You make it so easy for professional designers to make a living. Maybe I should hold a contest where people make CMS templates… then I will collect everybody’s submissions and pick which one I like best! That would be great!
Then I could hold a contest to see which doctor could cure my cancer the fastest! The first one to do it gets paid! Awesome!
Oh yeah! Then I could have the gas companies supply me with gas and I will pick the one I like the best! Then I will give them a fee way lower than what it is actually work!
Is anyone else getting this?
Is this going to be censored? Probably. Oh well.
August 30th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Neal!
Maybe I’m wrong but it looks like you did not get the idea of the contest.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Haha,
Well, at least that made me laugh…
Although, that isn’t really the point of the contest…
And most of us who entered aren’t really professional web designers (not yet anyway), and we’re prepared to work for less money.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:46 am
subscribed and i have posted on my site
http://paco83.co.cc/2008/08/win-100-800-in-cash-with-flashmint-contest/
September 1st, 2008 at 1:51 am
Hmmm.. Finally the contest is over…!.So.,when are the prizes announced.. Am eager to get my Share…!
September 1st, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Yeah…
I wanna see who won the design contest lol
September 1st, 2008 at 2:48 pm
01 - 09 -2008…
September 1st, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Eager to hear
Who won the contest
September 1st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
We will announce the winner on the 2nd of September (tomorrow)
September 1st, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Hmm, any idea what sort of time?
I’ve got Work Experience in a graphics studio, and I’ll be checking this page every 2 minutes lol
Good luck to everyone anyway
May the best designer win
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:38 am
Wow,
I am waiting to see who the lucky winner is
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:23 am
Well… today it’s 02 - 09 - 2008
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:03 am
Aww…
Please don’t wait until 23:59 this evening to announce the winners
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
[…] delay. Make a blog post about this just like what I did. You may also want to check it out first here before you decide to […]
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:50 pm
LOL
Shark of Mirkwood
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Please follow this link http://www.flashmint.com/wp/2008/09/flashmint-contest-is-over/
Contest is over!
September 5th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I liked this contest… But I missed the date… Very bad…
Please tell me where I would find details of forthcoming contests…
September 8th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
What do you mean, could you please be more specific?