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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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.
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?
This contest is really interesting. I will try to join to this contest. Good luck to all of us.
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?
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
Thank you for the clarification. I will try to join this contest too.
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…
Harmen!
What do you mean, could you please be more specific?
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.
We’ve just updated the rules, the width should be optimized to 1024×768 screen resolution.
Feel free to ask any questions.
Okay
I’m busy right now
interesting way of getting a cheap high quality blog design! well done
Thanks for your kind words, Salvatore. Are you going to participate in the contest?
For the second part of the contest, how are you tracking how many visitors come from which blogs?
We analyze the logs of the server. This way we can get the number of visitors coming from the specific blog.
Does this logo needs to be in the design?
http://www.flashmint.com/wp/wp-includes/images/head_blog.jpg
Yes, Harmen, the Flashmint logo is necessary. Either this or the one at Flashmint home page.
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?
Darren, it’s certainly possible. I’ve added the zip-file into the post.
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.
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.
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
Thanks gLf,
Everything is okay:)
Thank you flashmint,
Did you check the banner in my blog,
If someone clicks on that banner and gets redirected here,
Is it valid?
Blogged about your contest here:
http://blogodise.blogspot.com/2008/08/flashmint-contest.html
Hope you get a lot of participants!
m.dinesh,
Yes, the visitors, that you refer to us with the banner, will be counted.
This is ridiculous. Seriously? I find this very insulting.
I blog about the contest and post it in bloggeries forum..
http://blogging-plus.com/2008/08/flashmint-contest-for-creative-minds/
Michael!
What exactly do you find ridiculous?
Ghing!
Thanks for posting…
Thank you Admin.
Hope you get good design.
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…!
Hash,
Thanks for joining us! Yes, we will consider ALL the visitors coming from your website. Good luck!
Do the entries need to be posted as a template or can wee just submit a standard xhtml file?
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…..
I post about your contest on my blog, too (:
suree, Fatih
Good luck in the contest!
I put it right here, then (: thanks
http://www.mesgulsinyali.com/index.php/2008/08/flashmintcom-wordpress-tema-yarismasi/
Thanks to all of you who made the posts on your blogs.
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.
If we aren’t chosen as the winner, is it okay if we give the design for download as a free WP Theme?
Oh, and is there an age restriction? I’m only 16. D:
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* ^^
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.
Harmen, the copyright is okay.
Check your mail Flashmint ^^
Good job, Harmen!
Better late than never… here’s my entry.
http://www.dulcenegosyante.com/join-flashmint-contest-and-win-100-800-in-easy-cash/
I joined the blog contest too.
http://iluvcontest.blogspot.com/2008/08/win-cash-flashmint.html
I blog about the contest
You can count me in!
http://work-at-home-wealth.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/16/contests-season-episode-1-flashmint-dot-com/