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So, DATE, and we are proud to announce the end of the contest and very pleased to have received so much attention to our event. Of course, everyone is interested in who is the winner. Here it is, the wordpress theme designed by Robert Schultheiss: 
Except for it, we have received FIVE designs more. Though they are not winning, but nevertheless, we found them really appealing. Designed by Harmen Stoppels, it was the first theme which we received: 
Connor Leigh-Smith from Sharkofmirkwood 
Narendra S.V. from TechTreak 
GoBlogging.net 
Fikri Wirawan 
As the received themes are not our property, these authors can use them for any puproses they want, but without any graphics associated with Flashmint. And if you want And now, let me come up to the part which is not less interesting - the contest for bloggers.
According to our statistics, the first largest number of visitors to us was brought by http://work-at-home-wealth.com/, the second largest number - by http://www.dulcenegosyante.com/ and the third - by http://www.contestwinner.blogspot.com/. All the winners, please send your PayPal details to flashmint.contest-at-gmail dot com. The payment will be issued within 24 hours.
Others who took part in the contest, don’t worry as we keep our words. Please, find a backlink to your websites HERE. If we have forgotten to mention you, please, don’t be angry with us. A lot of bloggers have taken part in the contest and we did our best to reward all of them. Just write to the following address - flashmint.contest-at-gmail dot com and we’ll add you to the list. Please note that we offered PR4 link back but in result you will get PR5 backlink 
Thanks all. Waiting for the new contest 
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Flashmint.com are proud to present the new product – Business Flash CMS templates. They are exceptional among what is offered to small and medium size companies in terms of their usability and pricing. This combination of features makes them a perfect tool for creating a business website.
The key feature of Business CMS templates is their User Control Panel. Due to it you do need no additional software to modify a flash template. Within one hour a user without programming background can do the following:
- change the company name, slogan, logo, background, texts, copyright;
- change the colors of the menu, copyright, company name and slogan;
- upload the sound track in MP3 format.
This is how the user control panel looks:
You can add, delete and edit web pages by means of the page wizard. View the screenshots of steps 1-3:
The interface for editing pages looks like this:
Here is what a user can easily do with the created pages:
- edit a menu title;
- edit all the texts due to the built-in text editor;
- add, edit, delete blocks and change their order;
- edit contact form fields;
- update the news feed
And the last, but not the least, feature of Business CMS templates is their competitive prices. The highest price is currently only $80. So, all this makes Business CMS templates the most cost-saving and the quickest tool for creating a small or a medium-sized business website.
More information on Business CMS templates is available here
And here is how the newly launched Business CMS templates look like:
Consulting Flash CMS Template 2220
Business Group Flash CMS Template 2219
Insurance Business Flash CMS Template 2218
Trade Company CMS Flash Template 2217
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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1. Could you explain to people who don’t know, what Xpellshop is?
At first there only was Xpell.com, a very nice website, coded in Swish with 3D animations. It caused a sensation and we got many awards for our website. After that we started creating further websites and then we decided to sell them as templates. In such a way Xpellshop.com was born in 2003.
Xpellshop offers Swish and Flash templates maintaining the highest standards of quality. We specialize in code and design of Swish templates because Swish is much cheaper than Flash and offers the same opportunities to create multimedia websites with nice effects. Our customers are mostly web designers who order our Swish templates, modify and sell them to their customers. It is really fast to buy a professional design and only make some changes in the content.
2. What was your motivation for starting Xpellshop? What was it like in the beginning?
Customers, who want to have very nice individual Flash websites, have to pay really much money. Our idea was to offer them much cheaper. To sell one design for $3500 is not so easy. But to sell a very nice design 10 - 50 times is more likely.
3. What are the core principles you use in your daily work?
It is important to work reliably and create a design that identifies the topic of the template. I also try to code the templates simply, so that customers can modify them very fast. And I make video tutorials to show them how to customize them.
When I create a Swish template, the most of work takes up the design. I try many different colors and positions and only when I see “that’s the perfect design for this topic” I start working and code the template. While coding, I start realizing how to animate it. That’s a growing process and at the end there is a (hopefully) nice template.
The yellow color has come into fashion not only in clothes but also in web sites. Discover the top ten most “fashionable” yellow sites of the season.
The soft yellow color of this site will warm your sight and make you … wonder what it’s all about. This is actually the site from a photographer Joe Grisham. Take a look. Apart from being color yellow the site is very trendy from the point of view of web design.
Men with yellow faces and without eyes, noses, lips… This is what you get if your website is not compelling, according to this design studio. So, yellow is not only a bright color, it is also a color of blank.
The same idea of yellow emptiness is conveyed the next site, but this time it is applied to a non-living object, such us space around us.
