The winner is Marten De Jongh, a freelance photographer/designer from The Netherlands. You’ll see his design appear on my blog mid-january.
I’d like to thank everyone who participated. You guys did an fantastic job!
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A shopping trip to New York City, a few new phones for testing purposes and a new home cinema setup. That’s probably how I would spend $30.000 ;-) I really wish I could enter an app in the Flash Lite Developer Challenge and maybe win up to $30.000 but sadly I’m not allowed to enter one as an Adobe employee ;-).
Earlier today, ScaleNine.com launched the “Skin To Win Challenge” sponsored by EffectiveUI and Adobe.
And the winner is…
Well… Picking a winner in my blog design contest was far from easy. I had multiple favorites and so I asked a few friends to help me pick the winner. We eventually narrowed it down to two and then did a final voting round.
Blog design contest: Design my blog and win CS4 Master Collection!
Last week I realized that I am not 100% happy with the blog theme I recently installed. I like it, but it’s not quite exactly what I wanted. In all honesty, I don’t really like fiddling around with CSS and HTML. I hate having to navigate around different browser implementations and therefore never really got in to CSS and HTML. I also realize that there are people out there with much better design skills than me.
Last week I asked my Twitter followers if someone would be interested in designing/building a theme for my blog in exchange for CS4 Master Collection. I also asked if they would want to participate in a contest or if I should just pick one person based on previous work. The majority of the “votes” went to an open contest and so here we are…
What am I looking for?
A nice, fresh, clean and unique theme for my blog. You would provide both the PSD files and the WordPress theme files. The code has to be 100% valid and as SEO friendly as possible. The main content area must be at least 640 pixels wide. The theme would have at least 1 widget enabled sidebar on the right.
What’s in it for you?
Eternal fame ;-) and CS4 Master Collection (a €3300 value).
Moodboard
To get you started, I put together a little moodboard that should hopefully give you an idea of what I like. I like minimalistic and clean with nice typography.
I also like these designs (or parts of it):
http://www.fontshop.be/
http://www.engadget.com/
http://www.adobeusergroup.nl/
http://www.adobeusergroupxl.nl/
http://www.8020studio.com/
http://aigany.org
http://concentric-studio.com/work/
Deadline
To spare you from doing unnecessary work, I will judge this based on the static designs. You can add a link to the design in the comment section. The designs have to be in on December 18th 2009. I will pick and announce a winner on December 21st. The winner will then create the actual WordPress theme. The final theme has to be delivered on January 15th 2010. Don’t forget: delivering the WordPress theme is part of this contest! The contest is open to anyone anywhere.
More questions?
If you have more questions, feel free to leave a comment or use the “Get in touch” form.
Looking forward to seeing your designs!
Flash Lite Developer Challenge deadline is getting closer
A shopping trip to New York City, a few new phones for testing purposes and a new home cinema setup. That’s probably how I would spend $30.000 ;-) I really wish I could enter an app in the Flash Lite Developer Challenge and maybe win up to $30.000 but sadly I’m not allowed to enter one as an Adobe employee ;-).
However, it’s not too late to enter your mobile Flash application. You have until May 31st to submit it on http://flashlitedeveloperchallenge.com.
Create a skin to win a ticket to MAX, a MacBook Air and a bundle of software
Earlier today, ScaleNine.com launched the “Skin To Win Challenge” sponsored by EffectiveUI and Adobe.
Juan Sanchez‘ website ScaleNine.com has an impressive collection of CSS skins for Flex applications. With this contest, he’s looking for new additions to this collection and the top three entries win some really cool prizes including a MacBook Air (with SSD!), tickets to MAX, CS3 Master Collection and Flex Builder.
The contest website has everything you need to get started, even if you’re completely new to Flex skinning! Andrew Shorten created a couple of tutorial videos to help you on your way to create your winning Flex skin!
I’m really looking forward to see the skins that come out of this contest. You have until October 10th to submit your entry so you better start now!
Flex contests : Win Master Collection, Flex Builder or a ticket to MAX
- Flex SEO contest: Fellow evangelist Ryan Stewart is starting a community contest to find out more about Flash/Flex SEO. Everyone can enter to win Creative Suite Master Collection, Flex Builder and other prizes. [More info]
- Help out the Flex team and win books and tickets to MAX: While the Flex team itself does work to fix bugs, they are also hard at work innovating on the next release, which means they can not fix as many bugs as they’d like. That’s why they are seeking your help [More info]
Both contests are open to anyone anywhere! And yes, that means us Europeans can also enter!
Buy any CS3 Premium and win CS3 Master Collection!
If you’re living in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom and you haven’t upgraded to CS3 yet? This may be a good excuse to do so.
If you purchase either Adobe® Creative Suite® Design Premium, Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium, Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium, or Adobe Master Collection directly from Adobe between April 21, 2008 and May 26, 2008, you will be automatically entered for a chance to win one (1) copy (100 copies available) of Adobe Master Collection software!
CS3 Master Collection is the choice for the multi-disciplinary agency. It holds everything you need for video-editing, image manipulation, print design and web design. The coolest thing about CS3 Master Collection must be the fact that it all uses one installer and one serial!
What are you waiting for? Order your CS3 now. [Official rules]
