The cool folks at CodeSublime approached me about offering a giveaway on MIB that could really show off there coding skills. After some brainstorming we devised a unique PSD to Wordpress Contest Giveaway. I’ve seen quite a few PSD to HTML style giveaways, but I can’t recall any that go the extra mile of offering a full Worpress Theme.
The Details
This is a awesome chance to win a fully coded Wordpress theme from just your PSD files. In total it’s a $600 value. Even, if you don’t win the big prize, everyone who submits a design will receive a 10% voucher code should they decide to get their site coded by CodeSublime.
Given that this is such a unique giveaway, we wanted to do something different than the traditional comment/tweet to win type thing. For this contest we are asking you to submit your designs to be judged by a group of five designers, with the top design getting the prize. Your site design can be for an upcoming project, or something from scratch that you think up just for this contest.
Meet The Judges
The contest will be judged by 5 awesome designers… well, 4 awesome designers + myself. Here is the list.
Kyle Steed
Kyle Steed is the clever fellow behind KyleSteed.com. He lives in Dallas, Texas and has been operating as the lead Web + Graphic Designer for WaveTwo for the past year and a half.
Grace Smith
Grace Smith is a talented blogger and designer from Northern Ireland. She specialises in Blog and User Interface design and is the owner of Postscript5.
Brian Hoff
Brian Hoff is a graphic designer from Philadelphia. He collaborates mostly on corporate identity and branding, and is experienced in building all kinds of quality, strategic design, both in print and on the web.
Tom Ross
Tom Ross is a graphic designer with 8 years of experience. He shares his passion for Photoshop on his blog, PSDFan.
Submission and Deadline Details
Please submit your designs to the PSD to Wordpress Contest Flickr Group that I’ve started just for this contest. All submissions must be in no later than January 4, 2010 to be considered. Their is no limit to the number of submissions you can make.
I can’t wait to see the designs everyone sends in. Let the contest begin!
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November 9, 2009
Awesome! I will try to submit something!
November 9, 2009
Is there a limit on the number of submissions you can have?
November 9, 2009
@Chris – Thanks for asking that, I’m gonna add that to the post. Their’s no limit on the number of submissions
November 10, 2009
Great contest Andrew!
I’m honored to including in the judging panel and will be keeping a close eye on the Flickr group for all the great submissions!
Best of luck to everyone :-)
November 10, 2009
it looks awesome, great judges. the winner is gonna be really really the best.
I’ll try to participate.
November 10, 2009
I’ll have to make time to submit a style. I hope I win
November 11, 2009
This sounds pretty awesome!
I have to mark this down to try and submit some fabulous designs :)
Muchly appreciate the opportunity !!
Blessed Light,
Aline @ArtWave
November 11, 2009
nice contest. I’ll be entering a couple pieces :)
Also, is there the ability to code a custom home page for the theme (ie: magazine style?) or is this strictly blog style layouts?
November 11, 2009
@Mike Smith – Yeah, they said they could definitely do custom styles like that.
November 11, 2009
@Mike Smith
Thanks for the great question, Mike. As Andrew said – we can certainly handle custom pages for your WordPress theme. This is the real deal. Style your theme however you’d like. We’ll take care of the coding :)
Best of luck to all!
November 12, 2009
Just wanted to wish everyone the best of luck.
November 17, 2009
This blog looks very nice!
December 2, 2009
sweet contest thanks a ton for hosting!
A few questions –
how much input will the winner have on how things are coded?
how many pages/subpages for the winning website will be coded?
thanks again, this is a rockin contest!
December 4, 2009
@Phil D – Here are the responses I got from Code Sublime… They will cap the pages at 5. As for coding input, it depends on what we’re talking about. We’re happy to work with the winner, and we always try to provide code that is semantic and logical. They will try to accommodate requests as best as possible.
December 12, 2009
I’m joining :-D!
I wish everybody good luck!
December 12, 2009
Oh, I have a question:
Will CodeSublime use @font-face? Because then I could use other fonts :-)
December 12, 2009
Oh yeah, and just a small correction:
Their is no limit to the number of submissions you can make.
should be
There is no limit to the number of submissions you can make.
Just telling ;-)
December 20, 2009
I uploaded a design but for some reason it isn’t showing up in the group. Is this an error on my part?