$175 *Wordpress Theme Design Contest* Examples Inside - Also Bonus Opportunity!

Blogsip - holy sh**!

Do you have a mind-reading device? It's almost exactly what I want! Very, very nice work.

Would I be able to move the sponsors box under the "get reviewed" box?

Folks, I'll give the rest of the participants a little while to adjust their entries, but it looks like a winner will be called soon.

 

This is a small update:

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/876/002fm6.jpg

As you can see I had already made the navigation wide enough for the ads, I just hadn't placed them. That's why I had the "Main Header" on top that went across, so you can fill it in with any information that couldn't be fit within the 2 sidebars.

I also added in the 3 rows below the header and am now working on the changing the colors, logo, and adding buttons. The top 3 rows only fit 7 lines of text (that way it would look cleaner and easier to read) so let me know if you want it to be longer since the background image won't stretch.

I'm trying to stay away from the initial image of John Chow's site since to me personally it looks like any other site I've seen (and rather plain). There's no originality (to me) in trying to make it look like another person's site.

I should be done in a couple of hours, give or take. =)

 

Thanks for the compliment. You will be able to order the sidebar boxes any order you want and add more sidebar boxes if you want.

 

Blogsip - I'm loving the concept so much.

The only thing I'm not sold on is the color scheme...I'm not a huge fan of orange, green, and blue in the same general area.

Could you preview me a couple different schemes? Like blue and gree, or blue and orange, silver and blue...combos like that. Thanks!!!

 

Blue and Green

Blue and Orange

Blue and Silver

 

Alright, here's the finished theme. This is the top part:

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8463/002ac5.jpg

And this is the commenting page with the bottom half (footer):

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/8492/003lj8.jpg

 

Wow!

First, let me say - great entries! It came down to Moonlight and Blogsip. The other couple of people who said they were in never posted any previews or contacted me with questions, so I guess they gave up.

Anyway, this was tough, to say the least. Two different designers, with two different styles.

Moonlight - the updated theme is a major improvement to my tastes. Looks 50x better than the green. Very nice work!

Blogsip - Like I said before, you must have read my mind - especially with the updated color combos. I think I like the blue and orange the best, as that is the color my blog originally started with, and I'm going to stay true to those colors. My readers would definitely appreciate that.

After staring until my eyes bled - I'm going announce that the winner is:

Blogsip!

Pending transfer and completion, this contest is closed. Thanks guys, I really appreciate your hard work. I wish I could pick more than one winner, but that's the nature of the beast.

Best of luck Moonlight, I hope you are at least able to market that theme in all of the popular spots, I think it will go over very well!!

 

Thank you shamus! It was a fun contest while it lasted.

Congratulations on winning Blogsip! The color combinations are really nice too. I especially like the blue/gray with that 2.0 silver badge! =)

 

Thanks, it was fun.

 

Congrats Blogsip. Amazing design.