Wordpress Poker Theme Contest - $200 in 24 Hours!! Plus huge marketing for you!!

Hi! Here is the deal,

Winner gets $200 and will be written about at Purposeinc.com

My site is read by many of shoemoney's most important readers.

When I am done I will blog about how I ran the contest and how the winner was picked, and who it was. I can include your contact info as well in the post if you like.


contest starts now.
It will be over as soon as I find a theme modification I want to use.

I need this done yesterday.

I have one guy I hired on rentacoder who is now over his time, and I don't think he is going to give me what I want. (So in essence, he is in the competition too, but he's only getting $60 bucks.)

I have a very popular website, http://www.purposeinc.com

The site is for internet business guys, affiliates, marketers, etc.
It is read by the heads of many of the largest internet business companies that there are, including facebook execs, Azoogle founders, etc. etc.

The current theme on purposeinc.com is called bluepanda, which is custom, and I own.

The bluepanda theme was for my big event called thinktank.

Thinktank is now over, and it is time for a change for poker season.

I hold a poker tournament at Pubcon.

I allready have a theme custom made for the event.

The poker theme does not quite work anymore because of changes on my site.

I need the current poker theme to be modified.

It needs to be clean as shit, and look like a million bucks. Beautiful, elegant, rich, lush, like a James Bond movie

I use pics in the posts up to 600 pixels wide so the modification needs to accommodate that.

The original theme was made by Unique Blog Designs and they did a great job, and included some fantastic custom graphics.

You can use any of the graphics on any of the three themes I will give you access to.

You can also use any graphics from my entire site on this contest, as I own all of them.

YOU CAN NOT USE ANY IMAGES YOU DO NOT OWN OR HAVE COPYRIGHT PERMISSION TO USE

I AM AN ANIMAL ABOUT PROTECTING OTHERS COPYRIGHTS AND NOT USING THEM ON MY SITE WITHOUT PERMISSION

=== YOU CAN NOT USE ANY OF THESE IMAGES OR THEMES FOR ANYWHERE OUTSIDE OF THIS CONTEST THEY ARE ALL COPYRIGHTED BY ME ===

Winner gets $200 via paypal.

I will choose the first one to get this done in a way that I love!!!

Beauty, functionality, and speed are all important.

I may end the contest as soon as I see the first entry!
or I may wait a few days until I see one better.

Wow me and the contest will end.

There is currently a theme on the purposeinc.com site called bluepanda which is running at purposeinc.com

There is another theme called purposeinc-poker-2009 which is there but not installed. There are two slightly different versions of this one.

You can find all three of these themes here, http://dealotheday.com/stuff/
in the zip file.

My initial plan for the new theme was as follows:

The bluepanda theme has three columns.
I would like the purposeinc-poker-2009 theme to have the same three columns, with the same width as the blue panda theme.

I would like a similar box in the poker theme as in blue panda that currently holds the sponsors logos, (Azoogle Ads, Get Ads, and Market Leverage). This must be easily editable, as there will be more sponsors added, and sponsors changed.

The purposeinc pics should look the same as it does on the bluepanda theme currently at purposeinc.com By this I mean the gallery that is Gallery2 from this site, http://gallery.menalto.com/ I am talking about the little pics that show on the left side of the screen at purposeinc.com

If you are starting from the current poker theme, remove the become a sponsor bar on the right hand side of the poker theme. Remove the bar that is just below that with the black card.

Remove the recent reading, and recommended reading sections from the right column. Leave a section on the right column for me to put notes and links, or small images with links.

Let me know what the exact size, name and location of the image in the header is, and I will make a new one.

The right column can be made narrower if needed.

I want the whole site to be wide like the blue panda theme at purposeinc.com Most of my viewers that I care about have money, and cool, big screen computers.

Please do not PM me or e-mail me, but instead leave your questions and comments here.

The winner that is picked transfers all ownership to me.

You may not keep any of the graphics that I am providing, they are for my site only.

Feel free to submit multiple entries.

Feel free to use purchased graphics with watermarks that we will purchase and replace after contest is over. But let me know how much these would cost, and don't use anything too expensive. You may use any graphics of your own creation, or from free clipart types of sites you have access to.

Make me a beautiful theme that will work with my site!

It should scream poker, lush, hot girls, and wealth.

Feel free to take risks on this and make something wild and out there and never seen before.

Feel free to send me multiple entries.

I don't like subtle for this, but strong and fun!

If you send me a theme and I like it, but it does not work perfectly, I will post what is wrong with it here.

Rock and Rolll!!!!

dk

 

I am going to post a list of the plugins I use here in a second.

 

Currently the plugins that are active on the site are:
Akismet
Chicklet Creator
Dragon Design Form Mailer
Exclude Pages from Navigation
Flickr Photo Album (I don't think these are needed since we are not using Flickr but Gallery2 but I am not sure)
Google XML sitemaps
Interactive Video
Redirection
theme test drive
wordpress database backup
WPG2

 

If you are participating in the contest, please let me know so I have a sense of what to expect.
Also feel free to ask any questions you like, even about the design or my preferences.

 

I see the title says $200, and you put in the post winner gets 150... was the other 50 for a logo? or just a typo

 

Typo, I will try to fix it. I originally was going to do $150 then changed to $200.

 

Now it's fixed, thanks!

 

Hi, No PM's please, instead post on this forum anything you need to communicate.

 

Its a little hard to believe working ass of in 24 hours to make this wordpress theme and you have 0 iTrader?
Can you garuantee a winner and what can let us know to trust you?

 

Hi Hugo,

I have a guy working on it over at another site as well, so I can not guarantee a winner here.

I will have the site updated in the next few days because I need to.

Google me, purposeinc and you can read who I am.

or go read at http://www.purposeinc.com

I am very public and known.

 

Hi guys, for real, no PM's. You can discuss anything you want here out in the open. Anything here is fine.

 

I've got someone new working on this now at a coder site. If he gets it done, then no contest here. No one said they started here yet, so I am looking elsewhere, as I need to get it done fast....

 

i'll make something.

 

GWK, You don't need to, the second guy at rentacoder is doing a fantastic job.

Thanks though!

 

Purposeinc, Thanks for the information.
Good luck with the theme.

Regards,
Hugo