We have the next all new Psdtuts+ Design Contest to kick off this month. We’re partnering with ThemeForest for this one. Give us your best portfolio themed blog design. The winning entries will then be converted into WordPress themes, sold on ThemeForest and YOU get the earnings!
Up for grabs are numerous cash prizes, video game consoles, and 1-year memberships to Psd Plus. This is going to be a great contest! Learn all about the contest and how to enter at the jump!
Congratulations to the Winners!
These are the preliminary results. Finalizing the winners is contingent upon review and approval of final PSD source files. Once the files are approved and the designs are coded by Html Rockstars we’ll be posting news of the finalized themes. Thanks to everyone who entered!
- First place: Ivorpad with the winning entry.
- Second place: efingo with the winning entry.
- Third place: lijuen with the winning entry.
About the Contest
This is a joint contest with ThemeForest, which is quickly becoming the premier location to purchase or sell site themes and designs. Submit your best portfolio-style WordPress theme design. Wow us with your talent and creativity!
To enter, design a portfolio theme in Photoshop, and if selected, we’ll get our friends HTMLRockstars to convert it to a valid WordPress theme. In addition to the prizes up for grabs, you’ll also benefit by earning from 40-70% of each sale on ThemeForest!
Keep in mind you could design the most elaborate portfolio in the world, but if it isn’t practical and usable, nobody will buy it. Work on making a highly usable design that also stands out creatively, which will lead to success. Here are some examples of some great, and high-selling, portfolio themes that have a professional design:
Read on to find out more about Judging Criteria, How to Enter, Prizes, Terms & Conditions, and learn about our Sponsors. Entries are open between now and the September 28th. So, get your entries in before the end of September 28th, 2009 Eastern Standard Time. Get creative with this contest and have some fun!
Contest Judging
We will be judging this contest based on a few criteria:
- Practicality and professionalism of design.
- Originality and artistic direction.
- Attention to detail and level of pixel perfection.
- Adherence to the Terms & Conditions of the contest.
How to Enter
To enter the competition, contestants must submit any number of portfolio site designs into the Psdtuts Flickr Group. Be sure to utilize the following directions:
- Submit your design via the Psdtuts Flickr Group, tagged with “portfoliowp.”
- Submit a JPG image that is the size of your PSD file.
- Include in the description of your Flickr entry any stock or source images you have used including URLs to those images.
- You must be able to provide us with a copy of the PSD file if you win.
Prizes
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First Place Prizes:
Xbox 360 Elite Package (120GB) + Extra Wireless Controller + One Xbox 360 game of your choice or USD $400, you choose (cash only if outside US or UK)
1 year Plus membership (valued at $180)
$100 to spend on ThemeForest
Your winning design built into a WordPress portfolio by HTMLRockstars and submitted for sale on ThemeForest, with all account earnings going to you
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Second Place Prizes:
Sony PSP 3000 core pack + One PSP game of your choice or USD $200, you choose (cash only if outside US or UK)
1 year Plus membership (valued at $180)
$75 to spend on ThemeForest
Your winning design built into a WordPress portfolio by HTMLRockstars and submitted for sale on ThemeForest, with all account earnings going to you
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Third Place Prizes:
Nintendo DS Lite or USD $130, you choose (cash only if outside US or UK)
1 year Plus membership (valued at $180)
$50 to spend on ThemeForest
Your winning design built into a WordPress portfolio by HTMLRockstars and submitted for sale on ThemeForest, with all account earnings going to you
Terms & Conditions
- Entries must be submitted to the Psdtuts Flickr Group pool before midnight September 28th, Eastern Standard Time.
- Entries into the competition must be entirely your work. If you use stock images in the composition, you must have an appropriate license to use the image and place a link to the image used in the description of your item within the Psdtuts Flickr group.
- Plus memberships will be issued from the date of notification of the winners. They are not redeemable for cash.
- ThemeForest credit will be issued to a username provided by the winners. This prize is not redeemable for cash and can only be spent on those sites.
- Judging of the winners will be done by the editor and writing staff of Psdtuts+ and ThemeForest in conjunction with the Tuts+ Manager. Our decision is final.
- Winning designs will be built into a WordPress theme and will be submitted for sale on ThemeForest under the winner’s nominated marketplace account. If accepted, the file must remain up for sale on ThemeForest for at least 6 months from the date of upload to the site.
- ThemeForest will review any winning submissions and winning files will only be accepted for sale if they fulfill the site’s quality requirements.
- Staff or regular writers of Psdtuts+ are not eligible to enter. Occasional contributors (i.e. people who have had less than 2 tutorials published on the site) are eligible to enter.
- Marketplace staff are not eligible to enter this competition.
Sponsors
Thanks go to HTMLRockstars for providing the PSD to WordPress services for the winning designs!
HTMLRockstars provides PSD to HTML service in just 3 days, for only $149. They take your existing design and transform it into valid, high quality, hand-coded markup. They also offer templating/skinning of the hottest CMS, Shopping Carts, and Blogging platforms such as WordPress all from your PSD. With semantic markup, microformat inclusion, documented CSS / HTML, and a money back guarantee, HTMLRockstars offers one of the most feature complete packages available.
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Here is mine:
Home: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefuni/3881070360/
Post: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefuni/3880273745/
Great contest! So who’s responsible for supporting the winning theme(s)? Would the designer handle support issues or HTML Rockstars?
Do you have to tag your entries so that when you do a search on Flickr your design comes up? I am seeing some entries here that are not in the search on Flickr…
How about reading the article?
“Submit your design via the Psdtuts Flickr Group, tagged with “portfoliowp.” “
I decided to try and enter… here’s my entry:
Homepage:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scyth/3894415640/in/pool-psdtuts
Blog Archives:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scyth/3894414692/in/pool-psdtuts/
Portfolio Archives:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scyth/3894416476/in/pool-psdtuts/
Post Page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scyth/3894417430/in/pool-psdtuts/
Here’s my first entry:
Homepage: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8984699@N07/3894238764/
Portfolio expanded: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8984699@N07/3894239294/
Portfolio thumbnails: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8984699@N07/3893450875/
Blog archives: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8984699@N07/3894241340/
Blog post: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8984699@N07/3894242504/
Hope I’ll finish another one these days.
PS: Please comment
I’m in, here’s mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34806741@N03/3896308687/in/pool-psdtuts
This contest sounds interesting
Ya cant wait to see who the winner is!
I really like some of the website designs people have submitted!
Until then good luck everyone!
Hi everyone, as I promiced:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonstyle/3900591964/
So busy this time , but I did it.
Eugeniu
what about the app storm contest do we know the winners?
Second entry:
Homepage: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8984699@N07/3901792052/
Blog Archives: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8984699@N07/3901025537/
Close-up: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8984699@N07/3901038967/sizes/o/
Can Anybody tell me how to upload the image on fliscr on the real size.
For istant: I uplouded the site layout design, wich has 1650×1300,
It appear smth. about 1024x.., But not the real size.
Is there a quate I missed, orr… Please help
Eugeniu
If you have a free Flickr account your images will be automatically resized to a smaller resolution if your image is too large.
You can read more about limits of free Flickr accounts here: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/
It happens with photos too/
Waiting to hear on this. I uploaded my design
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vijaykarthik573/3905924819/sizes/o/
and flickr re-sized it.
My entry
Home
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vijaykarthik573/3905924819/
Portfolio
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vijaykarthik573/3905924807/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Blog
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vijaykarthik573/3906720406/sizes/o/in/photostream/
Hi! This is my design. Check it out! Any comments are welcome!
Introduction page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42339524@N02/3906198259/in/pool-psdtuts
Projects page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42339524@N02/3906977454/in/pool-psdtuts
Project (viewing) page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42339524@N02/3906198583/in/pool-psdtuts
Blog page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42339524@N02/3906977784/in/pool-psdtuts
Post (viewing) page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42339524@N02/3906977940/in/pool-psdtuts
My entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/efingo/3906233689/sizes/l/in/pool-613394@N22/
Made 6 pages.
My entry,
Homepage
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjorsjes/3907459388/
Blog detail
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjorsjes/3907458824/
Work
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjorsjes/3907459668/
Work detail
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjorsjes/3907459222/
About
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjorsjes/3906679357/
My entry
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37769785@N07/sets/72157622217007799/
Hi everyone!
Here’s my entry:
Portfolio:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7670735@N03/3918981094/in/pool-psdtuts
About me:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7670735@N03/3918237219/in/pool-psdtuts
Blog Post:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7670735@N03/3918980988/in/pool-psdtuts
I have two entries
Alumin
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index http://www.flickr.com/photos/esmaeilzadeh_ahmad/3924074274/
portfolio http://www.flickr.com/photos/esmaeilzadeh_ahmad/3924073280/
single post/page http://www.flickr.com/photos/esmaeilzadeh_ahmad/3924071970/
Entries list http://www.flickr.com/photos/esmaeilzadeh_ahmad/3924070616/
My next work Toonish
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index : http://www.flickr.com/photos/esmaeilzadeh_ahmad/3912596399/
portfolio : http://www.flickr.com/photos/esmaeilzadeh_ahmad/3913372338/
single post/page : http://www.flickr.com/photos/esmaeilzadeh_ahmad/3913377940/
enries list : http://www.flickr.com/photos/esmaeilzadeh_ahmad/3913368494/
Nice job,I like Toonish
I love envato websites!
I would like to participate in this contest for the first time. I have made my design as you can see:
Home: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42175404@N08/3926172675/
Portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42175404@N08/3926972404/
Blog: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42175404@N08/3926973894/
when I made this page in the comments I was thinking in a thickbox.
About Me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42175404@N08/3926974642/
Contact Me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42175404@N08/3926973090/
My entry
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivorpad/3927959610/in/pool-psdtuts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivorpad/3927958694/in/pool-psdtuts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivorpad/3927957142/in/pool-psdtuts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivorpad/3927175683/in/pool-psdtuts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivorpad/3927174207/in/pool-psdtuts
My last entry:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/efingo/3928368781/in/pool-psdtuts
QUESTION!
Will just the homepage design be SUFFICIENT for the JUDGING?
Or should I include other subpages like many participants of this contest did?
Meaning, instead of showing 3 to 5 pages of the same thematic design, can I show just the homepage? Is it enough?
Response appreciated.
Home: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42683700@N04/3932644917/
About: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42683700@N04/3933426936/
Portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42683700@N04/3933427168/
Blog: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42683700@N04/3932645319/
Contact: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42683700@N04/3933426958/
Submissions for the contest
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thefragilemachine/3929664489/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thefragilemachine/3929664491/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thefragilemachine/3929664487/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thefragilemachine/3929664481/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thefragilemachine/3929664471/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thefragilemachine/3929664485/
More to come!
one of the best designs so far I think
and the first one to be submitted with the right tag
Thx!
Submission:
Homepage: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasterboy/3944565485/
Portfolio Overview: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasterboy/3944564071/
Portfolio Detail: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasterboy/3944566475/
Portfolio Preview: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasterboy/3944562737/
About: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasterboy/3944559543/
Contact: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasterboy/3944558753/
Blog Index: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasterboy/3944560737/
Blog Single: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasterboy/3944558009/
Here’s my entry
Home:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42748615@N05/3941781349/in/pool-psdtuts
Archive:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42748615@N05/3941778323/in/pool-psdtuts
Singe/Page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42748615@N05/3941784035/in/pool-psdtuts
Lots of good entries so far. Good luck everyone.
Welcome: http://www.flickr.com/photos/40704369@N04/3945926720/sizes/o/
About: http://www.flickr.com/photos/40704369@N04/3945926974/sizes/o/
Portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/40704369@N04/3945927258/sizes/o/
Single: http://www.flickr.com/photos/40704369@N04/3945144229/sizes/o/
All other pages would follow the same theme… Same form design as single for contact, same style of blog landing page similar to portfolio, etc.
Thanks and comments are welcome!
I have a question about these contests- how come if you’re in the U.S. you’re not not allowed to choose cash instead of the prize?
Hell Bill, just sent the design! XD
My first submission:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sha/3951453006/
Second entry
home: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sha/3950721161/
portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sha/3950723159/
single project: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sha/3951499686/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivorpad/3927958694/sizes/o/ looks excellent, they guy has done design work for envato though….pretty tough competition.
Still going to enter but that is because I will use the theme anyway if it doesn’t get a place.
Thanks a lot for your kindly words
Here is my entry:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/enstyled/sets/72157622326847045/
Good luck, everyone!
My entry:
Home:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42985548@N08/3954180482/in/pool-psdtuts
Portfolio:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42985548@N08/3953400717/in/pool-psdtuts
Blogpost:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42985548@N08/3954179862/in/pool-psdtuts
About Me:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42985548@N08/3953400539/in/pool-psdtuts
Contact:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42985548@N08/3953400115/in/pool-psdtuts
Good luck
Wow. Blow away by some of these latest entries. Mine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/painteddigital/sets/72157622333257677/
Wow lots of great late entries! It’s on like donkey kong lol
When will the winners be announced?
Here’s my second entry.
Home: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7670735@N03/3958382462/in/pool-psdtuts
About: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7670735@N03/3957607135/in/pool-psdtuts/
Blog: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7670735@N03/3957606635/in/pool-psdtuts/
Portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7670735@N03/3957606423/in/pool-psdtuts/
Contact: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7670735@N03/3957606129/in/pool-psdtuts/
Hello! This are my entries:
Home page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oscarbarber/3927245112/
Blog page (All inside pages layout):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oscarbarber/3927244476/
Good luck!!
Hy,
here ís my entry:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42969579@N06/3956743324/
Awesome work everyone. I especially like Toonish.
Here is my entry:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42976000@N06/3958967649/
Here’s my entry for the contest.
Home:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/magika14/3959425474/
Portfolio:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/magika14/3958650931/
Services:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/magika14/3958651541/
Blog:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/magika14/3959426180/
Post:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/magika14/3959423584/
My submission:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dreamture/sets/72157622342480187/
The real sized images can be found here: http://www.dreamture.net/Contest
GL!
some really nice entries already,
here is my little contribution:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41756091@N03/sets/72157622470489316/
good luck!
Also a note to the judges: some of us had to sign up for flickr accounts so while our images are tagged correctly and submitted to the group, it will take “a few days” till we are in the portfoliowp stream. You can still see them in the psdtuts group.
Wow, very tough contest! I’ve redesigned the Blog page. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivorpad/3960106133/sizes/l/
Thanks for the composition!
Just uploaded my entry.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41866365@N08/3961862215/in/pool-psdtuts
Here is mine!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mment/sets/72157622348893039/
wuhuuuuuuu!
Here are my entries
Entry 1 – Le Ciel
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39813307@N08/3963319035/in/pool-psdtuts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39813307@N08/3963319643/in/pool-psdtuts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39813307@N08/3964094944/in/pool-psdtuts
Entry 2 – Paradigm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39813307@N08/3963334753/in/pool-psdtuts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39813307@N08/3963335245/in/pool-psdtuts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39813307@N08/3964110774/in/pool-psdtuts
Entry 3 – Kohra
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39813307@N08/3963340429/in/pool-psdtuts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39813307@N08/3963340859/in/pool-psdtuts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39813307@N08/3964115888/in/pool-psdtuts