Web Concepts

by Tiara Rea

Once again, sorry for the late results! Also, this is just a reminder that the WordPress Theme Design contest is now over halfway over! You now only have less than 1 month to turn in your Free WordPress Themes for the chance at $1,000 and 5 years free hosting! New entry submissions close on October 12, but if you turn them in that last day, they are only eligible for our surprise 5 picks and not for weekly community voting.

Any questions, please ask!

Now, onto the voting!!

Web 2.0 by uncle sha

World Business by Autobazar

Hi Tech by Igor Dimev

Brown Stitch by SimplyWP

Frozen Love by 𚺬

Good luck, everyone!!

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Original post by Tiara

By Amy Armitage

We have counted the staff votes and taken the community votes into consideration and …

We have our winners!!

[insert drum roll]

First Prize of $1,000 cash and 5 years web hosting on our Basic Plan

Lilicious by Liza Kliko!!!!!

Congrats Liza :D  You really are an amazing designer!  Our CEO REALLY loves this one too and so do around 75% of the LP team!

Second Prize of 3 years free hosting + $300 cash

Phunk Attack by Dulce Rose Lada!!!!

They had a very strong community vote and quite a few staff votes.  Well done

Third Prize of 1 year free hosting + $100 cash

Aero Inspirat by Anne!!

Anne had 2 entries in the final and her work is clean and fresh and very popular with the Lunarpages team, especially our developers.

Honorable Mention

We didn’t plan a 4th prize, however our CEO really liked this design and although it didn’t place for 1st, 2nd or 3rd, he wants to give the designer of Magic TV 1 year of web hosting!

Magic TV by n252

So how do you all claim your cash and free hosting? 

Please email affiliates@lunarpages.com and I’ll shoot you back an email with details on how to get your goodies..

BUT WAIT there is MORE!!!

Check back in the next few days for the download page to access all of the free WordPress themes that were in the design contest!

And..

Series 3 should be launched this coming Monday, so make sure to subscribe to our RSS feed!

Any suggestions on how to make series 3 better?  TELL US!

Thanks to all the designers who participated.  We hope to see you for series 3!

By Amy Armitage

Voting has closed for the weekly finals and now we are down to the 15 finalists - 10 voted by our community and 5 picks from Lunarpages staff. Voting will run until July 7th and the winners will be announced July 8th!

Unlike last series we do have a policy in place to avoid cheating (proxy votes etc) where the voting results will be considered, however Lunarpages staff will help to decide the final 3 winners.

Just a reminder of the prizes:

First Prize is $1,000 cash and 5 years free hosting on our Basic Plan

Second Prize is 3 years free hosting + $300 cash

Third Prize is 1 year free hosting + $100 cash

Check out the 15 finalists and don’t forget to vote for your favorite!

Round 1 - Mag On Wood by ChiQ Montes

Round 2 - TeamRejoice by Edgardo Canape Jr.

Round 3 - Translucent Dream by Nicki Faulk

Round 4 - Vectorize by Ed Canape!

Round 5 - Phunk Attack by Dulce Rose Lada

Round 6 - Twilight Crown by Nicki Faulk

Round 7 - AutumnLeaves by Edgardo Canape Jr.

Round 8 - Sexy Back by Dulce Rose Lada

Round 9 - Minerva Aqua by Anne

Round 10 - Aero Inspirat by Anne

Lunarpages Pick 1 - Magic TV by n252

Lunarpages Pick 2 - The Grundge by Ophelia Nicholson

Lunarpages Pick 3 - Whitepaper 2.0 Beta by Fath

Lunarpages Pick 4 - Tree Sunset by andrej

Lunarpages Pick 5 - Lilicious by Liza Kliko

Vote Now!

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By Amy Armitage

Our 5 entries for round 6 are:

Twilight Crown by Nicki Faulk

Aakon by Tomas Sramek

Lilicious by Liza Kliko

Butterfly by Mehmet Ozekinci

Moo by n252

Vote Now!

Good luck to everyone this week!

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Original post by Amy

By Amy Armitage

The winning finalist for round 2 is TeamRejoice by Edgardo Canape Jr.

Well done Edgardo! We hope to see more entries from you.

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Original post by Tiara

By Amy Armitage

Round 1 voting for our WordPress design contest (series 2) starts today.

To check out the prizes up for grabs, visit our contest/submission page. Designers can submit as many entries as they want and entries close June 22, 2008 so there is plenty of time to get amongst it!

Below are the 5 themes for round 1. We will take into consideration the community vote and also staff votes and declare a finalist from this round on April 28th based on this week’s votes.

Professor by A. Mignolo

iPhone Theme by indocontest

Dream Home by Ophelia Nicholson

Whitepaper 2.0 Beta by Fath

Mag On Wood by ChiQ Montes

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Good luck to our designers

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Original post by Amy

By Mitch “The Marketeer” Keeler

There is no doubt in my mind that social networks of all shapes and sizes help, not hurt, you when it comes to building your own name, presence and fan fallowing with your web site.  You have your MySpace, your Facebook, your Twitter and more. 

I think you should get your name out there anywhere and everywhere you can.

I hate that AT&T commercial where the British-sounding guy is “trying to find the Internet”, the great thing for them though is that even though I hate it I have seen it so many times I have picked up on the commercial’s main purpose.  It is for AT&T’s wireless Internet services. 

You can use the various social networks in the same way.. hopefully you will be less annoying about it.  Join up, toss your links in there and do your best to use the service to build new friendships, followers and fans.  I know with my own presence on both MySpace and Facebook - I have entries from my RSS feed going right into my profile so now that group of people I used to go to high school with can now see just about everything I publish.  These are eyeballs seeing my content that would not have without spreading out to the social web.

Finally this all comes down to, well what do you have to lose?  So maybe you don’t get any followers or dedicated fanboys knocking on your virtual social door.  You have gained a few more links back, and you now have a new place where people can find you.  Your creating a new path to yourself so if somebody stumbles upon it they know exactly where to look for more.  On the other side if things go well, then you might be able to get in better communication and contact with those who like what you do with your own web site and well, having fans is never a bad thing.

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By Mitch “THE April Fool” Keeler

I have to say there have been a lot of “creative” stories Online today.  Here are some of the best (or maybe the worst depending on how many you have seen) April Fools 2008 stories so far.

• Betamax to HD-DVD Converter
• Gmail Custom Time?
• Google Bedroom?
• TechCrunch acquires Tiger Beat?
• Wales Resigns from Wikipedia to Become a Monk?
• Firefox Facts Goes to the Dark Side?
• Opera Scores 106 on Acid 3 Test!
• Wi-Fi Makes Teacher’s Head Explode?
• Lance Ulanoff (PC Mag) still Uses Windows 3.1?
• All YouTube Front Page Videos Go Here?

I love April Fools Day!  Seen any other good ones?

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By Mitch “Your Talent Agent” Keeler

If you have a nack for writing or helping other people out please feel free to submit your own work to us. We are looking to feature one customer written article per month in our web hosting newsletter. The only thing that we ask is that the work is your own and does not belong to anybody else. Each month, month after month we will select one to toss into the Newsletter for the month.

Interested? Submit your articles to mitch.keeler@lunarpages.com with the title “LP Newsletter Article Submission”. Also be sure to include your Lunarpages hosted URL and name so that we can give you a shout out for your fabulous work. Starting next month we will feature one customer article per newsletter. If we don’t use your article one month, we will keep it on record and we may use it the next month.

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