Web Concepts

by Tiara Rea

Over the past week we’ve been flooded with more and more outstanding free WordPress themes, and we’re overwhelmed by this in such a good way! Thanks to everyone for participating and keep these cool themes coming - we’re having a blast seeing the design talent.

Okay, onto voting for Round 3!

TechnoGaming by Alexandr

9illustrations by agen

World of Fashion by Roger

Popsicle by Michael Heraghty

Styleicious by ThaSlayer

Good luck, guys!

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Original post by Tiara

By Tiara Rea

The votes have been tallied and our round 1 winner for Series 3, voted by our community and Lunarpages staff is:

MyBlog by n252

MyBlog Free WordPress Theme

Congratulations again n252! Your themes are clearly crowd pleasers.

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Original post by Tiara

by Tiara Rea

The free WordPress themes thus far have been amazing, guys! Keep them coming! And remember to enter as many times as you want for your chance at $1,000 and 5 years free web hosting!

The Round 2 entries are as follows:

NT-Science of Appearances by Roger

Science of Appearances Free WordPress Theme

Soft Green by Damien Allen

Soft Green Free WordPress Theme

MyBlog by n252

MyBlog Free WordPress Theme

The Glory of Action by Roger

Glory of Action Free WordPress Theme

Blue Real Estate by lunamaya

Blue Real Estate Free WordPress Theme

Good luck everybody! Don’t forget to link to the voting poll with our spiffy Lunarpages WordPress Contest banners for more votes!

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Original post by Tiara

By Tiara Rea

The votes have been tallied and our round 1 winner for Series 3, voted by our community and Lunarpages staff is:

Pop Star by n252!

Pop Star WordPress Theme

Congratulations! This design was such an amazing WordPress Theme!

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Original post by Tiara

by Tiara Rea

For those of you entering our WordPress Theme Design Competition for nearly $2500 in cash and hosting prizes, you may need a simple and effective way to get some extra votes and entice people to come and view your themes. So, we’ve created a couple banners for you guys to use! Please feel free to link directly to the voting poll, our blog, Lunarpages.com, etc.

Remember, the more places these banners are seen, the more chances you get for votes!

Read more to see the banners

Also, if you have designs of your own that you’d like to use as a badge, please feel free to use them. With these designs or some of your own, you’ll basically double your chances that people will want to vote for you.

Good luck!

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Original post by Tiara

by Tiara Rea

Ready to vote for Round 1 of Lunarpages WordPress Theme Design Contest? Voting for Series 3, Round 1 starts today!

Need a reminder of some of the awesome prizes totaling nearly $2500? Visit out contest description and WordPress Theme submission page to see what’s up for grabs, to read the rules, and to enter. Remember, you can submit as many entries as you want, and the more WP themes you enter, the more chances you have to win.

Below are Lunarpages Top 5 themes for round 1 voting. We will take into consideration the community vote and also staff votes and declare a finalist from this round on August 11th based on this week’s votes.

Pop Star by n252

Executive by autobazar

E-Storage by Roger

Levitron by Mike

Landscape by n252

Good luck everyone!! Keep these awesome WP theme entries coming and vote on your favorite choice below!! ;D

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Original post by Tiara

by Tiara Rea

So we have decided to extend the voting date for the first round of the WordPress Theme Design contest for another two weeks, as we have received a couple complaints about not having enough time to enter the first round. So here are the new dates for the contest – you can also see these in the Rules for your convenience.

Remember, you can enter at ANY time for your chance to win nearly $2500 in cash and hosting prizes!

• August 4-10, 2008 – voting on Top 5 Finalists for Round 1
• August 11-17, 2008 – Round 1 Winner announced & voting on Round 2
• August 18-24, 2008 – Round 2 Winner announced & voting on Round 3
• August 25-31, 2008 – Round 3 Winner announced & voting on Round 4
• September 1-7, 2008 – Round 4 Winner announced & voting on Round 5
• September 8-14, 2008 – Round 5 Winner announced & voting on Round 6
• September 15-21, 2008 – Round 6 Winner announced & voting on Round 7
• September 22-28, 2008 – Round 7 Winner announced & voting on Round 8
• September 29-October 5, 2008 – Round 8 Winner announced & voting on Round 9
• October 5-12, 2008 – Round 9 Winner announced & voting on Round 10
• October 13, 2008 – Top 15 Finalists Announced (10 from the community + 5 from LP)
• October 13-19, 2008 – Community voting on Top 15 Finalists
• October 20, 2008 – Community voting closed & LP Staff voting commences
• October 22, 2008 – Winners Announced!

We’ve already gotten some awesome submissions, so keep ‘em coming for the next two weeks!

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Original post by Tiara

By Tiara Rea

Amy is in Washington this week, so she has asked me to post the round 5 entries.

Kollane by Mehmet Ozekinci

Hanami by A. Mignolo

Phunk Attack by Dulce Rose Lada

The Grundge by Ophelia Nicholson

Gaia by Tomas Sramek

Vote Now!

Visit our contest/submission page to submit your entry. Designers can submit as many entries as they want and entries close June 22, 2008.

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Original post by Tiara

Our Finalist for Round 4 is Vectorize by Ed Canape!

This round was a bit different as we had to disqualify one contestant (please read the rules before you enter - only themes YOU create or have rights to can be submitted!) and then there were two winners! So we had some of our staff here at Lunarpages pick the winner from the two tied in first place, and the winner is Vectorize by Ed Canape. We agreed that this theme should be the clear winner this round:

Congratulations, Ed!!

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Original post by Tiara

By Mitch “Yipee!” Keeler

Now I know many of us have used Google’s Webmaster Tools section a time or two, and maybe even submitted our own site map to it. Did you know though that you can do the same with Yahoo! search? The Yahoo! Site Explorer is one way to make sure that Yahoo! knows you are on the web and ready to be indexed.

One really cool thing is that they allow you to submit your RSS feed to be crawled too. You can also setup dynamic URLs. There are up to three dynamic parameters that you want Yahoo! to treat specially whenever these are seen in URLs belonging to your web site in question. Think of it as redirects that only Yahoo! can see.

All in all, I would say the Yahoo! Site Explorer is another “site stuff” bookmark you should be sure to submit yourself to.

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