I’m pleased to announce the winners of the first WordPress CSS Style Competition:
The Winners
Honorable Mention
There were many wonderful entries making the judging very difficult. These rose to the top using a combined score of votes from the people who are putting up the prize money, your downloads, and cross-browser compatibility.
Of course, the real winners here are the WordPress users who now have 38 new styles from this contest (45 total) they can use with the default WordPress template.
Several people have expressed regret that they didn’t hear about the contest in time and weren’t able to finish their design by the deadline. Please continue to send in designs. I’m happy to post them and continue to grow the wonderful library of styles we have. Maybe we’ll have another contest in the future.
Thanks so much to everyone who entered and to Matt, Geof, Dougal and isma for their contributions to the awards.
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WordPress CSS Contest Winners declared
Alex King has declared the winners of CSS Styles contest. There were a total of 38 new styles that can be downloaded as a result of this contest and a round of applause goes out to the winners and the contest organizers. This brings the total number os…
February 9th, 2004 at 6:45 pm
Geof adds this Comment:
Congratulations to the winners. Voting was hard!
February 9th, 2004 at 7:44 pm
Dougal Campbell adds this Comment:
Quick note: you have typos in the links for Dark Fire (no underscore) and Mars Spirit (replace underscore with a dash).
Glad to see that some of my favorites were winners
Congrats to all the entrants who made picking just three winners so difficult!
February 9th, 2004 at 9:14 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Thanks Dougal.
February 9th, 2004 at 9:18 pm
Brian adds this Comment:
Very cool. Congrats to the winners, and everyone who submitted. I tried out a bunch of the style sheets myself the other night - great stuff all around.
February 10th, 2004 at 12:27 am
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WordPress CSS Style Competition Winners
So, the contest is over and the Alex goes to…
Thanks everyone for taking part into it and, as Alex says, “the real winners here are the WordPress users who now have 38 new styles from this contest (45 total) they can use with the default Wo…
February 10th, 2004 at 1:03 am
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WordPress CSS competition winners announced
Alex King let’s us know that the CSS competition is over and done with. The winners were announced here.
Daring the ‘oh he’s such a sour looser’ calls, let me just say that I like Rubric and Toni. But I seriously have _no_ idea why they …
February 10th, 2004 at 2:02 am
akmal adds this Comment:
congrats to the winners. nice work!
February 10th, 2004 at 8:07 am
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WordPress CSS Competition Winners Announced
Cornflatulations to the winners!
It was fun being a sponsor, and two of my top three [Pink Lilies and Rubric] made the cut.
I am, at present, using Silver Is the New Black to make a default three-column layout for WP.
February 10th, 2004 at 9:35 am
Ben de Groot adds this Comment:
Congratulations to the winners! And thanks for the honourable mention! I do feel honoured. Just a detail: “aubmach” is just short for the real name of my style “Aubergine Machine”.
February 10th, 2004 at 10:51 am
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WordPress Style Sheet CSS Comptition Closed
The winners have been announced. I particularly liked the Mars-Spirit theme.
All styles:
http://alexking.org/[...]s/styles.php
February 10th, 2004 at 1:37 pm
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uitslag wordpress competitie
De uitslag van de WordPress competitie is inmiddels binnen. Helaas had ik niet veel tijd om aan mijn bijdrage te werken, maar desalniettemin heb ik toch een eervolle vermelding gekregen. Het is duidelijk dat smaken verschillen, want ik vind de…
February 10th, 2004 at 4:32 pm
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Congrats Are In Order
The winners for the Wordpress CSS Style Contest have been announced with my good buddy Ian taking a slice of the cake. Some really excellent contributions from all over, and I think when I update Nikki’s blog to Wordpress 1.0.1, I might use that Pin…
February 10th, 2004 at 10:59 pm
FrankPereiro adds this Comment:
I’ve tried to download the zip files of the winners and I don’t know why I don’t get the files when I unzip them. The rest of the zip files unzip good. Any ideas?
February 11th, 2004 at 3:12 am
FrankPereiro adds this Comment:
Sorry for my last answer, there’s something wrong with my zip software. It’s working fine now.
Greetings,
February 11th, 2004 at 3:27 am
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Judging Criteria Explained
I’ve seen several posts that seemed to miss (or misunderstand) the judging criteria I posted here:
These rose to the top using a combined score of votes from the people who are putting up the prize money, your downloads, and cross-browser compati…
February 11th, 2004 at 1:50 pm
francey adds this Comment:
since the comments for the other post are closed, I would just like to say that eris was in no way being brash. I completely agree with her statement that the judging criteria was a bit unclear.
The way I personally interpreted it was that you wanted styles for the WP community that would be the most versatile, and most accessible to all. That’s why I chose to make an imageless, simply thinking that it would make life a bit easier for some people.
Had i known that you were judging more on the merits of the design itself, rather than how wide of an audience the design could appeal to, I certainly would have used images, and made the design more detailed.
This is just a suggestion, but in future contests, I suggest making clear what the designs are for. Are you looking for a design that will appeal to the most people? Or a specific demographic.
As it was, the winning designs did appeal to specific demographics of people. I am pretty certain, that other designers would have submitted different styles, or gone about the whole process differently had they known this.
I don’t wish to be a “sore loser” because I really liked the winning designs, and I do think they deserved to win. However, for future contests, I’d recommend making this clearer, just so that it doesn’t become a bone of contention after the contest is over.
February 11th, 2004 at 4:43 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
I don’t know how to make this more clear: there was no guidance given regarding the “type” of design intentionally to allow for more creativity.
February 11th, 2004 at 5:08 pm
eris adds this Comment:
and i think everyone understands that. but is it possible to entertain the notion that perhaps next time there should be more clear guidelines?
February 11th, 2004 at 6:07 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Consider the notion entertained.
February 11th, 2004 at 6:14 pm
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February 11th, 2004 at 6:18 pm
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2nd place!
I’m very pleased to announce that my entry, rubric, has come 2nd in the WordPress CSS Style competition . If…
February 11th, 2004 at 10:06 pm
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Human Condition wins WordPress CSS competition
The WordPress CSS competition just finished, and the winners (and honorable mentions) have been announced. I’m happy to say that my personal favorite design, Human Condition, was one of the winners. I’m using a slightly tweaked version of Human C…
February 12th, 2004 at 1:17 am
Jared White adds this Comment:
I apologize for the faulty Trackback link above — somehow the end of the URL got truncated. Should be this.
I don’t know if this was a problem on my end or your end — both are running WordPress, so….?
Thanks, Jared
February 12th, 2004 at 1:29 am
Alex adds this Comment:
Hmm, I’ll make a note to look into it.
February 12th, 2004 at 1:43 am
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Oh yeah, we’re BOTH copycats *rolls eyes*
A reader of Sus’s Blog decided to accuse me of copying the layout of that blog *rolls eyes* As I said when i first put it up, it’s a gorgeous lil freeware template that won Alex King’s styles contest! All credit goes to Nao, of course! :p Sill…
April 30th, 2004 at 9:34 pm
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Stylesheets
“Na…. wie findest du mein neues Stylesheet?”
“Hast du schonmal den reload-Button betätigt?”
“Neee!?! - Na dann mach mal…”
Diese oder ähnliche Frage/Aufforderungen sehe ich mich vor meinem inneren Auge in nächster Zeit über den ICQ-Server…
May 24th, 2004 at 4:02 am
Ian Lim adds this Comment:
I have made use of the Silver is the New Black on my homepage. Thanks for the great competition !
May 26th, 2004 at 10:08 am
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Site Maintenance
Spent most of the day comparing HTML and CSS between my MT install and some WordPress templates, trying to figure out where I’ll have to make changes. Right now, I’m using a poorly-kludged three-column layout (check out the source and…
June 27th, 2004 at 9:54 pm
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New Styles
:notworthy:
I always wanted to get the whole CSS style switcher thing going, but the problem has always been getting it to work, or worse not seeing any styles I’d actually like. But I found a plugin from Alex King that is really easy to setup and us…
August 16th, 2004 at 9:50 pm
Addy adds this Comment:
I wouldn’t recommend changing around the CSS, it looks good for some people, but it really has to fit with your site, that means designing several good CSS templates! A better use of your time might be to make one good CSS and layout.
January 7th, 2005 at 8:27 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Addy - who is your comment directed at? I can’t make sense of it.
January 8th, 2005 at 12:07 am
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O blog anterior estava bagunçado demais, como eu tenho mania de escrever coisas “non-sense” demais, o blog acabou virando algo que era bem complicado de se entender, e que servia apenas como distração, agora eu quero fazer algo que sirva para alg…
February 9th, 2005 at 7:39 pm
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Pink Lilies theme for serendipity
Pink Lilies ScreenshotI had a special request from another user of Serendipity for a more feminine looking template, and the Pink Lilies port is my first contribution. I plan to release a few other themes that are softer, less businesslike, and dare I say
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