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Vanilla Community NEW STYLES CONTEST! (cash prize!) Ends October 1st
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i'll still work on it if there is any interest for it...There's ALWAYS interest in new styles, themes, extensions etc. By all means please keep working on them and uploading them, because someone is going to either Use It, or Build off of it.
If it's broken, I'm not quite as enthusiastic about uploading broken stuff: There's a few alpha version extensions in the Add Ons section, and no way to tell apart the Tested from the Totally Untested/Known Broken. I'd at least get it working between basic Firefox and IE first. That's just my opinion, though.
-Andy
The Last Style to make it in before the deadline is "Y H Beta" (Yeah Bjorn, I know it's not completed yet, but still some feedback wouldn't hurt).
As per the contest rules in the first post, I have until next week, October 9th, to give you the results in this thread.
giginger: Let's make Monday (today) the last day for submitting money to prevent confusion. If you get a chance to, feel free to submit Paypal to Mark and hit me up (whisper is fine, too) when you've done so.
Thanks all- If you're still working on themes, for the Greater Good of Glorious State Vanilla, please eventually submit them!
-Andy
Oh well, we'll just have to do another contest soon.
I have to say, my favourite is easily the YHbeta style, with Vaneablack a close second.
Sadly, that lussumo banner up there looks all crappy on most of them. Oh well.
Many Kudos to Jazzman...
I was supposed to do some mockups for jim, but I got bogged down with school work, paid projects, and personal project. I'd really love to make a theme one of these days.
I'm still going through the entries, and will announce the winners on Sunday or Monday.
EDIT: Make that Monday Night, I promise effendi! :-)
(the winners are picked, I just need to frame them up in a post after dinner/events tonight)
If you recall, there were to be two prizes, the Main Prize and the Creativity Prize. The winners were to be chosen solely by me, with Mark serving as a tie breaker. I cheated a bit and actually asked around here and read a lot of the peer feedback from the Lussumo community in regards to what people liked and what they found useful. However, a few rose to really push the buttons of what the categories, and the contest, were all about.
And all around there were some AWESOME styles submitted. I'm really glad to see such participation, and I hope that people keep running with it and modify or create their own styles to upload to the Lussumo Community. I wanted to say thanks to anyone who submitted a style or theme (or extension, for that matter) to the community. You guys rock.
Anyway, without further ado:
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THE CREATIVITY PRIZE:
"The Creativity Prize will be awarded to the design that is the most creative with design, and enhances Vanilla's capabilities. It pushes the limits ("it is aaaaaahhhhrt") while still readable."
The Runners Up are:
AquaLounge by Ø
and
WickedOrange AndrewVos
The Creativity Prize goes to...
PurpleHaze by redux
PurpleHaze was a style that I winced when I saw it: "That amount of "Purpleness", I thought, was too sickly-sweet to possibly be readable!" But I and my peers were quickly proved wrong; PurpleHaze spanked us, hard, with it's totally mellow and laid-back layout, it's solid use of colors and contrast of the complimentary yellow-and-purple. Not just colorful, but artistically sound and solid. It is simple and stylish, as it professes, and turns any user forum into like the disco-ball spinning pimping disco lounge of communities.
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THE MAIN PRIZE:
Was to be rated on "DESIGN (major). USEFULNESS/PRACTICALITY (major). INTEGRATION WITH/ENHANCEMENT OF VANILLA (minor)."
The Runner Up is:
VaneaBlack by Camie (it was a real close race, this is a monster awesome style!)
The Main Prize goes to...
Vanilla Ocean by Jazzman
This one came as probably little surprise to those who were following along. VaneaBlack it totally hot and all, but man, when Jazzman slapped Vanilla Ocean, and the Tabbed **THEME** that he built JUST to run it, there was really no question to people who have tried it out. Vanilla Ocean works with most Extensions. It brings Vanilla into a whole splinter-development, a totally new design of the basic Vanilla structure to push the limits of the forum software. Its gorgeous, functional, and has awesome little widgets too like the little icons associated with the various tabs. It's a real feat, and Jazzman really earned that award.
Congratulations, Jazzman and redux! Thanks everyone for participating!
I had fun organizing the first ever styles contest, but I turn it back over to the community: If someone wants to pick up the torch from here (and perhaps make the entry period longer than a month, I admit it was a little quick) and run a styles contest, or the Ultimate Extreme Extensions Contest or whatever, go for it, and good luck!
Thanks again!
-Andy