So if you’re keen to possibly win almost $2000 USD in prizes and you’d like to do a great thing (in supporting breast cancer awareness), then you should seriously consider publishing your #woobs tweets before Wednesday… Here’s some of the funniest tweets thus far…

No lollipops for ignorance. Ignore the twins and it will suck. #woobs – Published [#} by @lnicole.

#woobs I did it again! I took the twins to the Dr. for a check and he gave me a lollipop. More than I get when I check them myself. - Published [#} by @haydenbond.

I bet the Twins would be World Series-bound if they used lollipop-shaped bats, just saying! #woobs - Published [#} by @rkudeshi.

And so, my fellow lollipop enthusiasts, ask not what the twins can do for you; ask what you can do for the twins! #woobs - Published [#] by @kr1st.

The Hoff Agrees that we all must save the twins! #woobs http://pic.gd/99adbc – Published [#] by @valopez.

So go on then… Tweet your #woobs entry now!

This may come as a surprise to many of you, but when it comes to competition within the WP community, all of the competitors (in the corporate sense of the word) are very friendly with each other. And as evidence of that awesomeness, Brian Gardner (founder of StudioPress) contacted us with a great idea in support of our We Love Boobs campaign. So here’s the down-low:

The Giveaway

Before we tell you how you can enter this competition / giveaway, here’s what you can win:

• 2 x 3-month Developer Club Subscriptions
• 4 x Developer Package Themes**
• 10 x Standard Package Themes**
• 5 x Awesome WooThemes Ninja T-Shirts

**What makes this even cooler, is the fact that Brian has committed to contributing 50% of the costs of these themes ($650 USD) straight to our We Love Boobs campaign, so that’s another $650 USD that will be going to the awesome organization we’ve identified in aid of breast cancer awareness.

So this is how you win…

Twitter #woobs

To enter this draw, you only need to craft a clever & fun tweet… But we’ve got some “rules”…

1. The tweet needs to include the hashtag #woobs; and
2. You also need to use the words “twins” or “lollipops” in a fun & creative way.

Here’s an example tweet…

I checked in on the twins today and they look both happy & healthy! #woobs

We will then randomly select the 19 people who will be winning the 4 Developer Packages, 10 Standard Packages & 5 WooTee’s, whilst the 2 Developer Subscriptions will go to two tweets that we deem to be the most creative! (The most creative tweets would most likely include both the words “twins” and “lollipops”… Just sayin’…)

Get it? Remember that ultimately this campaign is about raising funds & awareness that will benefit the fight against breast cancer. So keep things clean & respect that people have lost loved ones to this horrible disease.

First up, nobody could come up with the right guess for our best-selling themes in the last month, so nobody thus got both correct and the free 6 month subscription on offer has thus gone to waste… There are however 6 people who guessed our all-time bestselling themes correctly and we have decided to give each of these people a Developer copy to any of our themes. But before we announce the winners, we need to tell you what the winning combo’s would’ve been…

Best-selling themes in the last 30 days (28 Jun – 28 Jul):

You needed to have these 5 themes in order (and we’ve included another 5 – which you didn’t need of course – to make up the Top 10):

1. Aperture
2. The Station
3. Gazette
4. Over Easy
5. Busy Bee
6. Fresh News
7. Feature Pitch
8. Suit and Tie
9. WooTube
10. Flash News

Surprised? I think the most intriguing thing to note from the above list, is the fact that some of our older themes (Gazette, Over Easy, Busy Bee etc.) are acting as some kind of flagship themes for us and are still selling really well. Whilst their dominance is being challenged by some of the newer themes (Aperture, The Station), I’d be surprised if these just stopped selling completely anytime soon.

The all-time list obviously makes for even more interesting reading…

All-time Best-selling themes (since 9 July 2008):

These are the 5 themes you needed to have in order (and we’ve included another 5 - which you didn’t need of course – to make up the Top 10):

1. Fresh News
2. Busy Bee
3. Over Easy
4. Gazette
5. VibrantCMS
6. The Station
7. Open Air
8. Flash News
9. Aperture
10. Fresh Folio

Not so surprised? Many of you actually guessed the Top 5 themes correctly, but couldn’t get it in the correct order… So sorry about that… This list however shows you what we’re talking about in terms of “flagship” themes that generally have a much longer-lasting appeal in terms of sales. This is of course evident since the Top 4 all-time bestsellers make an appearance in the list for the last month (whilst VibrantCMS was still in that list if you take sales from 28 May – 28 June).

And then – just before we announce the winners – it’s interesting to note that when looking at all-time sales and measuring the sales amounts vs the age of the theme, the Top 5 fastest-selling themes would be Busy Bee, The Station, Aperture, Over Easy & Fresh News… Interesting huh? I can honestly tell you, that one can get totally caught up in these stats, whilst trying to figure out what they mean… So here’s the winners then:

The Winners:

1. JohnONolan (submission)
2. Chris Gilbert (submission)
3. Ahmed (submission)
4. Mark T (submission)
5. Phil M (submission)
6. WP Themes (submission)

Congrats to the six of you. Drop us an e-mail and we’ll hook you up with a free Developer theme…

Also thanks to everyone else that placed a submission. We may try this again in coming months; so study the above figures well until then!

We do love our competitions here at WooThemes and we’re definitely of the opinion that things would just get a little dull over here at times, if we didn’t spice things up with whacky, new contests & promo’s. The funny thing about these competitions is, that we never really spend a lot of time conceptualizing it; instead we just act impulsively based upon a creative spark. So excuse us if our ideas aren’t overly complicated, but we believe the freebies definitely makes up for the lack of “substance”…

So this time around, we were curious to see whether you could actually guess which of our themes were indeed the bestsellers in terms of their popularity & sales. This is especially intriguing, since with every recent release we’ve had negative comments about the theme, even though we obviously have the past sales data to back up our decisions. Here’s how this is gonna work…

The Rules

1. You need to guess our 5 all-time bestselling themes in order, along with the 5 bestselling themes for the last month (also in order). You can then add these in the comments below.
2. You do not need to guess both; we’ll be handing out two separate sets of prizes for these guesses.
3. You are only allowed one submission and multiple entries will be deleted.
4. The competition will only be open for 24 hours from the time that we publish this post.

Your Submission will thus look something like this (in the comments below):

All-time: 1. ThemeName A, 2. Themename B, 3. Themename C, 4. Themename D, 5. Themename E

Last Month: 1. ThemeName A, 2. Themename B, 3. Themename C, 4. Themename D, 5. Themename E

The Prizes

1. We’ll give out 3 Developer Package themes to the first 3 people who guesses either the All-Time Bestsellers or the Last Month’s Bestsellers correctly. So there’s 6 Developer Package themes in total to be given away.
2. The first person to guess both of these correctly (in one comment / submission) will receive a free Developer Club Subscription for 6 months (value of $300 USD).

Go for it…

wpressd.com

For this one, we really, really liked John O’Nolan’s suggestion to create a Digg-style platform for niche WordPress content. There are a whole bunch of WP content aggregators out there, but none that offers a little bit of community contribution & involvement; so we’re sure that this will be a great idea. Congrats John!

wpmag.com

For this one, we had to think a little longer as there were many great suggestions… In the end, we decided to award it to Mark Bailey for his in-depth plan of action. We just got the feeling that he’s going to do a great job of building a community around wpmag.com and the community is really lacking some top-notch WP content sites.

So congrats to both John & Mark… Please drop us an e-mail on info[at]woothemes.com and we’ll get those domains moved over to you ASAP.

So I’ve decided to give both of these domains away, in the hope that someone else will develop them and do them justice. Obviously the idea is that the projects will both contribute back to the WP community; so we all stand to gain from this!

Here’s what you can win:

1. One of the two domains: wpressd.com or wpmag.com;
2. Any theme (of your choice) from our collection to get your new domain cracking; and
3. We’ll even do a little follow-up blog post once you have launched the new site.

And it is so easy to win:

Simply comment below and tell us what you would do with one of these domains, should you own either of them. The best idea will then get the domain and the other freebies that go along with that.

We look forward to your ideas!

I have marked the 3 entrants, who’ll be getting a free copy of Cushy in bold. If you’re one of the lucky one’s, please e-mail us your full name, e-mail addy and desired username + password to info@woothemes.com and we’ll hook you up.

• armintalic: @adii ‘Cushy’, because ‘Cushr’ is sooo 2008.
• charlesstucklen: @adii gimme cushy pweezey
• streetlife: @adii “c”reatively “u”shering ” “s”ales by “h”yping cush”y”
• aznumis: @adii Cushy = theme that loves you back
• Kajrietberg: @adii Cushy: You say it as kussie. That means a little kiss in Dutch.
• mackcamera: @adii Cushy – little hardship or difficulty (Hindi word)
• shigaepouyen: @adii Cushy ? It’s not the partner of Starsky ? In Starsky & Cushy ? No ?
• darwinshome: @adii Cushy: v- To be crushed gently by a giant with a lisp. n- New theme released by #WooThemes. n- the best pillow to sleep on at night
• stalkerh: @adii Cushy : Soft , Plump and cute cos you know pushy aint gona work ( Not really very business like but hey)
• rainbowgeek: @adii a Cushy like see you shy ? I don’t have another kind of definiton
• simmessa: @adii Cushy = Round, soft and cushionated, for maximum handling pleasure, (now featuring CSS 3 rounded corners for maximum grip)
• slearl: @adii Definition of Cushy: The opposite of how Christian Bale felt on the set (http://zi.ma/831317).
• rafiq: @adii cushy: Easy, making few demands, comfortable; Comfortable; often in a way that will suit a person’s body
• shigaepouyen: @adii Cushy ? It’s not the partner of Starsky ? In Starsky & Cushy ? No ? #wootheme
• franto: @adii Cushy – C U shy?? ) Cushy – not really “sushi” WP theme…
• andrevr: @adii Cushy. Like a favourite pair of slippers. Equal parts soft, warm and gentle. Says: Welcome. Just like the theme…:))
• asktheboater: @adii Cushy simply means you don’t have to work hard to get the theme working. That’s what I need!
• exit56: @adii cushy – a job that allows you to do what you want every day, and occasionally get the entire internet to grovel to you for free stuff.
• cprowe: @adii Cushy – When one hides an unexpected erection via the use of a cushion.
• JohnMcLearran: @adii this ones a lil NSFW but u can fill in the blanks… Cushy like my girlfiends ____ or Cushy: to be in the presence of cush…
• gavinelliott: @adii cushy is slang where I am from for canny, cool, ok, good, awesome, nice. Not funny, but we own the rights to the word.
• d3signar: @adii I might be getting pushy but I really, R-E-A-L-L-Y need to ahold of a free copy of #cushy. #cushy: easy like Sunday mornings
• d3signar: @adii #cushy: type of wadding used to make dumbells for snowmen training in the summer olympics
• youpimatin: > @adii Cushy – When one hides an unexpected erection via the use of a cushion. http://tinyurl.com/d74oc8
• farrhad: @adii Cozy and cute theme that will make you feel comfortable and remind you of a cozy bed….(This makes no sens! lol)
• scott_donaldson: @adii Cushy – The ability to restrain yourself from cutting off cars with McCain/Palin stickers on them.
• scott_donaldson: @adii Cushy- is the act of pretending to work when really you are just spending all day on twitter trying to impress @adii 4 a killer theme!
• wonderstate: @adii #wootheme I’ll let this picture of Cushy speak for itself: http://www.wonderstatemedia.com/misc/cushy.jpg
• scott_donaldson: @adii Cushy – when a free couch abandoned on the street actually looks tempting enough to take home but not enough to brag about.
• katemag: @adii cushy is a sushi – wonderful and tasteful like japanese sushi for wordpress.
• oldweiler: @adii Cushy…when the other side of the pillow just isn’t cool enough.
• upstartdesigner: @adii Cushy means kittens on top of a soft baby sleeping in a bed made of muffins… in a cloud.
• Sound_Designer: @adii “Cushy” is the way the skin on my elbows feel after a long time in the bath. Your themes rock! Keep em’ comin’! Thank you!
• natetronn: @adii Lifes like a box of Cushy, you never know what your going to get.
• bradhuss: @adii cushy; def: effortless luxury + sophisticated style = cushy
• 3magine: @adii Cushy makes the WP core feel Mushy
• RobBarham: @adii Cushy = “This time next year we’ll be millionaires”
• recruitingAngel: @adii : Cushy (noun); An extravagant beard usually grown for the purpose of identifying social status. ex: http://tinyurl.com/2ja3by
• redding_nv: @adii Cushy = a comfortable sofa whose stuffing is composed entirely of teddy bears
• briandusablon: @adii cushy: curiously soft and cozy, like you’d find in a new version of the Fat Bottom Girls video. http://tinyurl.com/34xs3x
• deenadouglas: @adii #cushy… Great looking theme! Beautiful! Luv it! Perfect 4 my new blog. cushy = luxurious

We have been busy gathering guest judges, and we have a few great web designers who were able to help cast their votes. We will be posting more details later in the week as the contest ends. Here is four more designs that we think are top notch.

Purwokerto by Deny Sri Supriyono

TripBlog by Maikel Neris

Newspaper Blog by Didats

P*wned by izuddin.helmi

So as we did last week, here’s Week 2′s roundup of our favourite WooContest submissions. Again, these are in no particular order and we’re simply highlighting the submissions that stand out at the moment…

Prouder Studio by thecraigvine

Groodeo by izzudin.helmi

The Blogging News by fir.da.us

leTrailer by ledzuc.com

Along with these, I’d also like to highlight Groopholog by izuddin.helmi, lePortfolio by ledzuc.com and textonomous by fir.da.us.

If we haven’t selected your submission as one of our early favourites in weeks 1 & 2, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have a chance to win! In fact, for all you know we might’ve left out our first-most favourite from both these roundups…

We really look forward to see the new submissions towards the end of the month! Good luck to everyone and keep ‘em coming please!

In no particular order here are some of our favourites:

Store Front by pbiscuit

Slurpie by IzuddinHelmi

sanduneBiz by Nick Desai

the

paper by Gunay Donmez

Disclaimer: These designs where handpicked by the WooThemes team and are some of our favorite designs to date. In the end it is the design with the most positive comments on Flickr, and the design that gets most votes from our guest judges that will be selected as our winner and runner up.

]]> http://www.woothemes.com/2008/10/week-one-roundup-of-our-favouritewoocontest-submissions/feed/ 16 http://www.woothemes.com/2008/10/woocontest-submit-your-design-and-win/ http://www.woothemes.com/2008/10/woocontest-submit-your-design-and-win/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:24:29 +0000 Mark Forrester http://www.woothemes.com/?p=233 As you all know, we at WooThemes love collaborating with industry-leading, creative designers and launching stylish and unique WordPress themes every month. We also love seeing how our fantastic community of users customize and implement our themes.

We therefore thought it would be a good idea to launch a competition where you our readers/users can get involved, and gain some exposure, designing a theme concept for us. Not to forget, you stand the chance to win some big money!

How to enter

To enter the competition, contestants must submit a  theme concept you think would go down a treat on WooThemes.

• The design must be created in Photoshop, Fireworks or Illustrator format.
• The website container must have a width of between 940 and 980 pixels, catering for the average 1024 X 768 user.
• The entries must be submitted to the WooThemes Flickr pool in jpeg or png format and tagged “Woocontest”.
• Entries must be submitted before midnight on 31st October 2008. That’s Halloween night! Woooooooooooooo.

Your submission on Flickr must include:

• Your name and any URL you would like linked to in case you win.
• Any stock or source images you have used including URLs. Be sure to only use stock images that have Extended Usage licenses that allow for distributing the theme design once coded, otherwise avoid use of stock images.

The winner will be chosen according to the amount of positive comments it receives, as well as feedback gathered from guest judges (guest judges will be announced soon).

The winner will receive $2000 and a 6 month develop license, whilst the runner up will receive $1000 and a 3 month develop license. Both will obviously grab a heap of exposure.

We will then add some wordpress magic to the concept and launch it is an official WooTheme, crediting our winning designer.

Terms and Conditions

• The theme concept submitted must be entirely your own work. As mentioned above if stock imagery is used it must have an exttended usage license.
• By entering this competition you consent to your theme concept possibly being used by WooThemes and avaliable for purchase on our site. First and second prize will, as already stated, be awarded a cash prize for their work.
• If any other theme concepts are used by WooThemes the designer will be informed and a once-off fee will be awarded to the designer for the concept. The fee will be agreed upon by both parties. Sales generated off the theme will be kept by the company.
• The winning theme concept and the runner up may be required to mock up an inner page before payment is made, determined by an inspection of the design source file. A clearly noted grid structure is highly recommended.

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