WordPress Theme Contest Series 3 WINNERS!
by Tiara Rea
I know everyone’s been waiting on pins and needles for the final decision, but let me stall just one more minute to say we really appreciated everyone’s efforts in this contest! All the WP themes submitted were just fantastic, and our staff had an incredibly difficult time choosing a top theme. They were all just phenomenal!
Also, here’s a brief rundown of how the voting worked:
Themes were judged by Lunarpages staff members and community. All submissions were judged by the following criteria:
- Community Votes: 25%
- Staff Votes: 25%
- Creativity, Originality, & Uniqueness: 25%
- Overall Theme & Usability: 25%
And now, for the winners!!!
First Place Winner: NewBlue by BlogDesignStudio
With the lead in Community votes and about 10% staff votes, this was our clear winner! BlogDesignStudio has now won $1,000 and 5 years free web hosting!!! We really loved this theme, guys, so your congratulations are well deserved!
Second Place Winner: Floral Day by SimplyWP
With over 300 community votes, a whopping 35% of our staff votes brought this theme into second place due to its creativity and the fact that nearly all our techies loved this theme for its usability as well! SimplyWP has won $300 and 3 years free web hosting! All your themes were lovely, so congratulations!
Third Place Winner: Styleicious by ThaSlayer
Styleicious was a clear top 3 from the start, and with around 5% of our staff votes, ThaSlayer has won 3rd place!! That gives him $100 and 1 year free web hosting! This was a wonderful theme, ThaSlayer, so congrats!
For Series 3, we also decided to let our CEO and Staff choose overall winners based on Creativity, Usability, and the total amount of staff votes. For these votes, we didn’t take community voting into consideration, so here’s our Staff and CEO vote!
CEO Choice: E-Storage Plus by Roger
Our CEO was impressed not only with the potential of this WP Theme for any webmaster for personal or business use, but also the amount of amazing themes Roger submitted. Our CEO had a hard time picking just one for his favorite. Roger, you’ve won 1 year free web hosting!
Staff Choice: Dreamworks Redux by Vinh Le
This theme wasn’t even up for any of the weekly voting rounds, but our staff sure loved it!! Congratulations, Vinh Le! You’ve won 1 year free hosting!
To claim your prizes, just email affiliate@lunarpages.com
Now you can see ALL the participants and download over 90 Free WordPress Themes!!
Thanks for your participations everyone, and stay tuned to see if there will be a Series 4 anytime soon. ;)
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:30 am
Thank you guys, thank you!
It was awesome contest and we enjoyed to be part of it. honestly i felt that Vinh Le’s theme deserved however, I guess our marketing just helped us :P
Thanks once again :)
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:10 am
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October 23rd, 2008 at 11:05 am
Gratz Mayank,
in series 4 i’ll try to grab a higher rank :)
either way, regardless that i didnt win the first place, i’ll keep the promises that i made on my blog :)
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:00 pm
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October 23rd, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Wootss… 2nd place? Yehaa~!!! Although it’s not the 1st place, but I’m still more than happy now…
Congrats to BlogDesignStudio and ThaSlayer~!
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:03 pm
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October 23rd, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Congrats to you guys too :) Actually congrats to lunarpages for hosting such a wonderful and successful event. Well, if there will be series 4 then will love to give some competition there too :P
October 24th, 2008 at 5:33 am
Congrats to the winners, great work!
October 25th, 2008 at 5:40 am
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October 25th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Weee, free hosting. =)
Congrats Mayank!
Now time to get back to work and design something new…
October 27th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Congrats guys!
October 28th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Wow, those are all great entries. I love How the floral day submission the best. It flows very well. Good work.
October 29th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Congratulations to the winners!! Yup they are indeed nice themes.
Interesting enough I realized that all the winning themes have some commonality. 1.All are 2 column themes, 2.The sidebar is at the right hand side 3.All are simple and nice with a header with page navigation, sidebar and body.
congrats again! :)
October 29th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Congrats… I love LunarPages, they are a great web host.
November 1st, 2008 at 9:19 am
Congrats all the winners. I really want to join in the next series :)
November 5th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Next time l must join, great themes
November 7th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Hi,
woow it is wonderful. Thank you very much i will set it up on my hosting.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
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November 17th, 2008 at 6:29 am
All covet, all lose. :D