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3D Spiral Winners

Thank you to all who participated in our 3D Spiral giveaway. We have randomly selected three winners, who are:

• Joseph Engo
• Julio Chacon
• Myriam

Congratulations! We have contacted each of you with information on how to claim your free copy of the 3D Spiral flash component.

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3D Spiral Component Giveaway

We have teamed up with FlashLoaded to give away 3 free copies of their latest Flash component, 3D Spiral (a retail value of $49.95 each).

The 3D Spiral is a Flash gallery component that displays images on an interactive 3D rotating spiral. You are able to obtain different layouts by changing the height and width of the spiral. The viewer can scroll, move up/down and zoom the spiral freely.

UK2 Contest Winners

Thanks to all of you who entered the contest! We have randomly picked out the four lucky winners and contacted them today. They include:

• Paul-Emile Raymond of splitdadiz.com
• Kalbir Sohi of kalbir.jottit.com
• Leon Paternoster of leonpaternoster.com
• And another winner we’re yet to hear back from!

Thanks again to UK2 for sponsoring the contest. Updates may be a little slow for the next week or two as we’re on holiday (but don’t worry, you will still be treated to a couple of great new CSS designs every day!). Everything will be back to normal soon with some great new articles scheduled.

Win a Year of Free Hosting

We’re pleased to announce a new competition on Design Shack, in partnership with UK2. Four hosting packages are up for grabs with a total value of over $450. One “business” and three “home” hosting packages are being given away. Each is completely free for one year, comes with one (or more) free domain names and would make a fantastic home for your site.

Please read on to find out more about the prizes along with how to enter. Be sure to use a valid email address so that we can contact you if you are a winner!

Prizes & Conditions

Top Prize: A 1 year business web hosting package. Includes free setup, 3 free domain names, £30 Google AdWords voucher, SSH, 100GB disk space and 1000GB bandwidth.

Runner Up Prizes (3): A 1 year home web hosting package. Includes free setup, 1 free domain name, £20 Google AdWords voucher, 3GB disk space and 100GB bandwidth.

The competition closes on Monday 23rd June and winners will be chosen completely at random. The lucky few will be announced on Design Shack the day after. We’ll be in touch with details on how to claim your prize.

How to enter

Entering the competition is simple, and will help Design Shack evolve over the coming months. All you need to do is fill in the following form telling us:

• Two website designs which have recently inspired you
• One article or tutorial which you would like to see on Design Shack

We’re looking forward to hearing your ideas and hope to be inspired from you, our readers!

The competition is now closed!

About UK2

UK2 have been a major player in the web hosting industry since 1998, today having sold over a million domain names. They host thousands of websites and dedicated servers for customers in various countries. UK2 are one of the biggest and fastest growing web hosting companies in the UK, offering services including domains, dedicated servers and e-commerce packages. You can read more about UK2 at their website.

And the Winner Is…

Once again, thank you to everyone who entered our competition and filled out the survey. We have randomly selected a winner and the proud recipient of a new CSSEdit 2.6 copy is Domantas Jankauskas. Congratulations!

If you are interested in the outcome of the survey, please feel free to read on. We’ll be discussing some of your responses and how Design Shack has changed as a result.

Number of designs per day

There was a huge consensus that a small number of quality designs are preferred over quantity. With this in mind, we plan to continue showcasing only a select few CSS designs each day (our entry requirements may become even tighter!) Many of you expressed the fact that you like how designs are organised by colour and layout, and we have started to integrate that information underneath each design on the homepage and gallery as well.

What time to add designs

As you can see, there is more of a split for this question. As a result, we are changing from offering one gallery update per day, to two – both one in the morning and one in the afternoon / evening (obviously varying depending upon where you live!).

Anything else?

Here are a few comments which we particularly enjoyed from the survey:

• Stop posting “10 best xxx”,”20 great xxx” or similar. It’s boring. You’re not Digg. I’m mean. But I mean what I said. We hear you – mainly original content from now on!
• The most important thing? Good quality and good taste of tutorial material and showcased designs.
• I don’t like that it’s .co.uk! We do own designshack.net but have yet to get around to moving over. It’s trickier than you’d think!
• Design Shack is for everybody. From beginners to advanced designers. But always a step ahead in design trends – that’s the coolest thing – the vision :)
• I don’t believe you when you say “be mean” , soooo I love Design Shack!

Future surveys

We have a couple more questions which we’d love to ask you, relating to the possibility of a combined links post and the idea of integrating both our RSS feeds into one. But those are for another day!

Win a CSSEdit License in 30 Seconds

Update: The survey is now over, thank you to all those who participated – we will be contacting the winner shortly

We have four questions to ask you – it will take somewhere between 30 seconds and a minute to answer them and you stand a chance of winning a copy of CSSEdit.

CSSEdit is a highly acclaimed piece of software, allowing you to design beautiful websites with greater ease. Our introduction to CSSEdit highlighted some of the application’s features, along with how to get started using it.

You can click the link below to fill out the survey – be sure to include your email address and we will be in touch if you are a winner!

NuBlue Hosting Discount

In celebration of a new hosting package, designed specifically to support the Magento eCommerce application, NuBlue are offering a 25% discount for all Design Shack readers. Simply use the discount code ‘sh4ck’ when signing up for an account. NuBlue are one of very few UK hosts that are currently supporting this application and this discount is a great way to get started using Magneto.

Spring Giveaway

To celebrate the arrival of Spring, Slice ‘n Dice are giving away a free project and a Gooey Carbon Bundle from GooeyTemplates.com. It looks like a great contest, something to make your spring coding a little easier!

The project up for grabs is a one page XHTML design with a three day turn-around – a value of $249. All designs are cross browser tested, with fully commented code.