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Take a photograph and win a DSLR camera…

This is strange…to win a camera, you need to take a photograph and to take a photograph you need a camera. Hmm, a chicken and egg story???

Well, it is not that weird actually. Most of you have a compact camera. You phone should have a camera. Your laptop have a camera. So no excuse to not participate in the Smashing Magazine - Smashing Texture Contest.

All you need to do is take a picture of interesting textures (more examples here)

…And then zip it with all the relevant information. Finally send it to sven@xxsmashingmagazinexx.com. Remember to remove the “xx” in the email before you send.

…And you can win a Canon Digital Rebel XT 8MP Digital SLR Camera with EF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 Lens. The winner will be determined randomly.

The dateline is 21st May 2008.

weekends Wordpress Themes

It’s time for another weekends WordPress themes recommendations. This week’s themes are all very beautiful with excellent use of color. So enjoy.

Peace. A Zen-like calm design. I especially like the bamboo header. Suitable for personal journals.

Modicus. A minimalist 3 column theme with a tinge of designer touch. Good for all those who like lots of white space.

Humidor. Previously listed in Smashing Magazine’s “50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006?. Evan decided to redesign evaneckard.com and make Humidor available for download. Lucky for us.

Gotham Nights. Also from Evan of evaneckard.com. This is his latest theme. I like the multi-color layered header that doesn’t affect the readability of the whole theme.

Deliciously Blue. This guy just love blue. His previous designs Inspirationally Blue and Even Tastier Blue just confirms that. This is a nice 2 column theme with bottom bar. I guess it is now very popular trend to add a bottom bar for more navigation without cluttering the theme.

If you are interested in building your own theme, David also introduced some tools for theme building for WordPress.

I hope you like my recommendations this week. What do you think of the screenshots? Does it make the page load longer? I just think having screenshots will show you what the theme look like before you head over to the creator’s site to download. Okay, until next week.

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David Airey - $4,000 blog anniversary prize draw

Wow, $4,000 worth of prizes. A giveaway with one of the largest prize worth that I have seen on the internet. Super wide variety too. There are prizes for custom logo, custom theme design paid hosting, blog review and even free cash.

Now that’s what I call a good prize draw.
What is it about?

To celebrate his 1 year anniversary for his blog, David Airey decided to pull out all stops and piled up a variety of prizes to thank his readers. To enter the draw, you just have to write a blog entry on the prize giveaway before Wednesday, September 26th 2007. Prize winners will be announced on the 1st October, 2007.

What are the prizes?

The prize structure is separated in Gold, Silver and Bronze plus various bonus prizes. Just to mention a few to wet your lips:

1. Logo design from David Airey
2. Custom WordPress theme design from Nate Whitehill
3. $60 of books from Amazon courtesy of Darren Rowse
4. Behringer Podcastudio USB Podcasting Kit by Fraser’s Affiliate Marketing Blog
5. Blog makeover from Charles Jordan of The Queer Chef
6. Signed copy of Blogging Tips by Lorelle VanFossen
7. One hour SEO consultation with Lyndon Antcliff of Cornwall
8. Website critique from Randa Clay of Randa Clay Design
9. 2GB USB storage key from Jamie Clague at Terinea Weblog
10. $25 via PayPal from Gayla McCord of Mom Gadget (Free cash, Wow!)

And there are more than this. For the full range of prizes, check it out here.

So what are you waiting for? Head on over to David Airey dot com to enter the draw.

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Another super list from Smashing Magazine

It is getting very, VERY hard not to blog about Smashing Magazine every single day. How do they come out with so much stuff?
Anyway, I have to recommend this list of super wallpaper sites from them. Every site have very high quality wallpaper for your desktop.

I might as well start a parody site for Smashing Magazine like JohnCow.com or The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.

Wait! That might be a good idea… <going off to search if it is done already>

Get inspired by Smashing Magazine

I really like Smashing Magazine. There just seems to be so much information, that sometimes I need two readings to finish one post. Especially for fonts, icons and web design, everything recommended is of extreme high quality. I always go there for inspirations when I draw a blank. Take a look at this article.

Creativity Spark From Masters Of Illustration

If not a single one of these illustrations inspired you, then I don’t know what will.

Get Inspired.

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