Typo Theme Contest - tag design

Typo Theme Contest!

Posted by Geoffrey Grosenbach Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:47:00 GMT

The Rails-based Typo blog engine has been amazingly successful in the last few months since it was released. Tons of new features have been added, and the team is hard at work making it even more useful.

However, there aren’t many themes available. That’s about to change.

We’ve assembled a stellar list of sponsors in order to motivate you to sit down with pen, paper, and pixel, and design themes for Typo!

Rules

Themes must be original. No ports of existing themes from WordPress, Blogger, etc. Be original!
Themes must work in IE, Firefox, and Safari. If you don’t have Windows, go to the library or ask a friend to take a screenshot for you. If you don’t have a Mac, use a free Mac screenshot service.
Themes must use the Typo 2.5+ theme engine. This is a simple, transportable system for putting all your rhtml, images, stylesheets, and javascripts in one folder. (Tutorials below).
All themes submitted will be made available for download. Don’t submit it unless you want it to be used by tens of thousands of Typo users.

The contest will run for one month...all themes must be submitted by November 10. Send themes to boss [at] topfunky [dot] com.

Judging

One prize will be given to the most popular theme, as determined by number of comments on this site. Yes, ballot stuffing is possible, but we will try to realistically determine which theme received the greatest number of unique positive comments.
The remainder of the prizes will be awarded by a panel of judges (yet to be determined).

Prizes

Thanks to our generous sponsors, we will be delivering the following to the finest themes (one per winner):

A 4 GB iPod nano, courtesy of Ma.gnolia social bookmarking
One year of Level 3 Rails/Blog/PHP/Website Hosting from Planet Argon. And also, a one year blog hosting package for the first 10 people to submit unique themes.
A combo pack of Agile Web Development with Rails from the Pragmatic Programmers
A copy of the powerful TextMate text editor from Macromates Software (Mac OS X only).
A copy of XScope screen design tools from the Iconfactory (Mac OS X only).