This announcement should be online like 7 hours ago but something weird happened. I finished writing the post and are 100% sure I clicked the publish button. But then the post status suddenly return to be a “Draft” with nothing written on it, only the title. That’s what you got when you change things during a server migration. I just found out about it 30 minutes ago, that’s why this announcement is a bit late. Sorry, guys.

Enough with the rambling. Happy time!

The Site5 Giveaway that we started last Wednesday has ended and now it’s time to announce the winners of One Year hostBasic Web Hosting Plan from Site5. So, without further ado, the winners are: Continue reading »

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With one week left in January, we thought it would be nice to team up with Site5 in order to host another give away. Just like last time, up for grabs are 5 web hosting accounts with unlimited disk space and bandwidth. You can win a Web Hosting Account for 1 Whole Year! This is a giveaway that you simply don’t want to miss. Read on to see how you can win this excellent prize.

About Site5

Site5 has top-notch hosting along with even better support. Site5 was created to provide high quality web hosting services for individual blogs as well as large companies. Their servers are configured so that WordPress runs perfectly. The winner of this contest will get the hostBasic plan for 1 year which allows UNLIMITED bandwidth and disk space.

See more of details of what Site5 has to offer here.

How to Participate

This giveaway will run from today until January 29, 2012. We are using this awesome giveaway widget from Rafflecopter to host the giveaway, so to participate and win Web Hosting from Site5, all you have to do is follow the instruction on the giveaway widget below.

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As you might remember, about 2 weeks ago we had a survey running and the results are now in! If you were one of the AWESOME ColorLabs users that filled the survey out, then check below to see if you won one of the 10 free “All for One” deal licenses. Continue reading »

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Since our company meetup last November we have so many ideas on what we are going to do and where we are heading on 2012.

Before we do that, we would like to dive deep into why you became ColorLabs WordPress themes users and understand what you need from us and how we and WordPress could potentially improve the experience for you. By taking our quick, 5 minute survey, you’ll be giving us a lot of valuable insight into this.

10 random users who complete the short survey will win a free “All for One” deal license. So not only will we help you with pushing even better products, but you could also win prizes in the process.

Complete the short survey here.

The ColorLabs End-of-Year Survey will end on December 23, 2011 ET.

Thank you so much for your time and good luck!

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So two weeks ago we launched the first ever Twitter contest here on ColorLabs, thanks to the generosity of our sponsor, Site5. And now it’s time for me to announce the winner!

For this contest we received 55 entries. To pick the winner, I pointed my trusty web browser to random.org and entered all participants’ Twitter names into the List Randomizer. From that list was generated a random order list, and the first 5 names and winners of one year hosting plan from Site5. And the winners are: Continue reading »

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Contest Update

We got some request to extend the deadline from some who just found out about the contest, so yes, we’re gonna give you another chance! We decided to extend the contest deadline. We will receive the entries until 7.00 am UTC 28 Oct, 2011. After that, no more entry will be counted. Now, what are you waiting for? Read on!

We’ve teamed up with Site5 to hold a Twitter contest giveaway. 5 lucky winners will receive one-year hosting plan worth $71.40 from Site5! Here is your good chance to try out Site5 for free. Anyone is welcome to enter this contest. No purchase is necessary.

About Site5

Site5 was created to provide high quality web hosting services for individual blogs as well as hosting to large companies. Site5 is great place to host WordPress. Their servers are configured so that WP runs perfectly. The winner of this contest will get the hostBasic plan for 1 year which allows UNLIMITED bandwidth and disk space.  See more of the details of the hostBasic account you will be winning here.

Super easy entry!

All you have to do is to Tweet this…

I might win 1 year hosting worth $71.40 from @Site5 because I follow @ColorLabs Details at http://colorlabs.co/oJPh5Z #colorlabsquiz

After you have done that we will take your entry on our account and will consider you for the contest.

Contest Rules

• If you win, we will send a Direct Message containing the details on how to claim the prize to your Twitter account, so following @ColorLabs on Twitter is mandatory.
• The contest will last until 7.00 am UTC 28 Oct, 2011. Any tweet after that will be disqualified.
• Limit one entry per Twitter account.
• No purchase necessary to enter. A purchase will not Improve your chances of winning.

At the end of the giveaway we will pick the winners randomly after it has been verified that each of them has completed the required entry. Winner will be announced on @ColorLabs and the blog.

Good luck – We’ll see you on Twitter!

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The contest has just ended. After receiving 104 wonderful WordPress theme concepts and selecting the best 12 for the finalists, we finally are about to announce you the winners. Again, we deeply thank all of you that have participated in the contest and we look forward to seeing you again in our next theme design contest.

Before we annouce you the winners, we would like to say our special thanks to the judges: Jason Schuller, Jean-Baptise Jung from WPRecipes.com, Alexander Frison from WPEngineer.com, Jeff Chandler, Michael Castilla from WPCandy.com, and Michael Dobler from Smashing Magazine. It’s been so wonderful working together with you guys and your comments about the designs are deeply appreciated.

Here comes what you’ve been waiting for. The grand champion entitled for US$ 1500 is Firman Firdaus with his concept TypeMagz! He is the winner of the Category C (Newspaper/Magazine) and his design is the best among the 12 finalists.

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It’s (nearly) a wrap. The submission period has just ended and it’s been so exciting to see 104 wonderful WordPress theme concepts from contestants in different countries of the world. We deeply thank all of you that have participated in the contest. And as we all know, there are obviously people who succeed making their way into the final now and there are also people who do that later in the future (let’s hope that we can host another theme contest, right?).

Anyway, we know that you’ve been waiting for this. Here are the finalists, in a totally random order. We deliberately do not publish the designs as the competition has currently not ended (yet). Please welcome the finalists! (drum snares…)
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Designing a dream WordPress theme?

What do you believe in designs? We believe that great designs are designs that speak and function. They were developed through insightful inspirations and born to convey an important message to the viewers. Although designs are always eye-candies, we do believe that awesomeness lies beyond.

Talking about WordPress, what do you think an awesome high quality WordPress themes should look like? Should they have vivid colors? Clear typography? Great content readability? Or perhaps something that conventional graphic design theories forget?

Well, we guess this is your time to decide. Express your insights by designing a theme concept for us. Show yourself off, gain some recognition, and not to mention, there is a total prize of US$ 3500 available for you, talented designers.
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