Icy Phoenix

Show Off Of The Month Contest!

There is no doubt the styles you download from Icy Phoenix are stunning. Some Icy Phoenix users take it to the next level creating styles for use on their own site. It's amazing to see everything that is possible on Icy Phoenix boards!

We decided to create a new side-feature of the Icy Phoenix support website that features outstanding graphical design on Icy Phoenix websites! The staff will be taking nominations at the beginning of the next release for websites that have a certain graphical genius to them. We will then select the best three nominated websites and vote anonymously on the absolute best!

The winning website will:

• Receive a special graphic from Icy Phoenix to display on their website showing their website was voted the best!
  
• Gain access to the Special Guests group!
  
• Have their website featured in our Links section!

As with any contest, there are special rules:



The contest will start at the next official release of Icy Phoenix! (Not including beta versions.)

TheSteffen created a small graphic for the winner of each contest:

I wanted to remind everyone about this contest that we'll feature every month. We will include RC (Release Candidate) websites too!

You can nominate an Icy Phoenix website to be in the running for Show Off of The Month. Only one specific website nomination per cycle. One user can nominate one website.

I will be creating a new topic for everyone to post their nominations soon!

Sorry but I did not understand!
Write here the link the site to register for the contest?
The contest started?

We are going to start the contest now, but I'll create a new topic for everyone to post their nominations.

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Gain access to the Special Guests group!

and what is when i'am already in it?

maybe access to staff area or something?

We'll come up with something special if you win.

Chaotic wrote: [View Post]

We'll come up with something special if you win.

give me some months i need to recreate my site with 1.3

New Player wrote: [View Post]

and what is when i'am already in it?

maybe access to staff area or something?

You get 10,000 forum-point credits.

They're worth nothing, cost nothing, mean nothing - but at least you get them to spend or use in any way you wish!

Now that's a good prize.

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When submitting the website to be nominated, you must include three screen-shots of the website. The screen-shots should feature different parts of the website customisations. The screen-shots should be uploaded using our upload form (uploaded directly to Icy Phoenix). All images must be stored on Icy Phoenix using the Upload feature.

I don't agree with that entirely, because screen-shots and pretty pictures don't underline any other problems that the theme may have.

What I would suggest is that anyone wanting to submit their work, link to their site / theme and open a member account "Theme Judge" (or whatever), and pass the password to the nominated leader of the judges - who will then pass it to the "other" judges.

Pics can be posted when the award has been decided to ratify why it was chosen as the "Best of the month"

This is a nice theme (Well I think so anyway) - But how would you really know how it pans out unless you "explored it" with the least amount of fuss.

It could be really scabby as one gets further into it - - - - - -

And of course, there's the LoFi version of the theme that has to comply also.

http://lopalong.com/forum/forum.php

It's probably also not quite finished yet.

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The themes would also have to be judged / tested with both of the recognised browsers. - Namely FF and IE. Because what would be the purpose of judging something with FF when it falls apart in IE or vice-versa ?

And please, no "everyone should use FF or Opera bullsh*t"

I do not agree entirely with the above statement... basically as I have 2 sites that do not allow member access of any kind... plus the forum is not in use and a lot of other pages are not active....

so does that mean i can only enter a site that works for a fully operated icy site....

gets complicated lol

No! If one is passionate about creating "Nice" themes to show off, then one could open another test / theme site to display a working model.

Pics are useless when it comes to the complex arrangements of IP themes, and I don't care who disagrees with me.

Most, if not all theme sites have some sort of theme-only-live display, much like phpBB.com, any other way of doing it is meaningless, because what you see picture-wise - Is not necessarily what one is either going to get, or has been optimised for more than one browser.



So Yep! it does get more complicated, but that's what being fair and correct is when the "Medals" are being handed out. Anyone can submit pics, and that's why I disagree that pics don't really represent the "Finished Product"

And I'm not suggesting that themes presented for consideration (whether they win or not) - should be, or be expected to be made availailable for others to get their grubby little fingers on!

We discussed those ideas about a month ago and decided against it.

We're not going to get super complicated and dig into a design to purposely find all the errors we can. The staff will be judging the styles on basic appearance and how well everything flows from page to page. We will use different browsers to view nominated websites as I'm sure most of us already do.

The style we are told to be judging should be selectable or set as the default without having to log in. We do not want user accounts created for us.

The screenshots are just for quick reference to the style we are supposed to judge. The nominated website will still have to post a link to their website. We just like the screenshots hosted on Icy Phoenix so the images never get lost and they stay here forever.

You don't have to have a website solely for showing off your work to be passionate. The owner of http://www.souleateritalia.it/ seems passionate about his style, but I haven't seen a show-off board of his.

Thanks for providing some feedback about this contest, but the more complicated things get, the more time that is sucked out of staff providing support here.

Chaotic wrote: [View Post]

We discussed those ideas about a month ago and decided against it.

We're not going to get super complicated and dig into a design to purposely find all the errors we can. The staff will be judging the styles on basic appearance and how well everything flows from page to page. We will use different browsers to view nominated websites as I'm sure most of us already do.

The style we are told to be judging should be selectable or set as the default without having to log in. We do not want user accounts created for us.

The screenshots are just for quick reference to the style we are supposed to judge. The nominated website will still have to post a link to their website. We just like the screenshots hosted on Icy Phoenix so the images never get lost and they stay here forever.

You don't have to have a website solely for showing off your work to be passionate. The owner of http://www.souleateritalia.it/ seems passionate about his style, but I haven't seen a show-off board of his.

Thanks for providing some feedback about this contest, but the more complicated things get, the more time that is sucked out of staff providing support here.

I like less complicated

Sometimes things have to get complicated, but not a contest like this.

One would think that the themes would have to conform to most of the basic stuff of IP and not be done in such a way that would render them useless to other websites - Whether they are meant to be available to others or not.

Anyway, no doubt the rules will change as they go along; because I've never seen any other forum software give awards for themes that don't comply with the functions of the base code.

But! it's your ball game.

I hope most of the styles we see are rendered useless to others. A truly genius, stellar, and custom made style for a website really shouldn't be shared as it would have nothing to do with another website. I'm sure some of the nominated webmasters may create styles for use by others, but I doubt they'll share all their best work. It would be moronic to share their best style with anyone because they'd see it on a competitor's website.

We're not judging a website on MODS or functionality. We're only judging the template. We don't care if the site can do a somersault and make coffee while giving me a foot massage (although that would be nice). We'll of course look around at some of the pages, but we're not requiring webmasters to give us log in information.

If this were a super serious contest, you better believe we'd require a lot more of webmasters if they were to receive an award from us. The rules are pretty sturdy and I doubt they are going to change because we don't have a lot of time to meticulously dissect websites and styles. The rules we have are straight forward, lenient, and very accommodating. That's how we wanted this contest to flow.

Play ball everyone!

I think Gary already explained the most important points.

Anyway, just to recap.

• This is not a serious contest, we just want to stimulate users to customize their sites.
  
• We are not judging the template only, but the overall looking and customization.
  
• We will not deeply analise submitted sites... we have no time for that... we want only to highlight sites with an outstanding customization both in template and extra feature.
  
• We will not require any login credential... we will just check public content.
  
• Screenshots are not intended to judge the sites... they are just needed as a backup if the sites will go down or will change something in the future... of course also to have a quick preview, but nothing else!

Can I register my site? If the answer is yes three poster screenshot

You sure can!

Thanks!

Chaotic wrote: [View Post]

You sure can!

 

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In Obama's way: YES, YOU CAN!

That's right! I just don't know what he CAN do because he hasn't done anything yet. Owned.