I’m both super excited and sad to announce the winners of our first annual Anniversary competition! Why sad, you might ask? This contest was extremely close - close enough to delay this announcement for two days! As our contestants are aware, I intentionally introduced a grand prize that was far beyond the second through fourth place prizes. Knowing that, it became essential to spend as much time as possible determining the true champion. Each of the templates listed below were deserving of the first place seat, but only one could be crowned.

Many factors were considered when deciding: aesthetics, documentation, coding practices, average sales per day, etc. So without further ado, here are the best of the best.

Thanks again to our sponsors: MediaTemple, E Text-Editor, and Packt Publishing. We’re all huge fans of the services you offer.

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Three weeks ago, we announced our largest competition ever. Thanks to the generosity of some great companies - including MediaTemple, E Text-Editor, Packt, etc. - we were able to offer many fantastic prizes to the winners.

Today is decision day. We have the difficult task of choosing the best five templates that were submitted within this time span - and we need your help! If you’re willing, please review the following submissions and leave a comment with your choices for the top five templates. We’ll then combine your scores with ours and announce the winners! So put on your reviewer hat and get started!

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Believe it or not, we are rapidly approaching our one-year anniversary! What better way to celebrate than to raffle off some prizes and host our biggest competition yet? Most notably, we have a $2000 RAGE server to award, courtesy of Media Temple! This is a competition you don’t want to miss out on!

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This week, I have five copies of “Sexy Web Design” to raffle off, courtesy of SitePoint! Written by Elliot Jay Stock, this beautifully laid out guide will teach you how to create stunning web designs.

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Generously, the folks over at Packt Publishing were nice enough to send me some copies of the recently released Learning jQuery 1.3, by Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer. I just finished reading it this past weekend. It’s fantastic, and should be on your bookshelf!

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After three weeks, I’m proud to announce the winners of our first ever screencast competition! We received dozens of fantastic submissions. Though tough, I was able to narrow the list down to the top five. Over the course of this week, be prepared for video training on subjects ranging from jQuery to Django! Congratulations to the five winners, and be sure to check in on Friday (Saturday for some) to view the 1st place tutorial!

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Hi, everyone! This is just a friendly reminder that you only have one day left to enter the screencast and “New Year” competitions. So hurry up; you’re running out of time!

Starting with the former; the top five screencasts submitted by January 31, 11:59 pm (Central Time) will receive a minimum of $150. The latter is offering $300 cash to the authors of the best ten templates that are submitted in January.

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Two weeks left! This month, both NETTUTS and ThemeForest are running a competition. Starting with the former; the top five screencasts submitted by the end of January will receive a minimum of $150. The latter is offering $300 cash to the authors of the best ten templates that are submitted in January.

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Those of you who have come to know me have probably noticed that I’m a big fan of video training. Personally, I’m a visual learner and can extract much more from an easy to understand screencast as opposed to the written word.

Considering this, I’ve decided to launch our first ever screencast competition!

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It’s contest time! ThemeForest is starting 2009 with a bang! We have $3,000 cash to give away to ten brilliant designers. The authors of the top ten site template submissions in January will each receive a $300 bonus!

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