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!
The Competition
I want you to create the most fantastic ThemeForest template you're capable of. We'll be choosing the five best submissions between now and April 21 (anniversary). You're free to submit a sleek HTML/CSS website, WordPress template, or a complete Joomla site!
What Will I Win?
We have bunches of prizes to award to the top five winners.
5th Place
- $50 credit to be used on all of the Envato Marketplaces
- 3 Month Plus Membership
- Exposure on Nettuts+ and ThemeForest.net
4th Place
- $50 credit to be used on all of the Envato Marketplaces
- 3 Month Plus Membership
- Exposure on Nettuts+ and ThemeForest.net
3rd Place
- $75 credit to be used on all of the Envato Marketplaces
- 3 Month Plus Membership
- 1 copy of E-Text Editor
- Exposure on Nettuts+ and ThemeForest.net
2nd Place
- $125 credit to be used on all of the Envato Marketplaces
- 12 Month Plus Membership
- 1 copy of "jQuery UI 1.6", by Dan Wellman
- Exposure on Nettuts+ and ThemeForest.net
1st Place Champion:
2 Years Media Temple RAGE Server - $2000 Value!
Media Temple hosts websites. Big and Small. For years we've taken complex technology and simplified it for the everyday website owner. Our products are designed to be powerful, affordable and relevant. Please take a look around; perhaps (mt) is a good choice for your next project.
1 copy of E-Text Editor
E is a new text editor for Windows, with powerful editing features and quite a few unique abilities. It makes manipulating text fast and easy, and lets you focus on your writing by automating all the manual work. You can extend it in any language, and by supporting TextMate bundles, it allows you to tap into a huge and active community.
12 Months Membership to our Plus Program
If you’re enjoying our Tuts+ sites, you’ll love Plus. For a low monthly fee you’ll get access to an exclusive members site complete with hundreds of source files from all your favorite tutorials, special Plus-only tutorials that everyone else doesn’t get and regular bonus downloads of vector and brush packs, layer styles, tools and more.
$200 Credit Towards the Envato Marketplaces
Whether you're in need of site templates, Flash files, audio samples, or icons, the marketplaces have you covered!
1 Copy of jQuery UI 1.6
Build highly interactive web applications with ready-to-use widgets of the jQuery user interface library.
1 Copy of Learning jQuery 1.3
Revised and updated for version 1.3 of jQuery, this book teaches you the basics of jQuery for adding interactions and animations to your pages. Even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled, this book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features.
Featured Author of the Week on ThemeForest
If you're chosen as the 1st place winner, your profile and template will be featured on the front page of ThemeForest!
Also...
- Your template will be included in a round-up of this competition's winners. This article will be featured on both Nettuts+ and "In the Woods".
- As a result, your work will be exposed to over 40,000 RSS subscribers!
Don't forget that your theme will also enjoy plenty of sales on ThemeForest.net, of which you'll receive a minimum of 40% per sale!
How Many Sales Will I Make on ThemeForest?
It's obviously difficult to say. However, you may rest assured that, if your template is professional and well-crafted, you'll do quite well! In fact, we're having to create new "sales" badges because some members have surpassed our expectations!
Meanwhiles I'm making a new marketplace badge for people who've sold $250,000+ .. because we're about to get our first one. Amazing stuff!
- Collis Taeed (via Twitter)
How Do I Enter?
- Create a unique template (HTML/CSS, WordPress, Joomla, or Miscellaneous Category)
- Submit it to ThemeForest
- Once the template has been approved, email nettutsblog@gmail.com and include a link to your item. When you do so, enter "Anniversary Competition" as the "subject".
- On April 21, the winners will be announced!
How Will the Winners Be Chosen?
The judges and I will be asking ourselves the following questions when choosing the winners.
- Is this item aesthetically pleasing?
- Has it been coded well? Does it follow best practices.
- Is it marketable? We're looking for fantastic templates that will prove to profitable for both you and us. Will this item appeal to the masses?
- Does it stand out among other similar templates? Is it unique?
Terms and Conditions
- You WILL NOT be entered into the competition unless you email nettutsblog@gmail.com with a link to your template, after it's been accepted.
- Entry is open to any reader who is NOT a paid staff member.
- Any approved file uploaded between NOW and 11:59PM April 20, 2009 (Central Standard Time) is eligible.
- Prizes will be awarded to the winners within a maximum of thirty days.
- The five winners will be selected solely at the discretion of Nettuts+ and its staff.
- All decisions are final.
- For questions and/or concerns, contact the Nettuts+ editor: nettutsblog@gmail.com.
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )brian April 7th
Awesom!
( )Nick D April 7th
Good lord, another competition to distract me from my other projects!
( )Jordan April 7th
Oh wow, this is enough to even tempt me to get off my butt to create something.
( )saurabh shah April 7th
my goodness….. its awesome …
( )Marko April 7th
Nice indeed!
( )Hein April 7th
Just in time, me Dev just finished a wordpress version for themeforest
will upload it tomorrow
Regards,
( )Hein
Mike April 7th
What’s a mac user supposed to do with e-text editor?
( )Meshach April 7th
That was a stupid thing to say.
( )lawrence77 April 7th
Don’t insult others
Michael Owens April 7th
It’s a reasonable thing to comment about, considering I would assume a moderate portion of the users of this site only touch Windows when they have to bug test in Internet Explorer.
Granted, the same could be said about a Mootools or Prototype/Scriptaculous developer getting books about jQuery.
All of the prizes are not going to satisfy everyone. Mike is apparently one of those people.
Meshach April 7th
@lawrence77:
Sorry, it just really annoys me when people are so un-grateful.
I apologize.
lawrence77 April 7th
@Meshach:
no problem, no need to apologize!
its a simple matter….
I just say my thought!
@MOwnes: you are correct!
Mike April 9th
In what way is that stupid? What is the point of a competition where one of the main prizes is only for windows users? 95% of the designers/developers I know work exclusively on Mac or Linux.
What do I have to be grateful for? “Here is a competition where the prize is totally useless to you.” Thank you, just what I never wanted.
Ryan Hickman April 7th
Rock and Roll Baby! Rock and Roll!
( )genius_advice April 7th
can we also submit wordpress themes to themeforest for the competition?
( )Jeffrey Way April 7th
Yep!
( )Nuruzzaman Sheikh April 7th
hi Jeff,
I am from Bangladesh. PayPal is not available in my country.
So, is there any way I can participate envato Network?
Jeffrey Way April 7th
Sure. We’re not sending any PayPal payments with this competition.
Liam McCabe April 7th
/craps himself
( )kevinsturf April 7th
awesome,I guess i have to hurry it up with my template im currently building.
( )redwall_hp April 7th
What is the deadline for the submission? You said the judging will be on the 21st, is the deadline the same day?
( )Jeffrey Way April 7th
The deadline is April 20, 11:59 PM
( )Shane April 7th
Trust me to always be picky, but screenshot says jQuery UI 1.6, heading says jQuery UI 1.7.
I wish I had some spare time – good luck to everybody who enters!
Oh – happy birthday, and thanks!
( )Jeffrey Way April 7th
Thanks, Shane. <muscle memory>
( )lawrence77 April 7th
Awesome
Day by day nettuts become beautiful than other in the Envato! 
I miss those contests…
( )No problem i join the competition in the 2nd Anniversary!
Jarod April 7th
What the
( )Ace of Spades April 7th
nettuts….its time to get smashed man
( )Gopal Raju April 7th
Awesome!
Gopal Raju
( )productivedreams.com
twitter.com/gopalraju
Michael Owens April 7th
Congrats on a year NETTUTS.
TUTS has sure come a long way since the original PSDTUTS.
( )Sirwan April 7th
Hey Great competition Jeffrey excellent prizes.. although I would never understand the fuss with MediaTemple. I would love to enter this with a wordpress theme.
( )kevin April 7th
you can
( )Jeffrey Way April 7th
I’ve found Media Temple to be fantastic – never once had a problem.
Chris Robinson April 17th
Love MediaTemple as well, they’ve had a few hiccups here and there but overall their service and support is second to none.
( )mamjed April 7th
holy sh** that is one attractive first prize!
( )Rick Blalock April 7th
Happy Anniversary!
Just curious, what does this mean: “Submit……..a complete Joomla site”?
I think you mean a Joomla template right? Or do you mean we can send you a site in Joomla that we’ve done?
( )Jeffrey Way April 7th
I just mean a template.
( )Benny April 7th
It’s my birthday too.
( )Philo April 7th
Great!
Got a question though:
“Entry is open to any reader who is NOT a paid staff member.”
Does this include nettuts authors?
( )Jeffrey Way April 7th
No. Authors are free to submit.
( )Callum April 7th
If only I had the time for this. So tempted by the Media Temple prize…
( )markokaup April 7th
Wow .. Well I have to sya that MT Rage server prize gives me hard-on!
( )Maybe I should do my thing and submit this comp!
Saro April 7th
Awesomeness!
( )Justin Scheetz April 7th
This is VERY enticing. One question, though: Once our 2 years is up with the Rage server, would we then have to continue paying $100 to Media Temple to keep it going, or I guess downgrade to the $50/month server (which is what I have now)?
( )Jeffrey Way April 7th
Hey Justin,
Yeah – after the two years, you’d be responsible for the monthly payment. But, you’d, of course, be free to downgrade – or cancel your plan.
I hope you enter!
( )Doug April 7th
I might just try this. This could definitely get me some attention!
( )Evan April 7th
I’m not much of a designer but I regularly buy on themeforest,
Thanks for creating incentive for more insanely-high-quality themes yet
You guys make my life much more productive
( )Taylor Satula April 7th
Alas I wish I had the über skills, I’ll take a shot though. If nothing elese web will get some great themeforest themes
( )Karu April 7th
Well with the prizes given o the 1st place it looks quite unfair for the runner ups .
( )dronix April 7th
lol then I’m guessing you should shoot for the first place
( )Karu April 8th
Yea I am gearing for the First Place
Muhammad Adnan April 7th
yes , it looks unfair with runner ups .
( )Jeffrey Way April 8th
To be honest, I did it that way on purpose. We want to award the best of the best.
ThaClown April 7th
Congrats! your site rocks, keep it up..
( )Alvaro April 7th
That’s an absolutely awesome first price… just the exposure on tuts+ sites is worth enough to enter, add a Media Temple hosting for free… is insane
Happy anniversary!
( )Jeffrey Way April 8th
I know. I hope you’ll enter!
( )Joe April 7th
This is a great competition, I will be sure to take part.
Can we enter more than one template for the competition?
( )Harsh Agrawal April 8th
Great
( )Ben April 8th
OMG!! @ Years of (mt) dv hosting !!
( )Awesome guys.. at least I must participate.
Ben April 8th
// I mean 2 Years.
( )newcreditfileuk April 8th
new credit file in the U.K. worth £7.95
( )Steve April 8th
Well that’s an easy way to enter! Easy as pie! I’ll get right on that!
( )Pat April 8th
Yeah, all you have to do is create revenue for envato and then you have a one in 500,000 chance of winning. Deal!
( )Jeffrey Way April 8th
Pat,
I’m sorry, but you’re mistaken. Are you seriously implying that 500,000 people will enter this contest? On the contrary, probably less than fifty will enter.
Second, the author will be making money each time his template sells on ThemeForest.
Steve April 8th
Yep, the author will be making a pathetic amount off of the template at themeforest, forgot about that. This is such a deal.
Vivekanand April 8th
Nice to see this, hmm… I need to take some time for this….
( )SlyzeR April 8th
Awesome one! .. i think i will give a try on a one!
( )awake April 8th
Fantastic…
Now I can sit back and wait for them fantastic templates to start rolling out so I can buy them so hurry up designers
Are admin themes included in this?
( )Mnowluck April 8th
Wish I knew how to Photoshop good
( )ARS April 8th
Is javascript allowed?
( )Jeffrey Way April 8th
Of course.
( )Nuruzzaman Sheikh April 8th
Damn!
I didn’t say that.
Sorry I should to made little abstraction. Anyway I wanted to say PayPal is not available in my country and can I publish any tutorial throughout envato Network?
Dalton Hurd April 8th
Are you only looking for pure XHTML/CSS templates or Joomla templates? I didn’t see any mention of WordPress.
( )Jeffrey Way April 8th
Sure. WordPress is allowed too!
( )Straderade April 8th
Happy Anniversary NetTuts!
I was floored when I seen Media Temple RAGE Server as part of the 1st Prize winner – to bad I’m not good enough to compete in this.
Congrats in advance to the one who wins! Look forward to seeing the winners.
( )Kajik April 8th
Are we allowed to upload multiple files? (Wordpress & HTML/CSS).
( )The prizes are absolutely awesome! Thanks for this great competition.
Elliot April 8th
Very interesting.
What happens to the designs submitted as entries for the contest? they remain property of the designer, right?
From your comments, I assume you will be judging the design and XHTML+CSS rather than a, for example, WordPress implementation? I mean, judging a Joomla implementation would be quite different than a WordPress implementation, and a Joomla theme must met a lot more requirements than a WP theme.
( )Dalton Hurd April 8th
From what I gather, you still get normal profit from your submission. I believe under their user contract, they don’t allow you to retract a template once it’s put onto their website.
( )John April 8th
Just curious is the 40% of the sale only for the first prize or for all
I will give it a try
( )Jeffrey Way April 8th
When you sign up for a ThemeForest account (free, of course), you’ll start out with a 40% cut on each sale.
( )Michael April 8th
Great competition, im sure there will be some stiff competition though. By the way on psdtuts the advertising banner obscures the drop down menu, its incredibly annoying.
( )Brad April 9th
Wow…2 FREE jQuery books….I don’t think have a choice!
( )Ariyo April 9th
fanfreakin’tastic
( )Design Jar April 9th
Great Comp, Il have to give this ago.
( )Smuliii April 10th
Can I send more than one theme to this competition to improve my chance to win?
( )Daan Weijers April 11th
Oh Nice
( )Currently I’ve got a nice theme in the make, I hope it’ll be finished on time
Lumzor April 11th
Oh my god! This is soo great!
I definitively want to take part
( )insic April 12th
wow! nice prizes.
( )Muhammad Adnan April 13th
can i send more than 1 templates to the competition ?
( )Ben Swift April 13th
Haven’t entered this yet..
I HAVE THE MOST AWESOMEST IDEA
Just save me the (mt) server
( )Rachel April 16th
Can flash templates be submitted?
( )kevinsturf April 18th
dude read the article:
it stated at the top:
( )“You’re free to submit a sleek HTML/CSS website, WordPress template, or a complete Joomla site! “
Robert April 16th
How about just a badass Photoshop design?
( )Jeffrey Way April 20th
We’re not accepting PSD files for the competition.
( )tatil May 14th
thank you
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