3 months Blogoversary Contest at SimplyWP

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SimplyWP hits 3 months old on October. We gained PR 2 and won the 2nd place of Wordpress Theme Design Contest Series 3 from Lunarpages recently. It has been a good 3 months of blogging, releasing free Wordpress themes, and creating custom theme.

Now, we are launching this contest to celebrate SimplyWP 3 months Blogoversary! There is total 47,000 Entrecard Credits to be won, along with some cash prize (payment via Paypal) and lots of 125×125 ad spots for 10 lucky winners! Not to forget, there is a special prize for 1 lucky winner! It will be good enough if you want to move from Blogger.com to Wordpress with your own domain and hosting.

A special thanks to all the sponsors! This contest would not be possible without your help. Oh, before I forget, sponsors can join this contest too.

Alright, cut the crap~! Let’s check out the prizes below.

PRIZES:

Prize #1: ( $15, 15000 EC Credits, ad spots )
$10 from BlipBit
$5 from My Life’s Adventure
5000 EC Credits from Wiehanne Lounge
5000 EC Credits from Wiehanne Contest
1000 EC Credits from Random Detoxification
1000 EC Credits from Michael Aulia’s Tech Blog
1000 EC Credits from dramas of my life
1000 EC Credits from Momiespace
1000 EC Credits from LupuSurvivor
125×125 ad spot for 2 months at Pastel Corner
125×125 ad spot for 1 month at Call Center Gal
125×125 ad spot for 1 month at 24×7 Online Diva
125×125 ad spot for 1 month at Love Is A Precious Gift
125×125 ad spot for 1 month at A Message From My Heart
125×125 ad spot for 1 month at The Journey
125×125 ad spot for 1 month at Only in Silence
125×125 ad spot for 1 month at Hit-or-Miss

Prize #2: ( $10, 12000 EC Credits, ad spots )
3000 EC Credits and $10 from My Own Utopia, Sasha says, Sasha’s Corner
3000 EC Credits and 125×125 ad spot for 1 month from Serradinho.com
1000 EC Credits from Life Together Starts
1000 EC Credits from A Housewife’s Journal
1000 EC Credits from Make Money Online
1000 EC Credits from ThemeLib
500 EC Credits from All Healthy Tips
500 EC Credits from All Blogspot Templates
500 EC Credits from The Joy Of Life Forever
500 EC Credits from The Fountain Of Happiness
125×125 ad spot for 1 month at Call Center Gal
125×125 ad spot for 1 month at A Simple Married Life
125×125 ad spot for 1 month at Pinay Freelancer
125×125 ad spot for 2 weeks at 24patrol

Prize #3: ( $5, 9000 EC Credits, ad spots )
$5 from Earning Money Online
3000 EC Credits from Medan Daily
1000 EC Credits from Gettin’ Personal
1000 EC Credits from I Love Nice
1000 EC Credits from Erikson’s Home
1000 EC Credits from Multiply Themes
500 EC Credits from Heart random
500 EC Credits from Name Sherry
500 EC Credits from Days of My Life
500 EC Credits from Thomas Travel Tales
125×125 ad spot for 1 month at A Simple Married Life
125×125 ad spot for 1 month at 24×7 Online Diva
125×125 ad spot for 1 month at Pinay Freelancer

Prize #4: ( 5500 EC Credits, ad spots )
2000 EC Credits and 125×125 ad spot for 1 month from Night Clicks
500 EC Credits and 125×125 ad spot for 1 month from Genrya.com
500 EC Credits from Nita’s Random Thoughts
500 EC Credits from Nita’s Corner
500 Entrecard Credits from Healthy Living and Lifestyle
500 Entrecard Credits from Arts and Entertainment Center
500 Entrecard Credits from CompTechGadgets.com
500 Entrecard Credits from Erlinda’s Wandering Thoughts

Prize #5: ( 3000 EC Credits, ad spot)
1000 EC Credits and 125×125 ad spot for 1 month from atenean101
1000 EC Credits from The Couch Potato
500 Entrecard Credits from Filipino Online Community
500 Entrecard Credits from Great Finds and Deals

Prize #6:
500 EC Credits and 125×125 ad spot for 1 month from Wonderful Things In Life

Prize #7:
500 EC Credits and 125×125 ad spot for 1 month from Kahpeng.com

Prize #8:
500 EC Credits and 125×125 ad spot for 2 weeks from Contest For Bloggers

Prize #9:
500 EC Credits from Thomas Web Links
125×125 ad spot for 2 weeks at Journal of Journey

Prize #10:
500 EC Credits from maldita.us
125×125 ad spot for 2 weeks at i-heart-contest.com

SPECIAL PRIZE:
1 year webhosting from Benghan.com
1 year domain name of your choice from SimplyWP
Custom theme design for Wordpress from SimplyWP

HOW TO ENTER:

(Required) :
1. Subscribe to SimplyWP feed via Email and confirm your subscription - 5 entries
If you are already subscribed, please leave a comment in this post to enter the contest.

(Optional) :
2. Blog about the contest along with the Prizes and Sponsors links, link to SimplyWP and the contest post - 15 entries
You can post it in multiple blogs of yours to earn more entries. Click here to copy the Prizes and Sponsors links.

3. Add SimplyWP to your Technorati Favorite - 2 entries

4. Digg, Stumble upon, Delicious this contest - 2 entries for each action

5. Place the contest banner at your sidebar until the contest ends - 5 entries

Copy code for 125×125 Banner:

<a href="http://www.simplywp.net/2008/10/30/3-months-blogoversary-contest-at-simplywp/"><img src="http://www.simplywp.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/simplywpcontest125.jpg" alt="Simplywp contest 125" /></a>

Or

Copy code for 468×60 Banner:

<a href="http://www.simplywp.net/2008/10/30/3-months-blogoversary-contest-at-simplywp/"><img src="http://www.simplywp.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/simplywpcontest468.jpg" alt="Simplywpcontest468" /></a>

After completed your entries, kindly leave a comment in this post telling what you have done to enter the contest. Please include the following information:
the email address that you used for the feed subscription, your blog URL of the contest post, your Technorati ID, your ID of Digg/ Stumble Upon/ Delicious, the page where you post the contest banner

CONTEST TIMELINE

Contest officially starts today October 30th, 2008 and will end on December 5th, 2008 (10pm GMT+07.00). Winners will be drawn randomly using random.org and will be announced December 9th, 2008 a week after the contest end (Read the reason here).

Good Luck and Enjoy!

Note:

• We reserve the right to modify the contest mechanic and prizes as we see fit.
• Prizes such as domain name, domain hosting, Entrecard Credits, ad spots and blog design are NOT convertible to cash.
• If the prize(s) aren’t claimed within 7 days of announcement, we will draw the entries again and give the prize(s) to another participant(s).
• If you have any questions regarding the contest, don’t hesitate to contact us using the contact form.

Before contest starts

It is one day before the contest and we still receive quite a few sponsorship. I do have some hard time compelling the long sponsors list and arranging the prizes. It’s a good experience after all.

I contacted Rose regarding the Entrecard-credits-transfer to the winners and here is the answer:

At the end of your contest just send the EC sponsor entrecard member info and the same for the winner and we will transfer them for you tax free, any award that is 1000 ecs and above.

Oh, so how about prices below 500 ecs? For example: I have 4 blogs in an account, I sponsor 500 from each of my blogs, that is 2000 in total.

The 500 ecs should be transfered by the owner of the blog. We had to make a cut-off somewhere or we would be spending all our time transferring 25 and 50 credit ecs prizes. Your question regarding the 2,000 ec broken up into 4/500 prizes, since they get distributed to 4 winners, then you will need to transfer those.

Contest will start tomorrow! *excited* And, the contest post will be up at Entrecard blog within 2 weeks time.

Cutting CSS short

I’m sure a lot of people still using the same old CSS code that developed decade ago, where all the code are long as hell. I remember last time when I was coding the CSS together with table layout (Yeah, so?) Both files taking time to load due to the massive code in them. Here are my way on cutting short some code.

Normally padding and margin code would be a pain in the arse, for example:

#box {
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
}

Unless Dreamweaver which give will automatic add in those code for you, or else, you’ll have to be a fast typist or time taking. Here are the trick on cutting short.

#box {
padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px;
}

#boxy {
padding: 5px 10px;
}

Ok, a little confusion here. For the first one, it happen like this top, right, bottom, left. Or if you happen to have both top,bottom and left, right same padding, you can use 2 only, where it will automatic adjust to to top,bottom and left-right. Just how much time and typing it can save. This kinda long list also happen in background image as well, Google them out, save your CSS loading time and file size

Well, both of these CSS are most used in developing a site. So the rest, you can go and figure a way. Oh, link style also have some short cutting too. You might wanna look around before develop again. However, due to some reason, Internet Explorer has some problem rendering some of those short CSS though. It’s a big headache when it comes to Internet Explorer, always!

Update on Contest Sponsors

Last week, I’ve posted in my personal blog and also this blog about looking for sponsorship for the upcoming contest at SimplyWP. The respond is pretty good.

Here is the list of the contest sponsors and the prizes (excluded prizes from SimplyWP and me myself):

1 year web hosting from Benghan says
Two 125×125 ad for 1 month at Call Center Gal
Two 125×125 ad for 1 month at A Simple Married Life
Two 125×125 ad for 1 month at 24×7 Online Diva
Two 125×125 ad for 1 month at Pinay Freelancer
125×125 ad spot for 1 month at Only in Silence
3000 Entrecard Credits and $10 from My Own Utopia, Sasha says, Sasha’s Corner
3000 Entrecard Credits and 125×125 ad for 1 month from Serradinho.com
2000 Entrecard Credits and 125×125 ad spot for 1 month from Night Clicks
1000 Entrecard Credits and 125×125 ad for 1 month from atenean101
1000 Entrecard Credits from The Couch Potato
1000 Entrecard Credits from Life Together Starts
1000 Entrecard Credits from A Housewife’s Journal
1000 Entrecard Credits from Random Detoxification
1000 Entrecard Credits from ThemeLib
1000 Entrecard Credits from Gettin’ Personal
1000 Entrecard Credits from Make Money Online
1000 Entrecard Credits from Michael Aulia
1000 Entrecard Credits from I Love Nice
1000 Entrecard Credits from Erikson’s Home
500 Entrecard Credits from Days of My Life
500 Entrecard Credits from Nita’s Corner
500 Entrecard Credits from Thomas Web Links
500 Entrecard Credits from Nita’s Random Thoughts
500 Entrecard Credits from Thomas Travel Tales
500 Entrecard Credits from Filipino Online Community
500 Entrecard Credits from Great Finds and Deals
500 Entrecard Credits from Healthy Living and Lifestyle
500 Entrecard Credits from Arts and Entertainment Center
500 Entrecard Credits from CompTechGadgets.com
500 Entrecard Credits from Erlinda’s Wandering Thoughts
1000 Entrecard Credits from Multiply Themes
125×125 ad spot for two weeks at 24patrol
125×125 ad spot for two weeks at Journal of Journey
2 months ad space at Pastel Corner
500 Entrecard Credits and ad space for a month from Wonderful Things In Life
500 Entrecard Credits from The Joy Of Life Forever
1 month ad space at Love Is A Precious Gift - PR3
1 month ad space at A Message From My Heart - PR1
500 Entrecard Credits from The Fountain Of Happiness
$5 from My Life’s Adventure
$5 from Earning Money Online
500 Entrecard Credits from All Healthy Tips
500 Entrecard Credits from All Blogspot Templates
500EC and 125×125 ads for 2 weeks from Contest For Bloggers
500EC and 125×125 ads for 1 month from Kahpeng.com
500EC and 125×125 ads for 1 month from Genrya.com
500EC from maldita.us
125×125 ads for 2 weeks at i-heart-contest.com
1000 EC Credits from dramas of my life
1000 EC Credits from Momiespace
1000 EC Credits from LupuSurvivor
$10 from BlipBit
500 EC Credits from Heart random
500 EC Credits from Name Sherry

*Will update sponsor list from time to time

We are still open for sponsorship. Feel free to contact us if want to sponsor something (Entrecard credits, ad spot, review, paypal $, etc).

Contest will start tomorrow on 30th October.

A few big no-no for a blog

I’ve seen and surf a lot in Entrecard recently, looking for more spot to advertise. I don’t know about you all, but SimplyWP is quite strict on looking for the spot in Entrecard. Entrecard members started to lose their passion on Entrecard nowadays, at least it seems this way to me.

1, Sexy banner doesn’t make your traffic goes up
Content does. I’m sure a lot of bloggers who surf in Entrecard see a lot of sexy ladies banners, once you clicked in, the blogs are totally different with the banner itself. Well, this helps the blog to get some click through from Entrecard in a short run, but not on the long run.

2, Entrecard location
Previously I mentioned about putting them as high as possible on the sidebar or whatever highest place on your blog. We here, don’t look for that high, as long as it doesn’t require us to scroll a few times and LOOK for the Entrecard, it is fine. A lot of newbie did it good, that’s why recently we’re advertising on the newbie blog in Entrecard.

3, Background music
There is no need a background music. I mean, the reason you came into Entrecard because you want some publicity and some traffic, if not you wouldn’t have joined Entrecard. So keep your music or sound with you on your music player. Because this background music not only slowing the overall loading speed, it slow down the changes in Entrecard banner too.

4, Content content content
A lot of blogs I see in Entrecard using some magazine or community layout, whatever you called it. You need to keep clicking in order to see the full articles. Worse, there are tons of short articles with title on the front page. This my friend, keep it to the community. If you’re having a technology blog or any other niche content blog, let’s just use the common one. Because clicking = slowing down visitors = clicking X on the top right corner.

Back looking for some better Entrecard blogs to advertise about the next coming contest