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Theme name: Hello Snowman
Descriptions: 3 columns, right sidebar, widget ready, support Gravatar, rounded corner (at footer).

This Christmas theme is compatible with Wordpress 2.6 and tested in major browsers (i.e. Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera)

Enjoy!

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Note:
NA = Not Available, which means participants didn’t do the optional tasks.

Yellow highlight area (important!) = Participants provided the info at the comment section of the contest page. However, I couldn’t find their username at the particular sites. So, please check again and make sure that you have dugg, Stumble Upon the contest and fave this blog on technorati. After doing so, please comment at the contest page and I will add your earning points.

One more thing, please confirm/verify your email subscription (important!) if you haven’t. Your entries will not be counted if you didn’t do it, as it is a required task.

Please correct me if I count your entries wrongly. We still have 2 more weeks to go before the contest ends~!

Join now if you haven’t! You can win Entrecard credits, lots of ad spots, and cash prize. Not to forget the special prize (1 year hosting + 1 year domain name of your choice + blog design from us) which is good enough for you to move to your own domain name or to build a new blog.

Just a quick update. We are ‘baking’ a few *free* Christmas themes in our Wordpress kitchen. Be prepare to welcome Santa, Snowman, Christmas trees and decorations next week.

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Note:
NA = Not Available, which means participants didn’t do the optional tasks.

Yellow highlight area (important!) = Participants provided the info at the comment section of the contest page. However, I couldn’t find their username at the particular sites. So, please check again and make sure that you have dugg, Stumble Upon the contest and fave this blog on technorati. After doing so, please comment at the contest page and I will add your earning points.

One more thing, please confirm/verify your email subscription (important!) if you haven’t. Your entries will not be counted if you didn’t do it, as it is a required task.

Please correct me if I count your entries wrongly. We still have 3 more weeks to go before the contest ends~! Join now if you haven’t!

Nowadays, due to the heavy competition around the market, webhosting pricing are dropping radically this few years. I used to see web hosting that cost USD7.99 per month for a 50MB space. Nowadays, the space would be more or less 1GB, imagine the differences of only space. If you’re blogging like us here, these are the priority (At least I think so).

1, Blogging platform stable.
Make sure whatever blogging platform you’re using are stable with the hosting itself. cPanel provided a built in blogging platforms, but it doesn’t mean the machine itself support the platform well.

2, a) Webspace
For the space, I do not think that lot of space would be needed for blogging, even with pictures. 1 or 2 GB would last for years already, unless you upload video on the hosting (Why waste time? YouTube!). As for myself, a good 3 years blogging needed only 5MB with some pictures.

2, b) Database space
A lot of people didn’t realize this, there are limitation on database space too. Some webhosting only provide a 10MB database storage, if using only one blog, I think it’s more than enough, but if you have lots of blog in a host, beware.

3, Bandwidth
In a simple term, bandwidth is the transfer limitation. So if you host images and a heavy graphic web, note down how many bandwidth you might need before looking for one. For instancemk if your site’s front page is 100KB, with 100MB bandwidth, you can only allow roughly 1000 visitors every month.

These are just for the blogging ones There are more to know about hosting of course, like script supported, php version and etc. It’s all up to one’s preferences anyway. So be smart in choosing a webhosting. Don’t be like me before

Here is the list of the current participants and total entries (will post it every week until the contest ends):

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Note:
NA = Not Available, which means participants didn’t do the optional tasks.

Yellow highlight area (important!) = Participants provided the info at the comment section of the contest page. However, I couldn’t find their username at the particular sites. So, please check again and make sure that you have dugg, Stumble Upon the contest and fave this blog on technorati. After doing so, please comment at the contest page and I will add your earning points.

One more thing, please confirm/verify your email subscription (important!) if you haven’t. Your entries will not be counted if you didn’t do it, as it is a required task.

Please correct me if I count your entries wrongly. We still have 4 more weeks to go before the contest ends~!

But, why? The reason was:

URL leads to static page. Must go to most current and regularly updated page of blog.

So that was the problem. I remember that I changed the url in Entrecard to the contest page yesterday afternoon. I thought it won’t cause any problem as I have done it several time before. But, oh well, I’ve changed it back to the homepage and replied them. It shouldn’t be a problem now.

Lesson for today:
Update yourself with the current rules from Entrecard and make sure you read it carefully.

Side note:
The 3 months Blogoversary Contest has run for 4 days and participants keep on coming in. I will post the update of current participants’ list on tomorrow morning. It will be a weekly update until the contest ends and I plan to have ’secret entries’ where participants can gain more entries from doing extra tasks.

August 2008:
Page Rank : -
Technorati Authority : 75
Technorati Rank : 86,764
Alexa rank: 233,439
Number of Visits : 5181 (source: sitemeter)
Number of Views : 8767

September 2008:
Page Rank : 2
Technorati Authority : 114
Technorati Rank : 49,645
Alexa rank: 144,894
Number of Visits : 3066 (source: sitemeter)
Number of Views : 5551

October 2008:
Page Rank : 2
Technorati Authority : 143
Technorati Rank : 32,544
Alexa rank: 107,413
Page loads: 6317 (source: statcounter)
Unique visitors: 3915

What’s up for November?
We are having a contest to celebrate the 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! And, special prize for 1 lucky winner; 1 year domain name + 1 year webhosting + custom theme design.

Update on the contest
We are going to move the announcement date from 9th to 12th December or one week after the contest ends. Rose from Entrecard just informed me that they need 3 days to settle the random drawing after I send the entrants list to her. I myself need 2-3 days to count and double check the entries before send it to her. Thank you for the understanding.

Her reply:

If you submit the entrants to us on 12/8 I may not have time to turn around the winners on the 9th. Please give us three days to turn your winners around. It may be quicker than that, but there could be a lot going on and I wouldn’t want to disappoint anyone. Also, after I pick them then another person has to transfer the credits, so we need to give him time to do this as well.

Now, join the contest if you haven’t~!

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.

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.