Sandbox Design Competition Results

Early results are out, a round of applause for all the participants. Although some of the results are surprising, rest assured, you will see many Sandbox based themes rolling into wpSnap shortly.

Posted by Snap! on August 6th, 2007 | Tagged: Best of WordPress, Design Competition, DJFX, Dot Dot Dot, Keyboard Shortcuts, New Release, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, Resources, RSS Feeds, Sandbox Theme, Selection, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, wpsnap, wpSnap News

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Sandbox Design Competition – and the Winner is…

It’s too early to call, but one thing is for sure, the 40 or so designers and enthusiasts who put in their time and effort deserve a big round of applause. With that said, without being too critical and hopefully the judges are not reading this, we picked a few we feel will have a [...]

Posted by Snap! on August 5th, 2007 | Tagged: Design Competition, Design Inspiration, DJFX, Dot Dot Dot, Free Downloads, Inspiration, Keyboard Shortcuts, New WP Themes, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, Prosumer, Red, Resources, RSS Feeds, Sandbox Theme, Social Bookmarking, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress designers, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, wpsnap

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Think Color

We often find seasoned bloggers using clean templates with little or no color and hardly any imagery. Colors and graphics do make a theme visually appealing, however they do conflict with the content if not used carefully. All themes cannot be plain and generic though, so for those of you who love colors and are constantly looking for inspiration, here are a few resources (which some of you might be familiar with) to jazz up your themes!

COLOUR lovers is a resource that monitors and influences color trends by providing not only color galleries, but a palette of the trendiest colors in the blogosphere based on a variety of genres. It would serve as a good reference guide for web design, architectural specifications, interiors, product design, ad campaigns, magazines, etc. You can also suggest a website of your choice for an add. It’s cool and contemporary, and one of the hottest sites for color resources.

Color Combos offers a variety of irresistible features such as:

Combo Tester: Extracts colors from websites, gives complimentary color options, gives text color options, and you can even try your own template with different header, sidebar, footer color and text options.

Color Library: For color combination ideas

Articles: On colors, color meaning and application.

Daily color scheme (Beta) provides you one inspirational and usable easy color scheme a day. If you do not want to use the colorpicker or the eyedropper tool, this site is for you. As of now, you cannot make a search to get instant color information of a site that is not listed in their archives. The enhanced search feature will definitely make it a steal.

The ColorBurn widget features a new color palette every day with 4 colors, along with its hexadecimal values. Each daily palette has the option to change your background from black to white and back again. Previous palettes are saved for one week.

Color Schemer Studio is a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals. Mix, match, darken, lighten, and add your own color combinations to the gallery.

Posted by Snap! on August 3rd, 2007 | Tagged: Artistic tools, Bittbox, color burn, color combos, color schemer studio, Colors, Colour lovers, daily color schemes, Design Inspiration, Dot Dot Dot, Graphics, Hearts, Keyboard Shortcuts, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, Resources, RSS Feeds, Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress Themes, wpsnap

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Social Bookmarking Icon Set by Vikiworks

Cute, tiny cool Web2.0 Icons… Vikiworks just released part II collection of 10 social bookmarking icons, including icons for Newsvine, Furl, Windows live, Blinklist, Blogger, Lifelogger etc. All icons are sized to 64*64 in PNG format. You can check the terms and conditions of use (if any) and download here!

Posted by Snap! on August 1st, 2007 | Tagged: Bittbox, Cool Buttons, Creative, Free Downloads, Free Web 2.0 Icons, Freebies | Free Web 2.0 Icons, Icon Set, PimpDaBlog, Resources, RSS Feeds, Social Bookmarking, Utombox, Vikiworks, wpsnap

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Melmac

Melmac 2C is an advanced “widget� and “adsense� ready Web 2.0 WordPress theme with a professional look by Headsetoptions and MandarinMusing partly based on a design by Goroton. This clean, professional theme has an option page to change the background image to black, green or red, or change the fonts, font color and much more. [...]

Posted by headsetoptions on July 29th, 2007 | Tagged: 2 Column, Black, Blue, Free Downloads, Hearts, Melmac, My2Gig-Butterfly, New Release, New WP Themes, Plugins, Prosumer, Red, Resources, RSS Feeds, Selection, submit your themes, Themes, White, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes

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Sandbox Design Competition Final Entries

The Sandbox Competition comes to a close, the entries are in and some of the screenshots and designs are already being made available. Since there is no one place to view (until August 2nd) and demo them all, we will list them here (updated on the go) for the viewing pleasure of those following this [...]

Posted by Snap! on July 29th, 2007 | Tagged: Bittbox, Clazh, Curiouspixel Diana Design, Dean J Robinson, Design Competition, DJFX, Freebies | Free Web 2.0 Icons, Keyboard Shortcuts, Morangodesign, New Release, New WP Themes, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, Prima Web, Prosumer, Resources, RSS Feeds, Sandbox Theme, Selection, Sunburntkamel, Themes, Upstart Blogger, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, wpsnap, wpSnap News

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