Textplates ‘07 (Textpattern Template Design Competition)
6 June 2007 – 21:59The deadline for submissions if June 27th, 2007 at 11:59 PM EST.
About the Competition
This competition was begun to bring originality in design to the Textpattern CMS. Prior to this competition, the only templates available have been ports from other popular systems such as Wordpress or Nucleus.
Last year’s competition was incredibly successful and resulted in over [...]
The deadline for submissions if June 27th, 2007 at 11:59 PM EST.
About the Competition
This competition was begun to bring originality in design to the Textpattern CMS. Prior to this competition, the only templates available have been ports from other popular systems such as Wordpress or Nucleus.
Last year’s competition was incredibly successful and resulted in over forty great templates, all of which are now freely available and have been downloaded over 100,000 times.
Submissions ranged from simple stylesheet switches to complex plugin/template creations, but all were created in the spirit of the Textpattern community and open-source.
Judges
This year’s panel of judges includes many illustrious figures in the web design world
- Layout – Based on the judges’ determination of the novelty of the layout (30 points)
- Design – The overall look including graphics and styles (20 points)
- Code – Is the code valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional or Strict, and is the CSS valid? Is the code structurally semantic?
- Features – Are there any additional and useful features? (10 points)
- Ease of Use – How easily customizable is the template? How thorough is the documentation? (10 points)
- Browser/Platform Support and Accessibility – The site must render correctly in all modern browsers including Firefox Win/Mac, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and Safari. The site should also be usable in older browsers such as Internet Explorer 5+ Win/Mac and older versions of Netscape. (20 points)
The judges will score the submissions based on the criteria listed above. The judges’ scores (out of a possible 100 points) will be averaged to give a final template score that will be used to rank the templates.
In the event of a tie among prize-winning rankings, the judges will rescore the affected templates until a ranking is complete.
Instructions
- All themes must be released under a GPL compatible license (if no license is specified, submitting the template automatically applies this license).
- The templates must be the designer’s original work (No ports).
- All templates must be in the correct format with proper documentation similar to the examples.
- All templates must be submitted as zipped archives (.zip extension) with a 125×125 pixel screenshot.
- All submissions must include a link to a live demonstration of the template.
- Send all submissions to tomfadial@gmail.com and include:
- The attached, zipped template (including screenshot)
- Path to demo of template
- Your Name
- Your Homepage (if applicable)
- Your Comments
- There is no limit to the number of templates you can submit.
- The template should look good and function properly on all modern browsers.
- Firefox (Win/Mac)
- Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (Win)
- Safari (Mac)
- The deadline for submissions if June 27th, 2007 at 11:59 PM EST.
The Prizes
We have a ton of fantastic prizes (over $11,000 worth!) to give away to the winners and first 50 submitters.
Visit the official site (Textplates.com) for complete information.
