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Announcement: Winner of Omnistar Affiliate Software

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:30:49 +0000

We held a giveaway last month for a 2-month Professional subscription to Omnistar Affiliate software, an easy-to-use web-based app for your affiliate marketing needs. This post announces the winner of this wonderful prize!

The Winner

Without further ado, I would like to let you know that the winner of the 2-month Professional subscription to Omnistar Affiliate software is:

Jason

Please join me in congratulating our winner by leaving a comment below! The winner should have already received an email regarding his prize.

About Omnistar Affiliate Software

The Omnistar Affiliate software was developed because of the basic need the creators saw in the industry for a user-friendly application that can be used to manage multiple affiliate programs from one interface. Most people managing affiliate programs are not technical people, and they need an intuitive and user-friendly solution that includes plenty of documentation. With this in mind, Omnistar Affiliate was created with the goal of making sure customers are successful with their affiliate programs by providing an intuitive and robust web-based application.

Try Omnistar free for 15 days, take the product tour and check out the live demo.

Exclusive Discount for Six Revisions Readers

Receive a 10% discount when you sign up for Omnistar Affiliate by using the following promo code:

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About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Announcement: Winners of TN3 Gallery Licenses

Facebook-Web-Design — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:05:52 +0000

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We recently held a giveaway for the excellent jQuery image gallery, TN3 Gallery. In this post, we announce the 5 lucky Six Revisions readers that won a Pro license to TN3 Gallery (value of $37).

The Winners

Here’s the list of winners of TN3 Gallery Pro licenses.

Congratulations to all the winners! You should’ve already received an email from me with information pertaining to your prize.

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About TN3 Gallery

TN3 Gallery is a powerful and customizable jQuery image gallery and slideshow.

TN3 Gallery comes with a Lite version. The Lite version has a pretty robust feature set. Use TN3 Gallery for free by downloading the Lite version.

Follow TN3 Gallery on Twitter @tn3gallery and join them on Facebook.

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Announcement: Winners of DropIn Giveaway

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:12:12 +0000

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We recently published a weeklong giveaway for 5 DropIn apps to be given to Six Revisions readers. Read on to see the list of winners of this excellent giveaway!

The Winners

Congratulations to the winners! You should have already gotten an email from me containing information about your prize.

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About DropIn

DropIn keeps your busy Dropbox account clean and clear by filtering and notifying you of important updates. Follow DropIn on Twitter @DropInApp.

DropIn is available at the Mac App store for a launch price of $1.99.

DropIn is developed by Something Interesting, formed in 2001 predominantly as a web design and development agency. Over the last 2 years, they’ve extended their services to include the creation of applications for the Mac and iOS platforms. Follow Something Interesting on Twitter @something_int.

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Announcement: Winners of Zyma Web Hosting

Facebook-Web-Design — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:07:51 +0000

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We recently held a giveaway for 2 years free web hosting on Zyma. 20 Six Revisions readers who participated were randomly selected to win this awesome prize, and in this post, you’ll see the list of winners.

The Winners

The winners of Zyma web hosting for 2 years are:

On behalf of the Six Revisions community, I’d like to congratulate our 20 winners! The winners should already have received an email with information about their prize.

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About Zyma Web Hosting

Zyma.com launched in 2010 and is rapidly gaining high regard for their excellent service and value. They are currently one of the fastest growing hosting companies in the UK, and are constantly praised for their high level of customer support and satisfaction. Their industry-leading web hosting package offers the most attractive and comprehensive features for one the best prices on the internet.

Based in Basingstoke, UK, they currently have customers in over seven different countries covering four different continents.

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Free Download (3 Days Only): WinX DVD Copy Pro

Facebook-Web-Design — Tue, 03 May 2011 07:53:46 +0000

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From May 1 to May 3, 2011, you can get a copy of WinX DVD Copy Pro, normally $35.95, for free. During the three-day giveaway period, you can install the full version of the software at no cost!

About WinX DVD Copy Pro

WinX DVD Copy Pro allows you to make backups of your DVDs in various forms. You can create a backup copy of a DVD, save it as an ISO file, or save it as a playable MPEG.

The software is respectful of your computer resources, averaging only 1% of your CPU resources, which means you can have it doing its work on the background while doing other things.

The interface is user-friendly and the average computer user can get up and running with it in no time at all!

Installing WinX DVD Copy Pro

Go to the WinX DVD Copy Pro page where you will find a section on the page to download the software.

After downloading the software package, there should be a text file in the archive. Read it for instructions on how to activate the full version. It should provide you with a license code. You must activate the full version within 3 days, before this limited-time free offer is finished in order to avail of the full version of the software.

Enjoy!

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Announcement: Winners of 1 TB Bandwidth from MaxCDN

Facebook-Web-Design — Tue, 03 May 2011 07:52:28 +0000

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Recently, we held a giveaway for five accounts on MaxCDN (an excellent content delivery network service provider) loaded with 1 TB of bandwidth, ready to go. In this post, we announce the five lucky Six Revisions participants who won the giveaway.

The Winners

Here are the winners of 1 TB bandwidth from MaxCDN:

Congratulations to the winners! You should’ve already gotten an email with information regarding your prize.

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Exclusive Offer: 25% off MaxCDN!

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About MaxCDN

MaxCDN is part of NetDNA, LLC, which is a company based in Los Angeles, CA. They’re industry innovators, being one of the first services to bring CDN capabilities to people and companies, big and small.

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Announcement: Winners of iTunes Gift Cards from Digiarty

Facebook-Web-Design — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:00:12 +0000

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We recently partnered up with our friends at Digiarty Software to give out 10 iTunes gift cards for use in the U.S. iTunes store in celebration of the release of PetsWar, an awesome iPhone game app, and their new MacX iPhone Mounter.

In this post, we announce the winners of the iTunes gift cards.

The Winners

Here are the 10 winners of the iTunes gift cards.

Congratulations to the all the winners! You should have already received an email from me with instructions on how to claim your prize.

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About Digiarty

Digiarty Software, Inc. is a professional developer and publisher of iPhone games and multimedia software specialized in various types of iPhone games development and DVD- and video-related solutions. Follow them on Twitter @MacXDVD and join them on Facebook.

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Announcement: Winners of Avactis E-commerce Software

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:35:12 +0000

We partnered up with the wonderful folks at Avactis to hook up five lucky Six Revisions readers with e-commerce software licenses in a recent giveaway. This post announces the winners of the giveaway. Drum roll please!

The Winners

Here are the five winners of the Avactis e-commerce software (owned).

Congratulations to all the winners. You should already have an email explaining how to receive your prize.

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About Avactis

The primary goal of Avactis is to provide easy-to-use e-commerce solutions to businesses, big and small. They aim to streamline and lower costs of deploying an e-store. For example, apart from hosting services, out-of-the-box e-commerce software requires designers to create a site template and programmers who can implement it. This cost adds up. By empowering store owners, costs of e-store deployments can be reduced.

With the Avactis 2.0 release, a variety of special offers for customers is planned, including bonuses for custom development, promotional discounts, and others. More information can be found on the Avactis website when these special offers start.

To experience how Avactis works, check out their online demo.

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Announcement: Winners of 1-Year Subscriptions to AceProject

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:42:17 +0000

In a recent giveaway, AceProject, a collaboration-oriented project management web application, offered up five subscriptions to their Standard package for one year (worth $240 each). This post announces the five lucky winners.

The Winners

The winners are:

Congratulations to all the winners! You all should have already received an email with information about your 1-year subscription to AceProject.

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About AceProject

AceProject is a web-based application that will help you manage and organize your projects and tasks, as well as keep them on track and help you manage your time.

Sign up now for a free account, which gives you an account with 5 users, up to 5 projects, 0.25 GB of storage space, and more.

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Announcement: Winners of IconDemon 1-Year Memberships

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:49:54 +0000

IconDemon, a websites that provides members access to a huge collection of icons, offered up five 1-year subscriptions to their wonderful icon collection. Read on to see the Six Revisions readers who won the giveaway.

The Winners

Here are the winners of the IconDemon unlimited package:

Here are the winners of the IconDemon limited package:

Congratulations to the winners! The winners should have already received an email regarding their prize.

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About IconDemon

IconDemon provides high quality, exclusive icons for revitalizing your website and enhancing the visual quality of your designs. Web icons on IconDemon are categorized into 20 popular topics and 10 styles, which makes it easier to discover the icons for your specific needs.

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Announcement: OSTraining.com Joomla Training Classes Winners

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:27:45 +0000

OSTraining, a provider of excellent online training for open source projects such as Joomla, Drupal and WordPress, offered to give five lucky Six Revisions readers 6 months access to their Joomla training classes and support. Read on to learn who the winners are.

The Winners

Congratulations to the winners! You should have already been contacted via email regarding your prize.

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About OSTraining

OSTraining (short for Open Source Training) are trainers who help people learn Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. They have over 25 teachers who have taught 100s of live classes all over North America and the UK. Check out their blog where they often provide tutorials on WordPress, Drupal and Joomla as well as follow them on Twitter @ostraining.

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Announcement: JoomlArt Magento Theme Club Membership Winners

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:12:42 +0000

JoomlArt, a theme club that provides its members with Joomla, Drupal, and Magento themes, offered up 5 Personal Memberships to the JoomlArt Magento Theme Club (JMTC) on a recent Six Revisions giveaway. Over 130 Six Revisions readers participated, and in this post, we reveal the winners.

The Winners

Congratulations to the winners! The winners will soon be receiving an email regarding their prize.

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About JoomlArt

Operating since 2005, JoomlArt is amongst the first theme clubs for professionally designed templates for Joomla, Drupal, and Magento. JoomlArt is also a growing community of over 210,000+ web developers, designers and CMS enthusiasts; a place to share and learn how to make your websites look and work great. Connect with @JoomlArt on Twitter, read the JoomlArt company blog for news about their themes, and check out their forums.

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Announcement: Winners of $300 in AlertFox Credit

Facebook-Web-Design — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:18:17 +0000

AlertFox, an awesome website monitoring service, held a giveaway on Six Revisions recently, giving away $300 in credit to their service to three Six Revisions readers. Read on to learn who the three winners are.

The Winners

Congratulations to the winners! The winners should have already received an email with instructions on how to claim their prize.

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About AlertFox

AlertFox is an in-depth website monitoring service for Web 2.0 and SaaS web applications. Unlike its predecessors, AlertFox can monitor the function and performance of sites using Ajax (JavaScript/HTML/CSS), Flash, Flex, and Silverlight. The AlertFox real user monitoring runs directly in the web browser, thereby monitoring the true user experience. AlertFox monitoring system administers more than 200,000 website tests a day and counting.

How to Make a Modern UI Web Button Using Photoshop

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:29:50 +0000

This step-by-step design tutorial on Design Instruct (our other website) will show you how to create a slick web button in Photoshop, and also how to make it functional using HTML and CSS.

Final Result

Click the preview image below to go to the tutorial on Design Instruct.

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1WD 2 Year Anniversary And Massive 6000$ Worth Giveaway

BlogPoster — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:12:49 +0000

Hello everybody! Finally that day has come! Which day you may ask?

Well…where should I start? – today 1WD is celebrating 2 years anniversary and fourth (4^th) version of design.

We were working really hard all summer, and if one year ago I was working all alone, now I am honored to have a beautiful team together with me including several full time writers Rean, Sheena, Jane, Michael,Charina with our main chief editor Saad Bassi and social media ninja Ligita Kluga.

Huh, also what I need to add, our actual 2 years anniversary was on August 30, but we didn’t announce it because our new design wasn’t finished. Now it’s here and we are finally ready to move on!

I was planning this new design for almost half a year, I changed its look a lot of times and even thought of hiring a web designer – because as a designer myself I was never satisfied with final outcome.

Finally I thought it would be really a shame for a designer, to get his own page designed by someone else and put everything aside and seriously got to work. The site you are seeing right now is final outcome, and this is how 1WD site should look from the very beginning 2 years ago! I really hope you love it the same way as I do and you are very much welcomed to reveal your first impressions in our comment section, which is much prettier now too by the way!

Before we announce our huge giveaway to celebrate this big event and launch, I think now is the best time to look back again and show off all achievements, show what really made 1WD grow so much and how do we intent to keep it growing even further! Last year we actually did the same process, and today we will compare both years to make this even more interesting. Are you excited and cannot wait for the results? Let’s start!

Personally I think the main turning point was the moment, when 1WD got a great team – Saad Bassi, who is our main editor and Ligita Kluga, who does all the hard work into backlink building and social promoting. I just went more in background and finally got more time to work on new ideas, try new social media promotion ways, went deeper in marketing research and of course, worked on new redesign a lot.

Besides our team, we also got huge team of regular and not so regular guest writers, who altogether allowed us to go from 2–3 articles per week to 12 articles per week! We are still working on increasing both quality and quantity, but since our readership is increasing – I consider that article count increase is appreciated by people and we are doing the right thing.d

As you can see from our Archive section from Year 2010 article count started to increase and it happened because of other changes – I finally got an office – 1WD headquarters and good workplace increased work efficiency greatly. Before that for almost 1.5 years I was working from home, it was not an easy task.

I am sure you cannot wait to see some public stats to measure 1WD growth, enough words..let’s see real numbers.

I must say once site is established, all you have to do is to keep providing constant quality and content – 1WD kept very similar mode all the time and proved to be a regular source where to look for web design related articles and readership continued to grow. Of course, article count also increased traffic from Google, more articles – more chances to be noticed.

Public Stats:

Now – 1,811 / Last Year – 10,780 Alexa Rank
Now – 5,792 / Last Year – 18,538 Compete Rank
Now – 2,013 / Last Year – 950 Del.icio.us Bookmarks
Now – 180,142 / Last Year – 25,382 Inbound Yahoo Links
Now – 64,095 / Last Year – 14,666 RSS Subscribers
Now – 23,463 / Last Year – 5,174 Twitter Followers
Stayed the same – 5/10 GooglePage Rank
Now – more than 1,5 million / Last year – more than 400,000 unique visits in August 2009
New – we created Facebook page, better later than never, which has 1,559 fans for now. Need to work more on Facebook, I know.

To put last year stats more in perspective, check out this graph, where I compare this and previous year:

Interesting to analyze now, while unique visits increased – people also tend to spend less time on page and bounce rate is actually bigger, maybe that’s because of massive social media promotion, where people are used to process huge amounts of information in short time.

What’s your opinion here? Do you have suggestions for us?

How do you like current article frequency?
Do we deliver quality?
Where we should grow now?
What kind of content we should deliver more?
What would you like to see change in this year?

Would love to hear your feedback if possible, with such big readership we really feel responsible for delivering only the best information to you!

How do we explain constant growth and how do you start your own one?

If there is such question, I think actually the main reason was article count increase, with bigger team we are able to do a lot more than before, where one person just physically isn’t able to write that much articles, do marketing, social media, promotion even working 24/7. I must say if you are really serious about your business, hire people to help you out once you get such chance – they will help you to grow site to the phase you never imagined, site could reach!

Google traffic increased like 7 times, thanks to the list posts 1WD continue to have big success through Social Media sites like – StumbleUpon, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Facebook. Don’t underestimate the power of social networks, it’s really worth spending time to build trusted networks and readership with it.

I am investing a lot of site income in our growth, I am keeping myself just like 1/4 and 3/4 goes into development, payments, hosting expenses because I know 1WD can grow a lot bigger, I really want it to become number 1 source for each web designer. If you have a passion – you can achieve the same as I did here, just believe yourself and don’t leave your dreams too fast, give them actual chance.

If you want to go to past and see how and why 1WD began its success, read last year’s report post – 1st Year Of Blogging: Success And Achievements.

About New Site Design

At first I wanted to mix giveaway, 1WD redesign process and stats in the one post, but after some thinking I decided that redesign process description need to have separate post so I would be able to explain you whole thinking behind it and show a lot of detail and power in our new design. Keep updated, new article will be out in few days!

The Most Massive Giveaway At 1stwebdesigner Ever – Prizes Worth 6000$ !!!

Well , now we are getting to the best part for you – our huge giveaway and great prizes – everybody loves free stuff right? Christmas came early this time!

We have contacted and collaborated with 15 different companies, which were kind enough to offer really great prizes! Okay, but how can you get them? Actually I will pick winners based on 2 different aspects ( the first one is the most powerful):

Loyal Reader Option - You need to add a comment here or in our Facebook group (join it too if you like it) in this article status update and tell there what you would like to win in this giveaway together with valuable suggestion, what do you think we would need to do to improve in design, content, functionality - criticize us, we really want to become better!
Quick Visitor Option – You must join our Facebook group and simply share this article on Twitter adding hashtag #1wd2years and follow us on Twitter @1stwebdesigner for further updates!
When you have done it, just leave a comment on this post what you would like to win.

As you can see number 1 option is for more loyal readers, who have opinion about what’s happening here and actually wants to help us improve.

Well and number 2 option is for all of us, who just are quickly browsing through and just wants to get nice Christmas gift for this special giveaway occasion!

And now – get you keyboards hot and start commenting and checking out our actual giveaway prizes right now:

1000$ Worth Giftcards From CodeMyConcept PSD To HTML Service Company

CodeMyConcept is the best PSD to HTML service on the planet. Their company not just don’t specialize in providing superb PSD to HTML and CMS implementations, every piece of code we write is done with love and passion, and they feel that their job is not only to provide a service to web designers and freelancers, they build relationships and they really love it!

Company’s expertise and services:

They do pixel perfect PSD to HTML;
Awesome CMS implementations in WordPress, Drupal and Joomla;
E-Commerce Implementations in Magento and Shopify;
PSD to Email and much more!!!!

When you work with CodeMyConcept you are definitely working with your best friends and they even agreed to join to our huge giveaway with some great prizes!

2 lucky winners will get $250 giftcards and 1 winner will get $500 worth giftcard to be used in CodeMyConcept services, pretty cool right?

5 Premium HTML Licenses Worth 500$ From SlideshowBox

Slideshow box is an easy to use application that enables you to create amazing Flash and HTML (JavaScript) photo slideshow galleries.

SlideshowBox comprises 24 high-quality slideshow templates that allow you to create custom photo slideshows without the pains of coding. Many new templates will be added in the near future, including more pure JavaScript slideshows.

500 Die Cut Business Cards for 3 Lucky Winners ( Worth 250$)

UPrinting is a professional online printing company that provides commercial and small business print services. Their online printing services help you print everything – business cards, fashionable clothing hang tags, attractive door hangers, customizable folded cards, appealing greeting cards, and promotional calendars.

Die cutting options available (more about printing options you will know after winning on this contest):

Rounded Corners

Leaf

Rounded One-Corner

Half-Circle Side

Free UPS Shipping, Limited to US Residents only, must be 18 and above to enter.

5 Yearly Subscriptions from Azigos (Worth 100$)

Azigos is a shop that provide high quality Photoshop Brushes. With our unique royalty free brushes, we help you to enhance your personal and commercial creations. You can purchase each brushes set individually or J oin the Premium Members Program and get them all with unlimited download.

Win 100$ Off Custom Stickers : 5 Winners ( Worth 500$)

Sticker Mule prints custom stickers starting at $69 for 100. Send them your artwork and they do the rest. They aspire to be every artist and designer’s favorite sticker printing service.

3 Single User Licenses From MagicMembers (Worth 300$)

Magic Members is a premium WordPress Membership Plugin that turn your WordPress blog into a powerful, fully automated membership site.

You may expect to pay $2,000 – $3,000 for such an easy to use, full-featured membership application that does not require you to switch to a different system. Magic Members is a fully integrated WordPress membership and subscription plug-in that quickly takes your blog from an ordinary blog to a powerful membership site.

Don’t miss a chance to aim for one of 3 single user licenses!

Eleven 2 GiveAway 1 Year of Free hosting To 5 People (Worth 500$)

Eleven2 is a cutting edge web hosting companies with server locations in the US, Europe and Asia. With its speedy 24×7 live technical support, Eleven2 has grown to become a major player in the web hosting market. Starting at just $10 a month, you cannot go wrong with Eleven2.

3 Individual Theme/Support Packages of Winner’s Choice From StudioPress (Worth 240$)

StudioPress Themes take WordPress to places you never thought it would go. These Themes are a perfect solution for small businesses or individuals establishing their online presence and today we’ve got giveaway from them – 3 individual Theme/Support packages of winner’s choice each worth 79.95$.

KreativeThemes 5 Themes Giveaway of Winner’s Choice ( Worth 350$)

KreativeThemes is a theme shop that sells beautiful, creative and high quality premium CMS themes.

They have kindly joined to this big giveaway and offered to our readers great prizes:

3 Premium WordPress Theme Single License (can choose any theme)
2 Premium WordPress Theme Webmaster License (can choose any theme)

Flashmint Special Christmas Sale : Up To 70% Off + 3 Free Flash Christmas E-Cards

FlashMint is a leading Flash Templates provider known to produce innovative high quality flash templates, flash XML templates and Flash CMS templates as well as such amazing products as Facebook templates and PrestaShop templates.

On the holiday occasion Flashmint has 70% Christmas discount offer on all the templates from their collection. In addition to the discounts specially for 1stwebdesigner readers there will be also three amazing free flash greeting e-cards to be given away to every dear fan and customer of 1stWebDesigner and FlashMint. You may checkout the greeting cards from here: Free Flash Christmas e-cards for everyone!.

Iconshocks Giveaway: 3 Bundle Licenses of Your Choice (Worth 700$)

Iconshock is the largest stock icon provider around the web, with more than 800.000 stock icons in 250 icon sets. Feel free to check its tutorials blog: TutorialShock and its recently launched website with lot of wordpress themes and design sets: WordPressThemeShock.

And today they are giving 3 bundle licenses of your choice – how cool is that?

3 ProThemeDesign Themes Giveaway of Winner’s Choice (Worth 240$)

Pro Theme was established in 2007 by two experienced web developers, programmer Ben Gillbanks in London and designer Darren Hoyt in New York City.Emphasizing quality over quantity, Pro Theme has specialized in WordPress and enjoyed enduring popularity in the themes community.

In order to contribute in our giveaway they are offering 3 premium and beautiful themes of choice for 3 Winners!

5 Templatic Premium Theme Single Use Licenses Giveaway of Winner’s Choice (Worth 450$)

Templatic, Officially launched on 10th of December 2009 is a place to get Out of the Box, Premium and Awesome WordPress Themes to fulfill your needs in different areas of Blogging and Webdesign. From a simple Blogging theme, to a complete e-commerce integrated WordPress Theme, they are releasing themes in diverse range so you can use WordPress as a CMS.

5 GabFire Themes Premium WordPress Themes Giveaway of Winner’s Choice (Worth 300$)

Gabfire Themes was founded in 2008 by Mehmet Özekinci a 30-year old independent web designer and web project consultant based in Estonia.

Gabfire Themes is a distinguished design and development studio providing a wide range of organized and well-presented creative WordPress themes. All Gabfire Themes features an easy-to-manage and powerful theme control panel & focus on providing an unparalleled user experience.

ElegantBanners Giveaway: 3 Custom Banner Ad Packages (Worth $336)

Ever wanted some high quality custom banner ads for your marketing needs? Well, ElegantBanners is for you then. They offer high quality web banner ads created to your specification, at a very affordable price, with lightning fast turnarounds! You can also check out their blog: ElegantBanners Blog, where they write about business, design, and entrepreneurship in general. Be sure to also follow them on Twitter.

I am looking forward to your kind comments – just to remind read the rules how to join this contest&giveaway at the top of this article.

This contest will be closed officially after a week on December 27, when I will announce all the winners!

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Announcement: Winners of $200 Credit on Site24×7

Facebook-Web-Design — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:50:29 +0000

Site24×7, a website monitoring service, held a giveaway with us, giving three lucky participating Six Revisions readers $200 of credit to their service. This post announces the winners of this wonderful giveaway.

The Winners

Congratulations to all the winners! The winners should already have received information regarding their prize.

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About Site24×7

Site24×7 is an online website monitoring service. Site24×7 instantly alerts you whenever your websites goes down. These alerts are sent via email, SMS, Twitter or through custom RSS feeds. Site24×7 is available on the go–you can access your website performance information via any mobile device. Check out the full list of features of their service, and keep up with their technology advancements through their company blog.

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HOW TO: Create a Mainstream Viral Campaign – SCHWEPPESONALITY

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:43:44 +0000

At the end of November, centered around an online brand activation campaign, Schweppes launched the Schweppesonality campaign. A ground breaking activation campaign that features an interactive viral film and is empowered by all social media.

The viral experience consists of a personalized film, made possible through a facebook connection. The viral takes the participator into the world of the Schweppesonality magazine. You are led by the chief-editor through the various stages of the viral, with the main moment: the cover photo shoot. At the end of the film you star on the cover of Schweppesonality magazine and on billboards in a big city. Sharing your experience and a contest to win an iPad with your cover through social media completes the viral effect of this experience.

Schweppes values

Since 1783 Schweppes has grown into a soft drink brand characterized by these values: modern, premium, stylish fruit soft drinks for adults, unexpected since 1783. These were a set of strong values Schweppes wanted to use these in the context of their general re-branding. With these values as a strong base, Schweppes wanted to activate their fan basis by providing them a fully immersive adventure. From the base of an idea it’s a long way before you have created it into a viral campaign. The next will give you an idea on how the creative agency Emakina created a mainstream viral campaign.

Objectives

Set your objectives – before even beginning to think about a viral campaign, Schweppes first needed to take a closer look at its objectives. For Schweppes the most important objectives were branding and awareness, followed up by Schweppes wanting to thank its consumers for their help over the past years in building the brand Schweppes. From here on, Schweppes and their creative agency started to emerge their goals together with the identity of Schweppes lovers.

In this concept it’s clear that the concept creators were constantly thinking of thanking Schweppes fans, and creating an experience for them. So when you’re creating a viral concept always think of the target group you are creating the experience for, what/who are they and what would they like to experience?

Building the experience

Starting with the concept, the next step was to create a film script, location, casting and arrange all techniques that were needed to create a viral film. By using advanced filming techniques the ‘visitors’ are led through the magazine’s offices to end on the cover of the magazine. But this live experience takes a lot of time, serious thinking, creativity and technical wizardry to turn in to reality. A lesson that can be learned is that when creating a viral experience every step has to be taken carefully, well planned and well thought. The technique makes it very difficult, because after shooting the film the experience needs to be build. Not only the film itself, but everything that makes it viral, the online environment, all social media, all options to share it on social media.

See the making of video here:

Making it go viral

When the experience goes live, it doesn’t mean that it will get picked up and go viral by itself. Schweppes partnered up with Dutch social media agency Super Social to help seed the viral. This was done not only by contacting blogs, but also by sharing it in social media surroundings and uploading it to important places where people are looking for new creative experiences. So don’t expect a viral campaign to go viral by itself, put in all possible efforts to ‘seed’ the campaign and make it a success.

Experience the viral here: www.schweppesonality.com or read more here

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Announcement: Winners of “HTML Email That Just Works” Books

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:56:59 +0000

Campaign Monitor, a web-based email marketing software for web designers, recently offered up 5 copies of their book, Create Stunning HTML Email That Just Works. Over 260 Six Revisions readers left a comment discussing how the book would help them in their profession. This post announces the 5 winners.

The Winners

Congratulations to all the winners! The winners should already have received information regarding their prize.

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About Campaign Monitor

Campaign Monitor offers everything a designer needs to run successful email marketing campaigns for themselves and their clients. Give Campaign Monitor a shot by signing up for a free account.

How to Build a Vibrant Professional HTML5 Web Design

Facebook-Web-Design — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:37:53 +0000

This 2-part tutorial on Design Instruct, our other site, will walk you through the creation of a Photoshop mock-up as well as provide you with a detailed guide on how to convert the design into an HTML5 template.

Final Result

Click the preview image below to go to Part 1 of the tutorial series on Design Instruct (or go to Part 2 instead).

Other Things to Do

Subscribe to the Design Instruct RSS feed
Follow @designinstruct on Twitter

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How to Make an Elegant Patterned Web Design Using Photoshop

Facebook-Web-Design — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:29:44 +0000

This web design tutorial on Design Instruct (our other website) walks the learner through the creation of a beautiful and trendy web layout using Photoshop. The web design is best used on a personal portfolio site.

Announcement: Winners of $250 CodeMyConcept Gift Cards

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:20:44 +0000

CodeMyConcept, a PSD to HTML service aimed at agencies and freelancers, sponsored a Six Revisions giveaway by offering up four $250 gift cards for use on their services. Thank you to those who participated! In this post, you’ll find out the people who’ve won.

The Winners

The 4 winners of the $250 CodeMyConcept gift cards are:

Congratulations to the winners! The winners should have already received an email with instructions on how to claim their prize.

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About CodeMyConcept

CodeMyConcept is one of the fastest growing PSD to HTML services on the planet. They’ve worked on cool sites such as Coca-Cola and Absolut Vodka. They take pride in their work, they work hard, and they love what they do. CodeMyConcept wants to change the world one pixel at a time.

Follow CodeMyConcept on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook, read their blog where they share tips, tricks, and news that are relevant to web professionals, check out their sample work, and chat with them live to get your questions answered.

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How to Create a Web App’s Site Web Design in Photoshop

Facebook-Web-Design — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:41:02 +0000

This web design Photoshop tutorial on Design Instruct, our other site, outlines techniques for making a layout comp that will work well for the sites of web apps, startup companies, SaaSs, and other modern, "Web 2.0"-themed, product-centric sites.

Final Result

Click the preview image below to go to the tutorial on Design Instruct.

Other Things to Do

Subscribe to the Design Instruct RSS feed
Follow @designinstruct on Twitter

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Winner of PSD to HTML Conversion Service from P2H.com

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:12:19 +0000

P2H, the first PSD to HTML conversion service provider, offered up 3 pages of their Hi-End Package markup (valued at $450) to a lucky Six Revisions winner last week, through a Six Revisions giveaway. This post announces the winner of this excellent service package.

The Winner of P2H Giveaway

The winner of the giveaway is:

Shane C — Website: Solas Nua

Please join me in congratulating our winner!

About P2H

Founded in early 2005, PSD2HTML.com was the very first service of its kind, converting PSD web designs to HTML/CSS templates. They provide two options: Pro-Package and Hi-End Package. Learn about each package here. They promise lightning speed turnaround, backed by their industry experience.

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Winner of $200 Coupon from BlueCotton.com

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:51:20 +0000

Last week, BlueCotton.com, a place to go for high-quality custom t-shirts, hosted a giveaway on Six Revisions for $200 worth of credit on their e-store. Over 150 participants chose to join in on the fun, suggesting ways they’d use their coupon if they won. This post announces the lucky winner.

The Winner of the BlueCotton.com Giveaway

I’m happy to announce that the winner of the giveaway is:

Matthias – Website: 2helixtech.com

Please join me in congratulating our fellow Six Revisions reader!

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For readers interested in partaking in more giveaways in the future, please subscribe to our RSS feed to be notified whenever new giveaways are posted.

About BlueCotton.com

BlueCotton.com is the place to go for high quality, easy-to-design custom t-shirts. The company’s professionalism, expert design guidance and obsession with customer satisfaction have won the company legions of fans. BlueCotton offers printed and embroidered custom t-shirts, hats, and outerwear for groups of all kinds: schools, churches, sports teams, non-profits, fraternities, sororities, or those who simply want to make a proud, personal statement.

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter as @sixrevisions.

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Winners of PHP Link Directory Licenses

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:50:16 +0000

PHP Link Directory (also known as phpLD) teamed up with us on a giveaway to deliver 3 phpLD 4.1 licenses to 3 lucky Six Revisions readers. Over 140 of you decided to participate for a chance to win. In this announcement, I share with you the participants who’ve won.

The Winners

The three winners of phpLD 4.1 licenses are:

Noel Nuguid – Website: Nuguid Connect
Julian – Website: iulian.org
Ratzo – Website: Directorio Web

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Congratulations to the winners! You should already have been contacted by the PHP Link Directory team with instructions on how to claim your prize.

About phpLD

PHP Link Directory is on over 100,000 websites, and can be used to create something as simple as a link directory, to more robust solutions such as creating a local directory, video directory, blog or jobs site. With a variety of mods, templates and widgets, the possibilities are limitless. The company also provides support and customization services to users of their script.

Learn more about phpLD by checking out their list of features as well as testing out their live demo.

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Winners of the Fully Loaded Wix Websites

Facebook-Web-Design — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:21:25 +0000

Last week, Wix, a free website builder tool for quick and easy creation of high-quality Flash websites, provided two 1-year subscriptions to their Premium Combo Plan. In this post, I’d like to announce the winners.

The Winners of Wix Websites

The winners are Hasib and HT. Congratulations to both of the winners. You should have already received information regarding your prize via the email you used when filling out the comment form. Congratulations!

About Wix

Wix is a free website builder tool for quick and easy creation of quality Flash websites. Just a few of Wix’s advantages are that it’s search engine friendly and allows you to create a website that looks great without knowledge of coding or programming. The intuitive site editor is a simple drag and drop tool that makes your life as a website owner easy and fun.

Learn more about Wix via their website, follow them via Twitter as @wix, and subscribe to their blog where they post useful articles for website owners.

Winners of SlideshowBox Flash Photo Gallery Licenses

Facebook-Web-Design — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:32:57 +0000

Last week, we ran a giveaway post for five Premium Plus licenses of SlideshowBox (worth $149) sponsored by Smartketer, a software company that has developed two product suites: JumpeyeComponents and SnackTools.

Many of you participated by leaving a comment on the giveaway post, and now I’m happy to announce the winners of the five licenses.

The Winners of SlideshowBox Flash Photo Gallery Licenses

The winners of the SlideshowBox licenses are:

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Join me in congratulating the winners!

About the Sponsor: Smartketer

Smartketer is a software company that has developed two product suites: JumpeyeComponents and SnackTools. JumpeyeComponents provides high-end Flash components like FlashEff and SlideshowBox, while SnackTools offers creative web applications like BannerSnack and PhotoSnack.

Stay Tuned for More Giveaways

Six Revisions will be hosting more giveaways in the future. The best way to be notified whenever a new giveaway is posted is by subscribing to our RSS feed.

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development, and a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Winner of Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference Pass

Facebook-Web-Design — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:03:33 +0000

Last week, we held a giveaway for a complimentary pass to the Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference, which will take place June 28-29, 2010 in San Francisco, CA. Today, we announce the winner of the complimentary pass.

Special Discounts to the Web Design Conference

If you didn’t win the free conference pass to Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference but would still like to go, you can avail of special discounts for the event.

First, the Early Bird special has been extended to May 21^st, 2010, which will knock off $100 from the full price.

Additionally, you can use the code WBNBLGA during registration to get a $150 discount as a reader of Six Revisions.

That’s a $250 discount if you register before May 21^st, 2010.

You can register for the event here.

The Winner

Without further ado, the winner of the Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference pass is:

Shaymein Ewer

Please join me in congratulating Shaymein Ewer.

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Stay Tuned for More Giveaways

Six Revisions will be hosting more giveaways in the future. The best way to be notified whenever a new giveaway is posted is by subscribing to our RSS feed.

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New Mac DVD Ripper Released (Giveaways for both Mac and Windows)

Facebook-Web-Design — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:53:02 +0000

WinX DVD Ripper—a software program for ripping DVDs to popular formats—recently released WinX DVD Ripper for the Mac.

To celebrate, Digiarty Software, the makers of this wonderful program, is giving away free copies until May 1, 2010.

For Windows users, we also have a few copies for you grab.

What is WinX DVD Ripper for Mac?

WinX DVD Ripper for Mac is designed for Mac users to make backups of their DVDs to their hard drive which can be played on numerous devices such as the iPad, iPhone, iPod, etc.

How can I get a free copy of WinX DVD Ripper for Mac?

You can get a free copy of the software by May 1, 2010.

To get your free copy, head over to the following web address:

http://www.winxdvd.com/giveaway/

Once there, you can download the software and use the license key shown on the page.

What about WinX DVD Ripper for Windows?

For Windows users, Digiarty has WinX DVD Ripper Platinum. It helps users back up their DVDs to their hard drives and portable devices. The software is fast—it can copy DVDs in as little as 5 minutes. You can rip DVDs in many popular formats. The original price of the software $39.95.

How can I get my hands on a copy of WinX DVD Ripper Platinum for Windows?

Simply leave a comment below that says you want a copy of WinX DVD Ripper Platinum for Windows. The first 50 commenters on this post will get it for free. Note that comments are moderated so your comment may not show up immediately.

Make sure to leave a valid email address when filling out the comment web form so that we can contact you with the details about your prize. This ends when there are 50 commenters or on May 1, 2010, whichever comes first. Please only comment once.

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Winners of VP Factory Video Streaming Service Subscriptions

Facebook-Web-Design — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:48:37 +0000

For an entire week, we ran a Twitter-based giveaway sponsored by VP Factory, the pioneer of "Video Players as a Service". We handed out 10 1-year subscriptions to their awesome service.

We’ve announced the winners on Twitter, but in case you missed it, we’d like to announce it here on the site.

The Twitter Winners

Here are the winners of the Twitter giveaway.

See our tweets announcing the winners earlier today.

Give the winners some love by sending a tweet to congratulate them.

Didn’t win, but still want to use VP Factory?

VP Factory offers a free subscription that’s very generous, allowing you to show videos up to 10,000 times a month. See more details here and then sign up!

About VP Factory

VP Factory is the pioneer of "Video Players as a Service" (VPaaS), which represents a mix between an online video platform and a classic video player.

The solution is offered free (no ads) for non-commercial use and starts at $9/month for commercial use.

VP Factory is ideal for non-media companies, start up’s, bloggers, small publishers and anyone interested in creating rich-media sites that feature videos.

Follow them on Twitter as @vpfactory.

Stay tuned for more chances to grab prizes from Six Revisions giveaways.

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Win a Web or Logo Template from TemplateWire

Facebook-Web-Design — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:49:30 +0000

In this giveaway, five readers will get a chance to win an XTHML/CSS, Flash, or logo template of their choice from TemplateWire.com. Read on to see how you can partake in this giveaway.

About the TemplateWire

TemplateWire is a provider of premium XHTML/CSS templates, Flash templates and logo templates at affordable prices. For $49, you can get 12 months of unlimited access to all premium templates. Or you can get 3 months of access for $29. You can use the templates on an unlimited number of websites for you or your clients. You can follow TemplateWire on Twitter to keep up with news about them and also to discover some great links and resources.

How to Participate

Step 1: Go to TemplateWire and find your template

Head over to TemplateWire and search for a template that you want to win. Take note of the template ID. You have a choice of over 180 XHTML/CSS templates, Flash templates and Logo templates.

Step 2: Leave a comment with the template ID

Come back here and leave a comment that includes the template ID you want to win.

Giveaway Details

This giveaway ends on March 15, 2010 after which commenting on this post will be disabled. Please leave a valid email address when filling out the comment form so that we can contact you if you win. Five winners will be randomly selected using the same methodology as other Six Revisions giveaways in the past.

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development, and a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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The Winners of MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide Books

Facebook-Web-Design — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:54:34 +0000

Last month, Packt Publishing set out to give away five copies of my book, MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide. Over 200 Six Revisions readers participated to win a copy of the book by leaving a comment on why they would like a copy. Today, I’d like to announce the readers that will be receiving a copy (in either paperback or eBook format) from Packt Publishing.

The Winners

Nejo – (ebook)
Trevor – (paperback)
priyadarshi kunal – (ebook)
Jennifer – (paperback)
Dave – (ebook)

Congratulations to the winners! You should have already received an email about your prize (or will receive one soon, shortly).

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Buy a copy of the book!

If you’re interested in having a copy of MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide but didn’t win one, I would like to encourage you to purchase it on Packt Publishing or Amazon.com. Read more about it here.

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development, and a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Win a MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide Book from Packt Publishing

Facebook-Web-Design — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:31:04 +0000

Here’s a chance to win a copy of my book, MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide published by Packt Publishing. Five winners will be selected to win a copy. Read on to see how you could be one of them.

About the Book

In case you missed the announcement post yesterday, MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide is a book that I wrote with Garrick Cheung. The book is a hands-on approach to learning professional-level web development using the powerful MooTools framework. The book is packed with usable examples that help the learner understand the concepts using a pragmatic teaching method.

My publisher, Packt Publishing, was kind enough to offer five copies (2 paperbacks and 3 eBooks) of the book to Six Revisions readers.

If you’d like to learn more about the book, read my post from yesterday or head over to the Packt Publishing product page of the MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide.

How to Enter for a Chance to Win

All you have to do is comment on why you’d like a copy of the book in the comments. If you prefer a certain book format (paperback or eBook), also note that down as wel, so that if you are selected, we’ll try our best to get you your preference.

Giveaway Details

The duration of this giveaway is for 7 days. The giveaway ends on March 3, 2010 after which the commenting on this post will be disabled. Five winners will be randomly selected in the same fashion as previous giveaways on Six Revisions to win a copy of the MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide from Packt publishing. Ensure that you use a valid email in the comments form so that we can contact you if you win. Winners will be announced on Monday, March 8, 2010 and also contacted via email about their prize. Good luck!

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Design Instruct: A New Tutorial Web Magazine for Designers

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:31:10 +0000

As we near the second year anniversary of Six Revisions, I (along with my brother Ike) have launched our latest web project, Design Instruct, a web magazine that aims to teach designers and digital artists useful techniques by way of detailed and step-by-step tutorials.

You can read more about our goals for Design Instruct in the Chief Editor’s Welcome post.

What You Should Check Out

We invite you to have a look around the site and connect with us in various ways.

You can subscribe to the Design Instruct RSS feed so that you can get site content updates through your feed reader.

You can follow us on Twitter (@designinstruct) where we’ll share site news, updates, special Twitter giveaways and contests for designers, interesting links, and inspiring Tweets.

We also have a Facebook page that you can become a fan on, as well as a Flickr Group pool for sharing your Design Instruct inspired works.

What You Can Do to Help

The easiest way to help us with Design Instruct is by sending out a Tweet to your network to share the news to your friends and followers.

You can click on the following link below to send out the tweet:

Send a Tweet about Design Instruct

You can also show your support by subscribing the RSS feed, following us on Twitter and Facebook.

Last but not least, we’d love to know your thoughts on how to improve Design Instruct, and what you want to see in the future. If you find bugs (we’re sorry), we’d love to know about them as well. You can contact us or leave comments on the Chief Editor’s Welcome post.

Thank You Six Revisions Community

I want to thank you all for the support that you’ve given Six Revisions. It’s almost been two years since I started this website, and I couldn’t have imagined that we’d all be here where we are now.

It’s been a wild ride from the start, and I hope you’ll stick around for the journey. I also hope that you continue to show your support by joining my brother and me at Design Instruct!

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in distance-learning education, front-end development, and web accessibility. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Announcement: SnackTools 1000 Points Winners

Facebook-Web-Design — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:22:21 +0000

Last week SnackTools provided a chance to win 1000 points to their suite of design tools to five Six Revisions readers. There were a little over 80 participants vying for a chance to win a thousand points by sharing how they’d use the points if they’d won. In this post, we announce the five Six Revisions readers who’ve won.

The Winners

Congratulations to all of the winners! You should have received an email regarding how to claim your prize.

Random Selection Method

Below, you’ll see the MySQL query used to randomly select the winners from the giveaway post from last week.

SELECT comment_ID, comment_author, comment_author_email,  comment_author_url
FROM comments
WHERE comment_post_ID = 2356
ORDER BY RAND()
LIMIT 5

Thank you SnackTools and Participants

Thank you to SnackTools for providing these points! As well, thank you to the participants for joining the giveaway.

A quick note to everyone: please stay tuned for more giveaways here on Six Revisions. If you are a company or organization wishing to give away prizes that will be of value to web developers and designers, please contact me.

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Announcement: Kentico CMS License Winner

Facebook-Web-Design — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:21:32 +0000

Last week we hosted a giveaway by Kentico for a full license of Kentico CMS (valued at $1,999). There were over 80 participants eager to win this awesome prize by citing what feature of Kentico they were most interested in. Today we announce the Six Revisions reader that won this giveaway.

The Winner

KAL

Join me in congratulating KAL! KAL will receive the license key via email along with instructions on how to obtain the giveaway prize.

Random Selection Method

For those interested in running similar giveaways on WordPress, this is the MySQL query used to select the winner.

SELECT comment_ID, comment_author, comment_author_email, comment_author_url
FROM comments
WHERE comment_post_ID = 2324
ORDER BY RAND()
LIMIT 1

Thank You’s

Thank you to Kentico for furnishing this wonderful prize. Thank you as well to the readers that participated in this giveaway. There are more giveaways for designers and developers coming up, so stay tuned!

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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ReachBy – Publish Your Own Stream

Facebook-Web-Design — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:28:39 +0000

ReachBy.com is a new online platform that lets users blog per the standard or act as a chief editor — accept contributions from readers, then edit or post them as-is. It’s an easy way to share news, stories, thoughts, links, pics, videos, or whatever on the Stream of messages. A ReachBy Stream provides all it takes to jump-start a new blog, build online audience, involve people to contribute, and if you choose to — make an extra buck or two by serving the ads from your own Google AdSense account.

http://reachby.com

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SnackTools Makes Creating Rich Media Content Easy

Facebook-Web-Design — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:37:00 +0000

Creating rich professional-level Flash media components isn’t simple for the ordinary designer or developer who doesn’t have a strong command of Flash/Flex. And even if you were a Flash/Flex guru, you’re probably looking for ways to save time so that you can focus on other things.

SnackTools, a suite of webapps for creating Flash components, is here to help. SnackTools aims to bring non-Flash developers a way to create customized, sophisticated and impressive Flash media components without having to know how to code.

Since SnackTools is web-based, there’s no need to install anything, and you can access your work any time and anywhere (with an internet connection).

Currently, the suite has BannerSnack, which lets you create rich interactive Flash banners, and PhotoSnack, which lets you create stunning photo galleries (perfect for portfolios).

BannerSnack

BannerSnack lets you create Flash banners using a very intuitive interface. It has standard templates that you can modify so that you don’t have to start from scratch. If you want a more customized solution, you can import your own graphics assets and use the tool to design your Flash banner. You can select a standard size or customize the size of your banner. Check out some examples of banners created with BannerSnack.

PhotoSnack

PhotoSnack is a web-based application that lets you generate stunning photo slideshows/galleries. You can choose from a wide variety of templates. It will literally take you a few minutes to get your slideshow set up: you pick a template, you upload your photos, then adjust the settings, and voila – your own professional-level slideshow. You can use it to display your portfolio, photos, and more. Here are some examples of PhotoSnack in action: Slideshow examples.

A special Six Revisions giveaway

SnackTools has teamed up with us here at Six Revisions to give five lucky readers 1000 points for SnackTools. A download costs 4 points, so that’s a lot of awesome stuff!

How to participate in the SnackTools giveaway

To participate in the SnackTools giveaway for 1000 points, simply leave a comment below answering the following question:

If you won 1000 SnackTools points, how would you use it?

We’ll select five winners at random using the same methods as previous Six Revisions giveaways. The giveaway ends on Thursday, January 14, 2010 after which you’ll no longer be able to participate.

We’ll write a follow-up post to announce the winners, so you should subscribe to the RSS feed to get instantly notified when the announcement of winners has been posted. You should leave a valid email address when leaving your comment as this is the only way we’ll be able to contact you regarding your prize if you win.

One day only: exclusive Six Revisions freebie

For the entire day today, you can get 100 points free just by using the coupon code SIXREVISIONS100.

You have 30 days to spend all 100 points, so you better hurry!

How to claim your points

Go to http://www.snacktools.com/cart.html
Press on the “I have a discount coupon” link
Insert the SIXREVISIONS100 coupon code and press the “Check” button. The 100 points will be automatically added to the shopping cart
Login or register at this point
Press the “Post your order” button and the points will be added to your account.

An Easter egg for geeks

If you’re familiar with the Konami Code, here’s a tip: you should try it out when you’ve logged into the system and see what happens!

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Giveaway: Kentico CMS License & 1-Year Maintenance

Facebook-Web-Design — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:25:06 +0000

Today, we are announcing an awesome giveaway: a full license to Kentico CMS which includes one-year maintenance/support. Read on to see how you can participate and get a chance to win this awesome prize valued at $1,999!

What is Kentico CMS?

Kentico CMS is a web content management system (CMS) solution providing a complete set of features for building websites, community sites, intranets and online stores on the Microsoft ASP.NET platform. It’s currently used by more than 4,000 websites in 83 countries.

Some of the notable companies that use Kentico CMS include Microsoft, McDonald’s, Vodafone, O2, Brussels Airlines, Audi, Mazda, Subaru, Samsung, Gibson, Bayer, ESPN, Guinness, DKNY and more (see more of their big clients here).

Read more about features of Kentico CMS on their site’s Features page.

Try Kentico CMS

If you want to evaluate Kentico CMS, they offer you several options:

Download the Free version of Kentico CMS

The free version of Kentico CMS is free to download, and you can use it for any purpose, including commercial purposes.

Download of Trial version of Kentico CMS

The trial version is fully functional for 30 days and will help you evaluate the Kentico CMS features.

Get a Virtual Lab set-up for you

This will let you evaluate Kentico CMS without having to install anything (they’ll set it up for you on the Kentico CMS servers).

How to participate in the Kentico CMS giveaway

In order to qualify for a chance to win the 1-year subscription to Kentico CMS, just leave a comment below that answers the following question:

What’s a Kentico CMS feature that interests you the most?

You can see the feature list of Kentico CMS on their site:

www.kentico.com/free-cms-asp-net.aspx

Kentico CMS giveaway details

This giveaway ends on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. After that date, commenting on this post will be disabled and you’ll no longer be able to participate.

When leaving your answer, make sure to leave a valid email address because this is the only way we’ll be able to notify you if you’ve won. The winner will be selected at random using the same method as previous Six Revisions giveaways (you can see the MySQL random query method that we use in this giveaway).

You should subscribe to the Six Revisions RSS feed so that when the announcement post has been published, you’ll get instantly notified.

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Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Announcement: Pingdom Subscription Winners

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:40:21 +0000

On Christmas day of 2009, Pingdom, a service that will monitor the uptime and response time of your websites and servers, and alert you of any downtime, gave out twenty 1-year subscription to their Basic Plan service (valued at close to $120 each).

Close to a hundred readers participated, and today, we’re announcing the 20 winners.

The winners

The winners are listed below. Winners were selected at random using the MySQL randomizing query used in previous Six Revisions giveaways.

If you’re a winner, you should have already received an email with instructions on how to obtain your 1-year subscription Pingdom. Congratulations!

Didn’t win this time?

If you didn’t win this time, don’t worry, there are other giveaways in store for Six Revisions readers. The best way to make sure you don’t miss any giveaway posts is to subscribe to the Six Revisions RSS feed.

About Pingdom

Pingdom is an important tool to anyone that runs a website. It will alert you whenever your site is experiencing offline issues. Alerts can be sent out via email, SMS, Twitter and even as iPhone push notifications. Pingdom has a free iPhone app for iPhone users.

There are also plenty of reports available to let you view your uptime and response time history, track down errors with Pingdom’s automatic error analysis that is performed for every downtime, and much more.

Monitoring is done from multiple locations on the Internet. No installation is necessary; everything is set up easily from within Pingdom’s online control panel, where you can also access all your reports, set up contacts for alerts, and other useful functionality. Learn more about Pingdom on their site.

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Christmas Day Giveaway: 20 Subscriptions to Pingdom Tools

Facebook-Web-Design — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:36:47 +0000

To honor the season of giving and sharing, Pingdom, a service that will monitor the uptime and response time of your websites and servers, and alert you of any downtime, has decided to give 20 lucky readers a 1-year subscription to their Basic Plan service (valued at close to $120 each). See more details about the product on their signup page.

What is Pingdom?

How to participate

In order to qualify to win one of the 20 subscriptions, just leave a comment below about why you need Pingdom.

Giveaway details

This giveaway ends on December 26, 2009. Commenting on this post will be disabled after the deadline, and you’ll no longer be able to participate. You should leave a valid email address when filling out the comment form because this is the only way we’ll be able to give you your discount code. An announcement post will be published shortly afterward highlighting the commenters that have won. Stay tuned by subscribing to the RSS feed if you wish to get notified instantly when the announcement post has been published.

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Giveaway: Five Premium Concepts from Concept Feedback

Facebook-Web-Design — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:45:18 +0000

Concept Feedback, a simple design feedback tool developed specifically for designers and developers, is proud to introduce premium concepts, a new feature for users who want to get maximum exposure and feedback for their design project.

For $9.99, your premium concept goes live instantly and is featured on their homepage for 1 week, giving you maximum traffic and reviews. They’ll also personally invite the top-rated members to review your concept, ensuring top quality feedback.

For this giveaway, a premium concept will be given away to five randomly selected Six Revisions participants.

How to participate

To participate, simply leave a comment about your desire to use the service to get your designs rated.

Giveaway deadline

The Concept Feedback giveaway ends on December 28, 2009. After that date, commenting on this post will be disabled. Shortly thereafter, five commenters will be chosen at random using the same method as previous Six Revisions giveaways and announced in another post.

Make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed to be notified instantly when the announcement post is published.

About Concept Feedback

ConceptFeedback.com is a free and simple design feedback tool developed specifically for designers and developers. Concept Feedback provides third-party reviews on design and development projects, ranging from websites and web apps, to advertisements and logos. Each member has a profile and reputation score, based on the user’s participation and quality, which can be used to determine the value and credibility of the feedback you receive.

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Five Technologies That Will Keep Shaping the Web in 2010

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:20:47 +0000

As we’re coming to the end of this year, everyone starts to look towards the next one and there will no doubt be an upsurge of articles predicting the web trends of 2010 in the next days to come. However, in this article, we’ll be talking about what’s actually driving these trends now, and what they mean for the future of the internet.

1. CSS3, HTML5 and Fonts as a Service

CSS3, HTML5, and Fonts as a Service such as Typekit that cater to web browsers that already support the @font-face rule, are giving web designers the creative freedom that they have been coveting for a long time.

CSS3 is opening up various new options for styling content on the web, from multiple backgrounds on page elements, better ability to select and style elements with greater specificity, and color gradients without reliance on static graphics, to simpler aesthetical improvements such as support for rounded corners without the need for complicated sliding doors techniques or JavaScript.

HTML5 is slowly but surely changing the way we mark up our pages, bringing us closer to the holy grail of the semantic web, opening up native support for open format multimedia such as video and audio, and bringing us better ways to interoperate with the content of a website.

Another change that web designers have been wishing for is being able to use any font on a web page, without using static CSS background image replacement or relying on JavaScript and Flash. The development of tools like Typekit and greater support for the @font-face rule are enabling site builders to use a much wider range of fonts in their design.

So what will change?

These are all web technologies that are guaranteed to make the web a more aesthetically pleasing place. Of course, expect these new things to be misused by Sunday driver designers; there will be some horrible font choices and misemployed color gradients that will produce unreadable and tacky page designs, but it’s the opportunities that they open up for capable and creative designers that will be most interesting.

Some reading for you:

Typekit
CSS3.info
Play around with CSS3
Get Ready for HTML 5
5 Exciting Things to Look Forward to in HTML 5 written by Chief Editor of Six Revisions, Jacob Gube, for ReadWriteWeb

2. Ways we browse the web

The browser landscape is alive and well, with better and faster web browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Web users today are provided with many choices that will surely drive competition and one-upping from these companies – stressful for their developers, but great for consumers.

The browser wars is in full force, and unlike the preceding browser wars where Internet Explorer dethroned other browsers to take hold of a majority browser share, IE is shaping up to being the "dethronee" this time around.

And changes in browsing the web aren’t just limited to the web browser competition, the way we digest content from the web is increasingly becoming removed from the traditional "sit in front of your desktop" way. Smart phones are becoming more common, TV’s are becoming web-enabled–and as are gaming consoles such as the PS3 and Netbooks and mobile devices such as the iPhone and the Droid are giving users an experience on a smaller screen than a traditional laptop.

Moreover, browsers themselves are changing. The launch of Google Chrome brought the WebKit engine, a layout engine that has a big portion of CSS3 and HTML5 specifications already implemented, to Windows-based computers better than Apple’s Safari port to Windows, and it may yet be a bigger milestone than many first thought. With Google aiming for a 10% share of the market over the next couple of years, a big push for users may well be coming. A large shift from the dominant web browser, Internet Explorer, is underway and may be successful next year. In Germany, Mozilla Firefox is close to overtaking IE’s market share as we speak.

These factors are revising the way we think about web design and accessibility. Do you have a mobile version of your site? What does it look like on a small screen? What does it look like on a large screen? What does it look like in a WebKit versus Gecko versus Trident browser layout rendering engine?

Attitudes towards viewing of websites across different media is changing as well, designers are increasingly becoming of the opinion that designs do not need to render the same everywhere, nor do they need to give the same user experience across all web browsers.

So what will it change?

There’s a good chance that you’ll start to see websites that don’t look the same in every browser. Techniques for progressive enhancement are more commonplace than before, giving users of modern web browsers a better web experience than those who will not or cannot use them. Furthermore, there’s already widespread acceptance towards foregoing support for antiquated browsers, putting the burden of getting users upgraded on the browser makers, and not the designers. This type of forward thinking will only grow in the upcoming year. What’s more, the changes in the way we view the web will shift focus to content, functionality and accessibility, but by no means at the expense of good, interesting and inspiring design.

3. Social media

No one can deny that 2009 has been a big year for social media: Twitter, for example, has become the buzzword in many a boardroom and office. It’s obvious that it will continue to a big part of the web in the future.

In many ways, the growth of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook has led the web to be much more community-oriented. Big changes could happen within social media and, no doubt, will be led by monetization of the media.

One of the big questions revolves around how you measure the impact and value of social media and how to get that value back. How valuable are 1,000 twitter followers? Do you start charging for the service? Answering all these questions will lead to significant changes over the next year in the social media arena.

Along with these changes will come increased focus in getting information in real-time. Google is already discussing real-time search to leverage the immediate and breaking information that can be found on sites like Twitter. How these changes are integrated into the current web system, especially in terms of search engine technology, could precipitate into some interesting developments and innovation in the way we seek information online.

So what will it change?

With more people participating in the creation of information on the web, the way in which we obtain information will shift from being from a singular source, into a more community-created source. Looking for information about, say, a car repair shop will show you recent tweets and Facebook updates about that company instead of outdated and static information.

4. JavaScript

Whilst CSS3/HTML5 has started to step on the toes of JavaScript, JavaScript itself has started to inch into the territory of Flash. The growth of frameworks such as jQuery and has made rich client-side interaction and asynchronous/seamless user experiences a reality. This leads to easier deployments of web applications, which in turn, increases competition, which in turn, leads to innovation.

JavaScript is already stepping into what, in the past, we would associate as being Flash’s territory, such as interactive games (which can be used for training and distance-learning applications) and complex and interactive data visualization. It should also enable us to replicate rich interfaces and flash type experiences in a much more accessible way.

And very recently, 10 years after the last major revision, JavaScript (known as ECMAscript in web standards organizations) has just finished a major revision of its specifications for the language. Once browser companies adopt these standards, web developers will be provided with more tools to improve their capabilities in creating web applications.

So what will it change?

Because CSS3 and HTML5 will replace a lot of what JavaScript is doing now (i.e. complex element selections, dynamic rounded corners, handling real-time editable web pages), we will see a surge in JavaScript developing into being focused solely on handling programming logic of webapps on the client-side. With the news of the major revision on JS specifications, we will see a progression towards better web applications that can interoperate much better with other web apps (for example, a major goal for the new set of specs is the security of JSON objects).

5. Software as a Service (SaaS)

Software as a Service business models have been knocking around for years. Top-notch SaaS such as 37 Signals products and Google Enterprise are more commonplace now than ever before.

The competition is fierce; the technologies are becoming affordable and requiring little upfront costs, which gives the little guys a chance to compete with the bigger guys. In the next year, we’ll see this competition increase, and hopefully, the outcome is innovation in web apps.

So what will it change?

SaaS’s as a business model will continue to replace more traditional software that require you to install and run them on your desktop. With so much more people connected to the internet, the demand is on internet-enabled, interoperable applications. In 2010, we are in for some surprise improvements driven by a need to stand out from the crowd.

What are your predictions for the next year?

What do you think will be the catalysts for change over the next year? How do you think the web technologies we have now will evolve? Leave us a comment!

About the Author

Dave Sparks is a web designer and developer who lives in Kendal in the Lake District working for Armitage Online and occasionally freelancing. He has a strong background in PHP dvelopment and can be found writing about various web topics on his blog at Kamikazemusic.com and twittering as twitter.com/dsparks83.

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Announcement: FlashEff 2.0 for Flex License Winners

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:45:49 +0000

Last week, JumpeyeComponents, the creators of awesome Flash components such as FlashEff 2.0, and Six Revisions set out to award five Six Revisions readers a license for their newly released FlashEff 2.0 for Flex component. There were over a hundred participants, and today, we’d like to announce the winners.

The winners are:

Congratulations to the winners! You should’ve already received instructions on how to claim your prize.

Thank you JumpeyeComponents and participants!

I would like to thank the JumpeyeComponents team for deciding to provide the prizes for this giveaway. I would also like to thank the participants for sharing their opinion on what the thought was the best place to learn Flex. If you didn’t win this time, don’t worry, there will be more Six Revisions giveaways to come, so put the Six Revisions RSS feed in your feed reader to be instantly notified whenever a giveaway is posted!

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Announcement: Navicat Premium License Winners

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:35:05 +0000

Last week, Navicat, the creators of popular database administration software, worked with Six Revisions to vote for your favorite RDBMS.

To make the voting more interesting, Navicat offered up three licenses of their new and awesome Navicat Premium application, which is a tool for managing MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL databases in one central and unified interface. Today, we’re happy to announce the three winners of the Navicat Premium licenses.

The Winners

Ole – Navicat Premium (Windows)
Jonathan Chee – Navicat Premium (Mac OS X)
exe – Navicat Premium (Linux)

Congratulations to the winners and you will be contacted soon about claiming your prizes. For those who were not able to win, there are more giveaways in store for you so make sure to sign up for the Six Revisions RSS feed to get notified whenever a giveaway is posted.

An Exclusive Six Revisions Discount!

You can get 10% off the sale price of a Navicat product simply by using the following code:

sixre20

This code will be valid until December 21, 2009.

Thank you!

On behalf of the Six Revisions community, I thank Navicat for furnishing these licenses and for hosting a wonder Six Revisions giveaway. Also, thank you to the participants who voted for their favorite RDBMS.

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Giveaway: FlashEff 2.0 for Flex Licenses

Facebook-Web-Design — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:20:55 +0000

JumpeyeComponents, the creators of professional-level Flash components such as FlashEff 2.0, has recently come out with a new product: FlashEff 2.0 for Flex, which is their advanced Flash Animation component library that lets you make complex animation effects with as little coding as possible.

To celebrate the new release of FlashEff 2.0 for Flex, the JumpeyeComponents team has decided to work with Six Revisions to give away FlashEff 2.0 for Flex licenses worth $99 each to five Six Revisions readers.

How to Participate

All you have to do to participate is to leave a comment on this post that talks about your favorite place online to visit to learn about Flex. It could be a blog, a website, forums, anything on the web that has helped you in your education about using Flex.

Giveaway Details

The end date for participating is December 8, 2009 – commenting on this post will be disabled afterwards. Please only leave a comment once. Winners will be selected at random using the same methodology as other Six Revisions giveaways in the past. Please leave a valid email address when filling out the comment form, as this will be the only way we can contact you if you’ve won. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winners by subscribing the RSS feed.

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Best Relational Database Management System?

Facebook-Web-Design — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:20:46 +0000

Relational database management systems (RDMS) such as SQL Server, MySQL, Postgre SQL, and Oracle (just to name a few) have allowed web developers to create highly interactive and robust web applications that can save data.

Navicat and Six Revisions would like to know what you think the best relational database management system is, and to make things more fun, Navicat has decided to offer up over $1,000 dollars worth of prizes to randomly selected participants.

This giveaway is to celebrate of Navicat’s newly released enterprise-level Navicat Premium line of database management tools that is an all-in-one admin tool for MySQL, Postgre SQL, and Oracle.

The Prizes

Three licenses of Navicat Premium will be given away to participants of this giveaway.

Here are the prizes:

Navicat Premium (Windows) – value: $369
Navicat Premium (Mac OS X) -value: $319
Navicat Premium (Linux) – value: $319

How to Participate

Simply vote for what you think the best relational database management system (see a list of RDMS on Wikipedia) in the comments is using the format below:

Vote: name of best relational database management system

Giveaway details

The giveaway ends on November 30, 2009 after which the commenting system on this post will be disabled. You may only vote once. You should use a valid email address when filling out the comment web form so that you can be notified if you’ve won.

An exclusive Six Revisions discount!

You can get 10% off the sale price of a Navicat product simply by using the following code:

sixre20

This code will be valid until December 21, 2009.

About Navicat

Navicat is a leading administration and development tool for MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL which features an intuitive interface and provides a set of useful tool to manage, backup/ restore, import/ export data, create report, synchronize database and connect to remote database server, etc. Also, Navicat provides a number of tools allowing to perform all the necessary database operations such as creating, editing, and duplicating database objects. Learn more about Navicat’s major features.

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Top Five Best Database Management Tools

BlogPoster — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:09:14 +0000

For a database administrator, DBM (database management) tools make tasks related to maintaining relational databases efficient and fast. Prior to the popularity of these tools, most DBA’s had to use the command line to create, edit, and delete databases. In this article, we present to you the top five most popular/most voted for database management tools.

Late last month, we asked what your favorite database management tool was, and now, here are the top five most-voted-for tools.

5. Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

For Microsoft SQL Server database admins, there probably isn’t a better tool out there than Miscosoft’s freeware app (downloadable at $0 dollars on the Microsoft site), SQL Server Management Studio. SQL Server Management Studio has a GUI that Windows OS users will find straightforward, and it has an innovative feature called Object Explorer that lets you browse, select, and perform tasks on database objects. It’s the only tool you need for creating and administering Microsoft SQL Server databases.

4. Sequel Pro

For Mac OS users, Sequel Pro–an open source MySQL database management front-end tool–is a top pick. It has a slick and intuitive GUI that keeps it barebones so that you can easily navigate the app. To get started with Sequel Pro, make sure to check out their docs page (but a word of caution, the docs is still under development at this time).

3. SQLyog

SQLyog is a GUI administration tool for MySQL developed by Indian-based software company, Webyog. It comes in two flavors: Enterprise (with the price ranging from $99 to $999) and the pared down Free Community version; to see the differences, check out the feature comparison table. SQLyog’s list of features is outstanding and unfathomable – a top-notch tool for professional database admins.

2. Navicat for MySQL

Navicat for MySQL is part of the family of cross-platform (Windows/Mac/Linux) relational database management tools created by PremiumSoft. It has a visual query builder for creating complex database queries in a snap, import/export/backup tools for your databases, a report builder for printing out db queries that the boss can understand, a task scheduling assistant for scheduled execution of jobs, and much more.

Navicat also produces front-ends for Oracle and PostgreSQL. Navicat products have a Lite version (non-commercial) and a Premium version; check out the feature matrix to see the difference in features of both versions.

1. phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin, the most popularly voted database management tool by you (and where my vote would have gone), is an open source web-based MySQL manager. Don’t let it’s simple and aesthetically-challenged GUI fool you, phpMyAdmin packs a punch: you can create/manage databases, tables, db users, optimize and check for errors in your db tables, run queries, export/import data in plenty of file formats, and much more; couple all of that with ease of installation and you’ve got yourself a true winner.

To learn more about phpMyAdmin, you should consider getting the Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.1 for Effective MySQL Managementbook by Packt Publishing (a book that I highly recommend).

Is your favorite database management tool not mentioned? Tell us about it in the comments!

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Announcement: The Winners of Pixmac Photo Credits

BlogPoster — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:45:08 +0000

Last week, Pixmac, a microstock photo site (read more about them on the microstock:insider blog) teamed up with Six Revisions to give five readers 20 credits to use on their site. Over 30 participants shared a photos they found on the Pixmac site that they thought to be representative of design or development. Today, we’re happy to announce the winners.

The Winners

The five winners of 20 credits on Pixmac are:

Here is a screen grab of the MySQL query used to select the winners at random.

Congratulations to the winners! The winners should already have received an email regarding how to obtain their Pixmac credits.

Thank you!

Thank you Pixmac for sponsoring a wonderful and fun giveaway on Six Revisions, and thank you to the participants of the giveaway.

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Announcement: UPrinting Business Card Giveaway Winners

BlogPoster — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:21:38 +0000

UPrinting.com and Six Revisions teamed up to give five Six Revisions readers a chance to win a set of 500 die cut business cards. Today, we’d like to announce the winners of the giveaway.

Winners of the UPrinting Die Cut Business Cards

These are the folks you’ve won the business cards of the "Best Online Resource for Graphic Designers?" giveaway:

Congratulations to the winners and you should get an email soon with details on how receive your prizes.

Screenshot

Here is the screen grab of the MySQL query that was executed to randomly select the winners.

Thank you all!

Thank you UPrinting for hosting this awesome Six Revisions giveaway and for giving away such lovely prizes. Thank you to the participants who voted for what they thought was the best resource for graphic designers. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed to get notified of future Six Revisions giveaways.

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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