“On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me….” yeah something like that. I am a big fan of Christmas, and I love giving gifts… since all you boys and girls have supported Inspiredology so much this year… I have decided to give something back.
So starting in December 10 I am going to be giving a prize away to one lucky winner! Yes, there will be a total of 12 winners, and you can only win 1 time. If your name is drawn that day then you get that prize… pretty simple eh!
The Details
To enter you just have to comment about what features you would like to see added to Inspiredology in the new year. So something about the design, functionality of the blog, more authors, different layout, what type of blog posts do you enjoy, which ones don’t you like, what am I missing and etc…..
I will keep the commenting open till December 9th, 2008 5:00pm… so Digg, Float, Stumble the post like crazy.. because everyone enjoys getting gifts at Christmas time.
The Good Part… What’s up for grabs!
I am so thankful to all the fantastic supporters for this contest… the gifts donated to this contest are amazing… and I can’t say enough about the supporters… so without further ado.. here is the 12 days of Christmas giveaways.
Day 1. Wednesday December 10
500 Business Cards Courtesy of BizCard
BizCard is a simple to use online printing company. BizCard allows anyone to easily create his/her own unique business cards, postcards, letterhead, invitations, magnets, and other print marketing products. Users can choose one of the hundreds of professionally designed templates we offer or upload their own creatives.
3 month membership to PSDTUTS+ Courtesy of TUTSPLUS
PSDTUTS is the web’s most popular Photoshop tutorials site. Your PLUS membership will give you access to hundreds of exclusive members only Photoshop tutorials and files.
Day 2. Thursday December 11
6 Texture Packs equaling 300 Textures($35) Courtesy of Colourburned
Also, Grant has included a discount code just for everyone participating, so head over to the Colourburned store and enter this discount code INSPIREDOLOGYFRIEND
3 month membership to PSDTUTS+ Courtesy of TUTSPLUS
PSDTUTS is the web’s most popular Photoshop tutorials site. Your PLUS membership will give you access to hundreds of exclusive members only Photoshop tutorials and files.
Day 3. Friday December 12
FreshBooks subscription ($50) Courtesty of FreshBooks
FreshBooks is an easy-to-use online invoicing service that saves you
time, gets you paid faster and makes you look Fortune 500 professional.
From estimates and expenses to time tracking and invoicing, FreshBooks
makes everything quick and simple — letting you focus on your work, not
your paperwork.
3 month membership to PSDTUTS+ Courtesy of TUTSPLUS
PSDTUTS is the web’s most popular Photoshop tutorials site. Your PLUS membership will give you access to hundreds of exclusive members only Photoshop tutorials and files.
Day 4. Monday December 15
Sketched WordPress Theme ($50) Courtesty of Outlaw Design Blog
3 month membership to PSDTUTS+ Courtesy of TUTSPLUS
PSDTUTS is the web’s most popular Photoshop tutorials site. Your PLUS membership will give you access to hundreds of exclusive members only Photoshop tutorials and files.
Day 5. Tuesday December 16
Money gift via paypal ($50) Courtesy of WebDesigner Depot
3 month membership to PSDTUTS+ Courtesy of TUTSPLUS
PSDTUTS is the web’s most popular Photoshop tutorials site. Your PLUS membership will give you access to hundreds of exclusive members only Photoshop tutorials and files.
Day 6. Wednesday December 17
2 Month Advertising spot 225px × 75px on Fuel Your Creativity ($100) Courtesy of Fuel Your Creativity
3 month membership to PSDTUTS+ Courtesy of TUTSPLUS
PSDTUTS is the web’s most popular Photoshop tutorials site. Your PLUS membership will give you access to hundreds of exclusive members only Photoshop tutorials and files.
Day 7. Thursday December 18
30 Minute Consultation Via Skype/Phone with Jacob Cass from JCD ($50) Courtesty of Just Creative Design
3 month membership to PSDTUTS+ Courtesy of TUTSPLUS
PSDTUTS is the web’s most popular Photoshop tutorials site. Your PLUS membership will give you access to hundreds of exclusive members only Photoshop tutorials and files.
Day 8. Friday December 19
$40 via paypal towards 1password account Courtesy of Studio7 Designs
3 month membership to PSDTUTS+ Courtesy of TUTSPLUS
PSDTUTS is the web’s most popular Photoshop tutorials site. Your PLUS membership will give you access to hundreds of exclusive members only Photoshop tutorials and files.
Day 9. Monday December 22
3 T-shirt pack including Black Hole Sun, The Poetry of Demise, Pen Tool Sun ($74) Courtesy of Design By Humans
3 month membership to PSDTUTS+ Courtesy of TUTSPLUS
PSDTUTS is the web’s most popular Photoshop tutorials site. Your PLUS membership will give you access to hundreds of exclusive members only Photoshop tutorials and files.
Day 10. Tuesday December 23
Web Pro Icon Kit Courtesy of N.Design Studio
3 month membership to PSDTUTS+ Courtesy of TUTSPLUS
PSDTUTS is the web’s most popular Photoshop tutorials site. Your PLUS membership will give you access to hundreds of exclusive members only Photoshop tutorials and files.
Day 11. Wednesday December 24
1 Year hosting ($100) Courtesy of WP Webhost
3 month membership to PSDTUTS+ Courtesy of TUTSPLUS
PSDTUTS is the web’s most popular Photoshop tutorials site. Your PLUS membership will give you access to hundreds of exclusive members only Photoshop tutorials and files.
Day 12. Thursday December 25
Hi End Coding Markup ($217) Courtesy of PSD2HTML
Brings the markup to the highest level. W3C Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict Table-less CSS markup under SEO Semantic Coding, Complete Presentational Separation techniques. Special attention to Load Speed optimization.
3 month membership to PSDTUTS+ Courtesy of TUTSPLUS
PSDTUTS is the web’s most popular Photoshop tutorials site. Your PLUS membership will give you access to hundreds of exclusive members only Photoshop tutorials and files.
Join the discussion
Wow! Really cool prizes!
And as for the entry:
I’d like to see some tutorials on HTML, CSS, eventually some JS or PHP?
Also I’d like to more writers, to increase the frequency of posts so I can read even more of these awesome posts
Merry Christmas to be the first
I really love the inspiring galleries. I agree that some more tutorials would be fine, and personaly I don´t like wordpress, or blog stuff (plug-ins, templates, etc.), there´s a lot of that on the web if you are looking for it.
Thanks for the web and merry christmas and happy new year.
Would be great to have something like, “what topic compilation do you want?” and the people could answer: “I am doing a music web site and i would like you to post a compilation of beautiful music websites”. Because, IMHO we allways see good compilations like yours or smashingmag but would be nice if people suggest some themes too.
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P.S: sorry for my bad English.
these prizes are amazing. Anyways as a suggestion I would say you need to get a favicon. That would be the first thing
As for the rest, I love your inspirational posts. Maybe releasing a couple more freebies to attract new visitors. People love free stuff. Concerning the design it’s everything fine, but the bears in the header. For some reason they don’t really fit in my eyes. I can’t pin down what is bothering me though.
I would like to see a new design of this blog, in the same style, but more elaborate. Also a new writer would be welcomed to have more frequently posts.
Cheers!
Hello Chad,
Your site is part of my favourites ones but…but…
the thing that I like to be done here is very simple, and it’s not taking long time…Why don’t you put a “top page” button at the bottom of the body section? I know that some people don’t like it_ maybe it’s your case_ but for myself I think that’s it’s a good way to go to the top when some articles are too long!
Great work man, very good articles.
Regards
I love the idea of the 12 days of Christmas! First off, let me say that I read and appreciate all of the posts that are made. I particularly enjoy the posts about “well-designed” websites, posters, CD covers, etc.
If I had one suggestion for improving the site, I’d say that the look of the sidebar could use a revisit. Because it’s so light and looks so similar to the background color, I don’t see it or use it like I should. I’d also love to see more posts, but who wouldn’t?
Thanks for the contest and keep up the great work!
This is an amazing collection of gifts/prizes.
One thing I would change would be to have your header logo clickable as a link to return home. I am surprised that there are more and more sites that do not do this. If it is important enough to take up that much space, it should have some function other than looking pretty.
What an excellent idea Chad. The prizes are great and should yield a heap of comments, floats, tweets and suggestions of what people would like to see on the site.
I would like to see more frequent posts, which may mean more authors. As far as post content, some more tutorials would be nice. Specifically, WordPress related topics and how it can be used as a powerful way to manage content. As always any kind of design related content is always exciting to see in the RSS feed. Tutorials, resources, inspiration, related to designing for the web.
Going to tweet, float and dig this bad boy. Cheers and thanks again my friend!
Giveaways would be nice.You know people always love those!
12 Days of Christmas Giveaway from Inspiredology.. http://bit.ly/14oRQ Make a comment and win some amazing prizes..
The advice I have is to update the site more! This will this increase viewers and ad revenue as well as provide incentive to have more bloggers. I personally would like to see more posts about photography.
Thank you very much for the prizes by the way.
Great prizes.
I’d like to see a slightly different design, if only so the text lines up with the lines on the notepaper! I’m a little OCD and such things stick out for me
I love the wood and the pattern at the bottom, but what’s with the polarbears?
cheers!
- Content: I love inspirational web design
- Redesigning inspiredologo’d be refreshing too
More updates would be great!
Maybe make some weekly post like, inspiration for the weekend every friday. Or the monday cheer up every monday. Stuff like that.
And also more vector freebies (or other freebies).
I think the design is ok, but a new one would always be welcome!
We love the site, and all we want is more off it
And offcourse more giveaways like this
An amazing start for this year’s Christmas, I believe.
Gotta admit, I just love the site, never thought what would make it better…(I already love, so if I feel something is missing, I probably wouldn’t love it, now would I?)
But my vote goes for, what I call “Showwwcaaaassseee” (with capital S, number of letters may vary)
I do not always have the time/patience to read through the more sophisticated entries, so I just love scrolling through various works of various artists/designers.
So my vote goes to “Shooowcaaases”.
Thanks everyone for your great feedback, there are some great ideas here and I am going to take them to heart…. and in the new year… you will all see your feedback come to life I hope…
Keep up the comments….Lets digg, stumble, float this post like no other….
Thanks again… and good luck to everyone
Inspiredology could have a design upgrade, to a more “inspirative” theme. By the way, articles are great and categories are clear.
I think the interviews with designers etc whould be fun!
as an aspiring graphic designer i love your blog, whenever i need inspiration i look forward to your posts to guide and assist me(with much credit to the artists as well)
what i would like to see more of . .
- some video showcase. there are tons of designers out there willing to share their secrets it would be great to have this as not only a graphic showcase but video as well.
- some focus on different media such as 3d print packaging materials.
- small business exposure
Eric.
p.s greets from T-Bay, Ont.
I don’t understand the polar bears at the top but love them. I would like to see some free WordPress and HTML templates. I know this blog is about inspiration, but this would be nice.
Also you could do series of posts, e.g., The Best CD Album Covers Vol. 1 out of 3 (instead of one gigantic post–the posts with 50 or so images just make me get bored and go through them really fast).
Love the site either way and keep it up!
It would be nice to have on the homepage a small section on top with some functionnalities :
- Latest comments
- Most commented
- Most popular
It would be like that :
[1][2] [3]
[articles]
Thanks
I feature I would like to see on Inspiredology is best collection of web typography.
A lot for they time when you see typography round ups they are posters, mailers or printed material.
Even further, round up of well place HTML typographhy.
Happy Holidays!
-TK
You’re doing a good gob, however five posts a month is so few. If there were more post of the same inspiration and high quality, without other’s blogs reposts, I think your blog would be popular in just no time. Thank you.
I would also agree that posting more would a better improvement, maybe you could get more authors? Anyway, good luck to all and thanks for the compilation! See if I can win something too (minus my own prizes
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I really like your site, but would like to see an RSS feed from my site on yours. Have a great holiday season.
It’s a great site, just wish it was updated more. Possibly do a feature artist/designer each month and let them make a few post along with what you do.
wow, great gifts, I also love Christmas!
I would love to see more tutorials about webdesign like: How to design websites with a big background for all resolutions regarding the loading time and size and to see how to design and develop websites outside the borders /columns. Greetings and have a blessed Christmas time!
I would suggest more use of video, audio & particulalry photo plugins on your site. Internet users it has be found stick around longer to a website when any of these functions are found.
I really like the inspirations on the site… especially colour coded ones such as the article on blue-themed websites.
i think colour or theme based collections are great, and they really do help with what this site is all about – inspiration.
As for other things, I also think tutorials are great, but only if they are really something special – because there are tutorial sites designed for tuts only.
So i guess im trying to say that the site should be simplified to what it is: Inspiration,
Keep up the galleries and collections of posters, artwork, and designs because they’re great work.
I’d really love to see a new design for Inspiredology.
I’d suggest some art, colour, structures theory applied to webdesing
And finally I think the future of inspiration websites is about telling the future, so, if you ever can create the inspiration… That would be amazing.
Good work here!
Great blog, i really like it…
first of all it will be better if the logo of the blog will be an home page button.
i’d like to see more cool siteweb’s articles.
thanks
hello. I really like your site. Nice design.
my suggestion is you try to reduce the size of your background. 300kb is too much.
thank you
I really love your site, very inspirational. I’d like to see more tutorial posts. I’m not a big fan of the WordPress or blog materials, but all the artwork posted is very inspirational. Keep up the good work
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Merry Christmas!
You could put last pictures from the flickr group in the left column.
You also could make a new categories speaking of motion design.
PS: Excuse me for my bad english, i’m french.
Inspiredology is going very well, but something that I would like to see, is a weakly area, where you show some of the work of your readers, like personal websites, photo manipulation, vector draws, and things like that, one post for week dedicated to one or more guys, would be very cool.
Keep going Inspiredology
and a merry Christmas to all.
I would suggest two things:
1. More frequent posts
2. HTML/CSS tutorials
Besides those two things, Inspiredology looks perfect. Keep up the good work!
I would like to see more user generated content
- maybe gallery of projects inspired by inspiredology content?
One think I would like to see here are some directions or basic tutorials to achieve some of the effects in the items/products you share with all of us.
Maybe a section where readers can upload their art, and get review. A simple flickr group would work for that.
Awesome job though, thanks for all you do.
Great giveaway you’ve managed to come up with, thanks for the time and effort!
I’d love to see some inspiring packaging design posts. Ones that actually saw production – not just come from a world without clients and deadlines
The contest is closed… Shim I will include you in, even though you were 4 minutes past the deadline, it’s Christmas and its a time for giving.
Corey.. there is an inspiredology flickr group.. you can join here.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/inspiredology/
GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE
I would love to see more tutorials in illustrator. Your content is always great, but I think designers would really benefit from basic Illustrator and Photoshop tutorials.
Thanks!
-michelle
I know I completely missed the deadline, but I wanted to say what I’d like to see anyway.
It would be great if, in the coming year, there was more about how to slice up the great designs and get the markup/scripts implemented that make the designs work.
Awesome thanks, good to know.
The design of the site is simple and sound. Few tweaks here and there sure.
An amazing addition, would be a section for content generated by users through the inspiration of this site. From that i would suggest also that under each inspiration have the possibility to add links to additional inspirations that contributed to that artwork. Sorry about my english.
I wasn’t sure about time zone difference, I thought I still had an hour more.
Thanks Chad! ^^
I actually find your layour very easy to navigate and clean but maybe some small images to add a bit of additional flair to the header topics in each section.
Seasons Greeting to You of course and all of your readers.
Happy Xmas & Happy New 2009 to All….
I have been visiting the site for quite some time. Can’t think of a feature I would like to see. This is a great blog and resource.
What I’d like to see is some more features on clothing, especially on those terrific tees with artistic motifes.
Keep up the great work!
I love to find a website that inspires me – then hopefully I can inspire others. I design for a relatively small newspaper. Generally, clean and simple does it – but it always depends on getting a “good print job” on each paper.
It is always a challenge to design well made ads that will still look good in the paper. The same ads go onto our website – Try translating that!! So any ideas, comments, suggestions – I’m up for them. How else do other people follow the challenge that their job offers??? THX
i would like to see more sweepstakes .
thats fantastic…
i would like to see some coding tutorials like wordpress, drupal, php, asp.net, css and so on…
I want to win the plus membership :pray:
oops I didn’t notify the year…
its 2008 :’(
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