Typo Theme Contest!

Posted by Geoffrey Grosenbach Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:47:00 GMT

The Rails-based Typo blog engine has been amazingly successful in the last few months since it was released. Tons of new features have been added, and the team is hard at work making it even more useful.

However, there aren’t many themes available. That’s about to change.

We’ve assembled a stellar list of sponsors in order to motivate you to sit down with pen, paper, and pixel, and design themes for Typo!

Rules

  • Themes must be original. No ports of existing themes from WordPress, Blogger, etc. Be original!
  • Themes must work in IE, Firefox, and Safari. If you don’t have Windows, go to the library or ask a friend to take a screenshot for you. If you don’t have a Mac, use a free Mac screenshot service.
  • Themes must use the Typo 2.5+ theme engine. This is a simple, transportable system for putting all your rhtml, images, stylesheets, and javascripts in one folder. (Tutorials below).
  • All themes submitted will be made available for download. Don’t submit it unless you want it to be used by tens of thousands of Typo users.

The contest will run for one month...all themes must be submitted by November 10. Send themes to boss [at] topfunky [dot] com.

Judging

  • One prize will be given to the most popular theme, as determined by number of comments on this site. Yes, ballot stuffing is possible, but we will try to realistically determine which theme received the greatest number of unique positive comments.
  • The remainder of the prizes will be awarded by a panel of judges (yet to be determined).

Prizes

Thanks to our generous sponsors, we will be delivering the following to the finest themes (one per winner):

Other prizes are coming. Contact boss [at] topfunky [dot] com if you would like to become a contest sponsor!

Theme Tutorial Resources

Organized by

» Geoffrey Grosenbach, Topfunky Corporation

» Contest site hosting donated by Patrick Lenz, poocs.net

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Comments

  1. Doug Alcorn said about 5 hours later:

    Is there a deadline for submitting themes?

  2. topfunky said about 7 hours later:

    Good question…November 10 is the deadline for submitting themes.

  3. Jesse Newland said about 9 hours later:

    Will themes be judged against SVN trunk or Typo 2.5?

    I’m specfically interested in using a build newer than [578] to make that pesky blue spinner match my color scheme. Would this be ok?

  4. topfunky said about 9 hours later:

    No problem! Definitely use the newer build if you want to, which is definitely an improvement vis a vis the blue spinner.

  5. Kelsey Ruger said about 16 hours later:

    Which versions of IE for Windows and Mac? Are we talking about 5.2 on the Mac and 5.0+ on Windows?

  6. Veracon said about 20 hours later:

    So it doesn’t have to work in Opera?

  7. topfunky said 2 days later:

    IE 6/Windows is fine, and you can ignore IE Mac since no one really uses it anymore.

    We just don’t want to have themes that require Firefox (‘x-moz-round-corners’ and all that) and are unusable to the rest of the world.

    Of course, if you want to make it work perfectly in Opera, OmniWeb, and Netscape 4, then Eric Meyer will smile upon you and you will be blessed.

  8. totheme said 23 days later:

    sounds great, but where are people getting the nifty html source that displays a post, list, table, header, placeholder text, trackback, comments.. etc. just use the output from your own blog or is this resource available somewhere?

  9. PJ said 27 days later:

    Both Mac Screenshot websites mentioned in the main article appear to be down. After a little googling, I ran across http://browsershots.org/ which can create screenshots for lots of browsers.

    It appears that many of the browser types are currently backlogged (to the tune of 20+ hours), but my Safari request only took about 7 minutes.

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