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7 Feb
Win $500 worth of Threadless merchandise
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We at Webdesigner Depot are big fans of Threadless and you can often see us sporting their awesome t-shirts. They’re a lot of fun and feature some awesome designs that often spark conversation.
One of the great things we love about Threadless is that the designs are submitted by designers like you and get voted on by their community. The winning designs are then printed on clothing and other products and sold through their website (designers get paid for their designs!).
Today, in partnership with our site Mighty Deals, we bring you an awesome giveaway where you can win 5 gift vouchers for Threadless merchandise, worth $100 each!!
You can use them in anyway you wish on Threadless.com - whether you want to get yourself some cool t-shirts, books, iPhone cases, etc.
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1 Feb
Win 250 die cut business cards from UPrinting
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We’re thrilled to see bring you another great giveaway of business cards from our friends at Uprinting.
This time around we’ll be giving away 5 prizes of 250 die cut business cards each!
What makes these cards different is their unique and attractive shapes. They are sure to get you noticed and will make your clients look twice!
Use them as appointment reminders, mini-resumes, service lists, calendars, portfolios and product samples, to name a few.
Read on for more information on how to participate…. Read more
19 Jan
Win $1,000 in PSD to HTML services!
Code, Contests, Web Design
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Designing a new website is great, but not everyone loves taking their PSD designs and converting them into actual, working HTML and CSS.
In fact, there are some designers who positively hate it (and often get someone else to do that part for them rather than suffer through it themselves).
A PSD to HTML service can be a huge time-saver even for designers who don’t mind coding their own designs. After all, the coding of a basic theme or template can be time-consuming even though it’s a relatively simple process.
Why not outsource it so you can focus on the creative aspects of creating websites? Read more
11 Jan
Win a Wibiya Pro plan for one year!
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Social media and web app integration is becoming a vital part of any successful website. You need to interact with your visitors on a variety of platforms is you want to create loyal, return visitors and fans.
The Wibiya toolbar lets you integrate a variety of social plugins, free apps, games, video and image galleries, and more into your website to increase page views, increase visitor engagement, and better promote your content.
Wibiya is giving away two Pro Wibiya Plans, each for a full year! A value of $119.40 each! All you have to do to enter is comment on this post! Read more
14 Nov
Win an iPad 2 and 5 copies of Parallels
Apple, Contests, Mac
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Today we’re bringing you another great giveaway, this time by our friends at Parallels, which provide the best tools for running multiple operating systems – including Windows 8 Developer Preview – side-by-side on your Mac or PC.
Starting today and for the rest of this week, each day they”ll be giving away a copy of their brand new Parallels Workstation 6 or the popular Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac, plus a copy of the Parallels Mobile app!
Friday’s winner takes the jackpot, with not only his choice of software, but also with the ultimate prize of the hottest gadget, a brand new iPad 2!!
Read on for more details about the how to participate and win these awesome prizes!
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9 Nov
Win an iPhone 4S and 10 copies of Steve Jobs biography
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Today we have an awesome giveaway from our sister site MightyDeals.com As you know, we created Mighty Deals as a platform to get the best deals on products and services for web professionals. The deals are highly discounted, sometimes as much as 90% off the retail price!
In this giveaway, you have the chance to win 1 of 10 great prizes, with the first prize being the much anticipated and sought after iPhone 4S (the contract free unlocked model directly from Apple) – shipped to your door, as well as a copy of the new book – Steve Jobs’ biography, by Walter Isaacson.
The other 9 winners will receive a copy of Steve Jobs’ biography.
Read on for more details on how to participate in this amazing contest!
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21 Sep
Win a copy of “The Book of CSS3″
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Today we have another awesome giveaway for all WDD readers where you can win 1 of 5 copies being given away of The Book of CSS3
As you know, CSS3 is the technology behind most of the eye-catching visuals you see on the Web today, but the official documentation can be dry and hard to follow and browser implementations are scattershot at best.
This is where Peter Gasston’s latest book can come in really handy. The Book of CSS3 translates the dense technical language of the CSS3 specification into plain English and shows you what CSS3 can do right now, in all major browsers.
It contains real-world examples and a focus on the principles of good design, it extends your CSS skills, helping you transform ordinary markup into stunning, richly-styled web pages.
Read on for more details about the book and info on how to participate… Read more
24 Aug
Win $300 in vouchers from Custom Bags HQ (and special bonus!)
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We’ve lined up another fresh giveaway today from the cool folks at Custom Bags HQ.
They’re bringing a great idea and marketing tool that you can actually use for your business or your clients’.
Custom Bags HQ wants to be every designer’s go-to for custom bag printing. They make incredible custom bags and reusable bags, with a simple, no brainer online ordering system. You basically just pick a bag style, upload your artwork and they’ll even send you a free online proof. How sweet is that!
Today, they want to show some love to WDD readers by giving away 3 vouchers worth $100 in-store credit, to get some really cool bags (enough to get a totally free order!).
Read on for more info on how to participate…. Read more
17 Aug
Win 25 Lite accounts from Vzaar video hosting
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Today our good friends at Vzaar are giving away 25 lite accounts of their professional commercial video hosting.
As you know, websites like YouTube are great for hosting your online videos.
The biggest downside is that you have little control over the environment in which your video is shown, and there’s nothing that says your video can’t be taken down without notice (or any server uptime guarantee).
Not the most ideal situation for a company trying to present a professional image.
Read on for more details about the Vzaar video hosting platform and on how to participate to win one of the 25 lite accounts being given away today. Read more
20 Jul
Win 500 magnetic business cards from Uprinting
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Uprinting is back with another striking giveaway for WDD readers.
One week from today, we’ll be giving away 500 magnetic business cards to 3 lucky WDD readers.
Magnetic cards may not have been your first choice for your business card but they’re super cool and can be stuck on anyone’s refrigerator door, bulletin boards, and are sure to draw curious looks.
The cards are provided with a 13pt magnet gloss with front printing only.
Read on for more details on how to participate… Read more
29 Jun
Win an iPad 2 from MightyDeals
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We’re excited to let you know about our newly redesigned MightyDeals website and to kick things off, we’ve lined up an awesome giveaway here on WDD.
If you don’t already know about our MightyDeals website, it’s the premier destination for web professionals to get their hands on amazingly discounted deals on products and services.
The deals include software, graphics, WordPress themes, icons and much much more. All deals are available for a limited time only and the discounts can sometimes be as much as 90% off!
In today’s big giveaway, you have a chance to win the world’s hottest gadget today – a brand new shiny iPad 2!!!
Read on for more details on how to participate…
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1 Jun
Win a MacBookPro and $1,000 printing credits from UPrinting
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The folks at UPrinting are bringing us one of their hottest giveaways so far!
Check this out: They’ll be giving away a brand new MacBookPro to a lucky WDD reader along with $500 worth of printing services and they’ll add a second $500 voucher for a second reader. Pretty sweet, uh?
If you don’t know of UPrinting by now, they’re an established printing company that can do pretty much anything, from business cards to brochures, calendars, posters, magnets, etc.
Read on for more details on how you can participate in this great giveaway… Read more
18 May
Win 10 copies of Thread’s Not Dead eBook
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Go Media's Jeff Finley put together a great ebook containing all the info he gathered through the years for designers to dominate the apparel industry.
The eBook is called Thread's Not Dead and features contributions from the people behind Go Media, Emptees, Threadless, Design by Humans, Big Cartel, I Am the Trend, Jakprints, Glamour Kills among others.
Inside the eBook you'll find 10 chapters with 117 pages of essential strategy pulled from the success and failures of some of the best in the biz.
Key topics include design, freelancing, band merchandise, personal branding, marketing, sales, printing and production, retail, e-commerce, and more.
One week from today, we'll be giving away 10 copies of these eBooks to some lucky winners here on WDD. Read more
20 Apr
Win 5 copies of The Web Designer’s Idea Book 2
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The second installment of The Web Designer’s Idea Book takes the best methods of organizing content from a variety of online galleries and combines them to create what could be the most well-thought-out source of design inspiration available.
This book provides a great compilation of the best themes, trends and styles in today’s web design.
We reviewed this book a while back on WDD and you can read our full review here.
Today, we’re giving away 5 copies of this amazing book to 5 lucky WDD readers…. read on for more information about the book and how to participate… Read more
16 Feb
New Threadless Book and Free Vouchers
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Threadless is an amazing megastore for design T-shirts. Their community submits designs online which are then voted on, and the best ones are selected to be printed and sold through their store.
The designs are truly amazing. I’ve bought several of their T-shirts through their online store and they’re really great!
They recently released their 10th anniversary book. The book features 300 of the best designs year-by-year, with killer graphics from the likes of Si Scott, Olly Moss, Geoff, McFetridge and many others, as well as interviews with designers and lots of other juicy stuff about Threadless.
We’re partnering with Threadless to offer 10 vouchers worth $30 each which can be used to purchase any Threadless merchandise that you wish for, including their brand new book (which retails for $15 for the paperback version). Read more
3 Feb
Win 7 WordPress Themes from Template Monster
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WordPress themes continue to grow popular among designers needing to deploy websites effectively while looking always sharp and professional.
By now you’ve probably heard of Template Monster. It’s actually one of the longest standing companies offering website templates, and also WordPress Themes. They feature over 1000+ beautifully designed themes for the most popular blogging platform.
They have recently launched a nice campaign where you can now get all of their WP themes with an amazing 20% discount. This offer expires February 20th and is now available on their site for anyone to take advantage of.
Today, WDD is partnering with Template Monster to give away 7 WordPress Themes to 7 lucky WDD readers, that is one WordPress theme per winner. Read more
24 Jan
Win 5 Free Poster Prints from UPrinting
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Picture this… you worked dozens of hours on your coolest design yet and you’re so proud that you want to show it off and hang it on your office wall for everyone to see. A poster of your design sounds like a cool idea, doesn’t it?
Posters can indeed be great promotional tools or advertising for a web design company or a freelancer.
In fact, posters and billboards are probably one of the best ways to get your word out in the offline world.
Today UPrinting is bringing us an awesome giveaway by giving a custom Poster print to 5 WDD lucky winners.
Read on for more details and for information on how to participate in this awesome giveaway. Read more
15 Dec
Win 5 Copies of the Using WordPress Book
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WordPress continues to dominate the blogging market as publishers continue to embrace the platform to get their content on the web.
You can make the most of WordPress by learning as much as you can about it and this is why you’ll love today’s giveaway.
Que’s publishing has a long and reputable history for great books and they have recently announced the USING series of books.
They’re more than just books, as they include step-by-step video tutorials, audio sidebars and web content to complement these books.
One week from today, we’ll be giving away 5 copies of the USING WordPress books to 5 lucky WDD readers.
Read on for more details and for instructions on how to participate. Read more
1 Dec
Win 10 Licenses of Time Tracking and Billing Software
Contests, Freelancing
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Keeping organized is crucial to any successful freelancer. Failure to do so will eventually cause your projects to pile up, getting messy or missing important milestones.
Meet Fanurio, a life saver for freelancers! It’s a time tracking and billing application, perfect for those of you wanting an easy, no nonsense, intuitive interface to keep track of your time and billing.
One week from today, we’ll be giving away 10 licenses of Fanurio to 10 lucky WDD readers.
Read more for all the details about this great piece of software as well as all the info on how to enter this contest. Read more
17 Nov
Win 3 Licenses of the WordPress Manual Plugin
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Although never fully intended as a CMS, WordPress is indeed one of the most widely used CMS in the world.
When working with some clients, you’ll often encounter difficulties training your clients on how to use it properly in order to update the content of their websites.
This is were the WordPress User Manual Plugin comes in really handy. This plugin is a very solid and professional effort by the folks at VideoUserManuals.
They created a very comprehensive video and online manual packaged as a WordPress plugin that you, as a developer, can give to your clients.
The plugin contains over 30 video tutorials and over 100 pages of instructions, always updated and covering from version 2.8 through 3.01 (and updated with every new stable version).
One week from today, we’ll be giving away 3 Lifetime Licenses to the WordPress Manual Plugin (which sells for $24 per month) to three lucky WDD readers. Read more
11 Nov
Celebrating 2 Years of WDD (win an iPad!)
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Today we celebrate our second birthday! And we couldn’t be happier with the success we’ve had over the past 2 years.
Since many of you enjoy stats, here are a few numbers to give you some insight into WDD…
Since our launch on November 11, 2008, we’ve been visited by over 20 million visitors and served a total of over 32 million pageviews. We currently have 587 posts on our site and almost 45,000 comments!! Also, we’re close to 80,000 rss subscribers and more than 200,000 Twitter followers.
All this wouldn’t be possible without the kindness and support of our devoted readers and I’m truly thankful for the amazing following over the past 2 years.
It’s been an awesome ride so far and I thoroughly enjoy communicating with all of you and receiving your emails, tweets, etc – thanks a million to all of you! Actually, make it 2 million Read more
20 Oct
Win 3 licenses for Filter Forge 2.0
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As designers, we rely on Photoshop and its array of filters to create our effects most of the time.
There are many Photoshop filters out there that are usually suited for only a limited amount of effects, however, we invite you to take a look at the thousands of options available with Filter Forge.
Their software has over 7,500 filters that will suit the needs of any graphic artist, beginners and professionals alike, from scrapbookers to 3D modelers.
Their recently released version 2.0 has even more filters for advanced lighting options and shadows, that greatly improve the realism of your art works.
We’ve partnered with the fine folks at Filter Forge and one week from today, we’ll be giving away 3 licenses for Filter Forge Basic Edition (valued at $149 each) to some lucky WDD readers.
Read on for all the details and for instructions as to how to participate… Read more
6 Oct
Win $2,500 from CodeMyConcept
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One of the worst nightmares of some designers can be dealing with the coding aspect of a website. Design comes easy for many of designers, but not everyone.
This is where Code My Concept comes to the rescue. They’re a great company offering PSD to HTML conversions at really great prices.
All their work is 100% hand coded, and they don’t just do plain HTML conversions, they can also handle WordPress, Drupal, Magento and Joomla implementations. All of their work comes with a 100% money back guarantee.
One week from today, we’ll be giving away $2,500 worth of Code My Concept services in gift cards to 4 lucky WDD readers, which you can use for your design conversions with them.
Read more about Code My Concept and our great giveaway after the jump. Read more
29 Sep
Winners of Premium Accounts from Wix
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Thanks to all of you who participated in last week’s contest from Wix.com.
Wix is a free web based tool that allows you to quickly and easily create and deploy quality Flash websites.
Their tools allow you to create a website that can look great without fussing with programing, just using a simple drag n’ drop tool that makes the process easy and fun to do.
We have a total of 3 winners and each of these have won a Full Unlimited Premium Account for a period of one year (worth $150 each).
As usual, the winners were selected at random and you can check the results after the jump. Read more
22 Sep
Win 3 Premium Accounts from Wix.com
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We’ve lined up another great giveaway for you today. This time, we’ve partnered with free website Flash builder Wix.com to bring you 3 unlimited premium accounts.
You’ve probably seen Wix ads all over the Web including several here on WDD…. but what is Wix exactly? It’s basically a free web based tool that allows you to quickly and easily create and deploy quality Flash websites.
One of the best things about Flash is that it allows you to create rich interactive experiences, and what’s great about creating a Flash site using Wix is that it’s also search engine friendly.
Their tools allow you to create a website that can look great without fussing with programing, just using a simple drag n’ drop tool that makes the process easy and fun to do.
One week from today, we’ll be giving away 3 premium accounts to three WDD readers. Read on for details on how to participate. Read more
20 Sep
Winners of 10 Canvas Prints from UPrinting
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Thanks to all of you who participated in our latest contest from UPrinting! Today we bring you the results…
UPrinting prints all types of stuff, from postcards to flyers and even door hangers!
They have over 25 years of experience and you can safely trust them for anything print related.
Each of the 10 winners has won a custom rolled canvas print that can be used to print your own designs or photographs.
The winners were selected at random and you can check the results after the jump. Read more
13 Sep
Win 10 Canvas Prints from UPrinting
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Today we’re partnering once again with the good folks at UPrinting to bring you another fantastic giveaway.
UPrinting is a great printing company that prints all types of stuff, from postcards to flyers and even door hangers! They have over 25 years of experience and you can trust them with all your printing needs.
One week from today, we’ll be giving away 10 Custom Rolled Canvas Prints that are 16×20 in size.
These are great sizes for you to print anything at all, such as your own favorite designs or photos. You can then use them to decorate your walls with something truly unique that is your own creation.
Read on for more details on the prizes and on how to participate… Read more
1 Sep
Winners of Custom Stickers from Sticker Mule
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After more than 300 comments on last week’s Sticker Mule giveaway, we finally have the results.
As you know, Sticker Mule makes awesome custom stickers in all different shapes and sizes as well as skins that you could use, for example, for your laptop, iPhone or iPad. These are not only great fun, but can also be used as excellent promotional tools, or even gifts.
Each of the 5 winners has won a voucher worth $100, which can be applied to any of Sticker Mule’s stickers or skins.
The winners were selected at random and you can check the results after the jump. Read more
25 Aug
Win Custom Stickers from Sticker Mule
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Who’s ready for some great freebies? This time, we’ve partnered with Sticker Mule to bring you another awesome giveaway.
If you haven’t heard of Sticker Mule yet, they make truly awesome custom stickers in all different shapes and sizes as well as skins that you could use, for example for your laptop, iPhone or iPad. These are not only great fun but can also be used as promotional tools, or even gifts.
One week from today, we’ll be giving away 5 vouchers worth $100 each, with which the winners can choose any of Sticker Mule’s stickers or skins.
The winners will be chosen at random on September 1st. Read on more for details on how to participate as well as some examples of stickers and skins… Read more
21 Jul
Winners of Icon Sets from IconDock
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For the past week, we’ve been running IconDock’s Giveaway for 10 Icon sets. Thanks to all who participated and a special thanks to Nick La for these wonderful icons.
IconDock features professionally designed pixel and vector stock icons suitable for print and web projects. The website contains a great collection of both premium and free icons.
Today we have the results of the contest and 10 lucky winners get the chance to pick any icon set of their choice from the great collection at IconDock.
The winners were selected at random and you can see the results after the jump. All winners will be contacted via email for details as to how to receive their prizes. Read more
14 Jul
Win 10 Fantastic Icon Sets from IconDock
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IconDock is the brain child of renowned designer Nick La, more known for his popular blog, Web Designer Wall, and his portfolio site, N Design Studio.
IconDock features professionally designed pixel and vector stock icons suitable for print and web projects. The site contains a great collection of both premium and free icons.
With today’s contest, we’re bringing you the chance to win 10 sets of these wonderful and useful icons.
One week from today, on July 21st, we’ll be giving away 10 sets of icons to 10 lucky WDD readers.
Check out the beautiful icon previews after the jump and read on for more details about this contest… Read more
7 Jul
Winners of 1000 Postcards from UPrinting
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For the past 7 days we’ve been running a great giveaway from UPrinting. Many thanks to all those of you who participated and to UPrinting for a great giveaway.
UPrinting is one of the leading online printing companies in the world, with over 25 years of experience under their belt.

Each of the 10 winners has won a set of 500 free business cards of their choice with free shipping to anywhere in the world.
The winners were selected at random and you can see the results after the jump.
All winners will be contacted via email for details as to how to receive their prizes.
Each of the 10 winners has won a set of 100 custom postcards with free shipping to anywhere in the world.
The winners were selected at random and you can see the results after the jump. All winners will be contacted via email for details as to how to receive their prizes. Read more
30 Jun
Win 1000 Postcards from UPrinting
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Sending postcards to your old clients to remind them of your services, or to prospective new clients, can be a great and often overlooked way to generate more business.
As you probably know by now, UPrinting is one of the leading online printing companies in the world, with over 25 years of experience under their belt.
They’re truly a great company to work with when you need to get something professionally printed, whether it’s a business card, brochure or postcard.
A few months ago we teamed up with them and gave away 5,000 business cards to 10 lucky winners, which was a resounding success.
Today we bring you even more great goodies! We have 100 custom postcards from UPrinting to give away to 10 lucky winners. Read on for more details on the prizes and on how to participate… Read more
23 Jun
Winners of Que Publishing Book Giveaway
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And here we are with the results of last week’s Que Publishing giveaway, in which we’re giving away 5 books about Adobe’s CS5.
Que Publishing is a very established publisher with almost 30 years of experience providing information and books related to computing and technology, and in this case they’re providing 5 winners with books from the OnDemand CS5 series.
As usual, all winners were chosen at random and the results appear after the jump. The publisher will contact all winners directly via email with details as to how to receive their books.
Did you win this time? Find out after the jump! Read more
16 Jun
Que Publishing: Adobe CS5 Books Giveaway
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Que Publishing is a very established publisher with almost 30 years of experience providing information and books related to computing and technology.
We’ve partnered with this awesome publisher to bring you a super cool giveaway today, to ensure that you get the most out of your new Adobe CS5 products.
I’ve been using the CS5 On Demand book series for a while now and they really provide the answers in an quick and easy visual step-by-step format. They show you exactly what to do with lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.
One week from today, we’ll be giving away 5 books about CS5, from Photoshop CS5 to InDesign CS5… Read more after the jump and for a full description of all books.
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11 Jun
Winners of Radim Malinic’s Book #Three
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We’re finally ready with the results of last week’s giveaway, where we’re giving away 5 copies of Radim Malinic’s new book called #Three.
As you probably know by now, Radim is the illustrator of the awesome graphics that you see in the header and footer of Webdesigner Depot.
The book features Radim’s designs from the past 18 months, both in detail and in real-world settings.
All winners were chosen at random and the results appear after the jump. Radim will contact all winners directly via email with details as to how to receive their prizes.
Did you make it this time? Check below to find out! Read more
4 Jun
Review and Giveaway: Radim Malinic’s Book #THREE
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Book #THREE by Brand Nu is a unique book that serves as the portfolio of Radim Malinic, one of the most prolific and successful commercial illustrators around.
Radim is the illustrator of the awesome graphics that you see in the header and footer of Webdesigner Depot. If you didn’t see our interview with Radim, you can check it out here
It’s filled with designs from the past 18 months, both in detail and in real-world settings.
The list of clients included in this book is extensive, and includes high profile organizations such as the London Film Museum, QV Melbourne, Acer Computers and Haagen-Dazs ice cream.
Read on to know more about #Three and for a chance to win 1 of 5 books that we will be giving away next week… Read more
12 May
Winners of “TypeFaces” Playing Cards
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For the past week, we’ve been running a great contest to win sets of awesome playing cards from Typefaces.
These super cool cards feature world renowned designers such as Veerle Pieters, Jeffrey Zeldman and Jason Santa Maria, among many others.
The official Typefaces site also carries wallpapers for each of the designers which you can download for free.
All winners were chosen at random and the results appear after the jump. Typefaces will contact all winners via email with details as to how to receive their prizes.
Read on to see if you won… Read more
7 May
Win 10 Sets of “TypeFaces” Playing Cards
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What are TypeFaces? They’re “top-trumps” style card packs featuring 20 well known designers.
For each designer, a typeface was selected to match their overall vibe. Each card has also been individually designed to reflect their vibe, supported typographically with the selected typeface.
The official site also carries wallpapers for each of the TypeFaces characters which you can download for free right away.
And today, we have 10 great sets of these cards ready to be shipped to you. The contest is open to WDD readers worldwide. Only one entry per person.
Read on for more details and information on how to participate and win one of these awesome sets of cards. Read more
5 May
Winners of the Massive Iconshock Giveaway
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Today we have the results of last week’s Iconshock Giveaway.
We received over 451 entries for this super awesome contest, where IconShock is giving away 10 licenses for ALL of their icons.
Each license includes 800,000 stock icons, 250 icon sets, 500 logo templates and 250 animated icons. The total value of the prizes is $4,990.
All winners were chosen at random and you can find the results after the jump. Iconshock will contact all the winners directly via email with details as to how to receive their prizes.
Did you win? Find out after the jump… Read more
28 Apr
Massive Giveaway of Iconshock Icons
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Iconshock is the largest icon design company in the world and today they’re bringing a spectacular giveaway to WDD readers.
In this contest, Iconshock will be providing 10 full subscription licenses to ALL their icons. Yes, you read that right, ALL their icons.
The value of all these prizes is an astonishing $4,990!
And this includes a staggering amount of goodies: 800,000 stock icons, 250 icon sets, 500 logo templates and 250 animated icons!!
That’s their entire collection and we have 10 of these licenses for you today. Read on for details on how to participate and check out some of the icons below…
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14 Apr
Winners of iPad and Free ActiveCampaign Licenses
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Finally, the day you’ve been waiting for is here… The contests’ results are in!
2048 comments were made for this amazing giveaway. This is certainly a record for any contest on WDD!
A ginormous thank you to the generous folks at ActiveCampaign for providing us with some stunning prizes (total worth of $8,979).
The prizes include 1 Apple iPad and free licenses to their awesome email marketing and survey software.
As usual, all winners were chosen at random and the results appear after the jump. We will contact all the winners via email with details as to how to receive their prizes. Read more
7 Apr
Win an iPad and Free ActiveCampaign Licenses
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Who doesn’t like freebies? We all do, and today the good folks at ActiveCampaign are bringing you an absolutely awesome giveaway that’s sure to make you drool…
By participating in this contest, not only you stand the chance of winning a just released Apple iPad, but you can also win a bunch of free licenses for ActiveCampaign’s email marketing and survey software, that will come in really handy for your next project.
ActiveCampaign specializes in awesome web based software which includes email marketing and survey software.
Read on for more details on how to participate in this amazing contest…
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24 Mar
Winners of “jQuery: Novice to Ninja”
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Last week’s contest from SitePoint is now officially over.
The giveaway was really successful with almost 800 entries from all over the world.
Many thanks to all of you who participated and to SitePoint for their generous prizes.
Each of the 5 winners has won a full copy of their latest and very successful book “jQuery: Novice to Ninja”.
All winners were chosen at random and you can find the results after the jump. We will contact all the winners via email with details as to how to receive their prizes.
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17 Mar
Win 5 Copies of “jQuery: Novice to Ninja”
Books, Contests
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Sitepoint is known to consistently release amazing books.
Their latest book, “jQuery: Novice to Ninja”, covers jQuery, one of the most powerful JavaScript frameworks.
The exciting new 390-page book is perfect for any jQuery user, regardless of whether you’re a beginner, advanced, or somewhere in-between.
WDD has once again partnered with Sitepoint to bring you this great book in a fantastic giveaway.
Just one week from today we will be giving away free copies of this great book to 5 lucky WDD readers chosen at random.
Read on for more details and information on how to participate… Read more
9 Mar
Winners of 5000 Business Cards from UPrinting
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Today we’re announcing the winners of the UPrinting contest that we held on WDD for the past week.
Many thanks to all of you who participated. The response was great and we’ve got almost 500 comments.
Each of the 10 winners has won a set of 500 free business cards of their choice with free shipping to anywhere in the world.
The winners were selected at random and you can see the results after the jump.
All winners will be contacted via email for details as to how to receive their prizes. Read more
2 Mar
Win 5000 Business Cards from UPrinting
Contests, Web Designers
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We all know that as web designers, we should market ourselves both online and offline.
For online purposes, a great portfolio website or blog is a perfect way to spread the word, but for offline purposes, nothing beats the traditional business card.
We’ve partnered with UPrinting to bring an amazing contest to WDD. One week from today, we will be awarding 10 prizes of 500 free business cards each!!!
You can choose from a variety of business card styles, such as the traditional US Standard, square, slim and specialty shapes. Let your creativity flow and design the cards any way that you want. We will ship them to you worldwide absolutely free of charge.
Read on for more details on how to enter this contest… Read more
1 Feb
Winners of “Fluid Web Typography”
Contests, Typography
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Last week we run a great contest here on WDD to give away 5 free copies of the book “Fluid Web Typography” …and today we have the results!
Congratulations to all 5 winners: Christopher Barnes (#392), Claudiu (#145), Tutorial City (#403), Austin (#113) and Patricia (#346).
Each of you have won a free copy of this excellent web typography book written by Jason Cranford Teague.
All winners will be contacted via email for details on how to receive their books.
Thanks to the over 400 of you who participated and for leaving links to all those awesome typographic resources.
We’ll be running more contests in the near future, stay tuned! Read more
25 Jan
Win 5 Copies of “Fluid Web Typography”
Contests, Typography
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Typography on the Web has remained unchanged for over a decade, but we’re now in the midst of a type revolution.
In a great effort to bring light to typography on the web and how to use it properly, one of our respected authors, Jason Cranford Teague, in association with Peachpit has released the book “Fluid Web Typography”.
Today, we’re bringing this must-have book to the WDD audience.
We’re running a one week contest where we will be awarding 5 free copies of this unmissable book. Read on for all the details and how to participate. Read more
15 Dec
Win 10 Premium Accounts at Grafpedia
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We love to bring great contests to all our loyal readers and today we have another great one lined up for you.
We’ve partnered with Grafpedia a great provider of Photoshop gradients, brushes and vectors to bring another great giveaway to some lucky WDD readers.
We’re giving away a total of 10 premium accounts with access to ALL of Grafpedia’s content for 3 months. That is thousands of Photoshop brushes, vector shapes and patterns, and much much more.
The contest runs for one week and we will announce the results on December 22nd.
For a chance to win, please follow the participation guidelines after the jump. Read more
1 Dec
Winners of ‘Fancy Form Design’
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The results are in! Today we’re pleased to announce the winners of the SitePoint book giveaway.
All winners will be contacted via email for details as to how to receive their prizes.
Check out to see if you won and view the winners’ names after the jump.
For those that didn’t win this time, you can buy the PDF version for only $14.95 until December 5th via this link OR get $5.00 off the print book, published in full color, shipped to your door anywhere in the world by following this link. Worldwide shipping is free when you add a 2nd book to your order.
Thanks to the almost 1000 of you that participated and thanks to SitePoint for sponsoring this great contest for the WDD community. Read more
24 Nov
Win 5 Free Copies of ‘Fancy Form Design’
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We’re partnering once again with the awesome folks at SitePoint to bring you another great giveaway for one of their latest books.
The book this time is called Fancy Form Design and it guides you through the creation of beautiful forms for your websites.
Forms need not be ugly, they can be beautiful, too, and their coding can now be hassle free.
We will give away a total of 5 copies of the book, and the contest will run for a week, with the results announced on December 1st.
To get a chance to win, please follow the guidelines for participation after the jump. Read more
19 Nov
The wait is over! And the prizes go to…
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Thanks to everyone that participated in our massive first birthday giveaway.
Your response of over 1,200 comments was absolutely unbelievable and made me realize how influential the blog has been to so many people out there.
The comments were great! Funny, artistic, original and charged with positive vibes.
A very heartfelt thank you to all of you for your support, and for the great feedback in your comments.
I’m now truly charged to propel WDD further into its second year! Feel free to always send me your feedback, ideas and suggestions. I read all emails and will definetely take your feedback into consideration.
And now, what you’ve been waiting for since last week… the prizes! And there are 42 very lucky winners… are you one of them? Read more
11 Nov
Webdesigner Depot Turns One Year Old! (surprises included)
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It’s been one year already and today we celebrate WDD’s first birthday!
It’s been an incredible journey so far… and I’ve enjoyed it immensely, and still am.
I started WDD out of my curiosity for blogging and my passion for design. I wanted to put my mark out there by pouring my design vision into the world.
Since WDD began, the blog has been visited by over 10 million people and that number is growing in leaps and bounds month after month.
Today, I’d like to share a few interesting details about myself and WDD, and I also have some very special birthday surprises in store… Read more
28 Jul
Interview with SpecWatch:
The Naked Truth About Design Contests
Contests, Interviews, Web Designers
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“Spec work” stands for speculative work. It’s a term used to refer to any job for which the client expects to see examples with no guarantee of payment.
The Internet has accelerated its growth in the form of “design contest” websites, and these businesses have advertising machines that draw in thousands of unsuspecting designers who think it’s normal to give away their intellectual property for nothing.
With the increasing prominence of “spec work” businesses, we’re witnessing more and more about the downsides of the practice, and there’s one initiative in particular that’s documenting what goes on — SpecWatch.
David Airey, a well respected graphic designer, has approached WDD with this important issue and we felt it was necessary to bring light to this important subject.
Here’s the exclusive interview David conducted with SpecWatch for WDD readers. Designers take note… Read more
27 Apr
Winners of ‘Sexy Web Design’
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Today we’re happy to announce the winners of the SitePoint book giveaway.
Congratulations to @innervoices, @kmog, @sherri_g, @6bdesign and @TylorSkory. Each of you have won a full copy of the book “Sexy Web Design”.
All winners will be contacted via email for details as to how to receive their prize.
For the ones that didn’t win, don’t despair as SitePoint has generously provided a 25% discount for all of our readers that would like to purchase the book. Note that this discount is only valid until May 1st: Discount link
Thanks to the almost 600 of you who participated and thanks to SitePoint for sponsoring this great contest for the WDD community.
16 Apr
Win 5 Free Copies of ‘Sexy Web Design’
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I’m always reading tons of design blogs as well as buying books and magazines to gain more knowledge on design and bring fresh ideas to WDD.
A little while ago, I ordered Elliot Jay Stocks book “Sexy Web Design” and after reading it, I thought it would be a great idea if I could bring this book to the loyal readers of WDD.
So, I’ve partnered with the publisher SitePoint, one of the leading resources for designers, to bring this great book to the WDD audience.
Starting today, we’ll be running a 10 day contest here on WDD, where you can win one of 5 free copies of the book that we’ll be giving away. Read more