vBulletin.org New Style Competition! Prizes: Free vB and Hivemail licenses!!!
 

Alright, members, now is the time to get the creative juices going!

In order to celebrate the upcoming update of vBulletin.org to vBulletin 3, we are going to revamp our style. We are giving members a chance to be immortalized forever in the vB.org Hall of Fame, and get their names embedded in our footer templates ;) by choosing the top 2 best styles submitted in our Style Competition.

We are not even asking for something too complicated. All we want is a nice HEADER, FOOTER and NAVBAR, as well as BUTTONS and COLOR SCHEME. This includes our INDEX PAGE. Remember, we will need the buttons as eitehr gif or jpg, and we will require the psd's as well. Note as well that all rights in the design will be handed over to vBulletin.org on submission, and the style must be exclusive to this site, and not be resold or redistributed.

The Best Style will get a vB License courtesy of Jelsoft. The Runner-Up will get a Hivemail license courtesy of Hivemail. Best of all, you will get a special custom user title, username in our footer and fame and glory for the rest of your days. ;)

Rules to participate:

• You must have a valid vBulletin license
• You can submit multiple Styles, as long as everyone is created by yourself
• You have to submit the style.xml, buttons (names as on standard vb3), psd's of the buttons, a screenshot of how the style will look

You don't have to modify any other templates than the mentioned header, footer, navbar. You can, but it's not required, nor it'll give you better chances to win. Even we can decide not to use every of your modified template.

Post every style in a new thread within our new Style Contest Forum
You can just see your own threads in there. We will inform the winners when they're choosen.

We suggest you start with the button creations, as the templates may change through the Betastages ;)

Good luck to all of you :)

Do the members choose which is the best style submitted?

Nope, the jury is vb.org staff and also if wanted jelsoft members.

As we want to surprise the members with the new style, a member rating isn't possible

Lets just hope your opinions on styles don't suck :p

Sounds like a good idea. Will you be doing a top ten or something like that so us mortals can see who were the runners up?

Hehe, well we have different staff members with different opinions, so i'm sure you'll accept our descision :)

@Intex: we have no descisions so far.
We will of course show the top 2 ^^

as for the runners up, we'll discuss that, also with the participating members :)

Hmm... I guess me and friend can take a whack at it :)

You can expect buttons to change also in the final vB3 style. Some may come, some may go...

thats why we hand over psds freddie :)

So I'm just "a friend" now? :'( :P

Rufus be quite.... you know what you are.... you are a complete and total............................................. .............................. ..............................................GENI US!

O_O Since when? So..now I'm a genius...how insulting, you know I'm a complete idiot! :-P

PS. When does it end?

when is the end date on this? I may participate

We have no fix end date yet, as it depends on the RC and final Date of vb3 somehow.

We'll inform you early enough about any ending dates :)
We just started it as early as possible, so you have enough time for it :)

Sounds interesting.

Another vB/HM license won't kill anybody.

/me will try to find the time to think about a nice style and hopefully the time to realize it and submit it.

Very nice to have a competition running.

So no postbit/showthread/forumdisplay modifications?

And when you say index page, are you referring to both, or just vbulletin.org/index.php?

/me ponders if he has time for this

unless you want to... I bet those would score brownie points though :)

Velocd, we want to use more styles and also want to hack the boards, so a lot of different templates would be problematical.

but there is no REAL no to other templates.
as said, you don't need to change them, if you want, you can do, but i won't promise we will also take over the modified templates, too then.

Yes, we mean vbulletin.org/index.php, not forumhome, as it would result into the same as mentioned above with hacks and so on :)

hmmm ive just finished my first vb3 style so i may as well try this :D

owned license? or leased? :)

i like to hear you all enjoy the idea and plan to participate in the contest.
[high]* Xenon is excited of the styles we'll get
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@Clive:
both licenses can participate, the prize is an owned license :)

We like the idea and we will participate :D

An owned license !! That is so cool :)

Remember - it's not the license... it's the glory of being immortalized in vB.org's hall of fame. ;)

No its HiveMail also :)

Interesting, although I don't do imaging so that rules me out. =/

Good luck to all. :)

Tony, maybe you'll find a partner ;)

You do the style work, he the imaging ;)

Xenon, when does the contest end and does the style have to be vB3? because I don't think vB2 have XML styles.. Please explain for what vb version is this contest for?

I might participate if possible.

It's for vB3, according to the first post.

Also he mentioned on the first page that there is no set end date. ;)

Thx Mike :)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/forumdisp...?s=&forumid=43

Am I missing something here? :confused:

I think I will participate as well...
I love to create new color schemes and buttons. ;)

[high]* Salazar clicks http://localhost/vb3/admincp :D
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Good luck to everybody!

I'll participate if I understand the vb3 template system, its quite confusing :( but i am learning a bit by bit..

@nuno: i don't get this error.
you are able to view the forum, view own threads, and post new threads

Beta 3 still uses the same template layout as the vB2 templates. Thats soon to change but the header/footer are pretty straightforward. :)

I dunno, I never win any contest, lottries and nothing, never won nothing in my life except maybe school awards but thats it. I'll try my best!

Ya, if anyone can do images, i can do the coding :P Contact me on AOL:
DeMiNe0

VeoMorphine, if u do it wit someone like say i do a design and you do the coding, and our style wins then who shall take the license? lol

well then you have to make a website together :p

or the one pays the other the half prize... ;)

Hmm. Perhaps I'll take a stab at this... Another license wouldn't hurt, I don't think.