We’ll be posting the winners of the breakthrough fansite awards contest soon.  We are working on some graphics and it will take some time to read through the entries.  In the meantime, we’ll post the next contest.

A few months ago, we had the summer themes design contest. Now, we’re having have a contest for the current season, fall. You can also make it for the theme of Thanksgiving. The contest will end on November 15th, to give you a week or so before Thanksgiving during which you can put up a new layout.  There will be prizes for at least 2 wordpress themes (one will be for the general season of Fall, and the other will be specifically for Thanksgiving), and 1 coppermine theme.  The rules will be similar, and we’ve written them below.

How to Enter

To enter, create a fall or Thanksgiving theme following the rules below, and email your theme to orangesarecool@gmail.com.  If you would like feedback back first before you finish, you can email us a preview and we’ll let you know whether to continue it.

In response to the question in the comment how the winners are selected,

We select them :)  We’ll decide winners as are they are submitted, basically if the layout is very HQ it will be selected as a winner automatically, if its borderline, not very HQ, or we aren’t sure, we’ll post a preview and if a lot of people request it, then it will be decided as a winner.

Rules

• If you plan to enter the contest, please let us know asap by email, or post a comment to this post.  We want to know how many people will be entering.
• There will be 1 winner for a general fall WordPress theme, and 1 winner for a WordPress theme that is related to Thanksgiving.  The coppermine theme can be either.
• Fall/autumn colors.  The design must use fall/autumn colors [example]  For example you can use orange/brown colors, leaves that are changing color, etc.  For the thanksgiving theme, you should use images related to Thanksgiving, such as turkeys, food, pumpkins, pilgrims, etc. [example]
• Simplicity.  The header file must be easily editable.  Please don’t submit themes that require complex slicing and requires someone to re-slice, re-save, and re-code the whole file.  Since they are themes that people should be able to use for any celebrity fansite, the theme should be easy to use and edit.
• Editable files.  Please include a .psd file of all editable regions, and a copy of any special fonts you use.
• Ads. Must have an ad space for both a 728×90 and 300×250 ads which are visible without scrolling.  The 300×250 can be at the top of the sidebar.
• Links.  Must contain the text “hosted by fanfusion.org” or “fanfusion.org” as a graphic on the layout, that links back to us.  See this theme as an example, note the “fanfusion.org” text in the heart graphic.
• There isn’t a limit to how many themes you can submit, as long as they are very different from each other.
• The theme contest ends November 15th.  We’ll review entries as they are entered so we’ll tell you asap once you enter if the entry is selected.  There won’t be any voting.

Please don’t submit themes that don’t follow the rules above because we won’t be able to accept it and we don’t want you to put in a lot of work into a theme and it doesn’t get accepted because it didn’t follow the contest rules.

Prizes:

• There will be at least 3 prizes, each prize will be a 15 pounds/$24 gift cards to itunes, or amazon.  Additional prizes will be considered if many HQ themes are submitted.
• You can choose to substitute the prize for a gift card to another site, or a link to your site our main page fanfusion.org, if we approve your request.

Entries so far:

Contest has just started, we’ll be posting entries here as they are submitted.