A design contest for all you designers Options

[fixtatik]

Cleared this with the mods, so thank you mods! :)

As some of you know, I have an open-source management system. I've been working on the next version of it, and now it runs as a full site (or side site). You can display photography, backgrounds, layouts, whatever your heart desires, and it has plugins and a theme switcher (like WordPress).

I'd like to release it soon, but I've been too busy working on its inner workings and other projects to make a "default" theme for it that I can package with the download.

That's where you guys come in :D

I've decided to run a contest until November 13th at 11:59:59.99 pm, open to everyone older than 13 who has a PayPal account (and such a thing is legal in your country). What I'm looking for is someone to design a theme to package with what I call FMS.

For prizes:

- The winner gets up to $70. I started it at $20, and I'm adding on an extra $1 for every person who joins. After posting on another forum, it's up to $30 right now. If you win, you also get a permanent link back to your site (if you want, and if you have one) from within the theme--which means you'll be opening your doors to new visitors from all around.

- Two runners up will receive $10

In regards to the theme itself:

This is for FMS, but you don't need to worry about any specific coding. Basically, just design a site, one that would have a gallery of both images and templates. You can use placeholders to show how everything is organized. I'd like it to be unique (try to stray from a typical 3-column Myspace layout site), as FMS goes beyond Myspace--there will be plugins to showcase WordPress themes, regular HTML templates, and more. There's also a blog plugin, so you could design an area for a blog (bonus points! :D). Above all, it needs to be lightweight and cleanly coded. Alone, FMS is under 200KB unzipped--I'd like to keep the total download under 400KB, images included.

If you're interested, please reply to this thread or PM me your name (doesn't need to be your full name, just something to let the world know who designed such a masterpiece) and your website (if you have one, for including in the theme). Please PM me your submissions rather than posting any screenshots in the thread, to save you the problem of anyone stealing your ideas.

Any questions at all, feel free to PM me, or email me: hello[at]fixtatik.com. I'll announce the winners on Sunday the 15th.

[ZeT0]

I defiantly would of entered.