Ahhh, yes.

Sent and dusted!

[swervedriver]

Awesome, the first entries have been trickling in this week!

As a friendly reminder to everyone else who is participating, the deadline is this weekend. Go go go!

[Victimlas]

Also, you will receive an email confirming your entry. If you do not receive a reply, please make sure to contact us. We don't want to miss any entries!

[Victimlas]

Hi everyone!

We are still recovering from some technical difficulties from this morning. Voting for the contest will start tomorrow (10/16) and run through 10/22.

[Victimlas]

Voting is now open!!

Nice designs.

[swervedriver]

Wow, really nice work everyone! Took me a while to decide

(I know that's also what it says in the first post now, but Victimlas edited that one )

There needs to be a place for the buttons for working the website, yes?

I wish you could see how it actually blends into the forum. I always have trouble imagining that kind of stuff. Some designs look awesome on its own, but are a bit too much when they are just behind other stuff. Same goes for designs that seem to be boring - that can actually be beneficial.

That isn't a bad idea. Maybe one of the admins could apply these skins and screen shot them? Or better yet, make them available as selectable skins during the voting period so we could test-drive them?

Page finally works for me, vote submitted. Really like number 2.

[Victimlas]

That isn't a bad idea. Maybe one of the admins could apply these skins and screen shot them? Or better yet, make them available as selectable skins during the voting period so we could test-drive them?

Hey guys! Totally understand it's a little hard to picture. The winning design will be adapted to fit the forums. That means that depending on the design, the menu will move along with the social icons, HDR logo, etc. Also backgrounds submitted fit differently so they would be adapted differently. The reason we didn't mock up all the templates was because of time.

I am trying to think if there's a quicker way to mock it up...

Bookwyrm83, I am glad it finally worked for you!

Well, voted for #2 before it's too late now since I really like the concept. Not sure how well that works as a background though due to the high contrast.

[Victimlas]

I know it's hard to see how it will all translate. #2 is actually meant to be transparent over the background but it's really hard to show. The background on the header is there so you can see the elements otherwise you would not be able to see it at all.

The board itself (where the posts are) will retain the grey color. The background goes behind where the grey pattern shows right now.

Hope that helps clear it up a little.

FYI as long as voting is open you can change your vote at any time, but only one vote per person.

Voted 2 because its clean, sleek and captures both Z2 and DT as a whole, so it is perfect for the forum at this time.