Winner of The Unique Blog Designs Citrus Theme
written by John Chow on September 8th, 2008
A big congrats goes out to Vlad Blan of Bloggedin Traffic. Vlad is the winner of the $99 Citrus Theme package from Unique blog Designs. Vlad will have a choice of six sweet flavors to choose from when the time comes to give his blog a new look.
Thanks to everyone who entered and thanks to Unique Blog Designs for giving me the theme to give away. Look for more contests and giveaway real soon.
For those who really like the citrus theme but didn’t win it, then you should consider buying it. Ninety nine dollars isn’t a huge amount to pay for a limited production theme. With a little tweaking, it can look totally custom made. Take a look at what Ed Lau managed to do with his citrus theme.
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congratulations vlad!
Reply to this commentWell I don’t really like Ed Lau’s blog with that theme, I think its better originally but that looks crap!
Reply to this commentWell I don’t really like Ed Lau’s blog with that theme, I think its better originally but that looks crap! Infact my design on my blog would be better than that!
Reply to this commentWell, the theme is rather nice but from my opinion, it doesn’t look like something I would use.
I don’t honestly see it worth as much as $99 but it’s a nice little customizable theme and at least it offers the ease of customizing it.
Reply to this commentI think it is worth $99 for people interested in that theme. If it’s easy to customize then it’s probably worth it.
Reply to this commentCongratulations Vlad Blan
Reply to this commentI know I know, this is the wrong place to ask it, but where did the Income for August post go? Or wasn’t there anything in August?
Reply to this commentJust curious …
Great contest, now if we could just win that winning PPC-ad campaign design contest that pays us $$ thousands $$$? Keep em coming John.. Shoemoney is offering a $4000.00 value THINK-TANK all expenses paid trip to San Diego…sounds like you need to step up!!!
Reply to this commentRespectfully, Nicholas Chase http://donotreadthisblogunless.blogspot.com/
No premium theme is worth any money at all. There are far better themes out there for free. The only way to stop the madness is to make the current crop of premium themes available for free. Currently I’m working on derivative versions of famous premium themes like Thesis and Revolution. After that I’m going after the Unique Blog Design guys since all their stuff looks the same and isn’t worth $1.00 let alon $99.00. I’m going to release them for free on my blog. Sure, it will cause a storm (and it already has) but someone has got to burst this bubble.
Reply to this commentAnyone who has spent any time online will tell you that building alliances is one of the most important things in order to be successful. With an attitude like yours, good luck getting anyone to take you seriously let alone want to read your blog.
Reply to this commentYeah, what a way to get back at them. You must have heavy karma.
Reply to this commentI have never thought about purchasing a template. I just figured there were enough free ones out there to do the job well. Well, I didn’t find that to be the case. The more and more I looked the better blogs had custom templates that they purchased and then tweeked them. Mentally it makes you feel better about what you have and it shows in the posts and what you offer your readers.
Reply to this commentI think that the case comes down to content is king mantra. If you fill your blog with copied or just-add-personal-opinion content from somewhere in the web, then you are not stepping up from the blogging crowd. Now, copy paste the case of widely distributed blog theme. Could work, but feel free to provide something more than others.
Reply to this commentHey Mr Anonymous, why the secrecy? What are you scared of?
And, FYI, my blog is 3 days old and is already attracting hundreds of unique visitors per day. What is you blog doing? Oh, that’s right, you haven’t got one, your Mr Anonymous.
Think before your write something. Wordpress is open source, as is the code used to develop themes. Charging money for modifications of open source code is not cool.
Reply to this commentlucky…
Reply to this commentCongrats to the winner.
The citrus theme looks pretty good. I have been wanting to make an update on my current theme, it looks like a have a good starting point.
Reply to this commentyou mean you’d buy this theme just to uplist your own?
Reply to this commentCongrats man, you made it!
Reply to this commentI’m soo happy for you!
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Congrats Vlad , way to go …
Reply to this commentCongratulations Vlad! I’m looking forward to seeing how you put the new design to use.
Reply to this commentCongrats Vlad! Can’t wait to see your site.
Reply to this commentCongrats. Have fun with it
Reply to this commentGood for him.
Thanks for the link to Ed’s site. I always like seeing what modifications people can make with these Premium themes so that they’re not just right out of the box.
Reply to this commentI’m loving the pictures of John at the kids table on Ed’s site!
Reply to this commentDid you see him with cupcake smashed on his face, Dang that was funny!
Reply to this commentI’m thinking of buying a template citrus but I am not sure ….
Reply to this commentCheers John
Thanks a lot, John! Only one thing…the name’s Vlad Balan
And thanks guys for the congrats.
Reply to this commentCongratualtions Vlad Baran. Enjoy your $99 win!
Reply to this commentTfanks man!
Reply to this commentCongrats for winner…
Reply to this commentMaybe next time I will try myself
Not again, will I ever win anything…
Reply to this commentOne day I will win something on a blog. However, today is not that day
Reply to this comment…cry
The day I win something from these blog contests, I’ll contest it away immediately. Push on the positive.
Reply to this commentCongrats Vlad! I’m only a little jealous!
Reply to this commentto be honest, it doesnt really look like he did much with the theme.
Reply to this commentdid he even use the theme??
Reply to this commentIt seemed that John gave the theme to one of his friends for one child’s birthday gift, am I right, John?
Reply to this commentCongrats Vlad! i like all your blog.
Reply to this commentI really would like to have those themes but $99 is a way bit too much for me, can we just have it for free?
lol i kid
Reply to this commentCongrats Vlad!. I have been wanting to make an update on my current theme, it looks like a have a good starting point.
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