Vote for the Winners of the Weebly Design Contest

05/19/2010

Our expert judging panel has chosen their top 10 favorite themes submitted to the Weebly Design Contest and it's now up to you to determine the winners of the $13,000 in cash prizes! The voting period starts now and will end on June 2nd at 11:59:59pm PT. You can visit the voting page now to cast your vote.

We want to thank everyone who participated in the contest! The competition was strong with over 2,000 themes submitted, and although there are only ten finalists, all of the best themes submitted to the contest will be converted for use by all Weebly users!

Here are the top 10 theme finalists (in no particular order):

Comments

andy link

05/20/2010 12:03am

Hey, nice designs. Where or when can we use them to our site?

Dan link

05/20/2010 12:13am

@andy: Right now, you can vote for your favorite theme, but can't yet use the theme on your website.

Over the coming weeks, we're going to be converting the best themes from the contest into Weebly themes that you can use on your website.

JAJohnson

05/20/2010 2:35am

congrats to the finalists! nice work!

Eren

05/20/2010 2:54am

Nice designs!! I hope I can use the one with with the structured, crisp theme :) I voted for him whoever he was!!! :)

Rental link

05/20/2010 3:17am

These designs are excellent choices from all parts of the world. Another reason to go PRO if you haven't already!

Jonathan Wylie link

05/20/2010 4:33am

Great work. I voted, but would love to see all of them added to the gallery!

myNETboard link

05/20/2010 5:51am

Beautiful and nice themes. These participants are indeed gifted with such talents. By the way, since there are about 2,000 themes that were submitted... we are just wondering if Weebly Management could somehow allow the public to vote on to at least 20 or 15 themes? Anyway, if that is not possible...GOOD LUCK to all !!! May the best and deserving win...

Good work weebly....and thank you.

Carol Foster link

05/20/2010 7:24am

I see 4-6 beautiful design but my votes goes to the one on the bottom right. I cant wait to have this design on my blog soon.

Jagix Design link

05/20/2010 7:31am

Very nice

graham link

05/20/2010 7:54am

Will we only be able to use the top three?

zorica link

05/20/2010 8:26am

Great designs! I love Spring Breeze!

iamrachael

05/20/2010 8:33am

Vote is in! I wish we could vote for three (1st, 2nd, 3rd) it would be - Low Lights; App Heaven; Clean, Crisp, & Structured.

Great job to all!

Jayde link

05/20/2010 9:03am

I'm new and would really like some of these. so What day do you think we can use them?

Yana Jackson

05/20/2010 9:42am

Thank you for allowing us users to create and share our own templates. I hope the in the future there will be a member submitted gallery to keep the websites fresh. Good luck to all!

goodelephant

05/20/2010 9:46am

I think the finalists are gorgeous, it's hard to choose. Question for the Weebly folks ... I entered the contest just for the chance at having my theme added to the Weebly library, so I could use it for my own site. Can you be more specific about how many of the entries will be converted into live themes, and how we will know if our entries are chosen or rejected for this?

Merry

05/20/2010 10:21am

Wow! I love all the designs!!! I am excited to use one of these!! especially the Crisp,clean and structured theme.Me Likey!!!!

PokemonNew Webmaster link

05/20/2010 10:22am

Those designs are amazing! Congrats to the finalists! When I'm at voting page, I liked the Grainy one bets! Amazing! Absolutely smashing! Good Luck to the finalists!

Bad Patricia

05/20/2010 10:30am

Talented designers. Thumbs up! I agree I like Crisp Clean and structured, App Heaven and Grainy. The best!

sakiyow link

05/20/2010 11:34am

thanks.....

David Rusenko link

05/20/2010 12:32pm

@goodelephant:

We are in the process of converting the best themes now, and will email you if your theme is chosen to be included -- so stay tuned!

Inti Garcia (iloveRealArt.com) link

05/20/2010 3:28pm

I love the grate inspiring work of the talented designers! Team Weebly is amazing:) Glad to be on board. Time to Vote. Thanks again!

Pro Designs link

05/20/2010 7:32pm

Will the designer of themes wich will be used be weebly users get paid

Acai Drinks link

05/20/2010 9:33pm

Great designs, a lot of thought and hard work went into them. We should have theme oriented contests too, such as holidays or seasons.

Lene

05/20/2010 10:50pm

I like the designs!!! fantastic!

Lainey

05/21/2010 2:36am

I was really impressed by Clean, Crisp, & Structured too. I like Acai Drinks' suggestion of theme oriented contests!

VAM link

05/21/2010 5:47am

They are great as they are. Though how many people are going to use the stock header images, which is the most striking feature of the majority of them! Without the header images, they appear fairly mediocre.

Olivia

05/21/2010 6:46am

I orginally went online to visit the Auto Shipping Network site, but of course I ended up on a blog. Congradulations to the finalists, great themes!

Arun Gupta link

05/21/2010 7:25am

Hey, nice work...
Best of luck to all the finalists...
Though all the 10 themes are awesome but my favorite is Spring Breeze
by Zlatko Najdenovski and i am supporting him... may he get the first prize... :)

Drob ilice

05/21/2010 8:08am

David, Dan, and Weebly staff,
the changes are good and as ive said before, the better you make it the more people will sign up,
However one thing that is badly needed and missing is a help forum just for the members. (both paying and non paying) It helps everybody by

1) Freeing up time spent on your support strategy page eg members helping members

2) Quicker response time to problems encounted by members, helped by members.

3) Members dont have to search yahoo answers and getsatisfication.com etc.

4) You (Weebly) will learn more about weebly and what WE as customers want and value.

Just my 2 cents
Anyway keep up the good work
Drob.

FreeChurchLogos.com link

05/21/2010 8:44am

There are some really nice themes there! The more the choices we have, the better! I hope they all get converted into real Weebly themes. I hope there are more contests in the future... I only found out about Weebly recently and didn't have time to design any!

drobs

05/21/2010 8:45am

Ps Best of luck to finalists

3world

05/21/2010 9:11am

very cool designs! love it all

Very Interesting link

05/21/2010 1:16pm

wow! Zlatko Najdenovski got three of their web layouts in the final ten!! Way to go.

Mark_etingPRO

05/21/2010 2:30pm

I like app heaven & crisp, clean and structured themes. These templates are unisex and ready for all occasion. convert it now weebly!!!

05/21/2010 3:20pm

Awesome!!

YouSteppedOnMyCake

05/21/2010 3:26pm

Man, some of these themese are really good, I can't wait to use them.

ShamelessPleasures link

05/21/2010 3:56pm

These are great themes! Very had to choose. I am new to weebly and was looking for a girlie type theme, have no clue how to make my own, does anyone make templates we can use on weebly, that are easy to use? Im interested.
Im loving weebly, as someone else suggested a forum for us users would be most helpful. Also is there a place to find all weebly user sites? Great contest, my fav was the one with the yellow flower :)

max link

05/21/2010 6:42pm

AWESOME! I love all of the themes!
Weebly is awesome!

BlakFyr999 - theBOX Staff link

05/21/2010 11:06pm

It was a hard choice- I was thinking it was going to be a quick and easy process- pick the best, hit "OK" and get on to my own thing- no there were many great finalist- whoever wins totally deserves- Can't wait to see the designs available on my website!!

(Visit theBOX!!)

JAJohnson

05/22/2010 3:22am

question... once you vote, all you then get is the page showing the finalists & the one you voted for highlighted... are we not going to be seeing all the voting? or am I just missing something that takes me to the page showing the votes? thank you in advance for taking the time to answer this... :)

Create-Website link

05/22/2010 3:54pm

These are great themes! Very had to choose. I can't wait to see the designs available on my website :))

Udi Drezner link

05/22/2010 11:07pm

Nice designs - would love to see them in your application

AET

05/23/2010 2:49am

How many votes did these themes get to get into the final?

floraflora link

05/23/2010 9:15am

I can't wait until I can use that Spring Breeze one, especially at my site, Gardens! I voted for it. Please come over to Gardens, @ http://bloomingroses.weebly.com

FloraFlora link

05/23/2010 9:35am

I also loved The Reader and Pinkish. Because I couldn't vote three times, I am campaigning for those two, especially The Reader.

The Reader Campaign Ad:
VOTE FOR THE READER! BEST IN SHOW! VOTE FOR THE READER! IT'S THE BEST IN SHOW! IT'S GIVEN ME AN IDEA FOR MY NEXT SITE! I'VE NEVER SEEN A DESIGN AS WONDERFUL AS IT! VOTE FOR THE READER!

Pinkish Campaign Ad:
Vote for Pinkish! It's lovely, and my favorite color! That header's like bubbles from a fairy child's bubble wand, I'd never want to change it, and the design is spectacular! Vote for Pinkish, please!

You can see, my campaign ad for the Reader is a little stronger.

Greg

05/23/2010 8:09pm

One of those designs looks a lot like this tutorial:

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/interface-tutorials/how-to-create-a-unique-colorful-site-layout/

Ron Rusk

05/24/2010 3:37am

You are right Greg!! haha I hav checked it out and super similar. I like Clean crisp and structured and app heaven very professional, modern and clean. I agree with Marketingpro it is an anytime use in any occassion.

I wish we will be able to customize the colors of these templates once it is available in Weebly for use.

mark paul

05/24/2010 3:54am

yeah they are very similar on the banner and on the color scheme. i agree on ron comment about the clean and crisp theme. it is really very clean and i like the shadow below of the element and the detail of the design. kudos to the designer who created it :)

Arnold Pioquinto

05/24/2010 4:06am

the font is different greg! hahahaha! very original, good work weebly judges!

Eric link

05/24/2010 6:45am

I can't vote. All are perfect and all have to win.

AJP

05/24/2010 6:59am

Great designs.

Are other forum platforms other than nabble supported on weebly?

Thanks!!!

Jim

05/24/2010 7:15am

I was down to "structured crisp" vs. "in touch with nature"

I have to say.. that that design was very pleasant on the eyes! Got my vote!

nice work to everyone else as well!

pitrih

05/24/2010 10:10am

i voted for The Minuscule & Ascendence

even if Zlatko Najdenovski has beautiful designs i think it sucks that you pick 3 of his designs since so many people entered.

Weebly Ring link

05/24/2010 12:16pm

I love new themes! I can't wait until they are available. The theme contest was a great idea!!

Andrey Lalev link

05/24/2010 3:16pm

This contest was a great idea!

I voted for Grainy =) I hope it wins the contest, even though I like Low Lights as much as Grainy...

btw, I think that if I added a design here, it wouldn't be even in top 500

itisi

05/24/2010 10:12pm

love them all, can't wait to use 'em! wait, now i gotta go and vote :)

Debbie link

05/24/2010 10:45pm

Too masculine, no funky feminine designs with floral Cath Kidson like flair..I will end up using the “pinkish” theme and voted for it for only this reason. would have liked to see more arty, original, vintage, and candy themes....

british expat link

05/24/2010 11:14pm

i love the on with the coffee mug.

Engg-tips link

05/24/2010 11:34pm

These new themes look great!!.

Ravi Kashalkar link

05/24/2010 11:58pm

Great work weebly team..good support staff as well

Cassius

05/25/2010 5:32am

Haha @ Greg... Someone saw the contest, opened up Google and followed the first tutorial he found ... and was picked by the judges! Dodgy...

adil link

05/25/2010 5:54am

Great work guys, I vote for the reader.

D-9

05/25/2010 3:29pm

All the choices are really good, but I wish that all the themes submitted would make it, I saw plenty that I would have loved to use. ;)

alyson link

05/25/2010 4:36pm

Those designs are great. Congratulations to the finalist.

Phil

05/25/2010 5:20pm

Weebly Rocks!

Business Consultant link

05/25/2010 9:22pm

Good themes. Nice variety. I'd like to see more with a multi-media flair.

TANYA

05/26/2010 3:17am

love the crisp theme so organized!

webmaster link

05/26/2010 6:41am

Weebly offers everyone the opportunity to shine. But, If you go PRO you can glow. Great job Weebly!

horses link

05/26/2010 6:43am

I voted for the Reader. Strangely, I wasn't too crazy about the Clean, Crisp, and structured. It looks too plain. Sorry, but I don't like plain layouts.

Dee link

05/26/2010 7:36am

I forgot to say I voted for the pinky one, It's awesome and I'll definetly use it!

Bail Bonds Las Vegas link

05/26/2010 10:51am

I can't believe how much value you offer with Weebly compared to the others. I try to tell everyone about how awesome it is....Love the new designs and especially the new features, stats, etc. My cheap self is definitely going to upgrade to PRO here very soon!

Jake link

05/27/2010 2:09am

those are the top ten? there alright but i saw loads that were better. i hope you add more than just those ten.

pitrih

05/27/2010 3:38am

@greg
you are right!
Pinkish theme is 90% the same design as this tutorial http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/interface-tutorials/how-to-create-a-unique-colorful-site-layout/, i think weebly didn't do their homework.

Inbal link

05/27/2010 4:19am

I tend to agree (partly - nothing to do with masculine or feminine) with Debbie (Mon, 24 May 2010 10:45:49 pm)
All top 10 are very technical, engineer like, cold, too well planned, no arty inspiration at all, nothing original, not a trace of vintage, funky, interesting designs.

It seems that the chosen websites layouts might not be my cup of tea but they are average good in looks therefore business wise good Weebly choice, meaning, it'll be easy for many people who will use Weebly to choose one of these layouts for their website. In evidence, most of the blog comments…

In any way, good luck to the finalists.

Inbal
www.inbalturshalom.com

Scott link

05/27/2010 10:20am

Pitrih,

I think that you do have a point on that pinkish theme. I guess it is very hard to locate weather or not people have truly designed their own concept but I still feel that all was done to minimize this. I guess all you can do is ask people to play fair. It certainly doesn't look good for that theme with this link you posted. It is a difficult contest in regulation and My personal opinion of a future contest would be a finish product contest. If you can't code it you better learn.

However I feel the company did the homework they could to the best of their ability. We all should be thankful. If you based this contest on the regulation aspects having to be flawless there would have been no contest. Weebly has a high willingness to learn and this is a learning concept. It's a lot more then any other company is doing for it's users. We're having fun on this side of the web building market :) It's ok that the very first design contest ever offered on the internet today for a website builder may not come out the first time like it was a 100th contest aniversary. Thanx weebly for doing the best you can do to put this contest together and help make the next one even better :-)

Zlatko link

05/27/2010 1:26pm

My God, I was just informed by a friend that all my 3 designs have been chosen between the finals!

I mostly focused to craft those designs as general as possible so that they can be useful for various needs & niches, or as Mark_etingPRO put it: "These templates are unisex and ready for all occasion."

I agree with VAM that removing the banner images will make most of the themes loose their uniqueness. That's why I'm not using typical images, just some artsy graphics serving as placeholders that can easily be replaces by actual ones when needed.

Ok, enough self-marketing. Hope you'll find my themes useful, even if I don't win none of the prices.

Toby link

05/27/2010 11:49pm

I like the clean and crisp theme, because it is very trendy, unisex and well structured. Technically speaking I like crisp theme and App heaven.

Congrats to all of you.

Buying Individual Health Insurance link

05/28/2010 5:37am

Wonderful themes! Great Work!

cleantruth

05/28/2010 7:08am

I don't want to make the finalists feel bad, cause these are all pretty designs and the designers can feel good about that. But, to weebly who chose these as the top ten, look, these are all just more of the same that you already offer. There isn't any innovation here. And just like all your other pre-formatted templates they waste screen space nor draw the reader towards anything in particular. They're just screens with images too large splattered everywhere that don't make much design sense, and blobs of text with far too much "white space" and far too much was of screen space. All of your templates are like this. There is no conservation of space inheriently designed into your templates, no variation of links to pages within the site that offers more than the always confusing horizontal arrangement of links to other pages nor any clean effort to design a really well planned group of vertical links to other pages on the site. If you really want to give us some good templates we need more and better than what you have. Well planned templates that do more than splatter stuff on screens in colorful ways, but templates that have clean vertical link groups off to the side and where the main body area isn't wasted by white space and margins that are too wide and which don't have backgrounds so hard to scrape off in the edit html/css area that its a chore just to try and get the colors of text that compose the link labels to something that agrees with your concept, and templates that help guide any reader viewing the site in a manner that renders good design up to having a purpose of where it drags a viewers eye and how the eye instinctively follows this design without even knowing its planned.

All of these templates are lovely, but none of these, nor any of the existing ones on weebly offer any real design help. They just look pretty. But thats not enough to make a site last.

thanks for letting me grumble.

blogging tips link

05/28/2010 7:34am

In touch with Nature! I love your design!!!

ikyat link

05/29/2010 5:37am

amazing!! how I wish I could design websites that good :)

ikyat link

05/29/2010 5:39am

Are there any other contests like that? I want to see more :p

Clean Truth link

05/29/2010 9:53am

Clean Truth,

This contest is going to bring many new designer interests to the playing field and open the doors to getting what theme you would like to have made for you. If you look in the admin there is a tab that pops down and says " want our designers to build your site for you." I personally know that nearly any look you want can be done on the system.

However I would like to point out a couple useful topics of information.

"Pixie" is a program located at download.com which is great for helping one understand css. It tells you the HTML color code of what you are hovering making it easy to locate codes which helps in understanding the basics.

"Firebug" is a firefox add on that is a very useful tool. I would reccomend this to anyone looking to learn css.

Weebly also makes it easy to learn as you can preview the changes giving you the power to play around and not have to accept what you tried to learn which allows you to learn.

By right clicking and saving images and looking for them in the files folder allows you to save those files, change them and re-upload them to you liking.

Hope this helps some of you guys.

peach - sooperthemes link

05/31/2010 12:25pm

There are really some amazing designs here. I voted for Spring Breeze because it's not only beautiful but also original!

JAJohnson

05/31/2010 4:44pm

I still would like to know where is the page showing who has what votes? never seen a contest where you don't get to see whom is in the lead & by how much??? am I missing the page to go to see where the voting is at number wise????

thank you in advance for your reply on this... :)

Joe link

05/31/2010 6:41pm

can I use wordpress.org with a full weebly account?

Zlatko link

06/01/2010 5:14am

That's the thing that worries me too JAJohnson, that the votes are hidden. Probably they have a good reason for hiding it. For example not knowing much votes you have - thus not knowing whether you need to manipulate the votes or not. I think Weebly is worried for possible manipulation of the votes, which will make the whole contest unreliable. It could probably easily be done with erasing cookies from the system, as it was done at the beginning of the contest. I'm really worried about that too!

Ro link

06/01/2010 5:47am

I can't wait to start playing around with these themes!

JAJohnson

06/01/2010 7:02am

hummm... Zlatko I too understand that many had tried to do manipulate voting before & that was not good... but now having it set the way it is I don't think anyone can do that... so for me I don't see where showing where the vote count is at would make it so anyone can do that here... you are only allowed one vote as a memeber...
I honestly feel it is now a voting contest & we as the voters should beable to see where the votes are standing...

congrats to you on your 3 choosen theme's Zlatko... & to all that made it to the top 10... :)

Zlatko link

06/01/2010 7:06am

Ok thanks for reassuring me then :)

Michelle Elkhoury link

06/01/2010 10:42am

I voted for "Pinkish"

sheenajones25 link

06/01/2010 11:31am

I like the design and featured, it was very look great and different from the other design.

Megan link

06/01/2010 3:07pm

I voted for Grainy but the real reason that I commented was to get my website out and to the pulic everyone please come check it out!

MEGAN E.

Affiliate Marketing link

06/02/2010 4:05am

Nice one. Love the new designs.

Andrew link

06/02/2010 4:38am

All really good contestants. Good job guys.

Mark. link

06/02/2010 10:53am

I voted for the Clean Crisp theme! congrats to you all! where are the other designers? how come they do not also appear?

Good Job Weebly!

Christine link

06/02/2010 11:56am

How do we how many votes we are getting? Also as one of the designers featured in the top 10 I was wondering why we were not notified about the selections sooner then this morning?

silkepalmbyce

06/03/2010 4:16am

Today was the end of this contest or no? When we will know the winners?

John link

06/03/2010 4:58am

where the heck is the end of the comp.
give us the themes man!!!!!

Christine link

06/03/2010 5:39am

When will we know the results... will we see what everyone got? Thanks.

Aphrodite link

06/03/2010 6:57am

I am wondering if 3 column blog templates will ever be released? *sigh

peach - SooperThemes link

06/03/2010 2:49pm

@JAjohnson If anyonymous votes count it would still be wise to check the ip numbers of votes and look for irregularities like many votes from single ip or disproportionate amounts of votes from small regions or cities.

Shameless Pleasures link

06/03/2010 4:02pm

Well I guess I wasnt the only one wondering if there is a place to see which theme's are ahead as far as votes go! Would be interesting to see.
I think they are all fantastic, as I have no clue how to make a theme myself.
And none of the weebly theme's were right for my site, would definately love more girly type ones, and maybe one of these days I'll figure out how to make my own.
I do love weebly tho :)

A Black Rose link

06/03/2010 5:19pm

I wish I had half the design talent as these submissions show! I look forward to their release.

Zlatko link

06/04/2010 10:04am

Ok this is too much. The delay is almost 2 days. What is going on with the results?

Chantelle link

06/05/2010 12:02pm

id love to be able to use grainy for my site here i like the colours and layout of that one best , all look good though )kudos to all the designers

Jonathan link

06/05/2010 3:39pm

I didn't get a chance to vote. I only got the notice today and it's June 5th already. Someone dropped the ball on those e-mails.

Christine Brincku link

06/06/2010 5:18am

I wrote weebly support and asked when they will announce the winners and they said, "The winner will be announced late next week." Just thought I would share this with everyone who is waiting on finding out like I am. Thank you to everyone who voted for "The Reader"... I'm truly blessed and think it is a great honor to be apart of the top 10!

PLR Ebooks link

06/06/2010 9:55am

I like that theme which has a green background..Congratulations to the upcoming winner.Hopefully that green theme will win...

lilly link

06/07/2010 1:50am

Wow! Spectacullar design, great job...

chinaelectronicswholesale link

06/12/2010 5:41pm

I like that theme which has a green background..Congratulations to the upcoming winner.Hopefully that green theme will win...

Discount Electronics Wholesale from China link

06/12/2010 6:05pm

Good work weebly....and thank you.