Webvanta Web Site Design Contest

The Details

To win, all you need to do is design and build an awesome site using Webvanta. It can be your personal site, a client project, or something else entirely. Pretty much anything goes, as long as it has some legitimate purpose. We’ll judge all entries by the criteria covered below, and select the winners in February of 2010.

As a bonus, all sites entered in the contest will be provided with free Premium hosting through February 2010. The winner and runners up will receive free Premium hosting through the end of 2010.

This contest ends on January 31, 2010. We'll begin judging and selecting winners on February 1, 2010, and announcing the winners by the end of the month.

What You Need to Do to Win

• 1. Sign up for a free designer account.

  Use this special form to get started. If you already have a Webvanta account, please send us a message with your account name so we can add you to the contest list.

• 2. Tell the world.

  Send out a Tweet using the hash tag #webvanta, mentioning that you are entering the contest, and including the URL http://www.webvanta.com/contest.

• 3. Build your site.

  See below for the judging criteria.

• 4. Fill out an entry form.

  Take a minutes to tell us about you and your site. You'll need to do this any time between now and January 31, 2010.

Judging Criteria

The submissions will be judged on the following criteria, weighted equally:

• Visual beauty
• Navigation and information architecture
• Effective use of the Webvanta database

The Judges

Judging will be done by a panel of design experts, including:

The Rules

We've provided a general summary over on the right, but you'll want to read the full page of official Contest Rules before getting started.