Templates.com has come up with a new contest for coming up with the best slogan for their company this month. The idea of the contest is simple. Everyone is welcome to think up of a slogan for their company, leave a message in comments to the blog post, and stand to win $100 in cash or credits from Templates.com. The contest starts on July 15th 2008, and the results will be announced at the beginning of August. Each participant of this contest who has an account on Templates.com will get 4 credits, so everyone will win!
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TemplateMonster is holding its own lottery and elections to celebrate the Independence Day. With elections for the U.S President just around the corner, TemplateMonster came up with the idea of holding its own elections. However, you won’t be voting for Barack Obama or John McCain. But you will be voting for the design that you find more suitable for America-the-beautiful. The design that gets the most votes will win. And 6 lucky winners who voted for the winning design will be announced. The winner gets to win fabulous discount coupons and web templates from TemplateMonster. On top of that, TemplateMonster is giving away a set of FREE Patriotic Iconset (worth $50) for every voters.

So hurry and cast your vote. Your every vote counts!

Finally, I’m done with migrating my website to Media Temple. The experience at Lunarpages was great until they suspended my account after it was using up too much resources. I needed a new plan, hence I decided to give Media Temple a try after hearing all the hype about it in the design industry. Currently I’m on their Grid-Service plan ($20/month), which is a big improvement over the previous shared server plan. If you plan to sign up, don’t miss the fabulous 15% off discount code: Kirupa07, when you are filling the order.

You may have noticed my website is down for 2 days. The technical side sent me an email that my server was overloaded and I need to upgrade to support the heavy traffic. At the mean time, I’m planning to move to a new host. So just hang on there for a few days. Here is a list of things you can do if you are feeling bored:

1. Read my latest tutorial on creating a cool water ripple effect at Vectortuts
2. Subscribe to my RSS so that you won’t miss any interesting tutorials or tips coming out once I finish upgrading my server
3. Download my free tutorial on seamless tiles before I start charging for it
4. Cast a vote in my poll
5. Give me ideas how to improve my blog
6. Link to my website if you like it

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