Valentine's Day Banner Contest

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With Valentine's Day approaching, you could probably imagine that we're already working on slipping a heart or two in some of the themes we'll be shipping soon. But since we know how creative all you guys have been with your own personalized banners, it makes sense to hold a Vox Valentine's Day Banner Contest!

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Be creative! Be unique! The five banners that Team Vox likes best will be turned into themes and be included in a pre-Valentine's Day release that all Vox members will able to use.

The five top banner winners will not only be memorialized for all to see in our theme gallery but will also receive some cool Vox schwag (including a Vox T-Shirt!).

Get designing! The deadline is soon: 11:59 PM (Pacific Time), Friday, January 26, 2007.

To get started:

• Download this banner graphic. You must have graphics software that will allow you to open a layered Photoshop file. A 30-day free trial of Adobe Photoshop is available here.
• The banner may expand in height to accommodate a lengthy Blog Name or Description. Do not use photographs or illustrations that are cropped at the top of the banner. Photographic elements should blend into a solid color at the top of the graphic. Because the Blog Name and Description are important elements, readability and legibility is key. You can maximize readability of the Blog Name and Description by keeping visual elements either below or to the right of the Blog Name and Description.
• After creating your design, save your layered file. Create another copy and save it as a flattened .jpg, .gif, or .png.
• Upload the flattened image and tag the image "Vox VDay Banner Contest" and we'll find your entries.  (You must tag the image.  If you write a post as well, please also tag the post.)
  

Judging
The Vox Design Team will judge all entries. Entries will be judged on the following criteria:

• Originality and uniqueness
• Creativity
• Appeal to a broad audience
• Appropriateness to the Vox design aesthetic

And now some rules:

1. All entries must be submitted by 11:59 P.M. (Pacific Time) on Friday, January 26, 2007. Unfortunately, we cannot review late submissions. Submit entries by tagging the image "vox vday banner contest"
2. You may submit as many entries as you would like.
3. Any Vox user is welcome to submit an entry.
4. Because we only use HTML text on Vox published blogs, we do not allow graphical text in our banners.
5. Please select a system font that is available on a wide variety of computers. We have found that Helvetica, Arial, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Grande, Century Gothic, Franklin Gothic, Georgia, and Verdana work best.
6. You must own the copyright on any images or graphics used in your entry. Entries must not include images that infringe upon someone else's copyright, trademark, or license.
7. Entries must not include images that are unlawful, harmful, vulgar, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable, the determination of which is up to the sole discretion of the contest organizers.
8. We reserve the right to use your banner and graphics in other Six Apart blogging services and platforms such as TypePad, LiveJournal, and Movable Type.  Stay tuned to the Team Vox blog where we will announce the winners on Monday, January 29 at 5:00 P.M. (PDT).