1. Introduction

2. Our Partners

3. Our reasons and our goal

4. Rules of the Contest

5. Prizes

6. TOS

7. List of participating templates

8. Winners and scores

1. Introduction

Dear visitor, welcome to our phpld template contest. As you probably know if you are already here, this directory is based on php script named phpld.

This script can be improved in terms of design and functionality by installing templates. This is the object of our contest: you will have to design a template for My Green Corner Directory to use.

If you are good at php and photoshop, your have some small design taste and you know your way around phpld, you can win 1000$. All the prizes should grow because we are continuously looking for more parteners.

If you are are not sure if you want to participate, read the text bellow, we are sure that it will answer all your questions.

2. Our Partners

We are grateful to:

These sites and their webmasters chosen to sponsor us.

I you wish to be on the list above, please contact us.

3. Our reasons and our goal

Our main reason of making this contest is because we love the competition spirit. We like making things better and better, until we reach perfection.

Right now, the original and unique template that My Green Corner is using has a bad code design, and it is overloading ourserver CPU. We have calculated that if we double our visitor traffic, our account at our hosting will be suspended because of the overload.

This month, our load stats looks like this:

Another reason is because we have a problem concerning payment processing. We can only spend our money oncontests and other similar activities to this one.

We will also win all the rights for the templates that participate to this contest.At the end of the contest, all templates will be available for free download on our directory.

Last, but not least, we earn traffic because of this. We are more visited, people will be talkingand we will improve our ranking stats.

4. Rules of the Contest

If you want to participate to our contest you must respect the following rules.All the participants that break any of these get disqualified.

• You must have 13 years or above.
• You must be a good faith person.
• You must agree out TOS, please read them all. For further information please go to the TOS section.
• One of the most important things: your template must be original and unique. It doesn't matter if you created it, or you boughtit. You must be only yours, and never been published on web before.
• You can participate to this contest with how many templates do you like, but we recommend you choose to go with a goodone, instead of participating with plenty, but not so good.
• It is important that the template to be compatible with phpld 2.0 and 2.1. However, you'll receive somebonus points if it is compatible with phpld 3.06. For further info about this check the norm below.
• All participant must first register. This is done from our contact page. Your registration must contain:your full name, age, a valid email address. We will send you a confirmation email, which will also contain our emailaddress on which you can contact us at any time, if you need feedback regarding our contest.
• After you finish the template, you must send us a link from where we can upload it, or, if you don't havethis possibility, just contact us for further instructions.

This is our marking system:

• Design:.......................50p
• aspect/appearance (for this section you should take a look at the winners from the monthly directory conteston phpld forum. Please remember you are doing the template for My Green Corner, a directory related to gardening, so use warmcolors, flowers, leaves)...............35p
• web 2.0 style (shiny buttons, shiny banner)...............5p
• 2 site-wide columns, nice designed listing of links, rss2html and news box...............5p
• neat design...............5p
• Code:.......................40p
• NO BUGS, hot-linking, bad-intentioned code design, phpld 3.06 compatible...............15p
• Simple to understand and extend, Object Oriented...............10p
• Optimized design, NOT to OVERLOAD the server processor...............10p
• Seo-friendly code...............5p
• My mark (from 0 to 5)...............5p
• Your mark (from 0 to 5. You will vote between 1 January 2007 and 5 January 2007 on an a DP thread that will beannounced here. There will be some voting rules there.)...............5p

5. Prizes

Like all the contests, this contest has 3 prizes, totally worth of 1600$.

First prize: 1000$ cash prize.

• In addition, if there are participating at least 5 templates, first prize gets a free phpld 3.10.

Second prize, worth of 600$:

• A maximum 2500 pixels flying ad on Flying Ads page, worth of 250$.
• A 6 months sitewide link on My Green Corner, 6 months sitewide link on Pegasus Directory, 6 months sitewide link on Top Directorys worth of 280$.
• 3 featured links on My Green Corner, one featured link on Pegasus Directory, one featured link on ProLink Directory, one featured link on Style Directory, one featured link on Kill directory, one featured link on Truelink Directory, one featured link on ScrabbleStop Directory, one featured link on Nicobyte Directory, one featured link on DarkCenter Directory, worth of over 70$.

Third prize, worth of 210$:

• A maximum 1000 pixels flying ad on Flying Ads page, worth of 100$.
• A 3 months site-wide link on My Green Corner, worth of 60$.
• 1 featured links on My Green Corner, one featured link on Pegasus Directory, one featured link on ProLink Directory, one featured link on Style Directory, one featured link on Kill directory, one featured link on Truelink Directory worth of 50$.

6. TOS

Please take some time and read all our TOS.

• By participating to this contest, you agree to these Terms. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS(WITHOUT MODIFICATION), YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED PARTICIPATING TO THIS CONTEST.


• MYGREENCORNER.COM MAY ADD ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS WHICH GOVERN YOUR PARTICIPATION TO THIS CONTESTBY POSTING SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON THIS PAGE FROM TIME-TO-TIME. ADDITIONALLY, MYGREENCORNER.COM RESERVES THE RIGHTTO REVISE THESE TERMS AT ANYTIME. WHEN WE DO, WE WILL REVISE THE "LAST UPDATED" DATE AT THE TOP OF THESE TERMS.YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR REGULARLY REVIEWING THE CURRENT TERMS. THE MOST CURRENT VERSION OF THE TERMS CAN BE REVIEWEDBY CLICKING ON THE "TERMS OF SERVICE" HYPERTEXT LINK LOCATED AT THE TOP OF OUR WEB PAGE. YOUR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION TO THISCONTEST AFTER WE POST ANY REVISED TERMS CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO ANY SUCH REVISED TERMS.


• You may access and use this page solely for your personal use in accordance with these Terms. You agree not to accessor use this page in any manner that is prohibited by these Terms or is otherwise unlawful. We reserve the right,in our sole discretion, to terminate or suspend your participation to this contest, at any time, with or without noticeand for any reason (or no reason), and you agree that if your authorization to particiapate to this contest is (suspendedor terminated), you will not thereafter participate , or attempt to participate to this contest, directly or indirectly,until your (suspension or termination) is removed and we give you express notice thereof.


• You may make a single copy and/or print a single copy of any information displayed or transmitted on this contest, this pageand this Site (including, but not limited to, logotypes, trademarks, service marks, directories, guides, news articles,opinions, reviews, text, photographs, images, illustrations, audio clips, video, html, source and object code, software,data, and the like, collectively "Content") for your personal use only.


• Except as expressly permitted above, you agree not to, without first obtaining our express written permission,(a) distribute (including via e-mail), or otherwise make available, copies of any Content to anyone, (b) republishthe Content on the Internet or any intranet or extranet site or incorporate the Content in any database,file, compilation, or archive, (c) reproduce, adapt, distribute, perform or display any Content, in each instanceexcept to the extent required for the limited purpose of viewing material on the Site, (d) alter or remove any trademark,copyright or any other notice contained in any Content, (e) archive or retain any Content in any form, (f) use Content forany commercial purposes, (g) use any of our trademarks as metatags on other web sites, (h) use the Site in any mannerthat is illegal or impairs the operation of the Site or its availability or usage by others, and/or (i) display any partof the Site in frames (or any Content via in-line links). You agree not to decompile, reverse engineer or disassembleany software or other products or processes accessible through this page, this contest and our Site, and not to insertany code or product or manipulate the Content in any way that affects the users experience. You further agree not to useany data mining, web crawlers, robots, cancelbots, spiders, Trojan horses, or any data gathering or extraction methodin connection with your use of the Site except for customary search engines used in accordance with instructions directedto search engines and available on this page.


• This contest requires you to create information. Your participation in this contest is voluntary.You agree that you will not participate with any information or other materials that (a) are unlawful, threatening,abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, false, hateful, indecent or otherwise objectionableto us in our sole and absolute discretion, (b) contain fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading statements, (c) infringe acopyright or trademark, or any other intellectual property right of another, (d) violate the privacy rights of another,or (e) violate any municipal, state or federal law, rule, regulation or ordinance of any nation, or attempts to encouragesuch violation. We reserve the right at all times to change, edit, remove, move and/or fail to post any informationor other materials for any reason whatsoever in our sole and absolute discretion. Furthermore, notwithstanding anythingcontained in these Terms or our Privacy Policy to the contrary, we reserve the right to disclose any information or othermaterials (including, without limitation, personally identifiable information about you) necessary to satisfy the law,regulation, or government request.


• This contest requires registration. If you register or provide information to us in any manner,you agree to provide only true, accurate, current and complete information. If, notwithstanding the foregoing obligation,you allow another party to use your account, you will be responsible for all use by the party using your account.
• Except for Content that is in the public domain, all Content, as well as the selection and arrangement of the Content,is owned by (or licensed to) MYGREENCORNER.com, its affiliates or suppliers and is protected by copyright, trade dress,trademark, unfair competition, and/or other laws and may not be used, copied or imitated in whole or in part except asexpressly provided herein. Except as otherwise expressly provided in these Terms, all rights in and to the Content areexpressly reserved by MYGREENCORNER.com.


• By participating to our contest, you automatically grant, or warrant to us that the copyright owner of your Contributionhas expressly granted, to MYGREENCORNER.com a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive license to use,reproduce, publicly display and perform, modify, store, publish, adapt, translate, create derivative works from,and distribute such Contributions (in whole or part) and to incorporate such Contributions (in whole or in part) intoother works in any medium now known or hereafter developed. Further more, you agree to give away all the rights of yourContribution.


• MYGREENCORNER.com respects the intellectual property rights of others. Accordingly, without limiting any other rightwe have to terminate your account, we may, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, terminate your accountif we believe that you infringe the intellectual property rights of others or are aiding or threatening such infringement.If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on this page and in this contest in a way that constitutescopyright infringement, you may notify us.


• EXCEPT WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL MYGREENCORNER.COM, ITS PARENTS, AFFILIATES, AND/OR SUPPLIERSBE LIABLE FOR (A) ANY DAMAGES OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM, OR RELATED TO, THE LOSS, DELAY OR INABILITYTO PARTICIPATE TO THIS CONTEST (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY CONTENT), THE LOSS OF ANY CONTENT OBTAINED THROUGHTHE CONTEST, AND/OR (B) ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING,WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THESE TERMS AND/OR OTHERWISEARISING OUT OF THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF OUR CONTEST(INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY CONTENT), IN EACH OF (A) AND (B)ABOVE WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE AND EVEN IF MYGREENCORNER.COM, ITS PARENTS,AFFILIATES, AND/OR SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
 


7. List of participating templates




Here are the print-screens with the participating templates, their names and their author:


 
 

Syna: Butterfly effect


 



 
 


8. Winners and scores




Here we will show the winners of this contest, along with their work and the list with all the other participants and their marks.


 


Only one participant, and I don't know why :( !!!? Perhaps there should have been more advertising around this. Well, a very good template anyway:

Butterfly effect: 93 points

Will be available soon for free download on our directory.

A big thanks to all our sponsors.