It is finally time for The Design competition to come to a close. We have not yet decided if we plan to do this again some other time, or not. I am not even sure if we’d need any new judges, and the majority of the votes said that they wanted to be judges.

We have had a lot of great contestants this past month, and some really amazing entries. Again, a HUGE thanks to all of you who participated, voted, advertised, and supported us. You guys made this a really great competition.

This past week was round 5, the final round, where the 4 remaining members on each team face off against each other. Unfortunately, Madison lost her internet, so there were only 3 entries to choose from The 3 entries were Forever, Ghislaine,and Victoria. The winner was Ghislaine with Victoria a close second. Sadly, Ghislaine’s photobucket bandwith was exceeded, and all of the images disappeared half way through the week, messing with the overall design, but she is still the winner. This means that she will be getting a top level domain name with paid for hosting for one year, along with all of the other first place prizes. Victoria will be receiving a .info domain name with paid hosting for one year, along with all of the other second place prizes. Forever will be receiving all of the third place prizes, and Madison wins all of the fourth place prizes.

It was a really great competition, and we hope that all of you had as much fun as we did. We will be emailing people who donated prizes shortly to remind them of their donations. Congrats to the winners!

We are now entering Round 5 meaning that we are almost done with the first ever The Design Competition. It’s both a sad and happy time for everyone. We were sorry to see four more contestants go this week, but we wanted to say congratulations to the final four: Victoria, Forever, Madison, and Ghislaine. All four ladies are very talented and will do a wonderful job representing their teams.

We are trying to decide if we should continue on with The Design, whether it be a seasonal thing, annual, etc. Those details haven’t been decided yet, however we’d like your opinion. Answer the poll real quick if you have a second, we’d appreciate it.

The final round is layout making. It will be anonymous and the contestants will have the rest of the week to make and submit it. Next week voting will begin. It will all be anonymous so that the best layout truly does win. Make sure you spread the word. Whether you are still in the competition or not, your vote matters.