Best WordPress Design Awards: Time to Vote!
We have finally done it. The WPWebHost team has choosen 10 finalist for each award categories. Now it’s your turn. At each polls below, you can directly click on site name (it’s hyperlinked) to visit it. Once you’ve visited all the sites, choose your winner of the best design for the respective category.
Best Clean & Minimalist
Andrew Venell
David Salvatori
DZine-Studios
HelloFath
Nathan Sander
R.Bhavesh
Thomas Aull
Guy Decor
Nick Ohrn
WP Candy
Choose the Best Clean & Minimalist WordPress Design:
- David Salvatori (23.0%, 183 Votes)
- Nathan Sander (18.0%, 142 Votes)
- Thomas Aull (10.0%, 79 Votes)
- WP Candy (9.0%, 73 Votes)
- R.Bhavesh (8.0%, 65 Votes)
- DZine-Studios (8.0%, 62 Votes)
- Andrew Venell (7.0%, 60 Votes)
- Nick Ohrn (6.0%, 49 Votes)
- HelloFath (5.0%, 44 Votes)
- Guy Decor (5.0%, 44 Votes)
Total Voters: 801
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Best Grunge
Aji’s Gallery
Entry 5 Productions
Na zdi
On The Loose
Productive Dreams
Spout Creative
Living In Svensworld
The Design Superhero
Chris Wallace
Madfrog Designs
Choose the Best Grunge WordPress Design:
- Productive Dreams (32.0%, 563 Votes)
- Chris Wallace (26.0%, 463 Votes)
- Madfrog Designs (12.0%, 206 Votes)
- Spout Creative (9.0%, 166 Votes)
- Na zdi (6.0%, 115 Votes)
- The Design Superhero (5.0%, 96 Votes)
- Aji's Gallery (3.0%, 54 Votes)
- Entry 5 Productions (3.0%, 50 Votes)
- On The Loose (3.0%, 46 Votes)
- Living In Svensworld (1.0%, 21 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,780
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Best Hand-Drawing
Amour Chaleur
Blog Design Studio
Getting Crazy on the Waltzers
Holdrio & Co
Kikay.org
Qwert City
Sunshine
Komodo Media
Andres Galego
Dear Chibi
Choose the Best Hand-Drawing WordPress Design:
- Amour Chaleur (39.0%, 730 Votes)
- Komodo Media (30.0%, 559 Votes)
- Getting Crazy on the Waltzers (10.0%, 191 Votes)
- Andres Galego (5.0%, 92 Votes)
- Sunshine (5.0%, 88 Votes)
- Holdrio & Co (4.0%, 67 Votes)
- Kikay.org (3.0%, 63 Votes)
- Qwert City (2.0%, 40 Votes)
- Blog Design Studio (2.0%, 37 Votes)
- Dear Chibi (1.0%, 25 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,892
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Best Modern & Elegant
Absolute Bica
Abstract Human
Blog Perfume
Devthought
ForTheLose.org
mistypedURL
iPhoneclub
ivanBogar.com
WordPress Ontwerpers
Yoast
Choose the Best Modern & Elegant WordPress Design:
- iPhoneclub (47.0%, 2,656 Votes)
- Absolute Bica (37.0%, 2,079 Votes)
- mistypedURL (4.0%, 248 Votes)
- Devthought (4.0%, 225 Votes)
- Yoast (3.0%, 157 Votes)
- Abstract Human (2.0%, 136 Votes)
- ivanBogar.com (1.0%, 39 Votes)
- ForTheLose.org (1.0%, 33 Votes)
- WordPress Ontwerpers (0.0%, 25 Votes)
- Blog Perfume (0.0%, 19 Votes)
Total Voters: 5,617
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Best Retro & Vintage
BlackMoon Design
David Hellmann
My Newton Blog
Shomalgan
Resounder
Divah.se
Chris Wallace’s Absynthe
Will Anderson
Samantha Armacost
Safetygoat
Choose the Best Retro & Vintage WordPress Design:
- Shomalgan (30.0%, 379 Votes)
- David Hellmann (18.0%, 234 Votes)
- Samantha Armacost (16.0%, 209 Votes)
- BlackMoon Design (11.0%, 139 Votes)
- Safetygoat (7.0%, 86 Votes)
- My Newton Blog (5.0%, 63 Votes)
- Chris Wallace's Absynthe (4.0%, 56 Votes)
- Divah.se (3.0%, 43 Votes)
- Resounder (3.0%, 42 Votes)
- Will Anderson (2.0%, 23 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,274
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Voting period ends at 1 month from now: 6th May 2009. May the best designs win.
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April 7th, 2009 at 1:47 am
Great, I got shortlisted and now I’ve contacted pretty much everyone I know to vote for me
April 7th, 2009 at 4:33 am
Wow, I’m extremely honored to be selected for the shortlist. I’m coasting on such a high right now…thank you so much!
April 7th, 2009 at 5:01 am
Great competition idea, though I think it would have been nice to include a little screenshot of each site so you have an idea of what to expect, having to open each & every link keeps me from voting for every categories winner so I haven’t voted at all
April 7th, 2009 at 5:09 am
selection was interesting. my blog not included in the list, but nothing to do. good competition. Let the best desing win.
April 7th, 2009 at 5:53 am
Woot, mine is on the list! May the best design win =)
April 7th, 2009 at 5:56 am
Thank you for include me in the list for Hand-Drawing, I’m very excited with this competition. Good luck to everyone!
April 7th, 2009 at 6:42 am
Re: Modern & Elegant
The Blog Perfume site is linking to a DB error. If you have their email address maybe you could let them know. Great competition guys!
April 7th, 2009 at 6:57 am
Aww I’m not on the list! Well anyway congratulations to all the finalists! I’ll cast my vote later!
April 7th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Thanks for include me. I am on the list (best grunge category). Thank you! Thank you! Mohon dukungan dari teman2 Indonesia..terima kasih
April 7th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
you should put screenshot for each site. The entry will be longer but it will be so much easier for voters.
April 7th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Great idea!
April 7th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Thanks for choosing us for Best Modern and Elegant. This is really going to be a tough competition! I love our visitors, thanks for voting for us already
April 7th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Oridus & Nomad: You’ve got it. We’ve put up the screenshots.
April 7th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Thanks for the screenshots!
P.S. My trackback doesn’t show up, but that’s probably ’cause I use url trimming. Our contest post can be read here: on iPhoneclub.nl. Again, thanks so much for the contest!
April 7th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Well I voted for iPhoneclub, love the looks off it and it’s an overal great website!
April 7th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Thanks for including safetygoat!
April 7th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I think there is something fishy going on with iPhoneClub for “Best Modern and Elegant” Now, I want to say this in the nicest way possible, but iPhoneClub is definitely not the nicest designed site in that category for sure.
I’m not saying mine IS and that I deserve to win, but, I dunno. 630 votes already? I think not.
April 7th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
@Ralph: Our website is really popular in The Netherlands, with over 45K+ daily visitors who happen to be enthousiastic supporters of the website
By all means, WPwebhost is free to check IP adressess / server logs to check for fair and square voting, but our contest post (see previous link) has been retweeted and commented on a lot, so that might explain the large lead. As I keep on telling in the comments: it’s way too early to tell who might be the winner, since the end date is still a month away.
Wishing you the best of luck for Forthelose.org.
Kind regards,
Jean-Paul, iPhoneclub.nl
April 7th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
I’d like to add that I specifically asked our users to judge the other contestants as well, but I can’t force them, can I?
April 7th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Jean-Paul Horn: We’ve received a few feedbacks on it and definitely will implement something similar in the next competition.
It would be something of a balance of public voting and reputable web designers panel judges.
April 7th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
@Foress: I agree wholeheartedly, although I’d like to state again I’m utterly surprised by the huge support of our visitors. I just wished they would vote for the other designs as well (I keep on asking this in the comments). Also, I’d like to reiterate it’s way too soon to call it quits already, as the voting competition has just started and May 6th is a long way ahead and some of the contestants haven’t put their contest post up yet.
I’m very proud to be selected in the Top 10 for Modern & Elegant and our design, the things we’ve done with WordPress, jQuery and HTML/CSS has been recognized as Top 10 material.
April 7th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
When you’re good you have fans, and when you have fans they show their appreciation. That’s what happened with the iPhone Club and rightly so!
April 7th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Same here! Showing appreciation for iPhoneclub.nl not only because it’s a great website, but because the looks are clear, it’s a nice layout and because they have exlusive features!
Good luck iPhoneclub!:D
April 7th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
*exclusive
April 7th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Thx for it. Vote for me, yeah!
Good Pages an strong competition!
April 7th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
iPhoneclub.nl is a great, clean looking website.
Good Luck JP
April 7th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
iPhone club zet hem op!
April 7th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Thanks for including me in the showcased work!
I had a some difficulty selecting the category to enter my site in, and it seems that nature inspired design is sprinkled throughout. If there is a next time, perhaps a new category would be in order.
April 7th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Some excellent and creative designs on there, best of luck to everyone!
Ryan
April 8th, 2009 at 1:35 am
Casted my votes.
These look great!
April 8th, 2009 at 3:37 am
My vote for iphoneclub.nl for a very beautiful and clean website, perfect. From a faithfull visitor
good luck with the contest, barabaz
April 8th, 2009 at 4:20 am
Thanks for including me
April 8th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Wow, thanks so much for the nomination. I “really” appreciate it.
April 8th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Awww, we got missed fo rthe grunge category
April 8th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Voted for productive dreams, but I love the designsuperhero blog as well but sad they both are in same category!
April 8th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
1,216 Votes for iPhoneclub, wow! Must be a big club there.
April 8th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
I too was surprised by the commanding lead iPhone club had when I published my votes earlier yesterday. After visiting the site and noticing the Alexa rank and pagerank, I determined that they must have quite a bit of traffic and of course, a faithful following which explains it.
This is a problem faced in any of these voting competitions. While one might have a kick arse design, the site with the largest set of eyeballs and the largest set of influence will win out every time. Thats just the way it works.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:24 am
absolute bica has a flawless modern design. really impeccable work.
April 9th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Man, this is going to be a long month! What’s it been, like three days so far?
April 9th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Hello everyone! If you think my wordpress design deserves to win the ‘Best in Hand-Drawing Style’ please vote for Kikay.org
God bless and good luck to everyone!
April 9th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Damn didn’t get in.
good luck to all of you! You all have beautiful designs.
See you
April 10th, 2009 at 12:03 am
the best ever forever Samantha Armacost
April 10th, 2009 at 11:39 am
My site is down
I have contacted my service provider. Hopefully it will be up within 24 hrs.
April 10th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
iPhoneclub.nl is simply the best (dutch) website about the Apple iPhone. It has regular daily updates, good reviews and great news. It’s design is simple (in a good way) and clear, easy to understand and easy to navigate.
That’s why I voted for iPhoneclub, one of the few websites out there that i love to visit EVERY day!
Pukkert
April 11th, 2009 at 4:44 am
I’m voted.
April 12th, 2009 at 7:50 am
I have seen a lot better wordpress design over the past year to be very honest.
April 12th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
I cast my vote …
April 12th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Then you should have submitted those when wpWebhost called out for entries in the contest.
April 14th, 2009 at 3:47 am
Thanks for adding the preview images, makes it alot easier and I’ve voted for a few. I do however feel the selection of sites in general was really poor, how did the sites up here make it to the shortlist. There’s a few really great designs btu some really boring stuff as well.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:45 am
the system is not good. i think not the best design win… community votes are not really nice…
April 14th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Just following along with the contest, did submit a site though but wow.. there were some others in the list that should have made it for sure. Some of these are less well designed than some of those that didn’t make it.
April 15th, 2009 at 2:06 am
@Jeri
“.. there were some others in the list that should have made it for sure. Some of these are less well designed than some of those that didn’t make it.”
I totally agree! Some chosen sites shouldn’t be there.
I was hoping at first that.
http://designwashere.com/
would make it on the finalist under Grunge.
and there were others too on my selection. Sigh!
April 15th, 2009 at 3:54 am
Great inspiration!
April 16th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Am honored you chose Spout Creative as one of the finalists!
April 17th, 2009 at 3:14 am
I am definitely appreciative for making the shortlist under Best Modern and Elegant, but I agree with some of the previous comments posted. It’s not really about the design vs your Alexa Ranking and Popularity.
April 18th, 2009 at 2:28 am
Voted for Productive Dreams. Cool one.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:06 am
i’m not make it to the top 10 list. but i still waiting for the winner list.. good work for you all dude!!
April 18th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
interesting
April 19th, 2009 at 5:56 am
Man!.. it’s been not just 10mins..I’m here and whooah..so many goodies.. nice icons..nice design..tell me where all I should vote…max votes for u
April 21st, 2009 at 7:48 pm
I would like to add once more wordpress site in this List
http://www.hiddenpixels.com
April 26th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
goodluck participants…
April 29th, 2009 at 12:06 am
Damn! I wish I could had known of this earlier…
April 30th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
No winners yet?
May 1st, 2009 at 2:15 pm
was good voting
May 1st, 2009 at 9:03 pm
May the BEST, uhh… MOST POPULAR win!
May 4th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Hoorah For iPhoneclub!
May 5th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Go for “Iphoneclub”…….¡¡¡¡¡
May 7th, 2009 at 1:19 am
It is May 6th and voting is open !?
May 7th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I’m Voted.
May 7th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Thanks u people gave me a chance to vote.
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:49 pm
I can’t believe iPhone club is at the top of most elegant.. that site is a piece of crap
May 24th, 2009 at 5:04 am
I’m Voted.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:48 am
I would like to add http://www.memyselfandthedutch.com. I just came across this minimalist design
July 13th, 2009 at 3:01 am
thanks alot
I can’t believe iPhone club is at the top of most elegant.. that site is a piece of crap
July 13th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I love this than the old .. so cool and simpel…
http://meethabib.com/vb/
August 1st, 2009 at 4:39 am
Wow.. Thanks for the list.. very nice
August 9th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Nice list of finalists.
I reckon our blog http:blog.tourabout.com could have gone in either clean or modern categories.
Congrats to finalists tho
August 30th, 2009 at 12:18 am
thanks alot
I can’t believe iPhone club is at the top of most elegant.. that site is a piece of crap
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:31 pm
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October 27th, 2009 at 3:40 am
Very good, thanks
November 12th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Very good, thanks