How to submit

Before submitting a design to this competition, please read the following guidelines carefully. Also, you are required to review the Official Contest Rules and Submission Agreement before submitting your entry.

  1. Designs will be created for the Sandbox theme, version 0.9.x
    1. All designs will be limited to style sheets (CSS) and images (no theme PHP mods)
    2. Submissions must be in full accordance with Submission Procedures (below)
  2. Designs must be wholly original, sole works of the submitting designer(s)
    1. Designs must be released with GNU General Public License or compatible license
    2. Designs may not be included for judging if deemed offensive or inappropriate
  3. Submissions must be submitted by 12:00 AM (UTC), Sunday, July 29, 2007
    1. All submissions are final, ie, you may not later resubmit a revised version
    2. Designs may only be released publicly after submissions close
  4. Results will be announced at 12:00 AM (UTC), Monday, August 6, 2007
    1. Judgments shall be considered final and complaining left to a minimum
    2. Winners shall receive cash awards at verified Paypal accounts within 48 hours

The phrase “wholly original” in item 2 excludes submitting any existing public designs, such as themes or templates for WordPress, Movable Type, Typo, “site rips,” updated designs, etc. Failure to comply with these guidelines and the Official Contest Rules and Submission Agreement may result in disqualification from the competition.

Submission procedures

Submissions must be emailed separately to submissions@sndbx.org. The subject line must read Submission: [Title], where [Title] is the name of the design. The submission attachment must be a ZIP archive with the following file structure:

sandbox-[title].zip:
	/sandbox-[title]/
		style.css
		image01.png
		image02.jpg
		other-style.css
		readme.txt
		screenshot.png

In other words, each design submission will contain a minimum of:

  • a folder titled sandbox-[title], where [title] is the name of the design, containing a
    • style.css, which may include relative links to any images or secondary CSS files
    • readme.txt, which must include at least contact and license information
    • screenshot.png, which must be exactly 400px by 300px

A few important points before submitting your design:

  • Submissions containing a screenshot in a format other than PNG will be ignored.
  • Submissions containing a screenshot not 400px (w) by 300px (h) will be ignored.
  • Submissions in archive formats other than ZIP will be ignored.
  • Submissions lacking an explicit GNU General Public License license (or compatible) will be ignored.

Download the Example Submission: sandbox-example.zip

Judges will view designs by placing the design folder in the root directory of the Sandbox theme, ie, each design folder will be at the same level as the designs included with the Sandbox theme, eg, /sandbox-kubrick/; therefore, all links within a design style.css file must be relative to this structure. Broken links may result in your theme not displaying properly during judging.