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I like the tabs idea, I'm actually using it on FM Scout.
I only placed latest forum posts on top (along with who's online) because it's the first thing I want to see when entering a site. Could still do the tabs idea quite stylish on that same top area.

The small boxes on the left column are nice though, so maybe a little rearrangement of content could be interesting. The latest news go on top of left column (5 of them), brief site info goes on the right column along with latest poll (in the same fancy box it is now) and tags.

I'll try to post the new version by tomorrow. Thanks for the input mate!

Nope, it's not taken from anywhere else. I designed it myself.

OK, so my thoughts so far (Yeah, like I have any say in any of this, since I come by once in two months lately..)

Really, before everything, this is just dumb critism, I'm not a designer, in fact I'm terrible at it, so calm down, this means nothing.

So it begins.. I have to say, why do we only see the index scr? Index is surely important but I'd like to see the forums, content page vsvs also. Like, since 2002, Seditio/Ldu has same layout for forum, article page, etc.

And also I was put out by the attendance numbers, ok, designers do much money from some projects, but this is our (not mine actually, I am a very cheap mofo--also I don't have much money, not relevant) humble budget.

..dot..'s:

Very best so far, but even though you use tabbing, you couldn't manage the fit the "Trac Tickets" and "Polls" to your theme. But I loved the colors you used, even though It can be more lighter, but you should set a limit, we wouldn't want a second "seditio light"

Koradhil's:

Well, honestly, I would probably use this on my site out of the other options, because it looks so damn clean i can't put it anywhere, but it looks very much like the Drupal.org theme to me, which's not really making the best competition candidate.

robofreak111's:

Come on, man. What is this? Did you do this with MSPaint? You got to do better than this. And also it's not the best color preference.

Stam's:

Mate, first one looks a lot better. I would say you should work more on the first one. Which makes me realise, I like dark blue hues. And what I liked about the first one was, the very visible search part, which actually is the most important part of an internet site.

So anyway, this is my thoughts so far. Hopefully the best one will be picked up, good luck to everyone!

I can't wait for VOTING!

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Also are we allowed to vote for ourselves?

We are still waiting for some highly expected entries. I will let you know when voting starts.

The Web Vote will be just a normal poll, so you are allowed to vote for yourself but only once. I know our polls are not perfect, so we will check for fraud attempts and disqualify those entries which got many votes from fake accounts made by same person or from the same subnet(s).

The Jury Vote is private, I will soon inform you of the jury members.

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Attention please

As some of major candidates are not able to meet the deadline on September 30th (which is today), I have to shift the deadline to October 4th to give everybody a chance to make their skins perfect. So, the latest schedule is:
Submission deadline: October 4th, 20:00 GMT
Voting starts: October 5th, 12:00 GMT
Voting ends: October 11th, 20:00 GMT
Results will be available: October 12th, 12:00 GMT.
This is the last call, no more deadline shifts will be performed. I apologize to everyone who has waited too long already.