The Line25.com web design blog is finally live, and to celebrate there is a bunch of top notch prizes up for grabs as part of the Line25 Launch Party, making up a combined worth of over $700! It doesn’t take much to get involved, just help spread the word of Line25.com and you will you be put straight in the running for the prize draw!
Line25 is the drawing board of creative web design, a place where ideas and inspirations are drafted out and presented to web creatives through articles, tutorials and roundups of cutting edge website design. Whether you’re a web professional or learning the basics of web design, there’s a range of posts to feed your design creativity.
In order to gain some exposure in these early days, I’ve teamed up with some of the best companies offering some really awesome and highly useful products and services for creative designers in order to give them away in exchange for your help.
What you can win
In no particular order, here are the awesome prizes that are up for grabs…
2x Licenses from BannerSnack
BannerSnack is a quick and easy Flash banner maker, that allows you to create animated banner ads and cool Flash animations without any Flash programming knowledge. The kind people at BannerSnack are offering two premium licences, allowing you to create unlimited, watermark free banner ads for a full year.
Find out more about BannerSnack.
3x Mega Vector Packs from Designious
Designious offers high quality premium vector packs, created by a team of talented artists and designers. Their packs range from general design elements through to highly intricate illustrations. Designious are kindly offering three of their Mega vector packs, each containing numerous vector pieces.
Find out more about Designious.
1x Tuts+ Subscription
The Tuts+ program from Envato continues their range of skilful tutorials into a subscription based scheme where you can access source files and bonus articles. With topics covering graphics to web development and audio to video it’s an indispensible resource for any creative. Envato are kindly offering a 1 year Tuts+ subscription.
Find out more about Tuts+.
$100 to Spend at GraphicRiver
GraphicRiver is the latest site from the Envato network, where a vast range of royalty free graphic elements are available to buy. Graphics include layered Photoshop files, vector graphics, icons, textures, shapes and brushes. It’s like having an entire graphics department at your fingertips! Envato are kindly offering $100 to spend at GraphicRiver to one lucky winner.
Find out more about GraphicRiver.
2x 1000 Business Cards from UPrinting
UPrinting is a trusted online printing company committed to providing high quality print products along with top notch service. Their business cards have a range of paper spec options, including matte and gloss finishes. UPrinting is also committed to eco-friendly production through their use of specialist inks and recycled stock. UPrinting are kindly offering 1000 business cards for two lucky winners.
Find out more about Business Card Printing.
25 Pack of Fail Stickers
GoMedia recently launched their fun side project – FailSticker.com. Based on the hugely popular Internet meme, where the word Fail is digital placed on funny images. You can now publicly call out real life FAILS with the Fail sticker. Up for grabs is a huge 25 pack of 6×3.5” Fail Stickers, making for hours of fun and comedy moments.
Find out more about GoMedia and the Fail Sticker.
1x The Unlimited Freelancer eBook
Freelance Folder recently launched their eBook; The Unlimited Freelancer. The book offers a range of tips on how to overcome freelance limits and unleash your business true business potential, with information on how to implement changes into your lifestyle and how to grow your business. Such tips include how to avoid the typical feast or famine cycle, how to handle more clients and work less and how to build valuable assets that bring in money over the long term. Freelance Folder are kindly offering a free copy of The Unlimited Freelancer to one prize winner.
Find out more about The Unlimited Freelancer.
1x Shared Hosting Account from WebHostingSearch
The experts at Web Hosting Search rank and review the top 100 website hosting providers, allowing you to get the perfect web hosting plan at the lowest price. Web Hosting Search are kindly offering one shared hosting account for a one year to a lucky winner, a great resource for anyone looking to setup their own website or blog.
Find out more about Web Hosting Search
What do you need to do?
Cool collection of prizes right?! So how do you go about entering? It’s simple, first of all check out all the websites of the prize sponsors, they all have awesome products and services and are highly generous for offering their goods to the winners. Then, all that’s required is for you to help build some exposure for Line25 to give it a boost in these early days, you can help by…
Post a message on Twitter
Post a short message on your Twitter profile to pass on the word to your friends and contacts. Post a link to any of the articles posted so far on Line25 or a link back to this launch party to allow others to get involved.
Checking out the Line25 Launch Party – http://bit.ly/yOqT0
Or…
Write a post about Line25
Likewise, if you own your own website or blog, it would be fantastic if you could write a post announcing the launch of Line25 or link back to one of the posts here on Line25.com, spread the link love!
Then… (The important part!)
Step 1: Subscribe to the Line25 RSS Feed.
Step 2: Submit a comment on this post, along with a link to your Twitter message or referral post. The winners will be chosen by random for each prize.
Example Comment:
Chris Spooner Says:
Wow! Line25 is the best, you’re so awesome.
Here’s my link – http://twitter.com/yourname/statuses/yourlink
or
Here’s my link – http://yourblog.com/yourline25post
Follow @line25blog on Twitter
I mentioned everyone is a winner right? Follow @line25blog on Twitter and you’ll receive a mini-gift in return.
The Deadline
Comments will be closed on Monday 23rd March at 00:00 GMT. Winners will be notified by email and posted in the results post. Subscribe to the RSS or Email feed to stay informed of any updates.
The Winners!
Thankyou to all that took part, 185 entries to the launch party was fantastic! 12 winners were drawn using a random number generator, which corresponded to their comment ID. Here’s what the lucky twelve won:
Gareth Trufitt
BannerSnack License 1
http://line25.com/news/the-line25-launch-party/comment-page-1#comment-30
John McKenzie
BannerSnack License 2
http://line25.com/news/the-line25-launch-party/comment-page-1#comment-13
Brad Freestone
Designious Vector Pack 1
http://line25.com/news/the-line25-launch-party/comment-page-4#comment-285
Jordan Moorer
Designious Vector Pack 2
http://line25.com/news/the-line25-launch-party/comment-page-2#comment-114
Scott Phelps
Designious Vector Pack 3
http://line25.com/news/the-line25-launch-party/comment-page-2#comment-80
Taufiq Zainal
1 year Tutsplus Subscription
http://line25.com/news/the-line25-launch-party/comment-page-3#comment-137
Nicolas Dahm
$100 to spend at Graphic River
http://line25.com/news/the-line25-launch-party/comment-page-1#comment-19
Foo Yong Hwee
1000 Uprinting Business Cards
http://line25.com/news/the-line25-launch-party/comment-page-2#comment-131
Kenneth Ballenegger
1000 UPrinting Business Cards
http://line25.com/news/the-line25-launch-party/comment-page-3#comment-187
Pitts
25 Pack of Fail Stickers
http://line25.com/news/the-line25-launch-party/comment-page-2#comment-67
Federico Bond
The Unlimited Freelancer eBook
http://line25.com/news/the-line25-launch-party/comment-page-3#comment-175
Jason Buck
Web Hosting Account
http://line25.com/news/the-line25-launch-party/comment-page-2#comment-77
Thanks again to all that took part!









Good luck everyone! Don’t forget to post a link to your tweet/post in the comments.
Although I just tweeted the new launch, I don’t need to participate in this contest.
http://twitter.com/marcofolio/statuses/1300344656
I just want to congratulate you with the launch of this blog, already subscribed and can’t wait to see more articles.
“blueprint” icon set looks great BTW!
Good luck with the new site. I’m sure if it’s anything like the spoongraphics blog it will be very successful.
@line25blog Reading the new Line 25 Design Blog – launching with prizes. http://bit.ly/3E683d
The site looks great man! I wish you all the best and can’t wait to see what comes next and read all the great articles that I know will soon be gracing these pages.
Tweet Link → http://twitter.com/fernholz/status/1300505838
Good luck with this one. Looks great!
My link: http://twitter.com/emfeha/status/1300497831
The design looks great! The only grudge I have is the comment design. I hope to see some real content soon!
http://twitter.com/john010117/statuses/1300514393
Looking forward to this blog growing quickly.
http://twitter.com/brenelz/status/1300529339
Strange that the comment page isn’t 20+ pages long yet…
Well, congrats on the new launch and can’t wait for more web design goodness!!
http://twitter.com/altern8tif/status/1300521382
Looks like Line25 will be a big hit!
@line25blog has launched with some cool prizes to give away! check it out – http://tinyurl.com/aqeapt
Congrats on the launch Chris, loving the new site!
Great initiative! definitely a must follow blog/twitter.
Here’s my link – http://twitter.com/adrianengine/statuses/1300507485
Just subscribed to this Blog :-)
Good luck!
Twitterlink:
http://twitter.com/masterofthedrum/status/1300540920
Looks great, can’t wait to read more.
http://twitter.com/matalina/status/1300551974
Can’t wait to see the content.Will definitely be following for self improvement.
http://twitter.com/ChristianGAdams/status/1300547726
Pretty cool marketing effort (-;
Here’s my little part: http://twitter.com/centrical/statuses/1300574109
Awsome! Subscribed and very much looking forward to future posts :)
Here’s my link – http://twitter.com/JohnONolan/status/1300579465
Grats on launch! You (almost) can’t follow too many good design blogs – keeping an eye on Line25 ;)
…with twitter link this time :P
http://twitter.com/feedsfour/statuses/1300563147
Just subscribed, and here’s the twitter link:
http://twitter.com/urbanrenewal/status/1300589918
Looking forward to the content.
http://twitter.com/Z1NX/status/1300639095
Hope your website gets lots of exposure!
Good luck in the competition everyone.
Great beginning content. Can’t wait to see more.
http://twitter.com/almsy/status/1300629320
Good luck mate, just tweeted about it:
http://twitter.com/gtrufitt/status/1300653330
Looking forward to more posts!
I did my part!
Nice blog by the way!
http://twitter.com/raffields/status/1300601786
Here’s my link – http://twitter.com/Pascalmh/status/1300712938
Just posted a tweet to tell everyone how they can win some FAIL stickers :-)
http://twitter.com/jeff_finley/status/1300724965
Great looking site, subscribed on RSS, more line height on these comments though!
http://twitter.com/richardsdavies/status/1300732614
Really nice blog, so far! Got the feed.
Here is my link: http://twitter.com/silencethegroan/status/1300726309
Have been following Line25 before it launched and I’m glad I did! Wow, this blog is seriously awesome! I still couldn’t get over the joy of discovering that you’ve sneakily plugged a link to a bunch of lovely icons on the 25th line of the splash page code. Teehee!
Congratulations for the start up, all the best!
lookin good! glad you include full posts in your RSS feed :)
tiwtter – http://twitter.com/grantlucas/status/1300762988
Line 25 is blowing up on twitter! Here’s my link.
http://twitter.com/e_to_the_m/status/1300777199
Wow! Line25 is the best, you’re so awesome.
Here’s my link – http://twitter.com/gatekiller/status/1300787407
Yeah, this will be huge. http://twitter.com/jasonnewlin/status/1300798980
Awesome! I’ve been following Spoon Graphics for a while, now I can follow Line25 as well. You ROCK!
http://twitter.com/EricFernandez/status/1300818930
This is excellent, looking forward to the contents! :)
http://twitter.com/formaweb/statuses/1300679067
Great new site…. loving it so far! Hope your link ploy gets your some good traffic… better than lots of blogs out there.
http://twitter.com/kassy4/status/1300817969
This is legit. Nice job Chris, looking forward to it.
http://twitter.com/crbarnett/status/1300834720
Can’t wait to watch this site develop with some great content!
http://twitter.com/tresnic/status/1300838848
Gimme gimme gimee. First off great looking site! Second off here’s me links:
– Twittter http://twitter.com/spongeproject/status/1300804262
– Blog: http://www.spongeproject.co.uk/blog/aside/great-new-resource/
Cheers
Can’t wait to see more posts!
http://twitter.com/jakemates/status/1300838709
The site is looking great, brilliant job, Chris.
http://twitter.com/dannyturley/statuses/1300832750
Very excited for this site. Here’s my link:
http://twitter.com/innej/status/1300847825
Fantastic, excited to see it develop.
Spreading the good word:
http://twitter.com/shoebox/status/1300856093
Love the background image.
http://twitter.com/davebowker/status/1300894700
Looks great, Chris. Can’t wait for more!
Here’s my link: http://twitter.com/brownaddesign/status/1300915530
Looking forward to this. Here’s the link: http://twitter.com/jarnowuorisalo/status/1300916424
Site looks great! just subscribed.
Twitterlink:
http://twitter.com/Leissa/statuses/1300929649
Nice work looks very promising!!
Twit-link: http://twitter.com/tkrupka/status/1300838896
Following on RSS and Twitter, look forward to reading more!
Here’s my link – http://twitter.com/lukecanvin/status/1301212963
Great looking site!
Twitter Link:
http://twitter.com/mikebrisk/status/1300957375
Nice looking site! Will make a good addition to my Google Reader
http://twitter.com/mike3ike/statuses/1301272463