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UPDATE: Winners Announced!

Congratulations to our winners: mojo, Dan, and Dan!! We’ll be contacting you via email with details on claiming your free license. To everybody else, thanks for entering! I’m sure we’ll have more awesome giveaways coming along to help your fuel your coding!

We’re very excited to provide the chance at three (count ‘em, 1, 2, 3) free licenses to the excellent Mockups app by Balsamiq Studios!

I’ve been using Balsamiq Mockups for more than a year and couldn’t be happier with how quickly I can turn an interface idea into something tangible. For example, I mocked up this simplified version of the FYC homepage in about 20 minutes:

The best way to see the power of Mockups is to watch this video wherein iTunes’ interface is mocked up in less than 3 minutes:

Convinced yet? Want a copy you can call your own?

Enter to win by commenting on this post telling us why you need Mockups. Be genuine, be creative, but most of all be persuasive!

We will choose our three favorite comments and announce the winners exactly one week from today (Monday, June 7th 2010).

On your marks. Get Set. Go!

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Giveaway Update:
Winner Announced and Early Bird Dates Extended!

After a number of comments, and a trip to random.org, we finally have a winner! A big congratulations goes out to Cristalia Garcia as the winner of the Voices That Matter Giveaway! If you didn’t win, all is not lost! The Early Bird Special discount has been extended until May 21. That means if you register on or before May 21, and use the special FYC reader discount code (WBNBLGA), you will save a total of $250 off the ticket price!

Original Post:

The kind folks at New Rider have offered FYC readers a chance at a free pass to their upcoming Voices that Matter: Web Design 2010 conference!

What’s this conference all about? In their own words:

New Riders’ Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference, now in its fourth consecutive year, will take place June 28-29 in San Francisco and the timing couldn’t be better! Web design is undergoing an historic transformation: while the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript haven’t changed, the new and evolving functionality in the HTML5 and CSS3 specs, the number of new ways in which people access the Web, and the rise of social media mean that Web designers need to know more than ever.

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet face-to-face with industry greats and discuss Web design’s most critical topics! We’ll open with a keynote address from Jesse James Garrett, author of The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and close with a keynote address delivered by Steve Krug, author of the well known book Don’t Make Me Think and the brand new book Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems. From start to finish this conference will blow you away.

Enter to win a free pass (a $595 value) to the conference by commenting on this post (just say anything you like!) and we’ll pick one lucky commenter at random one week from today (Friday, May 14th)!

Bonus: Special Savings

All FYC readers can save $150 off the conference fee by providing priority code WBNBLGA when registering. Register before May 14th and save $250 as this $100 discount is combined with the early bird pricing!

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HTMLRockstars Launches Today

To help celebrate with our good friends at HTMLRockstars (formally known as CSSRockstars) we are giving away (4) copies of Snow Leopard.

HTMLRockstars provides PSD to HTML service in just 3 days, for only $149. They take your existing design and transform it into valid, high quality, hand-coded markup. They also offer templating/skinning of the hottest CMS, Shopping Carts, and Blogging platforms such as WordPress. With semantic markup, microformat inclusion, documented HTML / HTML, and a money back guarantee, HTMLRockstars offers one of the most feature complete packages available. You can also follow them on Twitter.

Enter for your chance to win Snow Leopard! You will have 2 chances to win 1 of 4 copies courtesy of HTMLRockstars.

Here’s how:

• All you have to do is follow Fuel Your Coding on twitter & Retweet this: (RT @HTMLRockstars Launch + 4 will WIN a copy of Snow Leopard! Enter to Win on @fuelyourcoding http://twurl.nl/2r5jnl #FUELCONTEST)
• Then head over to Fuel Your Creativity to enter for a second chance. *please note: directions differ on Fuel Your Creativity.
• Contest will end on both sites, Sunday at 12 Midnight EST.

Twitter Winners Announced:

1. @brookeduckart
2. @madmanstudios

*To get your copy, please DM me @adellecharles

Be sure to check out Fuel Your Creativity if you didn’t win here!

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On Monday we announced a special giveaway sponsored by Zidalgo Themes. The contest ran almost the whole week and ended today. We used Random.org to pick four lucky winners (each one gets one theme) from the 21 entries in the contest. So, without further ado, here are the winners listed with the theme they won:

• Shane Keene: Personal Press
• Andy: News Plus
• MMP: Magazine-News
• Blair C. : Image Blogger

Congratulations to the winners and a really big, big thanks to Brad Mahaffey from Zidalgo Themes. The winners will be contacted within the next few days with information on how to claim their themes. For those who didn’t win this time around, be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed to be notified of future competitions. Please keep Zidalgo Themes in mind on your next project!

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We are excited to announce our next giveaway: Brad Mahaffey from Zidalgo has given us four WordPress Premium themes to give away to four lucky winners! Each winner will receive a personal license (worth $75) to one of the four themes. Since we only have four to give away, each winner will get a different theme.

What Do The Themes Look Like?

Each image below links to a detail page on the Zidalgo site.

Personal Press

News Plus

Magazine-News

Image Blogger

What Makes Zidalgo So Great?

I asked Brad to give some more information about his themes, and I think the following sums it up nicely: “We design blogs people love to use. With years of experience, we carefully craft effective, innovative, beautiful websites. … At Zidalgo, everything is created in-house, and with the utmost attention to detail. Designers, developers, or casual bloggers alike planning to customize their wordpress theme will fall in love with Zidalgo’s straight-forward framework. Easily customizable designs, built from the ground up with clean, documented code.”

How Do I Enter?

• Simply leave a comment below letting us know which one of the four themes is your favorite and what you like best about it. We can’t guarantee each winner will receive his or her favorite, but we will do the best we can!
• The contest will end at Friday at 10:00 AM, EST
• Four winners will be chosen at random and will be announced Friday afternoon

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Big wordpress theme subscription giveaway!

Nick from Elegant Themes does an amazing job at designing & developing these wordpress themes. I feel, everytime I go to the site there is a new one! They are really high quality, luckily I already bought a membership otherwise I would have had to sneak and only giveaway 2! ha!! No I wouldn’t do that. So let’s giveaway 3 memberships today! 

Might as well break in the new Fuel Your Coding site with a giveaway! Wait – Have you subscribed YET?

How do I enter?

• All you have to do is leave a comment below on this post telling us what you’d like to see in one of his new themes. 
• The contest will end next Wednesday (or maybe Thursday).
• 3 winners will be chosen at random.

What do I win?

Each winner (3) will receive a one year membership and get all these amazing themes, 5 pages worth!

Winners announced!

Congratulations to the following lucky people:

• Saurabh Shah
• Rudy
• Emrah Omuris

All persons have been randomly picked using random.org