And The winners are:

1. Antonio
2. Barbara Ling

Congratulations Barbara and Antonio!!!!! You will be contacted by email in next days!

Thanks again to Digital Room part of the UPrinting Network for giving my readers a chance to win these Business Cards and to everyone who participated on this giveaway. I hope you guys still enjoy this kind of prizes.

Watch out for another giveaway in next days. Make sure to Follow me on Twitter and Subscribe to my RSS Feed so you will be updated. ]]> http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/09/11/1000-colorful-business-cards-giveaway-winners-announce/feed/ 1 http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/09/03/1000-colorful-business-cards-giveaway/ http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/09/03/1000-colorful-business-cards-giveaway/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:33:30 +0000 Luis Lopez http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/?p=756 If your a designer, business man/woman, web designer, animator, marketer or have any kind of job where business cards will help you marketing yourself, then this giveaway is for you… Because the guys of Digital Room part of the UPrinting Network, took a poll on Twitter and asked which of their products people would like to win in a giveaway. The most popular answer was…. Business Cards! So they decided to offer some 1000 Business Cards for my readers,  I think you might be happy.

Now Blog.Exxcorpio is holding another giveaway, yeah it giveaway’s time… again, and this time you can win 1000 Business Cards and use them to promote your business, company or yourself, these are the same high-quality business cards they sell (I can tell you, they are awesome). To win you just have to leave a comment here to win, telling us how you might use this excellent prize.

There will be 2 Winners and will receive 500 Business Cards each, You can choose between 3 different Business Card Sizes, and if you are really creative you can go with the Die Cut Business Cards, All this is possible thanks to the awesome quality of  Digital Room part of the UPrinting Network, Thanks for this giveaway guys!!

The Prize:

• Quantity: 500 Business Cards
• Choose size: 2×3.5”, 2×3”, 2×2″;
• Choose paper: 14pt cardstock (matte or gloss coating) & 13 pt cardstock uncoated
• Choose Color: (4/4) Color both sides; (4/1) Color 1 side , B/W backside; (4/0) Color 1 side, black backside

About Digital Room

Digital Room is a trusted on-line printing company committed to providing a high quality printing experience at affordable prices.

For over 25 years, They’ve catered to small and medium sized businesses nationwide. Powered by brand new fully automated in-house Komori presses and CREO direct-to-plate, they offer faster turnaround with minimal human error and lower overhead cost. This allows them to provide customers with consistently high-quality printing at the lowest possible prices.

They are a division of U-Printing Network, with offices and facilities based out of West Los Angeles, CA.

How To Win these Colorful Business Cards?

• Leave a comment bellow with your idea about how you will use them. (comment only once)
• Tweet this giveaway (optional)
• All comments will be accepted until September 9, 2009 and winners will be announce on September 10, 2009
• 2 Winners will be chose randomly on a random generator.
• Please make sure to leave a valid email address, so I can contact you if you win.
• Winners only pay for shipping. Offer valid for UNITED STATES SHIPPING ONLY.

Good luck guys and ladies and make sure to Follow me on Twitter and Subscribe to RSS Feed to be the first to receive the Latest Articles, Tutorials and Giveaways… because Great things are happening here on Blog.Exxcorpio. ]]> http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/09/03/1000-colorful-business-cards-giveaway/feed/ 12 http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/07/29/30-excellent-logo-design-galleries-for-your-inspiration/ http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/07/29/30-excellent-logo-design-galleries-for-your-inspiration/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:05:52 +0000 Luis Lopez http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/?p=572 LusterForever.com – Cool silver charms and leather bracelets design! Totally awesome sterling silver bracelets.

Design by Humans is one of the best places to buy cool designer t-shirts. All their t-shirts are in men and women sizes on sales from $19 by affiliate, and if you haven’t read about, they are having right now their 2nd annual DBH 10K Contest, where you can win $10k designing a t-shirt.

As I felt interested on the design contest, I went by all the entries they have received until now and  some are really creative and impressive, this is why I have hand picked 30 awesome designer t-shirts from the 10k DBH contest for your pleasure.

If you like one or more, you can vote for your favorites (by affiliate) by clicking on the title of the image.

Crime Scene by nickyn

CMYK-universe by matd

Once in a Blue Moon by zerobriant

Feeling Blue by pulpaloos

funk’d prequel by asher2789

Early Worm Kills the Bird by gaksdesigns

Blood Diamonds Aren’t Forever by 7sixes

camera obscura by aliadotony

Cookie Monster Nebula by vcalahan

Don’t Go Towards The Light by jbyerly

Rabid Rooster’s Journey to the Sun by of1000Kings

Nature was my mother by LooK

Spinning The Light by vtension

sweet child of darkness by charaspower

Waterfall Of Color by thedanster298

Demon by Niark1

Prisoners Of War by ronna15

This is our town by Oiseau

Medieval Backbone by kyreph

Up, Up, and Away by mrdavenport

POWER WEAR by Shield

No honour among fiends! by Zavorio

.:TheDEFENDERS:. by dzeri29

Monster of the year by saltyshadow

‘Till Death Do Us Part by zerobriant

Seed of Evol by SmallTimeGiant

Journey to the City of No Horizon by TangYauHoong

A Tale Of Two Lovers… by Oddeti

Tired of The Tiger Face! by WinterArtwork

trip-py by kaloyster

If you are interested in T-shirt design you could also read these 6 great tips on how to prepare artwork for T-Shirt Printing or if you want to have more about -shirt resources, you can visit the  T-Shirt Designers Toolbox, or grab something from this  huge collection of T-Shirt mockup templates.

I can tell you my favorites are Power Wear, Journey to the city, till death do us partand early worm kills the bird.

Now tell me what is your favourite t-shirt from the ones listed above? and for all in contest?

Select Your Language Page is that single page you see when you arrived for the first time on a website like cocacola.com or nintendo.com, a pre-home page, with a list of options: language, country, region, etc, normally related to a big brand or name with presence all over the world or some many others sites with the idea of being seen in any country, like mini-sites or promotional sites even personal portfolios.

There are many sites who redirect you automatically to a language by your physical location, and this could be easy in normal cases but in some cases this not the best option. Let’s say you are from South America but you are in a pleasure travel by China and you don’t know a single word of Chinese, but for any reason you want to go to whateveryouwanttoputhere.com and… Taraaa, is in Chinese.

The reason, if they track your location they can know where you are and intermediately redirect you to the Chinese version of the site… three seconds later you just quit the site because you don’t like the Chinese version. But if they have givento you a Select Your Language Page, you would have made just one more click and you’d be stay much longer on that site. That’s what we all want on our site keep our visitors.

I know this kind of options are normally related to flash sites and I know the design community is not a big fan of this sites, for problems like SEO, keywords, google rank, etc.. I personally love this kind of sites, because they are impressive and interactive, and normally it means: beautiful sites with big loading times for most of them. But their objective is totally different than a blog, or forum. And designers have worked on, to create this pages like any other page on the site even if is not the most visited, so they deserve to be shown and appreciated.

Just after I finished my post about Best Coming Soon Pages, I have the idea for this post and after some time digging deep on the net and after a big list with more than 200 I finally choose the 50 Best Select Your Language Pages that could inspired you. Must of people don’t really give them to much attention; so they hopefully give you some ideas for your next project or for your personal site, if you are thinking on making in different languages.

There are not ordered by preference, only by themes.

So let’s see this collection of 50 Best Select  Your Language Pages.

1. Cirque du Soleil

2. Nintendo

3. Coca Cola

4. Pepsi World

5. Oakley

6. Disney

7. Elg

8. Smirnoff

9. Havana Mojito

10. Absolut

11. Coors Light

12. 26000 Vodka

13. Ferrari

14. Lamborghini

15. Audi R8

16. Bentley

17. Hummer

18. Mini Worldwide

19. Dsinside Citroen

20. Kamaz

21. Prototype Experience

22. Smamot

23. Xperiment

24. Mcq Momies

25. Bank of Imagination

26. Nike

27. Nike Troupe Battle

28. Nike Store

29. Nike ID

30. Wee-Mee

31. Reserved

32. Greenpeace Weather

33. Disney Tower of Terror

34. Digitalic

35. Sukiland

36. Grzegorz Kapias

37. Generation Movie Project

38. Hf3 Coca Cola

39. Halo 3

40. Forza Motor Sport

41. Resident Evil 5

42. PES League

43. Fifa Ea Sports

44. Fifa Street 3

45. Fifa 09

46. Riddick

47. The Sims

48. Spore

49. Touch Generations DS

50. Simcity DS

What do you think after all this good examples, if you think I missed some you may like just let me know.

Do you like Select Your Language Pages? or you hate them?

This my first Twitter related article, why twitter? Because I am using it, since some time when I decided to start with social media networks, and all those stuff like this blog, so if you want to start with this too, just sing up for free and follow me @EXXCORPIO as your first added follower and you will get really good design and animation tweet links and even more.

With Twitter as one of the hottest site into the social media network (like facebook, myspace, Delicious, Flickr), everyone wants to be there, but at the same time, we all try to stand out from the crowd, we don’t want to be the same as our followers or even the same that our competitors (if you use it for business), you want to be recognizable with something, and that brings to you basically two options, first your own profile picture and second is your background image.

Changing your profile image is easy, because we all have a picture that we use on almost every social media site by default, but the background is more difficult because you don’t have a good image ready to set up on your Twitter settings, so normally at the begging you go with the default blue twitter background, but sometime later you’ll want to change it for something different, that could help you if you want to grab more followers, as well, the change of those items shows the idea that you’re not a spammer, you are an active member of the twitter community, and that is really appreciated by the others.

So here is a list of sites where you cand find a twitter background for your profile, made by you with some default items, or just a good picture that you’re sure its going to fix in almost every monitor resolution.

twitpaper.com

twittergallery.com

twitbacks.com

freetwitterdesigner.com

tweetstyle.com

mytweetspace.com

twitter-backgrounds.net

twitterpatterns.com

twitterbacks.com

limeshot.com

twitterimage.com

blog.webdistortion.com

tweetpages.com

twitterbackgroundsgallery.com

tweetbaks.com

Do you think I forgot something? Maybe you can add other sites I didn’t mentioned or just let me a comment with your  Twitter username to see what is your Twitter background.