[Ben]

Hi,

Thank you to all of you who have submitted a website for September. We have created a shortlist of websites for you to vote for.

Please find below a list of 8 websites that you can vote to be the website of the month for September.

There have been stacks of nominations for August but we have managed to get it to a shortlist of 8. If you are not succesful this time around please re-submit your website next month.

Remember:
If you click "View Results (Null Vote)" - that counts as your vote, so you won't actually be able to vote on anyone.
You only have 1 vote, so make it count!

Voting will close on 14th September 2008.

Entries in Alphabetical order (by username):

Boyles Web Design
www.jakeboyles.com

Cabbage
www.cabbagination.net

Gibbs
www.danielgibbs.net

LeeSalter
www.hjssolutions.com

Matt Ireland
www.mattireland.org

MolotovRuss
www.russbishop.co.uk/clients/titanadsl

TFM4th
www.darklemonade.com

Wizely
www.vividcopy.com


Best of luck

[Helen]

ooh, that's a lot of choice!
Vote made....... good luck guys!

[Boyles Web Design]

Yeaaa!!! I made the shortlist! There are great sites this month good luck everyone!

[Cabbage]

Thanks for the votes so far people, and good luck to everyone .

[wizely]

Boyles Web Design, on Sep 3 2008, 09:01, said:

Yeaaa!!! I made the shortlist! There are great sites this month good luck everyone!

I'll second that! Doesn't matter that I won't get any votes - it's the taking part that counts! Right, now to hunt through and the painful process of figuring-out who to vote for! Good luck everyone.


Right, I went for Cabbagination coz I love the grass at the bottom! (oh, and it validates!)

[Acuity]

Voted Cababge myself.

Wizely would have got it...your logo is quality! But your body text feels like its sitting in a sea of white space! Narrowing the width of the content white bg and you'd have a CSS Mania site easily.

[wizely]

Acuity, on Sep 3 2008, 11:29, said:

Voted Cababge myself.
Wizely would have got it...your logo is quality! But your body text feels like its sitting in a sea of white space! Narrowing the width of the content white bg and you'd have a CSS Mania site easily.

Now you tell me! But it does say website of the month and not home page of the month!
As the site grows the home page will be getting a 'sidebar' but for now the content gets the focus because if I can't draw people through to the rest of the site with my copy then I shouldn't be a copywriter! Looking at Google Analytics, the 'funnels' I've set-up are getting good 'conversion rates' so my subtle 'nudging' of visitors is working. I know we don't usually discuss what a site's supposed to do or look at the copy, but that's what my site is all about - I'm not selling design skills!
I'm just happy to have got on the shortlist - voted for Cabbage!

[Badmotherz]

Wow! Some non-portfolio sites for a change - good work people. Still too many portfolio sites for my liking (that is my opinion like it or lump it). Maybe we should re-name the competition to "Portfolio Site of the Month"?

Anyway rant over, I like Wizely's effort. The whole site feels consistent and offers a clear message.

[ErisDS]

There are some really great entries this month.

Looks like it's going to be a close race!

[tigerlabs]

I voted for Wizely. Beautiful Website. Absolutely beautiful.

[tigerlabs]

Oh, and Daniel Gibbs website isn't loading for me.

[MolotovRuss]

No question Daniel Gibbs'.

Thanks for the vote whoever you are/were!

[Gibbs]

Edit: There really is a great selection there!

Meshach, on Sep 4 2008, 16:45, said:

Oh, and Daniel Gibbs website isn't loading for me.

What seems to be the problem?

MolotovRuss, on Sep 4 2008, 22:11, said:

Thanks for the vote whoever you are/were!

I like it

[tigerlabs]

Gibbs, on Sep 4 2008, 15:36, said:

What seems to be the problem?

It just says "Firefox can't find the server at danielgibbs.net".

[ErisDS]

Meshach, on Sep 5 2008, 00:17, said:

It just says "Firefox can't find the server at danielgibbs.net".

I think you must have a DNS issue, I can see the site fine. Try changing your DNS servers to those on openDNS (go to the site and follow the instructions). If it works then your ISP has a problem and you might like to let them know.

[ThomasHardy]

Meshach, on Sep 5 2008, 00:17, said:

It just says "Firefox can't find the server at danielgibbs.net".

His site works for me in firefox, but my FF3 has been doing that a lot lately.

[tigerlabs]

ThomasHardy, on Sep 4 2008, 17:19, said:

His site works for me in firefox, but my FF3 has been doing that a lot lately.

Hmm.. Well.. I'm using Firefox 3 and it doesn't work for me... @Eris I'll try that DNS thing you were talking about.

[Mihai Georgescu]

Voted for wizely

[TFM4th]

Oh Awesome! I made the shortlist Some good ones up there!

[wizely]

I'd just like to point-out that so many of you are breaking the rules of the competition:

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Voting on Websites
1. You can vote on only 1 website per month. Choose wisely!

I'm willing to overlook the spelling error in my name, but it's a shame that so many of you have voted for other sites!!!!
Thanks to those who have stuck to the rules!

[traxor]

I'm very surprised at the current results, Gibbs is my favourite by far.

[Ben]

ha ha ha!

Very clever Mr Wizely, very clever.

[LeeSalter]

Oh I feel like the Netherlands in Eurovision! Nil Pwah! :-)

[headcoat]

traxor, on Sep 7 2008, 14:49, said:

I'm very surprised at the current results, Gibbs is my favourite by far.

mmm i'd disagree nice template looking site - but lacks originality, but one stood out as far better to me.

[Duck]

Nice looking sites there people! Daniel gets my vote this time - very clean and mature looking design, I like the scroller on the projects page especially.

[Duck]

Oh, thought id mention that I have just found Daniels development corner of this website - a few nice tools there old chap!

[Ben]

Voting is very close!

Only 2 days left now until the voting finishes and we declare a winner for September! Woop!

If you havn't already, please take the time to vote for your fav'