• Entries must be received Wednesday, May 15th
• Voting will consist of both a staff vote and a public vote to be carried out by members.
• After formal review by the UBBDev staff, the top entries will be put to vote in the public forums lasting one week.
• In case of a tie, the tie-breaking vote will be cast by UBBDev Template Diva, Jamin Colley
• All entrants consent to allowing their designs and submissions to be added to UBBDev's database and/or displayed on UBBDev
• You must have a (legit) 6.3 beta board or 6.3 board (once it is final) running, if 6.3 is released prior to the end of the contest, all participants are expected to upgrade their demo board to the full release version, as well as any needed changes in your submission
• Your version must be a clean installation, that means hack free. (You may include code for hacks, provided they are commented out, and properly documented on how to implement.)
• In addition to providing a link to a working board, you must submit a zip file containing your template files to: [email protected]
• You may enter as many times as you want, but remember...we'll be voting on quality, not quantity
• The zip file must contain the following files:
  public_forum_summary.pl, public_forum_page.pl, public_topic_page.pl, public_common.pl and a faq/info file explaining their layout changes
• You are free to make changes to other template files as well, although it is not mandatory
• If you have specific colors you wish to use, then make sure to include the appropriate style template as well
• You must include any custom graphics included in your template design in the zip file.
• UBBDev Moderators and Administrators are welcome to participate, but aren't eligible to receive the grand prize
• ...and best of all, the PRIZE. The winner will get the chance to be a moderator in the templates forum!!! Please note: this means you will have to successfully complete our 30 day moderator boot-camp!
• We reserve the right to modify, change, append, obliterate these rules at any time, as we see fit with or without notice to anyone. If we decide things aren't working out as we planned, we reserve the right to can the whole contest altogether if we so desire...oh, and no hurting pandas, llamas or small woodland creatures.

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Originally posted by AllenAyres:
Idda know... but I plan to enter this one too

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are you allowed to do that ?

well since you're the one who makes the rules, I suppose you can ....

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Originally posted by tackaberry:
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• UBBDev Moderators and Administrators are welcome to participate, but aren't eligible to receive the grand prize

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Originally posted by LK:
You can put hacks, as long as they're NOT enabled automatically and you provide info on how to enable it.

For example:
# UBB Thinking Clock:
#
#$ThisHTML .= qq~
#
#~;

And in your text file, say "uncomment lines 50-52 if you want to enable ubb thinking clock".

But it has to be commented by default

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Originally posted by tackaberry:
The idea is this....

You may have certain hacks installed on your forum.

Someone else might not, but still wants to use that template.

The hack code can be live on your demo, but must be commented out in your submitted code.

This would allow someone the choice of being able to use a hack or not. What we are trying to avoid is having your template code break the board, because a required bit of code cannot be found in another file.

We will be testing submitted entries, and any entry that does not load properly because of extra code that is not properly commented probably won't win.

Note that this contest is being judged on the stylistic values, and not integration of hacks. We're talking html/css tweaks, colors, graphics primarily.

Allen (and the rest of the Staff), bring it on!

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i just had a few things i needed in the cgi to make the overall work , like my rpg hack, great, cleared it up for me, to editplus i go!

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Originally posted by LK:
It means that you should not add any new feature, just change the look. So don't include CGI modifications or your RPG hack

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Originally posted by Lord Dexter:
We're supposed to doc this? Man this will be one big doc if you want to edit alot. Hmm...

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Put the PLs, not instructions

I think you need to document: name, your name, and, IF you put other hacks in it (commented), instructions how to uncomment them.

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Originally posted by LK:
Put the PLs, not instructions

I think you need to document: name, your name, and, IF you put other hacks in it (commented), instructions how to uncomment them.

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