I acknowledge that those of you who played to win, spent considerable time on your mock-ups so a big THANK YOU for your time on it. Hopefully this gave the non-designers of the group a chance to see your creative side and learn something new. (drum roll) The winner of my blog redesign contest is *David McGuigan* for his elegant and unique design. David's design is clean, simple, monochromatic and edgy with defined lines and space. (No, that is not me in the picture ;) People think it is.) Can't wait to have the new design up and running, David. :)

The Winner

I also want to note the following runners-up because I quite liked their designs as well - made me wish I could use them all..

- Dave from Jamwerx for entry. I like your use of shading, the picture placeholder along the top and some of the cool effects.

- Tjarko for entry. Your entry is also clean, nice flickr feature and I really like how you parse out the sections. Colors are good too.

Thanks to everyone else who submitted. I was about to list your names but fear forgetting someone. I enjoyed reading your submissions.

- Kristen

You might imagine, being on the ColdFusion team keeps me pretty busy and quite often on the road. One thing I'd like but never have the time to do would be to customize my blog to be more personalized. My offer to you.. to anyone who's interested, mock up a new face for my blog and submit a URL to the mock-up in the comments field of this blog entry. Once picked, the winner would write the code, sumbit it to me, and recieves a copy of CF8 Standard.

Any takers? :)

**This is not an Adobe sponsored contest but rather a personally sponsored one - out of my own pocket.