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Voting has begun for our Link Back Banner Design Competition. The objective of the competition was to design some new link back banners for our link back banners page. We've received 4 entries from Frisby, Eta, Lucas, and Zaphiie. The winner of the competition will win 2 weeks of free advertisement for their site, so click here to vote for the best banner for IC.

The banners submitted are all really great, and they have each been posted on our Link Back page. Thanks to everyone who has participated!


Speaking of link back banner competitions, I have entered Skyline Design's button contest.I rarely join competitions, but I'm in Spring Break and it doesn't take too long to design a button. I'll be sure to let you know the results of the contest!

And remember that IceCaves' birthday is coming up! Learn more about how we are planning to celebrate by clicking here.

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Let's see how many videos we can get in the next two weeks! And be sure to spread the word! It would be awesome to get a bunch of webmasters doing this. Plus, there will be a surprise for those of you who do this come April 10th. Good luck!

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For this week, I'll cover how you can use PHP and MySQL to easily generate an RSS Feed for your website. Click here to read the article. You can use this for your website's news, for statistics, for new content, anything you think would be worth subscribing to.

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Our design competition for IC link back banners has been extended. The deadline will now be Monday, March 29th, 12 noon PST. In this last week, there has only been one submission, so you still have another week to submit your entry if you're interested in joining. Remember, the first place winner will win 2 weeks of free advertisement for their website (125x100 banner in our sidebar). Click here to submit your entry! And if you would like to learn more about the competition, click here.

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This week's blog article is a short compilation on how you can use the PNG-24 image format to achieve various creative and simple web design effects. It's a format that has really unique capabilities that, when used right, can make an innovative design.

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For this design competition, you must design a link back banner or button for IceCaves. The best ones (or all of them) will be added to our Link Back page with proper credit. The criteria for this comp is that you design a banner for IC that promotes IC. Animations are accepted, and the banner doesn't have to be generic for all of IC, either. You are free to submit a banner that promotes any specific area of IceCaves or all of it. For example, the banners in our link back page promote IC in general, but for this competition you are free to submit banners that advertise specifically a single section f the site such as our stock photos, our Photoshop Tutorials, our scripts, etc. Be creative! Any dimensions are allowed, but keep the banners larger than 100x100 px. As always, the winner of this competition will win two weeks of free advertisement on our sidebar. Submission deadlines are one week from now: March 22nd.

Also, our design competitions now have different schedules! Instead of starting and ending on Saturdays (PST), they now start and end on Mondays (PST). I've decided this would be better since most of our updates are squeezed into the weekends.

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Almost 3 weeks ago, my brother Livio of interguild.org, posted a blog post explaining his views on the flaws of IC's website layout. If you followed the comments on the post, a discussion ensued in the comments among the members about their views and opinions relating to the layout and how it could improve.

Well, today I'm releasing some changes to the site's layout. The primary issue was the navigation of the previous layout--that it was confusing and hard to use. With this update, all of the navigation is at the top of the age just under the site header. Think of it as a site map of sorts, conveniently condensed in drop-down menus. As you can also notice the sidebar is less cluttered and now contains your log in information. Take some time to get used to it because some things have been moved around, but I'm sure you will find that things flow much more smoothly now. Lastly, the layout for comments have also been redesigned and condensed. Comments no longer have the same layout as forum topics do.

And another update was made yesterday for the IC Topsites. The glitch where a blank page showed up after clicking on your Topsites button from your site has at last been fixed! The glitch has been there since around October I think, but I finally figured out how to fix it.

Tell us what you think of the changes! If there are any major issues that may still bother you with the current layout, do not hesitate to post it here. =)

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