I am going to start out by saying in no way shape and or form do I need to qualify my choice ... that being said how I chose the winner was I sent out an email to 150 of my customers and asked them all to give me an opinion and what makes them feel as though they want to shop at my online software store of the responses I received the winning design had 72% of the votes ... personally there where other I liked a little more but 72% speaks loudly to me.

I wanted to take a quick minute and apologize to all the designers that have submitted some great work that I haven't responded to in the last few day ... I was in the middle of fixing a production issue that I have been on for the last 3 days ... a little red eye at this point .. I now have our servers and software back up and running and am going to get some sleep and will be giving feedback on all of them tomorrow afternoon ... once again thank you all

I wanted to let all the designers know ... I like what I am seeing but 1 thing that I am noticing in them all (which is my fault) is they are all huge as far as the site information is concerned.

I had more of an idea that the top left corner would contain all the information concerning the site and then the right would have room for say a search box or what every I feel like putting as I have here at another site http://www.linkshareware.com that I own. I would also like to see a transition between left and right.

I also like the "glass look" such as I now have on the category headers now.

I wanted also let all the designers know that if you can come up with the side bar category headers that match the site header I will add another $100.00 to the prize money.