Hey everyone. I'd like to thank you all for an amazing design contest here. I've never received so many designs for a homepage contest before! Quality work everyone. We really all worked as a team to get what the site needed. I wish I could award everyone, and maybe I'll feel more comfortable doing more expensive contests in the future or something. But I would like to say that everyone collectively contributed to a group vision here, which came out beautifully. We couldn't have done this without all the designers that participated.

Also, I want to let everyone know that SoulReverie is the MAIN CONTEST WINNER, and KKKapt is the secondary contest winner. There's a prize split between them which I won't disclose publicly.

Otherwise, I want to thank the runners up, which are:

1) Converge
2) Netraam
3) meandmydesigns
GREAT JOB GUYS! Hopefully you'll win one of my future contests.

later everyone!

So Thanks again everyone. I'll keep you posted on my next design contest!

Balron. Thank you for your point. I will definitely mention that there is a possibility for a prize split at the beginning of all my contests from now on. YOU ARE RIGHT! Talk to you soon.

@Balron, you tell me how to make a better prototype than what I made (which I made in MSpaint)? You have no point here whatsoever. Of course I don't need the designer to make my prototype. That's why I'm here. The point is for a non-designer to communicate what he wants to designers. If you're getting caught up on the definition of a prototype being a complete polished design from another designer, then all I have to say is that that your bitterness and pin-pointing of such semantics is immature.

#2) What do you think the fair thing would be to do when 2 designers contribute greatly to the design? I did not anticipate this, but it happened. It's more fair than just giving all the prize money to one designer and just asking him/her from another designer. At the end of the day I can award a prize to one designer who copied all of another designers stuff. That's my choice, but I chose to let the designers know that they should use someone else's components and that we'll split the prize. I didn't tell everyone, but the people I didn't tell, I also didn't explicitly say use the other designers element.

Otherwise, like I said above, I admit I should have mentioned the split in the prize in the brief immediately when I figured I'd do that. It's there now and has been for several days.

So honestly bro you're essentially tarnishing my Comment wall here. I don't go to your designs and write how they're so bad for contests your in. And I do find designers whose designs I like--not just any designers. And I don't have to mention it in the prize split. Whatever the staff members says above maybe true, but it's also true that the CH doesn't even have to pay the designers legally. He's just saying that I don't have the right to the copyright without paying the full amount. But I do have the write if I work something else out with the designer. Ya dig. So essentially what I did here is a totally logical way for working this contest. Moreover, the idea is for designers to contribute to an end vision, where each design is not totally different. It's a building process where the designers get to look at each other's designs. I happen to be fair enough to want to split up the prize. I also happen to make my contests winnable so there ACTUALLY IS A PRIZE, by doing whatever it takes to make it a successful contest. I don't see how taking components from different designers designs is a problem if I let them know this and tell them about the split. The only people that needed to be notified were SoulReverie, Converge, and KKKapt, who were the only ones that had their designs part of the final prototype.

So go do a contest where you won't win the money because the CH provides a horrible plan, and does not give any prize out because he A) he's not obligated to do so by 99designs, and B) because he does not have the skills to communicate what he wants and therefore does not get what he wants, and decides not to give a prize for it. Otherwise, we have a successful contest, and the 2 designers that contributed the most are going to be awarded the prize money. I guided all designers very explicitly as they went, and helped the ones that earnestly wanted to win. So the point still remains that a good designer who wants to win my contest will win it and earn the prize money for the % he/she does, and this is not the case with many of the design contests on this site that are not run by a CH with as good of a "prototyping" process as I do. Period.

You'll waste your time more in other contests than you will with my contests. Period.

@Telescreen, all the best designers have been notified that the prize will be split up, with SoulReverie most likely getting credit for most of the layout. And the person who gets the "scene" at the top (closest currently being KKKapt) getting the other half of the prize. SoulReverie knows very well that we're using her layouts. And unless someone comes in and does something totally different, she will win half the prize for it (which fyi will most likely be more money since we have one day left and will probably extend the contest 1-3 days).

Otherwise, i was actually just going to give you feedback as yours is extremely good. I just wanted to wait until I got more feedback from my client (which I just did) so I don't have you guys going around in circles any more.

Lastly, this isn't about showing "options." This is about getting exactly what we need. There are rarely any contests on 99designs where the CH provides as exact prototypes as I have, and it's generally a super guessing game. The way i do run my contests is in a format where we learn from each each design--it's definitely not about "options." But it does mean that some designers won't be given credit too. However, like I said above, where credit is do, I have in the past and will always split the prize...Actually in the past, I paid out more than the prize because I thought that was the right thing to do. If you guys trust me, I'll make sure everyone gets rewarded fairly for their contributions.

...Leaving you feedback now...

@Nxiel, let you feedback in a Private Message.

@SoulReverie, nope, the animation isn't part of the requirement. It's just part of my feedback of how to visualize that top area.