Hi all, we are organising an online graphic competition, the whole website is written from scrath and it's now into the final testing which is open for all to join and feedback. Please visit the site at http://www.7Creation.com/ and give your comment. Thanks.


Following is the press release about it:

LABUAN.NET is conducting a final test for its graphic design competition website at http://www.7Creation.com/. 7Creation is expected to be opened for public testing from 15 Feb 2006 and be launched around 01 Mar 2006 if no major fault was found.

Labuan.net founder Alvin Han said 7Creation is expected to attract around 50 unique visitors per day by the end of the final test, and subsequently 350 unique visitors per day by the end of the entire competition.

The competition will be subdivided into 3 seasons which consist of the qualifying, semi and final seasons. Each season will be given a different design theme to challenge. Designers that have won each season shall proceed to the next season. Top 3 winners in the final will be presented with awards and prizes.

With the availability of a self contented forum, feedback form and graphics comment page, 7Creation has further created an interactive environment for the participants, designers and visitors.

"7Creation is quite exciting," Mr. Alvin Han said during the interview, "It is purposefully created for your pleasure. This is also a direct action to bring a different excitement to the Labuan community."

Specifically, 7Creation said there will be no cost to join and compete in the competition. Top three winners will however be offered with awards and prizes. In addition, the good news is everyone can join, regardless of the participant's nationality.

"We have a vision for 7Creation to be one of the special events in Labuan," the volunteered committee Mr. Gary Wong said. "Hopefully the final test will be completed with success soon."

it cool..
i did post my artwork onto the site..
nice site..way to go!

urm.. the website needs serious thought of its site architecture.. here you say there are themes that are used for each challenge, on your website I can't find the current theme for the competition.

I'm sure Labuan.net can do better than just host a competition and award designers prizes from a competition that's even opened to itnernational designers (if I'm not mistaken).

The competition consists of 3 stages. That is, qualifying, semi final and final. Each stage will be given a different design theme to compete as follows:

* Qualifying Theme - My Home
* Semi Theme - Traditional Art
* Final Theme - Poster To Promote One Product / Service

what it mean?

This post has been edited by enter: Mar 2 2006, 04:20 PM

Hi Etsuko

Thanks for your feedback. You are the second one that has feedbacked about the usability of our site. We are so glad that we are still hearing some voices around. I believe you are right. Perhaps the sign of the seasonal calendar isnt clear enough.

In consideration of the enhancement process, we have therefore opened the site for public testing since 15 Feb (beta version) until its launching date 01 April, in hope of rectifying most problem that could possibly be faced by the many others.

The calendar is allocated in the rules and regulation page. Perhaps, we will try to put a link from the introduction page to the rules and regulation page. Hopefully that will help. Would appreciate further if you would kindly provide your opinions for our consideration too.

Will you do us a favour? That is, to invite your friends along to join or visit the competition should 7Creation appeals to you, hopefully :-)

Thank you so much. Appreciate all inputs.

Best Regards
Gary Wong
Developer of 7Creation.Com

Hi enter

Thanks for the query. :-)
I guess you are asking for the definition of the theme name and here is my answer.

My Home is a broader subject and should be less limited unlike other themes and should be the easiest too. You may design something related to your home, family, family member, your culture, or even a scenery of everyone having meal together, etc. A graphic that will express warmth and comfort - a place or atmosphere you will call My Home. Be creative :-)

Traditional Art can be anything that brings in the flavour / taste of any culture. For instance, a traditional Indian fabric pattern, a group of African people dancing traditional in their traditional wearing with mixture of effects to make it look really traditional and acient. Again, it is less broader than the first theme. Something more challenging. The objective is to impress the visitors bacause they vote for you.

Promote a product / service. This is the most challenging part which may seem the easiest. You are required to "sell"!! I guess this may be your favourite theme. You may design a product or service poster that may have already existed or non existence. The point is to convince the visitors that you are a only seller of your product or service and worthy of vote. If you have a website, you may wish to design a graphic to "sell" your website and gain more traffic. I thought selling may be the toughest, maybe not you...

I hope this is clear for you.
Should you have more enquiries, i do encourage you to use the forum in 7Creation. You dont need a registered username to post a forum thread. See yah there.

Thank you
Gary Wong
7Creation.com

I'll do up an exclusive review of the website and see if anyone on my blog would have something to share about it later. That'll even help promote the contest in some way I guess.

Cheers.

Hi Etsuko

Thanks for your kindness to include 7Creation at your blog. I know that will definitely help, and hence here is my appreciation to you. We would also be interested to visit your blog if you would wish to provide us with your blog url for our visitation.

In addition, we would consider to include your blog url that review 7Creation in our latest newsletter and announcement to all our fellow participants who have signed for the news related to 7Creation.Com. I hope this will help to draw some traffic to your blog too. :-)

Thank you, mate ;-)

Best Regards
Gary Wong
7Creation.Com

The 7Creation Website Exclusive Review is up. Please visit the below address to read.

http://www.dannyfoo.com/archives/2006/03/7...tion_websi.html

7Creation.com competition has eventually be launched by far from 01 April 2006, since no major bug has been found. The website features have proven to be working well and usable.

7Creation is proud to announce that it has been recognized by Google with a pagerank (5) as a quality website since its existence from 2 months ago. This is an unexpected good result to 7Creation. To view the pagerank, please download google toolbar and visit www.7Creation.com. To know more of why 7Creation is being awarded with a pagerank (5), you are encouraged to visit www.7Creation.com now.

The registration and qualifying season will be running concurrently until 14 May 2006. Hence, it is still not too late to participate in the competition yet. 7Creation looks forward to seeing more participants from many more nationalities. Upon the approval of your participation, you are allowed to immediately submit your designed graphics. Once your graphics are approved, it should be exposed for public voting too.

Thanks to all our dearest participants for being part of 7Creation competition. It is indeed our honour to have organized an event as such. You are not required to be a professional designer to join the competition. Designers of all levels are encouraged to join in and compete because we believe that everyone can join!!

For your convenience, we have provided to you the following links:

1. Rules and regulation see http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-rules.asp
2. Voting page, see http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-vote.asp

We look forward to seeing your graphic design soon. Come and be part of the history ;-)

Yours sincerely
7Creation.Com

what is page rank actually ? is it the same meaning f i key in the name of the website i want to search.. and it's giving the same result as the html addresses?

About Pagerank:
http://www.google.com.my/search?q=define%3...:en-US:official

Basically, it's a patented system by Google to measure your website popularity based on linkages made to it. For instance, if you had a blog article with more than 100+ linking to it, that help increases your pagerank. The higher the pagerank, the higher paid ads you get if you have adsense and the better results will appear when searching Google in general.

Normally, if you searched to the specific address or name of the website it'll appear one of the first 5 pages in Google. However, the biggest challenge I've found is to make your website the top few pages while using general searches. For example; if you take 7Creation's graphic design competition.. if you searched on Google graphic design competition, the best is to get it on the first page.

oo now i understand i tot the same meaning as normal ranking. thx.

ermm wonder is it allow for vector art? or just raster?...means do it in photoshop o illustrator? or free?

You can submit any graphic type and will not be limited to 2D graphics only. In addition, please feel free to use any graphic software type. :-)

I used to think that too, but my PR5 sites aren't really giving good pay-per-click lately.

same here..

i think alot of other factors are being played now. as you know, Google likes to make things fairer for everyone and if you don't get the quick facts about the changes of behaviour, you won't get much.

anyway, that's a whole other story.

why do i get the feeling this is spamming or a method you're trying to spider better rankings in Google..?

Set Up Graphic Design Tutorial - We Need Your Contribution

In view and consideration of the raising need and interest of our members and visitors, 7Creation is planning to create a special page for graphic, website design or related tutorials. The tutorial page in plan should be one click away from the home page.

All level of tutorial is welcomed. Our purpose is to create a helpful and healthy community to every visitor.

Thus, we are interested to find designers who are interested in composing graphic design tutorial. If you are interested in this, or you are currently having a tutorial website, you are welcomed to contact us at organizers@7creation.com. Please bear in mind that you are not limited to submit as many graphic design tutorials as possible, as long as it has not been repeated.

To credit for your contribution, you are welcomed to add link to one website url and a detailed self-introduction within your own tutorial. The click through rate is expected to be better than a normal website link. Upon agreed, your tutorial shall be up within 7 days.

It would be truly appreciative if you were willing to make a press release, newsletter or announcement about 7Creation Graphic Design Competition to your visitors after the publication of your tutorial in exchange.

Thank you so much :-)

Yours sincerely,
7Creation.Com

Semi Final - 7Creation Graphic Design Competition

Labuan, Malaysia - 22 Jun 2006

7Creation.Com, a graphic design competition online, announced the results of the top 20 winners from the qualifying season on 15 Jun 2006. There are 9 graphic artworks already being submitted in the semi final to date.

On the 15 Jun 2006, 7Creation has successfully transited from a qualifying season to a semi final season. The process of the transition consists of the aggregation of points converted from all anonymous, member and sponsor votes. The designers, of the first 20 winning graphics among 58 graphics submitted by international participants from Singapore, Scotland, India, Polland, Malaysia, etc, shall enter into the semi final season. Result of the qualifying season together with its calculating formula can be viewed at
View Vote

To date, there are already 9 submitted graphics in the semi final season viewable at http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-vote-semi.asp in 6 days. Surfers are also welcomed to visit the artworks submitted in the past season by clicking the 'See Qualifying Graphics' link near the top from the above link. Nonetheless, voting points will only and currently be calculated for graphics submitted in the semi final season.

7Creation continues to grow strong in the search ranking result of major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN with a PageRank 5 that indicates 7Creation as a website full of quality content. Unlike 3 months ago, 7Creation does not depend solely on new unique visitors anymore; it currently has a group of strong and regular steadfast visitors that will keep re visiting the site to check out for new graphic submission.

Winning participants from the qualifying season will be given a dateline until the 24 Jun 2006 to submit the design source of their winning graphics. This is to authenticate the authorship of the artworks. Designers failing to submit the design source shall be disqualified from carrying on the participation in the semi final.

"Since the organizers of 7Creation are entrusted with the responsibility to verify the authorship of each artwork, we will try our very best to make sure that each participant is treated fairly throughout the process," said Gary Wong, one of the Founders of 7Creation.com. "In addition, we have constantly been receiving constructive feedbacks from visitors from all around the world suggesting for ways to improvise our infrastructures such as the point system and its usability. This shows a good sign of its growing popularity."

"The graphic design competition is getting fiercer. The first graphic was submitted on the first open day of semi final itself," said Alvin Han, a founder of 7Creation.com. "In order to gain more advantages of the timing for a higher voting rate, the participants have almost immediately made use each opportunity to market their graphics via Tell Your Friend, graphic description and the blogging facilities."

7Creation will continue to strive in enhancing the website features so as to bring in more convenience and fun to the international participants and visitors. To know more about 7Creation, visit http://www.7Creation.Com

About 7Creation.Com
7Creation is a graphic design competition website designed to encourage hundreds of people around the world for competition. Headed since 01 Mar 2006, by 2 young Malaysians Gary Wong and Alvin Han, 7Creation today has more than 160 international members and 67 graphics in competition. Within 2 months, 7Creation has proudly recognized by major search engines like MSN, Yahoo and Google with PageRank (5) as a quality website. http://www.7Creation.com