Several excellent artist in the Wordpress world, has come up with a Wordpress Theme Competition and was all hosted on the website ArenaWP and in their recent competition, two Pinoys have been victorious in creating their Wordpress Themes. These Filipino web designers were:
Both are deserving artist. I see Derek’s work not only truly artistic with good use of colors, he complies to standards very well too and being W3C compliant with well validating websites gives you a higher percentage of cross-browser compatibility. Faint gradients, high contrast, very similar to Web 2.0 inspired websites, something common I guess with Mac users as the Mac simple, minimalist style comes out with Apple’s influence. Clean with good use of blank space in his layouts.
Derek’s entry won the Most Creative Design for the Wordpress Theme FoilageMod.
I still remember Gail’s old full Flash website when I was a semi-finals judge for the Philippine Web Awards last year as she entered in the Personal Website category and full Flash websites seemed to start to get out of style with many people. Today, Gail has changed her full Flash website into a Wordpress work of art and has been actively creating theme that are really impressive that upon first look, you will not suspect you are looking at a Wordpress blog. Gail being active in the blogging world was also a speaker at the first iBlog event, Philippines 1st blogging summit that recently held it’s second round.
Gail’s entries won 2nd place as the Best Overall Design for the Wordpress Theme Kurtina and Best Use of Colors for the Wordpress Theme Dapit Hapon.
The rest of the winners of the event can be viewed on the ArenaWP website. Congratulations to Wordpress users from the Philippines, Filipino Wordpressers PinoyWordpress.com is proud about. May they serve inspiration to the rest of the Pinoy Wordpress community.
[...] Right after I posted the winners of the Wordpress Theme Competition by ArenaWP on the PinoyWordpress.com blog, I decided to contact both Derek and Gail to get a interview. I emailed them almost at the same time with a very similar email sent. Almost like a template where I just changed a few lines. And Derek was the first one to reply. (Maybe Gail gets too much emails a day from her fans, maybe my email got buried but we hope to hear from her soon.) [...]
[...] If you haven’t read the previous post, Gail Dela Cruz was one of the recent winners in the Wordpress Theme Competition by ArenaWP. Gail is a self-taugh web designer, a dog lover and will be getting married soon! (Not to dogs of course) Read on for more details… P_WP: Hello Gail, thanks for giving us the time to spare for this interview. You have been in the Philippine blog circles and have heard you during the first iBlog summit. You were a finalist at last years Philippine Web Awards, so how did your web life all start? Can you give us a brief history? (Pwede din long history if you want. hehe) [...]
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