Our friends at Markup-Service have offered to give PSD to HTML credits to 2 lucky readers of the Vandelay Design Blog! The first-prize winner will get $300 worth of services and the second-prize winner will get $100 worth of services. In addition, everyone who enters will get a special surprise gift from Markup-Service.

If you’ve never tried outsourcing PSD to HTML conversion, this could be a great opportunity for you. If you already use a PSD to HTML service provider, this could be a chance to test the quality of work from Markup-Service.

In addition to standard PSD to HTML conversion, Markup-Service also offers PSD to email template coding, WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal implementation. For email template coding, they also offer implementation for popular newsletter managers MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, iContact, and Constant Contact.

Their code is 100% hand coded, W3C valid and looks equally good in all popular browsers, such as Internet Explorer 7+, Mozilla Firefox 3.6+, Safari 5+, Opera 11+, and Google Chrome. Their standard turnaround time is one business day for the first page, but express delivery is also available. To get the idea of the quality of coding Markup-service provides, check out some examples of their work and what their clients have to say.

Giveaway Details:

To enter the giveaway, all you need to do is leave a comment on this post. The winners will be selected at random on Tuesday, May 22nd. At that time this post will be updated to announce the winners, and the winners will also be contacted by email. The email addresses of everyone who enters the giveaway will be provided to Markup-Service so they can then email the free surprise gift. It will be a one-time email and you will not be added to any newsletter lists.

Good luck!

UPrinting offers a wide variety of printing services including brochures, flyers, booklets, calendars, event tickets, door hangers, stickers, menus, posters, and much more. UPrinting also offers free file review, a complimentary proofing service which requires no upfront payment.

With UPrinting’s services for printing business cards you can easily upload your own design, use their Easy Design tool, or their free business card templates. They offer full-color cards with flexible options for sizes and shapes. For more details of what they offer, please see the business cards page.

Giveaway Details:

• 250 Die Cut Business Cards each for three (3) winners
• Sizes to choose from: 2 x 3.5″ Rounded Corners, 2×2″ Rounded Corners, 1.75×3.5″ Rounded Corners, 2×3.5″ Leaf, 2×3.5 Rounded one corner, 2×3.5″ Half Circle Side, 2×3.5″ Oval, 2.5″ Circle
• Paper to choose from: 14pt Cardstock Gloss / Matte / High Gloss (UV), or 13pt Cardstock Uncoated,
• 6 Business Days Turnaround with free shipping (within the United States)
• Due to the shipping limitations, the giveaway is only open to U.S. residents.

To enter the giveaway all you need to do is leave a comment on this post. On Friday, April 27 the 3 winners will be selected at random. This post will be updated at that time to announce the winners and the winners will be contacted by email.

UPDATE: The contest has no ended. Thank you to everyone who participated. The winners are:

• Andrea Long
• Lee Jeffrie
• Stephanie

Over the past year we have added to the kit and more than doubled the size and value. To celebrate the first year and to make the resources accessible to even more people we’re offering a limited time promotion to save $20 on the Freelance Starter Kit. The regular price is $49, but through April 9, 2012 we will be offering it at just $29 (more than 40% off)!

Our goal with the Freelance Starter Kit is to help designers with the business side of things, freeing up more time for actual design work. Many of our customers find the contract templates alone to be an invaluable resource, but there is much more included to help you market your services, communicate with clients, and learn more about running a successful business. Here is a look at the resources that are included.

UPDATE: This promotion has ended. See details of the Freelance Starter Kit.

Marketing Resources:

The kit includes a number of resources and templates to help with promoting and marketing your services. You can choose from the resources those that fit best with your style and approach.

Colorful Portfolio Book Template

Blue Case Study Book

Elegant Portfolio Book Template

Case Study Booklet

12-Page Portfolio Book Template

Portfolio PDF

Elegant HTML Email Newsletter Template

Sleek HTML Email Newsletter Template

Simple HTML Email Newsletter Template

Colorful Tri-Fold Brochure Template

Trif-Fold Brochure for Designers

Clean Tri-Fold Brochure

Design Brief:

The design brief template is a resource unlike any of the others. While it does include an InDesign template that can be used to gather information from clients, where it really shines is the PHP template that allows you to easily put an interactive client questionnaire right on your website.  With it you can gather basic information quickly and easily, and it will be sent to you by email. And just as important, it’s more convenient for clients than a printed document.

Design Brief Print and Web Template

Contracts/Legal:

Having a solid contract is essential to any freelancer. We’ve had our attorney draft contract templates and legal documents for a variety of different situations. The contracts are easy to edit to include your own details and you won’t have to spend a lot of time and money on contracts for your client work.

• Web Design Contract Template
• Website Maintenance Contract Template
• Logo Design Contract Template
• SEO Services Contract Template
• Social Media Marketing Services Contract Template
• Non-Disclosure Agreement Template
• Legal Terms and Conditions for Template Sellers
• Terms of Use Template for Membership Websites

Identity Sets and Resume Templates:

The kit includes several identity sets with different styles that you can choose from. Add your own logo and your information and you’ll have a professional-looking identity set very quickly. Four of the identity sets also have matching resume templates. There are also two templates for HTML-based invoices.

Stylish Identity Set

Colorful Stripes Identity Kit

Simple Identity Set

Nature-Inspired Identity Set

Blue Identity Set

Colorful Stripes Resume Template

Simple Resume Template

Nature-Inspired Resume Template

Blue Resume Template

HTML Invoice Template

Simple HTML Invoice Template

Documents:

The kit includes two sets of documents. The letters and email templates include common items like thank you letters, follow ups, overdue payment notices, price increase notifications, and more. The financial pack includes things like a balance sheet template, profit and loss statement, and expense registers.

• Letter and Email Templates
• Financial Documents Pack for Freelance Designers

Ebooks:

There are three ebooks included that focus on different aspects of the business side of design. They are all brief, easy to read, and full of useful, practical information.

Ebook: Finding Your First Design Clients

Ebook: How to Use a Blog to Market Your Design Business

Ebook: Part-Time Freelance to Full-Time Freelance: A Guide to Success

Interviews:

Learning from successful designers is a great way to improve your own business. The kit includes a series of interviews with designers on specific topics.

• Selling Stock Graphics: An Interview with Ryan Putnam
• Earning a Living as a Design Blogger: An Interview with Chris Spooner
• Running a Successful Freelance Business: An Interview with Brian Hoff
• Launching a WordPress Theme Shop: An Interview with Brian Casel
• Using Twitter to Market Yourself: An Interview with Andy Sowards
• Pursuing Personal Projects: An Interview with Noura Yehia

Icons:

Every web designer needs a set of all-purpose icons. The Freelance Starter Kit includes our Premier Icon Bundle, which has 278 icons, each available in 64 x 64 .png files with the source Illustrator files also included.

The Premier Icon Bundle

Our friends at W3 Markup have offered to provide free PSD to HTML credits for two lucky readers of the Vandelay Design blog! The first prize winner will get $400 in credits and the second prize winner will get $300 in credits.

PSD to HTML services are used by a lot of designers, so this should be a great giveaway for our readers. W3 Markup is one of the leading PSD to HTML providers and has been serving clients since 2007. Quick turnaround times, as little as one day, are available, and compatibility with all modern browsers is included with each order.

In addition to standard PSD to HTML services, they also offer implementation into themes for WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla!. They can also code HTML emails, and they can use HTML5 and CSS3 if you prefer. Check out their testimonials page to see an impressive client list that includes Smashing Magazine, Mashable, and some others that you may recognize.

We encourage you to visit W3 Markup to see what they have to offer.

Giveaway Details:

If you would like to enter the giveaway please leave a comment on this blog post. The two winners will be selected at random on Tuesday, March 20th. At that time this post will be updated to announce the winners and the winners will be contacted by email.

UPDATE: The giveaway has now ended. Thank you to everyone who participated. The first prize winner is Micha Kroes, and the second prize winner is Rob. If you are one of the winners you will be contacted by email shortly.

Our friends at MightyDeals have offered to give a free item to 5 lucky readers of the Vandelay Design blog!

MightyDeals is great resource for designers and developers who like to save money (and who doesn’t?). They offer amazing limited time discounts on a wide range of popular products, and they even give freebies from their site on occasion.

In addition to the several new deals that are released each week, MightyDeals also keeps some of the more popular deals on for a longer period of time. So at any point in time they probably have around 10 offers going on at once, most of which will have a savings from 25% – 80%.

Each time a new deal is released, which is almost every day, MightyDeals sends out a notification to their mailing list. So if you want to make sure you never miss a great deal, we recommend going to their site and subscribing.

Mighty Deals from Freestyle Networks Inc. on Vimeo.

The Giveaway Details:

Winners of this contest will get their choice of the items currently offered at MightyDeals at the time of this post. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post stating which item you would like if you were to win. On Tuesday, February 14th the winners will be selected at random. At that time this post will be updated to announce the winners, and the winners will be contacted by email.

UPDATE: The contest is now over. Thank you to everyone who participated. The winners are:

• Nick Shvelidze
• Anna
• Josh
• Mihaita
• Lawrence77

Today is the last day to save $30 on a one-year membership to Vandelay Premier. If you’d like to get unlimited access to all of our 7,000+ resources, as well as all of the resources that will be added throughout the next year, sign up for an annual plan with the coupon code “vandelay2012″ and get the first year for just $49 instead of the regular price of $79.

You can preview the resources that are available by browsing at Vandelay Premier. The resources include icons, Photoshop files, brushes, vectors, textures, career resources, and more.

Sign up here.

Download Elegantia (MB zip file)

If you’re reading this post in an RSS reader or in an email you will need to click through to the site to download the file due to WPLegion’s hotlinking protection.

Some of the features of Elegantia include:

• 7 color schemes
• Simple, clean, and stylish design
• Powerful theme options panel
• Widget ready
• 20+ font styles
• Shortcodes
• Portfolio custom post type
• Filterable portfolio
• Different page layouts
• Blog page included
• Custom widgets
• Clean HTML and CSS
• Nivo slider
• Documentation included in admin panel
• WordPress 3.0 ready (menus, featured images, nested comments)
• Email support from WPLegion

WPLegion will be releasing more themes in the future, so you may want to sign up for their newsletter (bottom right on their home page) to be notified when new themes are available.

At Vandelay Premier we offer our members a huge library of design resources like icons, PSD files, textures, brushes, vectors, and more. With access to thousands of resources our members are able to save time and produce great results that their clients will love.

From now until December 19, 2011 we are offering a full year of membership to Vandelay Premier for just the price of a six-month membership. Simply use the coupon code “vandelay2012” when signing up for an annual account and your first year will cost only $49 instead of the normal price of $79.

Vandelay Premier members currently have access to over 7,000 total resources, with new additions coming several times each week. After signing up you’ll have access to all of the resources already on the site, plus you’ll be able to download all new resources that are added during your membership, and we have a lot of great new resources already planned and in the works.

One of the primary benefits of being a Vandelay Premier member is that you can use our resources on an unlimited number of personal or commercial projects. The resources even come with an extended license that allows you to use them in items that will be redistributed, like website templates and WordPress themes.

In addition to the design resources, our members also have access to career resources like contract templates, invoice and proposal templates, business card designs, e-books, and interviews with successful designers.

Here is a look at just a few of the resources currently available at Vandelay Premier (to see more please browse the archives).

Icons:

E-Commerce Icons

Gadget Icons

Portfolio Icons

Photography Icons

PSD Files:

MacBook PSDs

Web Dividers PSD

Magazine Mockup PSD

Poster Mockup PSDs

Web Elements UI Set

CD Mockup PSD

Photoshop Brushes:

Brush Stroke Corners

Bokeh Brushes

Cracks Brushes

Watercolor Sponge Brushes

Soft Grunge Photoshop Brushes

Vectors:

Vector Grunge Corners

Hand-Drawn Design Elements

Hand-Drawn Arrows

Sunrays Vectors

Textures:

Scratches Textures

Subtle Grunge Textures

Rust Textures

Grunge Nature Textures

Faux Stone Textures

To take advantage of this limited time offer, sign up for an annual membership at Vandelay Premier with the coupon code “vandelay2012″.

Zyma.com has offered to give one year of free hosting to 50 readers of the Vandelay Design blog!

Zyma offers great value hosting from just £4.95 per year, with some optional upgrades like backups, SSL, and Whois Privacy.

Their multi award-winning hosting package includes unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited databases, unlimited email accounts, cPanel, and more. They also offer free migration assistance if you need help moving from another host.

Support is available to Zyma customers by chat, email, and phone, plus they have an online knowledgebase and video tutorials. You can get more details about Zyma at their website.

Giveaway Details

If you’d like to enter to win one of the 50 free hosting accounts please leave a comment on this post. The winners will be selected at random on Friday, December 2nd. At that time this post will be updated to announce the winners and the winners will be contacted by email.

UPDATE: The contest is now over. Thank you to everyone who participated. If you are one of the winners you will be contacted by someone from Zyma. Please give them a little time since there are so many winners to contact.

The winners are:

• Patrick
• Pablo Lara H
• Gaurav
• Nick Shvelidze
• Piotr Nalepa
• Marko Manojlović
• don myself
• Jeff Weales
• Brandon D
• mojho
• Danny Swan
• Cao
• Bryan Guffey
• Geek in Heels
• Aro
• Ruben B
• Bogdanel
• Edson Santoro
• Alexandre Soares
• henrymaxm
• Karen
• Jahangir
• AdyP
• David
• Kaiserlino
• Mandeep Sharma
• lazaac
• Zair
• Andy
• Sue
• Tsaos
• WorldjamBlog
• Ari Arsyadi
• Jessica Waters
• Sue H
• Leigh
• Dina
• Tony Little
• Peter
• Twana
• Avinash
• Jack
• Travis Hudson
• Cheryl
• amar
• Jess
• Stella
• Giannis
• Mert
• Nick Chamberlin

W3 Markup is one of the leading providers of PSD to HTML coding services, and they have offered to give away an awesome package to 2 readers of the Vandelay Design Blog! The first prize winner will receive $500 in credit for W3 Markup’s services and the second prize winner will receive $400 in credit.

W3-Markup offers PSD to HTML services, plus implementation with popular content management systems like WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla, as well as e-commerce platforms like Magento and Shopify. They have an impressive client list that includes Smashing Magazine and Mashable.

The pricing for W3-Markup’s services is determined by the number of pages to be coded, desired turnaround time, and CMS implementation. Services for coding HTML emails is also offered. They can complete orders as quickly as 1 business day if needed. Multi-page discounts are available if you need to have more than 1 page coded.

All projects coded by W3 Markup are tested to be compatible with all modern browsers. They also create SEO friendly, semantic code. Since they follow modern standards of web development, markup they provide is a state-of-the-art clean XHTML 1.0 Strict and HTML5 /CSS3 code.

Giveaway Rules:

If you would like to enter to win one of these two packages, please leave a comment on this post. One entry is allowed per person, and be sure to leave a valid email address so that we can contact you if you win. The two winners will be selected at random on Wednesday, November 23rd. At that time this post will be updated to announce the winners, and they will be contacted by email.

UPDATE: This contest has ended. Thank you to everyone who participated. The winners are:

1st prize – Monique

2nd prize – Chuck Lasker