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.

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.

The current deals are listed below.

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.

Our friends at WPLegion have created a free portfolio theme for WordPress with Vandelay Design readers in mind. Elegantia includes premium-quality features but can be downloaded and used at no cost. View a demo of Elegantia.

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″.

UPDATE: This contest has now ended. Winners are listed at the end of this post.

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

UPDATE: The contest has ended. The winners are announced at the bottom of this post.

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

UPDATE: The contest is now over. Winners are listed at the bottom of this post.

Online forms can be time consuming to code from scratch, but with 123ContactForm’s free form builder they can be easy to create and implement. Our friends at 123ContactForm have offered to give three lucky readers of the Vandelay Design Blog a yearly platinum package, worth $299.95 each.

The 123ContactForm form builder allows you to easily create contact forms, lead generation forms, and mailing list registration forms with no coding. You can also create surveys, polls, and questionnaires. You can even integrate forms with PayPal, Google Checkout, or Authorize.net, which is a great way to set up event registration forms that involve payment. You can integrate your forms with Facebook, WordPress, or Blogger. Third party integrations are possible with popular apps like MailChimp, SalesForce, Google Docs, and more.

There are tons of other great features like easy exporting to CSV and Excel files, custom thank you pages, customizable form themes, SSL encryption, and more. You can even allow your visitors to upload files via your web forms. See the full list of features at their site.

Anyone can set up a basic account with 123ContactForm for free. With the free account you can manage up to 5 forms, 10 fields per form, and 100 submissions per form. It’s a great way to try the service before deciding if you want to upgrade to get the additional features. Paid plans start at $14.95 per month (or $149.95 per year). That gold plan allows 20 forms, unlimited form fields, unlimited submissions, 500 MB of storage for uploads, no links to 123ContactForm, and 3rd party integration. The platinum account normally costs $29.95 per month (or $299.95 per year) and allows for unlimited forms, unlimited form fields, unlimited submissions, 2 GB storage for uploads, 3rd party apps, payment integration, and SSL integration.

Contest Details:

If you would like to enter the contest to win one of the three yearly platinum packages, all you need to do is leave a comment on this post. In order help 123ContactForm make their service even more useful they have requested that in your comment you mention something that you like or dislike about 123ContactForm. On Friday, November 4th we will select the winners at random, and this post will be updated at that time to announce the winners. Please be sure to leave a valid email address as we will also be emailing the winners.

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

• Katlyn Daniluk
• Hilary S.
• Joel Bolton

UPDATE: This promo has now ended. However, if you’d like to get unlimited access to all of these resources and more, please consider a Vandelay Premier membership.

For the next 10 days we’re running a promo on an exiting bundle of products from Vandelay Premier. The Web Designer’s Bundle is a collection of our premium resources that are extremely useful for your own web design work. The bundle includes 59 sets of resources like icons, vectors, Photoshop brushes, patterns, buttons, PSD files and other design elements.

The total cost of these resources if purchased individually would be $259, but for the next 10 days they can be purchased for just $29! The resources in the bundle come with our standard license, which allows for use on commercial projects and even in items like templates and themes that will be distributed.

Icons:

Symbols Icons

E-Commerce Icons

General Web Icons

General Web Icons – Volume II

Tools Icons

Weather Icons

Minimal Web Icons – Volume I

Minimal Web Icons – Volume II

Photoshop Patterns:

Paper Patterns

Stripes Patterns

Soft Grunge Patterns

Pixel Patterns

Pixel Patterns – Part II

Metal Mesh Patterns

Carbon Fiber Patterns

Subtle Grunge Grid Patterns

Plaid Patterns

Design Elements:

Web Shadows for Sliders

Web Elements UI Set

Web Dividers PSD

Pricing Table Template (PSD/HTML/CSS/jQuery)

Web Forms PSDs

Sale Stickers PSD

Abstract Backgrounds

Abstract Backgrounds – Part II

Classic Web Ribbons

Basic Arrows

Photo Display PSD

Login Boxes

Basic Pricing Tables

Soft Gradients

Notification PSDs

Simple Browser Frame PSD

Tabbed Navigation Menu with Subnav PSD

Tabbed Navigation Menu PSD

Modal Login PSD

Macbook PSDs

LCD Monitor PSD

Laptop PSD

Vectors:

Spray Paint Vectors

Floral Vectors

Vector Ratings Elements

Stickers Vectors – Part II

Paper and Pins Vectors

Vector Price Tag Icon Set 

Vector Ribbons

Satisfaction Guaranteed Vectors

Buttons:

Sign Up Button Sprites

Photoshop Layer Styles for Buttons

Photoshop Layer Styles for Buttons – Part II

E-Commerce Button and UI Set

Call to Action Buttons 

E-Commerce Button Set

See Pricing Buttons

Rounded Buttons

Photoshop Brushes:

Soft Grunge Photoshop Brushes

Soft Grunge Photoshop Brushes – Part II

Lines Brushes for Photoshop

Hand-Drawn Arrows

Promo Ends October 29th

UPDATE: The contest has ended. Winners are listed at the end of this post.

Next Day Flyers has offered to give 500 full-color business cards each to 3 lucky readers of the Vandelay Design Blog! If you’ve been wanting to get your own stylish business cards printed, this could be your opportunity.

Next Day Flyers offers a variety of printing services, including business cards, postcards, club flyers, and much more. They specialize in full-color printing of custom marketing materials, and their turnaround time is one of the best in the industry. Print-ready files that are approved by 6:00 PM PST are printed and ready to ship the following business day.

For printing your own business cards, Next Day Flyers has a number of pre-designed templates that you can choose from, or they have an online design center to help you design your own card. Of course, you can also upload your own file created in a program like Illustrator. In addition to standard cards, they also offer die cut/rounded cards and fold-over cards.

Giveaway Details

If you would like to enter this contest please leave a comment on this post. Three winners will be selected at random on Friday, October 21st. At that time this post will be updated to announce the winners and the winners will also be notified by email.

Next Day Flyers will provide each winner with:

• 500 full-color business cards printed on 14 pt card stock
• UV or matte coating
• free shipping anywhere in the continental United States (please note that shipping is not included outside of the continental United States).

Good luck!

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

• Josh Bartolomucci
• Jenn
• Amanda

ActiveCampaign email marketing has offered to give $75 of email credits to 3 lucky readers of the Vandelay Design Blog! Email marketing is an important and effective marketing tool for all kinds of businesses, and ActiveCampaign can provide you with the features and functionality that you need to take advantage of the opportunities available.

With ActiveCampaign you will be able to design attractive email campaigns, manage segmented lists of subscribers, view real-time reporting and analysis, integrate your email marketing with social media, set up auto responders, and more. Please see their site for a full list of features. The support section of their site includes video tutorials and articles to help get you up and running in no time.

ActiveCampaign offers competitive prices and several options from which to choose. Those who send frequent emails will probably be most interested in their monthly plans that are tiered according to the number of subscribers, starting at just $9 per month for lists up to 500 subscribers. For those who send infrequently, pay-as-you-go credits are also an option. For those who want to host the software on their own server, that is an option too. See the ActiveCampaign pricing page for more details about the various plans and options.

If you are interested in finding a solution for email marketing, this giveaway could be a great opportunity for you!

Giveaway Details:

ActiveCampaign will be giving 3 winners $75 each in email marketing credits, which can be used on any of their plans. Please note that ActiveCampaign’s normal policy and terms apply to use of credits from this giveaway.

To enter the contest all you need to do is leave a comment on this blog post. The 3 winners will be selected at random on Friday, October 7th. This post will be updated at that time to announce the winners, and the winners will be notified by email.

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

• Charles Ivy
• Rob Busby
• Colleen