Here is the second half of round one in the Blog Design Madness competition! If you haven’t been with us the past few days you can check out this post that introduces the competition and you can see the blogs that competed two days ago.
Today we have another 32 excellent designs to decide on. Below each pair you will see a poll. Please vote on the design that you like the best. You can see the results from the other day at the end of this post. Next week we’ll move on with round 2 and beyond.
Thanks for your participation! Voting will close Thursday at 9:00 PM (Eastern Time - US).
Note: This competition ended a while ago and the polls have been removed.
GROUP 3
Put Things Off
Woork
Carsonified
Monofactor
I Heart Luxe
Kineda
Vectips
GROUP 4
I Love Typography
Elliot Jay Stocks
31Three
North x East
Pearsonified
Squawk
Larissa Meek
The results from the 1st half of round one are as follows (see the original post for screenshots and links):
Freelance Switch vs. Mark’s Digital Farm
Winner is Freelance Switch
Vocino vs. Youth the Design
Winner is Vocino
Pro Blog Design vs. Tim Kadlec
Winner is Pro Blog Design
9513 vs. Webstock
Winner is 9513
Grand Sierra Magazine vs. Elitist Snob (this poll was tied, so I took am removing my vote for Grand Sierra Magazine and using the readers votes of 15 to 14 in favor of…)
Winner is Elitist Snob
The Big Noob vs. Blog Design Blog
Winner is Blog Design Blog
Reflections vs. TrailerFlick
Winner is Reflections
David Airey vs. Kollermedia
Winner is David Airey
ProBlogger vs. Sully’s Design Studio
Winner is Sully’s Design Studio
Artico vs. Young Go Getter
Winner is Young Go Getter
Cult Foo vs. N. Design Studio
Winner is N. Design Studio
Robert Beerworth vs. Noupe
Winner is Robert Beerworth
Laura Alter vs. Loon Design
Winner is Loon Design
Rob Goodlatte vs. A List Apart
Winner is A List Apart
Josh Spear vs. Mostly Lisa
Winner is Josh Spear
PSDTuts vs. Bart-Jan Verhoef
Winner is PSDTuts
March 26th, 2008
Just did my round of voting, going through the previous results, most of who I voted for, actually went on to win!
Can’t wait for the final result!
March 26th, 2008
Thanks for including I’m Blogging That in the competition. There’s some really awesome designs here. I’m looking forward to see how your visitors think I stack up against Elliot Jay Stocks.
March 27th, 2008
[...] this was supposed to be a post encouraging you to vote for my website in the Vandelay Design Blog Design Madness competition. This is a tournament-style competition where website get paired one against the other [...]
March 27th, 2008
Who’d have thought my little airey blog would win in the first round?!
Done my voting above, great competition, Steven!
March 27th, 2008
This is one of the most “fun” posts I’ve seen in ages. Enjoyed the first part and this one too. What makes it tough is that on a lot of them I love the color scheme of one but like the layout on the other one more. Then I find myself trying to decide which is more important for a blog–layout or color
Just one tip. When you announce the winners, you should make those links to the sites so I can remind myself who’s who.
Keep up the great work!
March 27th, 2008
Some of these are real tough to decide on.
I can’t think of a more fun way to practice my decisiveness.
March 27th, 2008
[...] I wanted to mention the competition to you. Do you like my design here? If you answered yes, please vote for me at Vandelay Web Design blog. It’d be much [...]
March 27th, 2008
These are such amazing looking designs but I can’t understand why there are people still creating themes with white text on a black background. I’ve only started doing this on some of my blogs to increase the CTR for adsense because people find it so difficult to read the text!
March 27th, 2008
Thanks everyone for your votes. You’re participation is greatly appreciated.
Katy,
You’re welcome and good luck!
David,
Your blog design is one of my favorites. I would have been very surprised if it didn’t make it past the 1st round.
April,
I’m not a fan of light on dark for blogs. I think the design looks nice, but readability suffers. Other types of sites are better suited for that style in my opinion. Still, I think they look great when judging on looks alone.
March 27th, 2008
wow cool!! Im voting…..
March 28th, 2008
I am always fond of free designs or design contest but i have heard about a new thing. That is free design and themes contain hidden keywords for search engine optimization. I am so much hurt of the news.
March 28th, 2008
Thanks for including pixelresort in this - it’s due for a complete redesign which will be launching in a few days, couldn’t think of a better way to retire it. And thanks to the voters
March 28th, 2008
Michael,
You’re welcome, and thanks for stopping by to comment.
March 29th, 2008
Many thanks for featuring me, and congratulations to sr28 for dipping faster at the finish line! I’d feel bad, but I was too busy laughing at the hilarious illustration of the chicken-headed superhero — great stuff!
April 21st, 2008
Me vs. ALA?! I guess I got a bad seed O_o