Well, now back to the shortlisted nominations. There are around 15 logo design ideas that can be considered on different priorities but few of these are rocking and really gave us hard time to calculate multiple factors to pick out the one as the winner and no luck for others.  This doesn’t mean that those who could not win the contest didn’t design a professional logo but unfortunately we have to choose one as the winner otherwise we could have 5 or more winners who designed fine logo concepts for Smashing Apps. As our commitment, we are listing below the personal information of those designers as well who were shortlisted best nominations. You can find their name, country, twitter/facebook profile and website address where available. This is the best what we can give them in return to these guys who worked specially for us and anyone from our readers may want to get in touch with them to offer them any project. Yes, we hope it will work.

Many thanks to all the participants who submitted their concepts and congratulations to those who are  featured here as shortlisted nominations.

Ok, so who is the winner?  Hakan Balkan

Yes! we really like his concept showing below as our upcoming logo. Our selection may not satisfy all our readers but believe us we put our thoughts in multiple directions and considered color schemes, simplicity, uniqueness, and experimented with our new design that is under development to empower our brand identity.  We tried our best and we hope we are successful to satisfy our valued readers.

Hakan Balkan

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=326

Country: Turkey

Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=697347727

Personal website/blog (if any): Not ready yet… I don’t have time for finishing…

Other Shortlisted Ideas

Rana Majumder

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=288

Country: India

Twitter profile: http://twitter.com/ranamajumder

Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/ranamajumder

Personal website: http://eyedealab.com/

Bram Slootmans

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=284

Country: Belgium

Twitter profile: http://www.twitter.com/bramdesign

Facebook profile: N/A

Personal website: Currently working for nascom (www.nascom.be)

Andrej Skokan

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=135

Country: Slovakia ,Bratislava

Twitter profile: N/A

Personal website: http://www.andrejskokan.com

Simon Baskar Rao

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=276

Country: India

Twitter profile: http://twitter.com/Simbarau

Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=574456072

Personal website: N/A

Santy

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=259

Country: France

Twitter profile: N/A

Personal website: working on new release

Maria Cristina Berrio

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=320

Country: Colombia

Twitter profile: http://twitter.com/SoMAGICweb

Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bogota-Colombia/SoMAGIC-Corporate-E-Marketing- Web-Technology/57758667489

Personal website: http://www.somagiweb.com

Jakub Walczyk

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=307

Country: Poland

Twitter profile: N/A

Personal website: N/A

Oto Rudovics

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=248

Country: Latvia

Twitter profile: http://twitter.com/Dendrobats

Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000003462264

Personal website: N/A

Jonathan

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=302

Country: N/A

Twitter profile: N/A

Personal website: http://www.vividbase.com

Jilan Samiuddin

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=70

Country: N/A

Facebook profile:  http://www.facebook.com/people/Jilan-Sami-Uddin/100000221618755

Personal website: None yet

iamumar

Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/people/Ilham-Oemar/1847373375?ref=search

Miguel Puig

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=263

Country: Spain

Twitter profile: N/A

Facebook profile: N/A

Personal website: http://miguelpuig.com

Joaquim Adráz

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=252

Country: Portugal

Twitter profile: http://twitter.com/mrbessa

Personal website: http://joaquimadraz.com/

Oliver D. Santos

Profile URL at Cullogo: http://www.cullogo.com/profile.php?pid=245

Country: Philippines

Twitter profile: http://www.twitter.com/madshock

Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/madshock

Personal website: http://www.madshock.com

After this logo redesign contest, we are going to redesign Smashing Apps and will use the new logo with our new design.  So, stay tune with us! we are coming with more great content and new stunning features.

Once again thanks to everyone to make this contest successful.

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You see photo galleries all over the web: The top 10 such-and-such photos, or 25 amazing this-or-that pictures. If you’re like us, you click on almost every one of them. Themed photo galleries on blogs work for a simple reason: Almost everyone appreciates great pictures and enjoys sharing them with friends. If you can dream up a good theme, write a good headline, and deliver a payoff of stunning visuals, you’ve got a viral hit on your hands.

The difficulty is getting the pictures legally and fairly. You could look for photos on Flickr or Google Images, but you face some time-consuming work: making sure you have permission to republish the pictures. Usually this means contacting every photographer or their agents individually. Some photographers will be delighted that you’re sharing their work, but others will be offended if you fail to give them a say in how the work is presented (or, of course, pay them for it). With rare exceptions (such as NASA images and very old photos), every photograph is copyrighted unless the rights holder says otherwise. You’ve probably read stories about web sites that have had to pull content offline after complaints or legal action from photographers. You don’t want to be in that position.

This tutorial will teach you how to use a stock image library to find images you can legally and safely use on a blog. Obviously, we’d love it if you get your images from Shutterstock (Spoiler alert: There’s a coupon at the end of the article) but we hope you find this information useful even if you don’t. This tutorial offers some basic guidelines for image searching and selection, and assumes you’re already familiar with the fundamentals of blogging and have access to Adobe Photoshop. Let’s get started on building a viral photo gallery for your blog.

1. Come up with an idea and a title.

Pictures of lightning? Underwater scenes? Ugly pets? Things with spots? Get creative, but keep in mind some ideas naturally lend themselves to great photographs. For this tutorial, we’re going to put together a gallery of pictures of impressive bridges. Your title should be short, catchy and as bold as possible without overpromising. Remember, this will be what people see in RSS feeds and social networking sites, so it should make it obvious that it’s a photo gallery. Audiences also respond well to titles that specify a number of images, so they know they’re not about to be overwhelmed with somebody’s collection of 1,000 vacation snapshots. For this exercise, let’s go with the title “Photo Gallery: The World’s 5 Most Beautiful Bridges.” (We might go with 10 or 20 pictures on a blog, but here we want to keep it short.)

2. Visit a stock library and start searching.

When you first start to search, you might be overwhelmed with your choices. If you type “bridge” into Shutterstock, you’ll get more than 65,000 results, including both illustrations and images. You can refine your search by limiting it to just photos and sorting the results by the most popular images. As you get a feel for what kinds of images are in the library, you might want to add more keywords, like “river” or “night” or “suspension.” If you see a picture you really like, you can display images similar to it by clicking on the similar images icon that appears below each thumbnail (on Shutterstock, it looks like two overlapping squares). You can also click on a photographer’s name to display more images by the same photographer, since there’s a chance they might have other images that fit your theme.

3. Build a lightbox and choose your favorite photos.

A lightbox is a folder you create on a stock site to keep track of images you might want to download. On Shutterstock, when you see an image you like, click on the icon that looks like a light bulb. Select “new lightbox” from the menu, give it a name, and start adding pictures to it. Go crazy – add everything you like.

Now, the editing process begins. Photo editing is a skill that improves with practice and some sort of an art background, but even if you’re new to it, you probably know more than you think. Do you see an image that makes you laugh, that reminds you of something you like, or that you would want to immediately share with a friend? Keep that one. Are there a couple of images that look really similar? Pick one and forget the rest. Edit tight. Don’t be afraid of passing up the wrong image, and go with your instincts. Remember, you want to give your visitors a surprise-and-delight moment, not bore them.

4. Download and resize your images.

OK, we’ve settled on the images we want. Now we visit each image page and download the size we need. This is a good time to check the usage terms for the site to make sure the usage we want is allowed. Shutterstock limits online usage to a maximum of 800 x 600 pixels. That restriction is in place to keep people from distributing print-quality images online, and it’s plenty big enough for most blogs. (This particular blog has a width of 540 pixels, so we’re in good shape.) For most of the images we’re about to download, the medium-size images will be the proper size, so we’ll download that size. (When in doubt, download a larger size than you need.)

Next, use Photoshop or another image editing program to make sure all your images are resized to the pixel width of your blog and saved as JPEG format.

5. Order your photos, write captions, and place them in your blog.

Like editing, sequencing is a skill that gets easier with practice. To start, you can’t go wrong if you arrange your photos in a way that tells a story, and write captions to match. Alternately, you can lead with your best photo, then alternate between traditional, conservative shots and unexpected, creative ones. Your captions should be short but contain enough information to answer any obvious questions a visitor will have when looking at the photo. (Such as: What is this, and why is it so great?) You should also credit the photographer and the source of the image. It’s useful to include a link to the source of the image as well.

When you’re happy with your images and captions, enter them into your blogging program, publish, and start spreading the word.

To show you what we came up with following these steps, here’s our mini list of bridges.

Photo Gallery: The World’s 5 Most Beautiful Bridges

© Ilja Mašík / Shutterstock

The Brooklyn Bridge, New York, completed 1883.

© Richard Semik / Shutterstock

Millau Viaduct, France, the tallest vehicular bridge in the world, completed 2004.

© David Peta/ Shutterstock

Tower Bridge, London, completed 1894.

© Filip Fuxa / Shutterstock

Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy, completed 1354.

© elwynn / Shutterstock

Tsing Ma Bridge, Hong Kong, completed 1997.

There are plenty of other beautiful bridges out there, but you get the idea.

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What is MyTemplateBox?

First of all, what exactly is MyTemplateBox? MyTemplateBox is a website holding thousands of free templates for anyone to use, free of charge, and mostly free of licensing restrictions. They carry everything from basic CSS templates, to Blogger and Wordpress themes. Furthermore, the templates cover a variety of categories: Art & Photography, Beauty & Fashion, Business, Cafe/Restaurant, Cars, Celebrity, Charity, Family, Wedding, etc.

Premium Resources

In MyTemplateBox’s premium section, they also carry templates for other popular platforms such as Drupal, OS Commerce, Mambo, and more. Logo templates and icon sets are among the view other categories as well. What’s great about the premium section of MyTemplateBox is that all of these designs are made of exceptional quality, and reviewed for premium use. They come with two types of licenses: basic and unique. The basic price is an incredibly reasonable price for the quality of stock being bought, and the unique price, while more costly, gives one unique licensing to restrict others from using it throughout the web.

Web Design Books

The books section of MyTemplateBox features many of the top web design and development books in the industry today. Handpicked by the owner of MyTemplateBox herself, the books featured are of the best rated and most useful for those within the web design niche. The books topics cover web design, website development, logo and branding design, graphic design, usability issues, and more.

The Forum

Besides just giving out free resources for all of MyTemplateBox’s visitors, they also feature a forum section covering the subjects web design and development, SEO, marketing, business, articles, tutorials, design reviews, and showcases. This is a great area to collaborate with other designers and developers, and to grow as an individual within the field. There is also a lot of practical advice concerning the business side of design and development, whether it is working as a freelancer or for a firm.

The Blog

The MyTemplateBox blog may be just another web design blog out there, but it is synced with the rest of the features on MyTemplateBox, and is a portal of useful articles and inspiration
for any web designer. Updated multiple times a week, the blog is a great place to learn something new and give your own feedback on the day’s post topic. The topics include anything and everything design and development related, and includes a few topics on freelance and business-related matters.

The writers of the blog are designers and developers themselves, just anxious to share their own thoughts and experiences within the niche. Always feel free to chime in with a comment or two, as we love to hear back from the community.

What’s in it for Web Designers?

Now that we’ve gone over what MyTemplateBox is all about, let’s get into how it can actually help a web designer grow. What’s in it for the average web designer? Among many things, websites like MyTemplateBox can help a web designer get noticed within the community, grow their skills set, and share what they already know to other developing designers. Let’s look a bit closer in each area below:

Learn, Expand, and Grow Your Skill Set

Websites like this are not only here to give out freebies and speed up your production time. Through the forum, the blog, the books, and even through the free templates, any web designer can learn more to develop themselves professionally. Because many of the templates are free with an available commercial license, downloading templates from other designers is an effective way to study new methods and possibilities in web design. After all, each web designer knows what they know best by building upon the support and teachings of other designers. By reviewing templates from other designers, one can develop their own skills more efficiently.

Speed Up Your Work

With a heavy load of clients under my belt, it can be comforting to know that there are many resources out there to speed up my productivity. Free themes, templates, and other resources can do this. Instead of building an icon set from scratch, many web designers are finding that using either free or premium icons found on MyTemplateBox is just as good of a choice. As another example, instead of coding a new design from scratch, many of the free or premium templates found on MyTemplateBox can be used as a basis for customizing your own web design for a client.

The fact of the matter is, MyTemplateBox is a resource site first and foremost, and we love when we can help other designers out by speeding up their workflow and doing half of the job for them!

Get Into the Community

Any experienced web designer knows that getting involved with the design community is essential for success. Through others we can learn, find work, and get noticed within our niche. MyTemplateBox is just one more place to do that. The active forum may be enough for some to get feedback on their work, find work from clients, or just get to know others doing the same thing. However, discussions in the blog and throughout the rest of the site are going on as well for anyone to share their own knowledge, or to meet others in the field.

What’s in it for Business Owners?

If you are not a web designer, but in fact a business owner looking to build
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budget. MyTemplateBox’s free templates are perfect for these types of startups, and even the premium sections can give a new website a more polished look for a budget-friendly price.

The Wordpress or Bloggers themes provide great templates to use for any websites that need a more dynamic approach to content management, and the free icons and other useful resources can be used to spice up the content of any website for better conversions. Even when a small business needs a more custom approach though, when hiring a web designer, MyTemplateBox can be a wonderful source of inspiration.

Wrapping Up

To get a live experience of what all the hype is about, and to see what it can do for you, head on over to MyTemplateBox. Signing up is free, getting involved in the community is free, and taking advantage of all the benefits are free. We hope to be seeing you soon within the MyTemplateBox community!

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Make a Freezing Cold Snow-themed Abstract Piece

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How To Design a 3D Glass Icon in Photoshop

Create a Realistic Space Landscape Photo Manipulation

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

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50 Breathtakingly Beautiful CG Landscapes

The Creative Examples Of Colorful Splash Pages

25 Examples of Incredible Ideas and Designs

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40 Trendy and Extremely Colorful Websites

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40 Epic Digital Paintings

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70+ Business Card Designs

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60+ Amazing Digital Photo Manipulation Art

55 Examples of Huge Typography in Web Design

30 Free and Fresh iPad Wallpapers

Design Trend Showcase: 30 Horizontal Websites

25+ Breathtaking examples of Natural sky Photography

60 Creative Flash Websites You Should Not Miss

82 CG Superheros, Villains, and Iconic Movie and Video Game Characters

25 Beautiful Website Layouts

Javascript and Ajax

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13 Useful JavaScript Solutions for Charts and Graphs

15 jQuery Plugins for Better Web Page Element Layouts

35 Useful jQuery Plugins for Slideshows, Graphs and Text Effects

24 Best Practices for AJAX Implementations

Animate Panning Slideshow with jQuery

You Can Use CSS3 Right Now

Creative Button Animations with Sprites and JQuery

How to Use jQuery to Make Slick Page Transitions

10 Best jQuery Gallery(Slideshow) Techniques

xHTML and CSS

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20 CSS3 Tutorials and Techiques for Creating Buttons

The Most Common HTML and CSS Mistakes to Avoid

The Future Of CSS Typography

Design a Prettier Web Form with CSS 3

54 Awesome Tutorials To Satisfy The Appetite Of Any Web Developer

50 Awesome Animations made with CSS3

CSS Graphs And Charts: 11 Hand-picked Tutorials And Solutions

Resources

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NEW Sets of Free High Quality Icons for Bloggers and Designers

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100+ Vintage Textures and Photoshop Brushes to Decorate Your Design

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20 Must-Have Image Optimization Tools for Designers

40 Detailed and High Quality Mobile Phone .psd Source Files

30 Websites To Download Free Stock Photos

50 Free High Quality Professional Fonts for your new Web Design and Project

33 Free Blue Patterns to Download

60 Beautiful Premium Icons (Free)

35 Latest High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designers

158 Paper Textures For Kickstarting Your Backgrounds & Designs

Top 20 Free Fonts for Distinctive Headlines and Titles

20 Fresh Sets of Free Icons for Web Designers

Miscellaneous Articles

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Ways to Make your Banners More Click-able

The AIDA Marketing Model in Web Design

The Classic Look VS The Wow Effect

Finding Inspiration in Uncommon Sources: 12 Places to Look

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