July/August Icon Contest

First of all, happy April to everyone! The bank balances have been updated, and the template is much more "springy." What are your Easter plans? Make sure people know!

Anyway, the winning icons for the May/June icon contest have been selected, and they are shown to the left and right of this message. Thanks to everyone who submitted icons!

And now it's time to announce the July/August icon contest: The deadline will be 11:59pm ET on Friday, April 27, 2007. If we don't receive enough entries by then to make the contest worthwhile, we'll simply choose our own icons for July and August.

Here is a taste of what the templates will (roughly) look like:

Enter your icon for July Your icon can go with this color scheme in July! Just submit it by 4/27/07 for a chance to win. For the latest news on the template schemes, click here. Or, learn about other contests.

Enter your icon for August Your icon can go with this color scheme in August! Just submit it by 4/27/07 for a chance to win. For the latest news on the template schemes, click here. Or, learn about other contests.

Please note that the images will also be placed on the respective backgrounds for each month, so your icon will partially be judged on how well it fits the existing color schemes selected for each month (i.e., orange with purple is typically not a good idea). Submissions must be greater in size than 150 by 150 pixels, and will be scaled down to be no greater than 150 pixels wide. So simple images are just as good, if not better, than intricate ones, but they need to be big enough to be scaled down properly.

Again, the deadline for July and August submissions is 11:59pm ET on Friday, April 27, 2007. Email all submissions to:


Note: The script will be programmed once all the contests are done (hopefully in early June). In the meantime, I can't promise that the winning entries will go up exactly on July 1 and August 1, respectively. Sorry.

The September/October/November contest will be announced shortly after the conclusion of the July/August contest.