So, DATE, and we are proud to announce the end of the contest and very pleased to have received so much attention to our event. Of course, everyone is interested in who is the winner. Here it is, the wordpress theme designed by Robert Schultheiss:

Except for it, we have received FIVE designs more. Though they are not winning, but nevertheless, we found them really appealing. Designed by Harmen Stoppels, it was the first theme which we received: Connor Leigh-Smith from Sharkofmirkwood Narendra S.V. from TechTreak GoBlogging.net Fikri Wirawan

As the received themes are not our property, these authors can use them for any puproses they want, but without any graphics associated with Flashmint. And if you want And now, let me come up to the part which is not less interesting - the contest for bloggers.

According to our statistics, the first largest number of visitors to us was brought by http://work-at-home-wealth.com/, the second largest number - by http://www.dulcenegosyante.com/ and the third - by http://www.contestwinner.blogspot.com/. All the winners, please send your PayPal details to flashmint.contest-at-gmail dot com. The payment will be issued within 24 hours.

Others who took part in the contest, don’t worry as we keep our words. Please, find a backlink to your websites HERE. If we have forgotten to mention you, please, don’t be angry with us. A lot of bloggers have taken part in the contest and we did our best to reward all of them. Just write to the following address - flashmint.contest-at-gmail dot com and we’ll add you to the list. Please note that we offered PR4 link back but in result you will get PR5 backlink

Thanks all. Waiting for the new contest

Flashmint.com are proud to present the new product – Business Flash CMS templates. They are exceptional among what is offered to small and medium size companies in terms of their usability and pricing. This combination of features makes them a perfect tool for creating a business website.

The key feature of Business CMS templates is their User Control Panel. Due to it you do need no additional software to modify a flash template. Within one hour a user without programming background can do the following:

• change the company name, slogan, logo, background, texts, copyright;
• change the colors of the menu, copyright, company name and slogan;
• upload the sound track in MP3 format.

This is how the user control panel looks:

You can add, delete and edit web pages by means of the page wizard. View the screenshots of steps 1-3:

The interface for editing pages looks like this:

Here is what a user can easily do with the created pages:

• edit a menu title;
• edit all the texts due to the built-in text editor;
• add, edit, delete blocks and change their order;
• edit contact form fields;
• update the news feed

And the last, but not the least, feature of Business CMS templates is their competitive prices. The highest price is currently only $80. So, all this makes Business CMS templates the most cost-saving and the quickest tool for creating a small or a medium-sized business website.

More information on Business CMS templates is available here

And here is how the newly launched Business CMS templates look like:

Consulting Flash CMS Template 2220

View live demo here

Business Group Flash CMS Template 2219

View live demo here

Insurance Business Flash CMS Template 2218

View live demo here

Trade Company CMS Flash Template 2217

View live demo here

Here we are! Although not much time has passed since we announced our competition we have already received the first contestant design for our blog. We are very much proud that the contest got such a great amount of attention among bloggers and web designers. The first web developer to submit his work has been Harmen, and we expect more participants to be involved in our event. Remember that at the end of the competition all the received worthy designs will be showcased at our blog with links to authors’ web sites.

Good luck!

1. Could you explain to people who don’t know, what Xpellshop is?

At first there only was Xpell.com, a very nice website, coded in Swish with 3D animations. It caused a sensation and we got many awards for our website. After that we started creating further websites and then we decided to sell them as templates. In such a way Xpellshop.com was born in 2003.

Xpellshop offers Swish and Flash templates maintaining the highest standards of quality. We specialize in code and design of Swish templates because Swish is much cheaper than Flash and offers the same opportunities to create multimedia websites with nice effects. Our customers are mostly web designers who order our Swish templates, modify and sell them to their customers. It is really fast to buy a professional design and only make some changes in the content.

2. What was your motivation for starting Xpellshop? What was it like in the beginning?

Customers, who want to have very nice individual Flash websites, have to pay really much money. Our idea was to offer them much cheaper. To sell one design for $3500 is not so easy. But to sell a very nice design 10 - 50 times is more likely.

3. What are the core principles you use in your daily work?

It is important to work reliably and create a design that identifies the topic of the template. I also try to code the templates simply, so that customers can modify them very fast. And I make video tutorials to show them how to customize them.

When I create a Swish template, the most of work takes up the design. I try many different colors and positions and only when I see “that’s the perfect design for this topic” I start working and code the template. While coding, I start realizing how to animate it. That’s a growing process and at the end there is a (hopefully) nice template.

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Maintaining a position in front of the competitors requires constant product innovation. That is why Flashmint’s team of web masters keeps improving its website templates usability. After a successful release of Flex CMS Flash Templates we would like to introduce to you Flash CMS v2.0 templates with advanced control panel. Here is how it looks now:

So, what is special about this update? All the revolutionary traits of previous Flash CMS v2.0 templates have been supplemented with more useful features. The new ones are meant to make the interface of control panel even more structured and hence more usable. They are:
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