Just a little reminder of the Marcofolio.net Summer 2008 Guest authors contest. A while ago I told you about this contest with great prizes and the deadline will be this Sunday (30th of June).

So if you still want to participate, please react fast. Good luck everyone! You would help me out big time too.

DesignBump, a new community website especially for design, has just opened it's doors. I mentioned it before in the sideblog because I think this website has a lot of potential.

Today I had the chance to get an interview of the man behind DesignBump: John Campbell. He'll tell us some background information about this upcoming and growing website.

As you could have expected, I'm a registered member too. If you're really in to design, you should really take a look at DesignBump.

The summer vacation break is coming up soon over here and I'll be gone for almost one whole month (sorry folks!). Right now, I'm holding a contest, searching for all (potential) guest authors out there that want to share one (or more) articles with the world by placing them on Marcofolio.net.

I'll personally review all submitted articles myself and will send a notification when the article is approved. Your article is placed on the front page of Marcofolio.net in this summer (July or August).

Prizes

What would a contest be without any prizes to win?

1. 1st place: A 125x125 px banner in the "Sponsors" section, advertising your website for 2 months
2. 2nd place: $30.00 USD in cash on your PayPal account
3. 3rd place: One of your own chosen articles on your blog will get featured on the sideblog

Of source, all articles will have a link to your own website, together with a short biography of yourself. You'd be promoting your own website too!

So what are you waiting for? Start writing an unique article for Marcofolio.net that'll maybe get placed this summer. Be fast, submitting articles ends at 30th of June.

Whoohoo! Party time! Today (9th of May, 2008) is exactly one year after I bought the Marcofolio.net domain. Meaning, today is the first birthday of this website.

I'm pretty satisfied with what happened the past year. The first couple of months, this website was nothing more than my personal portfolio. After a while I started blogging and even made a pretty nice list with my favorite articles from 2007 and even made an april fools prank.

Because of the increasing number of readers, I updated my layout for the website to version 1.5. Recently, I became #2 top blogger under 21. For all my articles, you can go to the sitemap.

As a little present for you, I added Gravatar support in the commenting system. This way, your comment will be more personal with your own avatar.

Also, for the RSS Feed Readers among you, using a RSS Reader like Feedreader: The feed will now display formatted HTML. This way, you'll get a faster intension of the article (image & links) and it looks a lot nicer. I apologize to those people who got "double messages" in their feed reader: It happens when you change the Feedburner Feed.

Michael from RetireAt21 released a list of top young bloggers under 21. I was pretty happy to hear that I made it to his list, but did't expect to get listed that high: I'm listed as number 2 top blogger under 21.

The full list contains 30 of the most top-ranked blogs by authors under the age of 21. Some of them are really great!

I would like to grab this chance to thank all you readers / visitors out there. Many comments and seeing the subscriber count rise every day keeps me motivated to keep this blog up and running. It's really cool, especially when you know that Marcofolio.net got off the ground less than a year ago.

Anyway, for the Photoshop-users out there: Get ready for another awesome Photoshop tutorial that I'll be releasing in a couple of days. And for those readers that like my monthly Imagedumps; I'm sure you're aware that it's already a new month, so stay tuned!