Well its been a good 2 and a half months that this site has been up now and it’s growing like a wild flame! We’ve had 25 or so quality articles / tutorials and about 7 miscalaneous posts. The site has been maintaining 1k uniques a day and we’ve sold our first ad this week.

We just hit the 200 mark on the RSS count, and well, went a bit above. The count rests at 214 now, an accomplishment I think I can be proud of.

The contest. The contest isn’t really going as well as I thought it would of. With only 2 entries, I thought I’d be upto around 15 now. I’m expecting a few more entries within the week but I’d love if you could all submit an article, or at the least subscribe to RSS by email, you can win some pretty awesome prizes. Things are doing a bit better with the RSS by Email, with 18 entries, but still, it could be a couple of hundred seeing how easy it is. Please check out the contest!

So we’ve got a new theme for the site, it’s alot easier to read off I think. The styles are better, and we’ve now got a user link feed! Try it out Some free promotion for your site. I’ve got 3 more ad banners to fill, I’d prefer some of yours than the ugly default ad by PerformancingAds.

Whats to come?

• More list articles
• A few more dedicated writers
• Free wordpress themes
• Maybe, just maybe a Jobs, Marketplace and forum section.

Some final questions to you readers:

• What types of articles would you like more of?
• Like the theme or hate it?
• Any feature suggestions you have?

• Posts must be more than 250 words
• Posts must be unique and written by you
• Posts must be friendly to all audiences – please no swearing
• There is no limit to how many articles you submit

There are two ways of entering, and two different prize pools. The first method is by signing up here and then I will make you a contributor. Then you can submit your posts and once approved they will go live on the site. The other method is by signing upto RSS by email by clicking here. Obviously the prizes for writing an article are much greater than the ones for subscribing to email. You are aloud to enter both to increase your chances. If you are already a feed subscriber you are alloud to subscribe to email aswell.

We will judge on the best article’s by checking to see if they are popular. By doing that we will check to see there hit count, if they brought in alot of links, if they were commented on alot (no spam), if it was a big hit on the site. Ultimately the decision will come down to which article me and a great friend/mentor Jamie Silvester think.

Now I know you all want to know what the prizes are so without further adue!

Writers #1:

Crazy Egg:
1 Plus Crazy Egg Membership

Ray – Blog Perfume:
1 Blub Developer License

Stefan – Sentences.org
1 Advertising spot

PSD2HTML:
1 xHTML/CSS Highend Package

This*:
Standard Package

HTML or CSS Mastery or The Art & Science of Javascript:
You will get first pick of this and the other one will go to the second writer!

XestStudios:
1 Custom design

Writers #2:

QualityXHTML:
1 Page xHTML/CSS – 3 Days

Crazy Egg:
1 Standard Crazy Egg Membership

Ray – Blog Perfume:
1 Blub Single License

Stefan – Sentences.org
1 Advertising spot

This*:
Starter Package

HTML or CSS Mastery or The Art & Science of Javascript:
You will get second pick of this and the other one will go to the second writer!

Kayceen Web Development:
1 Page design

RSS Subscriber:

Crazy Egg:
1 Standard Crazy Egg Membership

Web Dev Lounge:
1 Ad spot

QualityXHTML:
1 Page xHTML/CSS – 7 Days

eXtra For Every Publisher:
125×125 Advertising – 3 Months!

HTML or CSS Mastery or The Art & Science of Javascript:
You will get Third pick of this and the other one will go to the second writer!

Remember the easiest way to win this is by signing up to the RSS by email. There is a form below and a link above

We’d like to give a big thanks to all our sponsers!

Along with Sentences and xFep.

The contest goes for 30 days and hopefully over that period of time we should be able to add alot more prizes to the mix. If you are interested in sponsoring the competition please send an email to WebDevLounge.

Enjoy!!!

Hello and a warm welcome to webdevlounge.com – here is the first news item/article of many to come!

Please take a few minutes to look around the site, its a bit weak content wise but hey we’ve just launched! Subscribe to the RSS feed and you’ll see how fast we grow.

Instead of repeating ourselves, if you wish to find out a little bit more about webdevlounge, pop over to the about wdl section.