# Radiant Template Contest Extended **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [November 13, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-template-contest-extended/153223 "2008-11-13T17:06:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-template-contest-extended/153223/1 "2008-11-13T17:06:58Z")
I have decided to extend the Template Contest deadline to January 1, 2009. Sadly, we received no entries by the October 31 deadline. In order to spark your imagination, here are some suggestions for templates you might make: - Corporate brochure-ware - Artist portfolio - Blog or 'zine - Podcast (with in-page media player?) - Tutorials or documentation If you have started working on one, please finish and submit it. If you haven’t started, here’s your chance! Cheers, Sean ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-template-contest-extended/153223/2 "2008-11-13T17:18:09Z")
Hi Sean Sean C. wrote: > If you have started working on one, please finish and submit it. If > you haven’t started, here’s your chance! That is a great idea. I’ve been inching along on a small simple corporate (SME) website kind of thing (in fact, to be honest, I was working on it when your mail came in) and have been hoping to send it in to you. It won’t be flashy, but it will work. Cheers, Mohit. 11/14/2008 | 12:16 AM. ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-template-contest-extended/153223/3 "2008-11-15T00:20:02Z")
Sean C. wrote: > I have decided to extend the Template Contest deadline to January 1, > 2009. Sadly, we received no entries by the October 31 deadline. I’ve been thinking that as I finish up^h^h^h^hstart my blog, it would be nice to have a DRY blogging template for Radiant. I started with Sean’s, which he so nicely pastied for us, but I keep getting confused; the layouts render the pages which render their children which inherit the thing which has its own layout which… at the moment, I’ve got all the templates printed out and sitting on my kitchen table. So I could contribute that. BUT: It won’t be a full “template”, in the sense that there’s no art, and not much graphic design; it’s really an infrastructure thing, not a ready-to-use template. It should make it easier for someone to create a nicely-done theme, though. (In fact, I was thinking that if I released it, it should have some godawful hideous colors to force users to change them…) Any interest? Jay L. ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-template-contest-extended/153223/4 "2008-11-15T03:28:53Z")
Jay L. said the following on 11/14/2008 06:19 PM: > that if I released it, it should have some godawful hideous colors to force > users to change them…) Are we actually artists? I’m not. I’ve taken one of Andreas Viklund’s ‘free’ designs, isolated areas, factored out snippets, dug out a logo from years ago, stuff and stuff an stuff… The trouble is that a lot of the snippets are being made obsolete as new stuff gets written (like ‘siblings’ and other ways of doing navigation). Assets or paperclips? But the result isn’t something I think could be submitted as its too geared towards the one site, too may things like the logo and navigation not ‘generalized’. But it does raise another question. There are some good basic templates out there. Andreas Viklund also has some excellent models of two and three panel layouts with various arrangements. Perhaps we should look to packaging those - with permission and acknowledgement of course. – My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952 ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-template-contest-extended/153223/5 "2008-11-15T18:35:05Z")
Anton J Aylward wrote: > Jay L. said the following on 11/14/2008 06:19 PM: > > > Sean C. wrote: > > > > > I have decided to extend the Template Contest deadline to January 1, > > > 2009. Sadly, we received no entries by the October 31 deadline. > > > […] > > > > So I could contribute that. BUT: It won’t be a full “template” > > Are we actually artists? I’m not. Same here. To steal shamelessly from AdCritic: “Sometimes I wonder if I could be doing more with my life professionally. All my performance reviews say no, as have numerous recruiters.” > The trouble is that a lot of the snippets are being made obsolete as new > stuff gets written (like ‘siblings’ and other ways of doing navigation). > Assets or paperclips? That’s a good point; in fact, my templates are going to use several extensions, which I think makes them ineligible anyway. Jay