MiniSite Wars is an annual competition first held in 2007. It is primarily run through the Warrior Forum the basic concept is 32 designers battle it out designing specs paid for by people requiring graphics work. 2 designers are drawn to compete against each other. They have 7 days to design the site for the client. Both designs become property of the client and they are judged to select a winner. The victor then progresses to the next round.

There are some very talented minisite designers that are members at the Warrior Forum. Some of last years entrants were well known designers such as Design Guru Ryan, eCover Frog, eCoverNinja, GraphicsGenie, MiniSite Studio, eCoversLab and many more talented designers. The links below show a small sample of designs that were created in the 2007 event. Don't forget that if you purchase a design spot you will get 2 designs for the specs.

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The prices of the design spots vary as to which round you purchase your spot, the thinking behind this is due to the better designers progressing to the later rounds, therefore the chances of getting 2 great designs increase. Oh, and the exposure doesn't harm either.

Our 1st round spots, currently available (16 spots) you can purchase by clicking here

Here is the breakdown of the round prices, currently only 1st round spots are open, if you would like a spot in a later round please contact me

Round 1 - $97

Round 2 - $147

Quarter Finals - $297

Semi Finals - $397

Final Battle - $497

Once you purchase your battle spot, I (Darren from Graphics Genie) will contact you to discuss your graphics specifications, the elements you will get in your design are as follows:

 

Header

Footer

eCover (4 sizes)

Order Button

Graphical dotpoint... typically a 'tick'

Background

All the above on an HTML template ready for you to enter your sales copy

 

If you would like to have a heads up on the questions you will have to answer after your purchase please download the spec sheet by clicking here

During MiniSite Wars 2007 we did have some downtime due to some spots been unsold. I will do my utmost to stop this happening so that we can keep the timeline and competition momentum. Also I am aware that the this is MiniSite Wars 2008 and want it to be completed this year too.

I have put together my ideal timeline for the competition, if you do hear of anyone looking for any graphics please send them over to MiniSite Wars.

MINISITE WARS 2008 PROPOSED DIARY
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Round 1 - Designing Starts Mon 3rd November - Designs in by
Mon 10th November (no exceptions)

Judging Tues 4th November - Weds 5th November (Winner
announced Weds 5th November)

Round 2 - Designing Starts Thurs 6th November - Designs in
by Thurs 13th November (no exceptions)

Judging Fri 14th November - Sat 15th November (Winner
announced Sat 15th November)

Qtr Finals - Designing Starts Mon 17th November - Designs
in by Mon 24th November (no exceptions)

Judging Tues 25th November - Weds 26th November (Winner
announced Weds 26th November)

Semi Finals - Designing Starts Thurs 27th November -
Designs in by Thurs 4th December (no exceptions)

Judging Fri 5th December - Sat 6th December (Winner
announced Sat 6th December)

FINAL - Designing Starts Monday 8th December - Designs in
by Mon 15th December (no exceptions)

Judging Tues 16th December - Weds 17th December (Winner
announced Thurs 18th December)

During MiniSite Wars 2007 Graphics Genie (my company) actually participated in the competition, although I am not the person in my company that creates the graphics I wanted to distance myself from the draw. Last year this was completed by Michelle Brouse (eCoverFX) who together with her children actually videoed the live draw.

This year Graphics Genie has decided not to participate in the competition so that I can take a more hands on role in the competition.

I will create a pdf of all the 32 designers together with a number allocated to each. This will be sent to 3 very well respected marketers on the Warrior Forum for verification. At no given date I will post a thread on the forum to request random numbers from 1 - 32 in any order. These will be collected by myself from the thread and using the designer key I will formulate the pairings. These pairings will then be used in the typical draw format.

No! Once your design has been started, and the specs passed across to the designers and they have both acknowledged you cannot contact them. If you wanted to pass on any extra information you will need to come through me, I would then contact BOTH designers so that  the competition is kept fair. Likewise if a designer wanted further clarification on the specifications, they would contact me, I would contact the client for the clarification and again BOTH designers would get the information.

We don't have any referral system in place specifically for MiniSite Wars as the majority of the money in will be paid out as prize money, and the difference will cover our costs.

But what I will offer is this:

If you send anyone to MiniSite Wars who purchase a design spot and mention you specifically then I will give you a voucher for a $100 discount from Graphics Genie, our graphics and video work is very highly regarded in the Internet Marketing community, you can see some of our work here:

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