Onextrapixel Turns One with A New Look and Presents for You!

April 14th, 2010 by Onextrapixel Team | Giveaways | 127 Comments

Bring out the champagne! Blow up the party balloons and prepare for the birthday cake! Celebrate our first birthday with us no matter which part of the world you’re at.

Time flies and one year has zipped by so quickly. However, we have had a great year and we’re very pleased with all that we’ve achieved in this time. Today, we’ll share the story of our humble beginnings and the journey we took to get to where we are today.

Onextrapixel Turns One with A New Look and Presents for You!

And what is a birthday without presents? In celebration of our first birthday, we are happy to share our joy with you and have some superb surprises and gifts for you!

The Humble Beginnings of Onextrapixel

The building blocks that form the sturdy base of Onextrapixel are enthusiasm, passion, interest, and a common set of goals. There was no major pre-planning or revolutionary ideas. It was most certainly not planned to be a money making machine. Onextrapixel was born out of two passionate individuals whose paths crossed through a mutual friend and fate did the rest.

Perhaps it was just a coincidence, but both of us were actually looking for a working associate; one of us needed a developer and the other needed a designer to work with on web projects. Since we were first introduced, we’ve developed a good working rhythm and established a rapport with each other. And after collaborating successfully on several projects, we realised that we supported each other’s strengths and made up for the weaknesses.

Over time, our shared interest and aims to contribute more to the industry moved us to communicate and give back to the online community. We wanted to share our experiences and to continue learning about the industry through discourse with fellow designers and developers. And so we created Onextrapixel to do just that.

Why the name Onextrapixel?

Choosing the name for the blog was a very important task. It was to become our brand name, our identity. We cracked our brains trying to come up with a great name. One day, we were having a casual conversation regarding an image in PhotoShop and how perfect it was because we “zoomed in and not one extra pixel was out of place" and it suddenly hit us. ‘One extra pixel’ was the perfect name for our blog; because we are meticulous and always try to aim for perfection as much as we possibly can, and because we do our best not to let even one extra pixel be out of place.

One Year Older, One Year Wiser!

Onextrapixel has gone green in the course of our celebratory redesign. Not one piece of paper or resources were wasted during the redesign process. Although no major reconstruction was involved, minor but obvious improvements were made to the overall feel, look and layout of the design.

Onextrapixel overall

As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve made use of more white in this updated look to help bring out the brand colours and also to make it easier for you, our loyal readers, to read our content. Expanding the width also gives more space for text and images to breathe, making it look less cluttered.

Saying Thank You!

We didn’t get here on our own. Coming this far without the support of the community was impossible. The constructive criticism, advice and encouragement we received helped us to grow in the right direction.

These are some of the people that we sincerely thank for generously helping us over the past 12 months. All of you are the reason we have a birthday to celebrate today.

Firstly, a big ‘Thank you’ to all our authors! We are extremely grateful to have such amazing writers who have sacrificed their time and put in lots of effort to help us produce great articles for our blog. Please be sure to check out their sites and give them the same support you have given us.

Smashing Network Members

Next, we'd like to thank Smashing Magazine – Vitaly & team together with the Smashing Network members for their support and encouragement. Their presence has helped us to stay focus and continually push us to produce great content for our readers. To some of the other design blogs we’ve crossed paths with; it was a great pleasure to exchange contacts.

Also, not forgetting the advertisers that have supported us; a big 'Thank you' to Todd Garland and the team from BuySellAds for arranging advertisers on OXP, you also helped to get us to where we are today.

Last, but most certainly not least, we would like to thank everyone who has shown their support for us by sharing our articles and helping our name reach out to the ever growing audience every day. Your precious comments and numerous emails have reassured and encouraged us greatly. Keep those emails coming! We will ensure that your feedbacks and suggestions will not fall on deaf ears. We will keep our ears open and welcome your input so that we will continue to improve and make OXP better.

If you've sent us an email but did not receive a reply from us, we sincerely apologise for that. The high email traffic we receive on a daily basis prevents us from replying every single email. However, rest assured, all your emails are important to us and have been read.

Up Next!

We are nothing without all of you. Help us to continue contributing to the community by letting others know who we are and what we offer. We hope to continue reaching out to people to share noteworthy ideas, valuable resources, and interesting insights about this industry. Help us build a better community.

There is much to look forward to and we have lots more planned for OXP. Keep checking our space for more articles, giveaways, and prizes coming your way.

Win Big On Our Birthday!

Now it’s time for the best part of any birthday party; the opening of presents. To show our appreciation to all of you who have made this birthday possible, we’ve put together some amazing freebies to give away to you. Here, we’d also like to take the opportunity to thank all the sponsors who have generously agreed to be part of this celebration. You have our heartfelt thanks and gratitude for helping us reward our loyal readers.

1. FlashEff

Prizes: 1 x FlashEff2 Premium Plus License ($279 worth), 2 x FlashEff2 Premium Licenses ($99 worth each)

Only the winner of the Premium Plus License will get the Flex version. FlashEff2 for Flex is sold separately and is included inside the FlashEff2 Premium Plus package only.

About FlashEff Component
FlashEff is an easy to use flash component and interactive tool that enables high quality transition effects in Flash. It's virtually an infinite library of effects that can be used and customised to create professional Flash content.

Requirements

IDE Versions: Adobe Flash CS3, Adobe Flash CS4
Action Script Version: AS3.0
Flash Player Version: Flash Player 9, 10, +
Work on AIR and various Standalone players

Note: FlashEff 2.0 Flex works in both Flex Builder 3 and Flex/Flash Builder 4.

2. Snippets.app

Prize: 2 Copies of Snippets.app Licenses

2 Winners will receive the latest version of Snippets.app each. Compatibility with Mac only.

About Snippets.app
Snippets.app, brought to you by Lucky Ants is a powerful application for Mac OS X that stores the most valuable pieces of code that you can re-use in different projects many times. The main idea is to make the process of re-using as easy as possible to avoid wasting your valuable time to write the same code again.

3. Pixmac

Prize: 2 x $80 Credits

2 Winners will receive $80 worth of credits to spend at Pixmac.

About Pixmac
Pixmac is the fastest, most usable and reliable microstock agency out there. If you're looking for the best picture or just trying to sell your best shot, Pixmac is the perfect tool, with accurate search results and helping you at every step.

4. Balsamiq

Prize: 3 Copies of Mockups For Desktop Licenses

3 Winners will receive a copy of the Balsamiq Mockups each. Compatibility with Window, Mac & Linux platform.

About Balsamiq
Balsamiq - Mockups For Desktop allows you to work on your UI wherever you are, regardless of your Internet connection. Import and export features ensure seamless integration with all the other versions of mockups, for you when you get back online. Plus you can load and save multiple mockups files, use all keyboard shortcuts and lots more.

5. IconDock

Prize: 5 Sets of Icons

5 winners will have the choice to select any 1 set of icon from IconDock.

About IconDock
IconDock is brought to you by N.Design Studio. It offers stock icons in vector and pixel format that you can quickly snap in your projects to speed up the development. You can buy vector icons individually (as low as $1 each) or a complete set.

6. The Smashing Book

Prize: 3 Copies of The Smashing Book

3 Winners will receive a copy of The Smashing Book.

About the Book
The Smashing Book, brought to you by Smashing Magazine, is a book about the best practices in modern Web design. The book shares technical tips and the best practices on coding, usability and optimisation. It explores how to create successful user interfaces and apply marketing principles to increase conversion rates. It also shows how to get the most out of typography, colour and branding so that you end up with intuitive and effective Web designs.

7. Digging into WordPress

Prize: 3 Copies of Digging into WordPress eBook (PDF)

3 Winners will receive the most current version and a lifetime subscription to all updated (PDF) copies of the book.

About the Book
Digging into WordPress (by Chris Coyier & Jeff Starr) gives you an in-depth anatomy of a WordPress theme; how they work, and how to write the code you need to do the things you want. This means it gives you real codes that you can sink your teeth into, as well as copy and paste. Beyond theme building, it introduces many tricks your functions.php file can pull off and shows you ways to increase performance and security through HTAccess.

8. UPrinting

Prize: 6 sets of 500 Business Cards

6 Winners will receive 500 business cards each. Limited to US residents only, must be 18 years old or above to enter.

UPrinting is a leading online printing company that provides high quality printing at the most affordable prices. UPrinting offers convenient marketing support services such as design, lists, and direct mailing to help grow small and medium-size businesses nationwide.

Details of the Business Cards

Sizes: 2 x 3.5 (US Standard), 2 x 2 (square card) or 1.75 x 3.5” (slim card)
Paper: 14 pt gloss cardstock, 14 pt matte cardstock or 13 pt recycled uncoated cardstock
Specifications: Full Color Both Sides
Shipping: FREE UPS Ground Shipping

Comment and Win Now!

Want to win these amazing prizes? It’s easy! All you have to do is to write us a comment and tell us which prize you would love to have. (Hint: Write a couple of lines on how OXP has influenced you, and stand a higher chance of winning!)

The closing date is on 19th of April 2010 (GMT +08:00). The winners will be selected randomly. So everyone has a chance to be a winner.

The results will be announced on OXP the next day on the 20th of April 2010 (GMT +08:00). Winners will be contacted through email so please be sure to check that you’ve given us the correct and valid email address. Good luck everyone!

Thank you for reading and please help us share this news with the rest of the community! We look forward to celebrating more birthdays with you! Here's to many more great years ahead!

Author

Onextrapixel Team

Onextrapixel, or more commonly known as OXP is dedicated to delivering useful, comprehensive and innovative information for designers, developers and many others.

http://www.Danstyled.com Danstyled

Would love the uprinting cards. OXP helped me gain some spotlight through threads, articles and twitter when starting out as a freelancer.
http://designinformer.com Design Informer

Congratulations Charlotte and Onextrapixel. You have done an awesome job so far. I always enjoy reading the well-researched articles here. Keep up the great work. Oh, and awesome giveaway as well.

BTW, I like the new design. Who designed it?
- http://www.onextrapixel.com Charlotte
  
  Hi Jad, Thanks for the comment :) I did the design.
  OXP isn't possible without Terrance too and he's been a great partner to work with!
http://www.ozdtasarim.com/blog fireRoxy

Congratulations! Very clean and fresh design.
http://crispytech.com Saad Bassi

Great Redesign Man. Thumbs up.:) I loved how you used Icons in the new design. Simply Outstanding.:) And Yes I would love if you can help me in getting Item #6 and #7 :)
http://inspirationfeed.com inspirationfeed

Happy birthday, Congrats on your success!
Lora

Happy birthday Onextrapixel! I started following your threads a couple of months ago and they have been very useful for me being a web design student. I would love to get the Smashing book.
Viktor

Happy birthday from me to! I have been reading your posts for the last halv an year. They have all been of great help for me. Keep it up!
I will be happy to get Digging into WordPress.
http://divyasharad.blogspot.com div

Many Many Happy Returns of the Day................ Have a blast.............Njoy Madi.......... :))
Timothy D

Happy birthday OXP. I'd love to win the Smashing book. You made me a better designer over the passed few years.
http://www.atikusdesign.com Michael Wilson

Happy birthday!

It's always great to see blogs doing well.

D-Lists turns 1 next month!

You've constantly posted very good content all year and you're RSS feed is one I always look out for.

I'd love to win an icon set from Icon Dock, those guys produce really beautiful sets over there.

Good luck for year 2!
julien

win win win!
http://www.gstboces.org David Bates

Great site! I check it every day.

Would love a #2, a #3, or a #7 - or anything really. Thanks, David
http://www.ninahaghighi.com Nina Haghighi

Congratulations on your natal day! I discovered you guys several months ago through the Smashing Mag Network when you posted about "The Anatomy of Color" for blue, green and yellow. I love your design and layout, it's so fresh-looking.

I'd love to have some icons from NDesign or the Smashing Mag book!

Keep up the good work!
http://iodicdesign.com Marko Randjelovic

Love the new design, guys! :) The new, updated theme looks great. Well done, Charlotte & co.! Can't wait to finish my next article and see how it will look.

And the prizes are awesome, thanks for organizing the contest. That Smashing Book looks great. :D

Here's to many more great years! :D
http://maiconweb.com Maicon Sobczak

The design can breath and the structure makes the reading a pleasuring experience. #3 #5 or #6
http://www.breakerr.blogspot.com Anthony

NIce one, cheers for you and whatever comes in the way, may it be all positive.
Paulo Silva

Congrats, keep it coming for many many years more.

Love the site, always one of my first readings of the day.
http://qmmr.pl Marcin

Happy birthday! All presents are fantastic but since I can win only one I would like to win FlashEff2 Premium Plus License ($279 worth) :) I've always been fascinated by the Flash and FlashEff2 is simply amazing!
http://pablolarah.cl/ Pablo Lara H

Happy Birthday¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ And thanks for the useful resources you are posting everyday.

I'd love to have The Smashing Book.

;)
http://www.chrisyerkes.com Chris

NICE! happy birthday! I could have sworn you had been around longer than a year hmm.
Your great tutorials have helped me grow as a web designer/front end developer, specifically those relating to jquery. Thanks for those! and keep em coming please :P

I'd like Digging into WordPress please :)
http://gabri.me Gabri

Congratulations , i like the new design very much great work
Alfredo Arriaza

Hello Friends of Onetrapixel conratulations in your birthday and hope that they are many more for you.

In the personal thing for my you have been a constant help in my different projects of design since thanks to you I have found solutions and new trends that are useful for my.

keep doing so well and a lot of congratulations for you.

i like the The Smashing Book y always wont it but never hava a chance to have it.

Sorry for my english :)
http://www.markedlines.com Stratos

Happy birthday!

I would like the Digging into WordPress book!

I like the content like lists or tutorials and Onextrapixel has lots of them :)
http://trelhouse.com Rylaan

Happy Birthday! If I win, I would love Prize 8: the UPrinting buisness cards! OXP has influenced me by causing me to comment on their blog!
http://www.underworldmagazines.com julio

Great job and Happy birthday =)
http://www.thephuse.com James Costa

Awesome contest, and congrats on a year! Can't believe it's been that long already. Really loving the new design as well.

I'd really love to win the Smashing Book. It's on my list of things to buy, and if I can use that $30 I would spend on it instead for groceries, it would probably be a great idea. I love Onextrapixel because anytime I follow a link here to read an article, I'm always sufficiently impressed with the content.

Thanks for the awesome work, good luck to everyone else, and keep it up!
http://mr-mushroom.com mushroom

Happy Birthday and keep a great work :)
Ryan

Great job you guys. I follow the rss everyday and you are all posting up great things to ready each day.

I would love to have Balsamiq Mockups as I tested it out and it works great for quick, easy-to-create wireframes.

Thanks guys!
Jonathan Teague

What a fantastic giveaway to celebrate a 1st year birthday! OXP has been a steady favorite in my RSS feeds for about 8 months now and I've really enjoyed many of the articles and posts put together here. Probably most important to me would be the relevance of posts this Blog has to my overall outlook on design and development. Just about every article seems to be well put-together, which is harder and harder to find in design blogs these days. Some of my favorite OXP posts are the "Hints, Tips, and Tricks for Web Design" series found in the Photoshop section. Great series of very useful information.

If I was to be chosen as a winner, I would absolutely love to have the Snippets.app as I've been using it for months now and it has proven invaluable in my design process. Since the upgrade to a paid app, my trial is almost over and I'm going through a nasty divorce right now so all of my funds are tied up in legal matters.

Thanks for your consideration and Happy Birthday to one of my favorite Design Blogs!
http://redheaddesign.net Jen

I've always loved this site. Congrats on the birthday. :)
http://nikhilmisal.com Nikhil

Congrats Charlotte for your wonderful One Year....
You have always provided quality contents to the readers. Keep up the fantastic work and Best Wishes for future.
Thanks
Steve Robillard

Happy birthday and thanks for all the inspiration. Your content has made me a better developer and while I am still far from a designer, I definitely have a better eye than before.

I would love to win one of the icon sets from IconDock.
http://sarahlynndesign.com Sarah Lynn

Congrats!!! It's actually my birthday today too! So let's all celebrate :)
http://naldzgraphics.net Ronald Bien

Congratulations on the 1st year guys!! =) keep up the good work. Love the new design btw=) Cheers!!!!
http://www.alephnaught.com/Blog Bob Hays (@purplehayz)

I've been reading your blog via its RSS feed for months; your articles are useful and sometimes even insightful. I always check the articles when one shows up unread in the feed.

If I win, I'd want a copy of Digging Into WordPress - I've been teaching myself WordPress for a while and would like to know more about its insides.

And mazel tov on your birthday! I hope you have many more! - Bob
http://www.plan2dream.com Liran Bar-El

Hi Guys, Cheers!

Being mainly interested in SEO and PPC, I used to play down web design considerations, unless they served the purpose (i.e. I practiced "design for bots", instead of "design for humans").

Your posts helped me realize just how important and effective great design, intended for humans, could be!

Thanks and good luck on your second year!

If I win, I'd be happy to receive the "Digging Into WordPress" guide.
http://manugrafie.de Manuel

Congratulations!
Looking good with One;)
http://twitter.com/michalkozak Michal Kozak

Congrats, guys! New design is neat, I gotta say I like it much better that the previous one, it's so clean.

Now I'll look even more often to find some fres inspiration, haha :).

If you have too many copies of #6 Smashing Book, I would love to take care of one ^^.
http://tutorijali.hdonweb.com/ Ivan Mišić

Happy birthday
http://localbizconsultant.com Kathy Espinosa

Congratulations! I'd love to win either the business cards or the stock photos :) I've been subscribed to your feed for a while and look forward to reading each new post. I always find informative articles, and I especially enjoy those related to Photoshop and WordPress. Keep up the good work!!
http://bizdharma.com Himanshu Chanda

Hey Happy Birthday... The name is different .. its long but its remeberable if i can use that word. And woo hoo quite some prizes up for grabs!! Gr8 visiting OXP
Enamul Hasan

Hey Charlotte, it was nice to see oneextrapixel has turned 1. I would say oneextrapixel has become such a great resource for web designers. The thing that sets you guys apart from other design resources is the quality of the posts that specially caters to the needs of the growing web industry. Happy Birthday and wishing you great success on your second year!! If i were to win, i would gladly swap for Digging into WordPress!! Say hi to Rex for me!
Adii

Happy Birthyday, I wanna Digging into WordPress.
Your tutorial help me to grow up my skill,Thank you for posting good articles.
http://blog.leegustin.com Lee Gustin

Happy Birthday!!! Your tutorials and inspiration posts really are great resources (many bookmarked)

I would love the business cards. A Friend of mine could really use them to start her freelance business
http://themeforest.net/user/webbografico?ref=webbografico webbografico

Congrats to OXP and happy birthday. I reaaly enjoy most of your tuts...

If I win please let me take a Digging into WordPress book...
Sharon Chen

Happy Birthday! Thanks for sharing!
The information updated very quickly and I found they are very useful!
Great Job!

I am interesting to win 4,6 or 7.
Thanks!
Sindy

Congratulations and happy birthday! How exciting! I only started following you for a couple weeks now, but when I found OXP, I was like *drool*! Keep up the really good work. I really enjoy your articles.

PS the Smashing Book would be a sweet deal for me, I'm working towards being a kick-ass designer and coder. Thanks and look forward to upcoming articles!

Sindy
http://www.tlbignerd.com Tom L.

Congratulations on one year! I have to say this is one of the best design blogs I'm following. I've found the Photoshop tutorials and especially the CSS and Web design walkthroughs incredibly useful. I'm looking forward to what the next year has in store.

Plus free goodies! I'd love to win #4 or #6
http://pcandweb.com Subhadeep Gayen

Congrats on this happy occasion, hope you keep going onward like this every year, best wishes from India... :)
http://aext.net Lam Nguyen

Congratulation and happy birthday, guy! I love the new look, bright and clean. Btw, the logo has been improved much. Keep up the great work, guys!

Cheer,
http://www.siddr.com Siddharth Ashok

Awesome!

Happy Birthday!

and wish u more creative year ahead.

The site has guided me so much to build my self as a designer, keep up the 'exquisite' work.
http://www.dhaneswar.com Dhaneswar

This One-xtra-pixel thought me lot of pixels, Great work guys..... let those gr8 posts coming in....

If i'm lucky to picked up - "I will get Balsamiq Mockups"

In email that i got, i didn't find a link to comment from there... i clicked on topic header and posting comment in you site page... if you may had a link under "comment and win now section" you may got more comments >>

Happy B'day dear !!! Wish you a colorful years ahead :-)
http://twitter.com/designfularts Chuck

1 year stronger! It's amazing what you can do with 365 days.

Keep feeding the design community with valuable knowledge! I know we all enjoy it, and the additional freebies is a definite plus! Here's to your health, wealth, and everlasting success Onextrapixel!
http://www.benhomie.com Ben

Very well done on the design. Congrats!
http://oridusartic.com/ Oridusartic

Congratulation OXP for reaching the 1st year. Even though it's a tiny part, I'm still so proud to be the part of Onextrapixel. Good luck and let's hope for the best in the upcoming years.

PS: The new layout is looking gooood... :)
http://www.angelsulistyo.com Angel

CONGRATULATIONS on your first anniversary!!
Great new layout too.
I hope your magazine can inspire all of us in the future with great articles and never run out of great articles! :)
http://www.liza.gr lisa

Happy Birthday! Hope you will go on with so interesting articles for many years ahead ;-)
About how OXP influenced me, hm, well, it is the only blog I have subscribed too! I look forward to receiving your emails every now and then and although I'm mostly interested in your web design articles, I enjoy your photography posts as well (the one with the smoke?!?!holy smoke!).
The ones that really changed my practices were about the Wireframing, Typography, Top Websites with different Navigational Menus, and the Best Free Icon Sets! There are surely more, I can just recall those for now.
When I'm done with the website that I'm building now, I will send you photos of the websites I designed before and the ones I design now ("before-after" OXP) and you will judge for yourselves how you influenced me!hehe ;-)
Anyway, about the prize, The Smashing Book would be the best for me :-)
Thanks for all and looking forward to more interesting posts!
Lisa
http://www.minnix.info Minnix

Happy birthday OXP! Nice redesign hello! Truths must be told, I love OXP for it's amazing logo! I'm new to OXP and this is my first comment! OXP, will you gimme The Smashing Book? :) http://twitter.com/minnixs/status/12219169596
http://graphictuts.wordpress.com/ Carol

The new design is so clean and fresh - outstanding, well done. Hope your second year is twice as successful as your first!!
Jason

Happy Anniversary! Insert balloons and horn here ... I have been a subscriber for nearly 6 months now and the site and newsletter is great! Such an inspiring array of tips and tutorials for us fellow developers. Happy Birthday and keep up the great work! Would love the Smashing book.
http://soundcabin.co.za KyneticDude

Wow, a year already! OXP thanx a lot for the effort and dedication ya'll put in making our jobs easier. I've sharped my skills, dedication and work ethics as a graphic and web developer. I know ya'll will still maintain the awesomeness....HAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYY BIRTHDAY.......lol!! :-) Lovely re-design, its clean fresh and fresh. Oh, I'd love to win the Smashing Book thank you!
http://photointerview.ru/ indigo

Happy birthday! I've added Onextrapixel on my RSS list as soon as I stumbled across it in the Internet :)
http://vanilla-man.com/ Vanilla Man

Happy Birthday to you!
Jeff

I discovered OXP a few months ago and can't thank you enough for the valuable resources you provide the community. Happy Birthday OXP!
http://kikolani.com/ Kristi

I have been following Onextrapixel for several months now, and this site has never failed to deliver something inspiring for my design side. The new look is great! If I'm lucky enough to get chosen for the contest, I would love the Smashing Magazine book. But either way, looking forward to another year of inspiration!
http://goo.gl/GorE Murshid Ahmed

Yey OXP. 1st of all, I wanna wish you a very Happy Birthday :) You guys doing a great Job. I was a coder, loved to do some nasty hacks, but you people pulled me into this designing sector :) And now I am a good designer in my place too, credits to you fellas ;)
I am preferring "Digging into WordPress eBook"
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com Dainis Graveris

Congratulations! Your blog is excellent - I keep returning to it because of great articles! I like also those light but very good changes you did - always improving I see!

Best luck in future!
http://webylife.com Nikunj

Congrats for fabulous one year, Keep up the great work.

I would like to win smashing book or digging into wordpress because I curious to know the kind of knowledge this book will provide.
SR Grossman

New layout looks great, congratulations!
http://paulhkoehler.de Paulk

Happy Birthday to you from a non programmer, but develope-beginner and intelligent-clue-interested student. I'm very happy I found your site like a month and a half ago through my brother. Had lots of inspirations from your blog for my creative work.
Would love to collect some experience with Flash Eff, if there's a chance to get a slice of the birthday cake.

Best reguards from germany,
keep on with your work!
Lee Kennedy

Happy 1st birthday!

Really liking the new design, very fresh - good work! Looks like a great giveaway with some pretty nice stuff to win. Keep up the good work and the tutorials.

Lee
derdorni

Happy birthday!
Like the new design, realy clean and fresh i think. Good work!
So chears & happy new year!
http://www.smashingshare.com Waheed Akhtar

Congratulations to oneextrapixel and team. I think more credit goes to all authors who contributed here to make this blog successful. I often visit this blog and always find something nice to read.
I would love to have "Smashing Book" or "Digging Into WordPress"
http://www.jclardy.com jeremy

Congratulations and Happy Birthday!
cheers
http://gustavscirulis.com Gustavs Cirulis

Congratulations Onextrapixel! Keep up the great content.
http://www.hemce.com mccasal

Happy birthday. Get more extrapixels for the next years!
http://mintek.com chris kluis

Keep up the good work!
http://www.designcrumbs.com Jake

I'd love to have the Smashing Book. I've been eyeing that bad boy for months now, but I keep telling myself "$30 is better spent on software."
vaeylon

Awesome redesign ! Love it ! OneExtraPixel, well, it's great when you try to find some tutorials on photoshop trying to do an awesome print, or making a new design, coding some stuff or just trying to find a way to make a web page awesome thanks to some clever CSS !

I'd like to have the Snippets.app, that's true that you can never find the bit of code you made some time ago and that would be SOOO useful but was lost somewhere !

Great giveaways for a great website ! :D
http://www.sheenaoosten.com sheena

Firstly....HAPPY BIRTHDAY and congrats on all your success so far!!! :) This site has been so helpful to me starting out in the freelance world, so please keep up the great work!

If I am lucky enough to be chosen, I would love prize number 2 (pixmax credits)...they would really help me out a lot!

Thanks :)
http://www.stargraphicdesign.com Jessica

Congrats on your first birthday. I love the new site!!

I would love to have the Smashing Book, since I return to both Smashing and OneExtraPixel daily to read the articles :)

thanks!
http://iamzaks.com Diego

I like the new design, very minimal and fresh. I'd like to win the WordPress ebooks, I really need them for my work since I want to become a wordpress developer and designer.
George Elias

I would like to start off by saying CONGRATS!! First birthday is always a special one.

OXP has helped me in the past year gain a better knowledge of web design and development. Although I'm only starting out with personal projects, this site is full of great and useful information.

I would like to win a copy of the "Digging Into WordPress" book.

Again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :)
http://designbytanya.com Tanya Williams

Happy birfday! Congrats and thanks for featuring Canyoncreekonline.com in your first year!!!
http://loneplacebo.com Tony

First, I really like the new design! It's a good transition from the older theme. By the way, where's the popular posts section? I would love to see that.

I would like to win the business cards. I hope I win. :)
http://www.conceptcolony.com JD Yates

Happy birthday guys! Lookin' good!
http://vsego.wordpress.com/ Raptor

Happy birthday ! I like this site!
http://viveeonline.com/blog Vivek

Happy Birthday!!

I bumped into this site only a few weeks ago and am a regular reader since then. I read RSS feeds from more than a 100 blogs and I like OXP the best. The quality is amazing. And I cant even comment on the homework someone has to do to get out one single post with such a high quality content out. I'm a blogger myself so I understand the passion and pain in getting good content out.

Now if I need any design advice, I come here, do a search and then go to google if I dont find something specific I'm looking for - that's how I see OXP.

Oh, while I didnt mean to add this comment to win a prize, I do love to receive 'the smashing book' if you happen to pick my name! :P

Vivek.
Firsta

Neat redesign Charlotte, congratulation! Thanks for writing the inspiring articles which always with good selection of source materials. I often amaze how they come at the right time when I need it :)). I wish you and Terrance more success in the future. And Happy 1st Birthday for onextrapixel!

oh I'd like to have the Smashing Book if I'm lucky :)

Cheers,
http://www.mckeldencreative.com Jessica McKelden Cave

Congratulations on a year of wonderful content! I thank you for every bit of it! Here's to many more wonderful years!
http://petincanvas.com Pet in Canvas

Happy Birthday!!!! Keep it up!
Shane

Happy birthday OXP.

I would love the Smashing Book, sure that will be very insightful and helpful just as OXP has been to me as a learner.

Thanks.
http://www.bmdesign.co.nr balu

awesome ! this design is cool and very attractive! i love it and Many more happy returns
http://twitter.com/vmsajan sajan

awesome design change .it so clean and readable .minimal colours play s always i like.but get updates via e-mail text and panel should be aligned with advs boxes i think. and its colour ( if it a family colour of ur headline panel ,i think more good) .

over all it is again very attractive and clean .congrats !

if i win...ummm

no confusion it is The Smashing Book! we all love to have a copy :)

thnx
http://doncarnes.us don

congrats on your first anniversary. I want Snippets
http://10steps.sg Johnson Koh

Congratulations to the 1st year! You and Terrance made a great team in managing OXP, not forgetting Aidan whom I think is a fantastic contributor too lol. Keep it going guys! ;)
- http://www.onextrapixel.com Aidan
  
  Hi Johnson, thank you so much for your kind words! I really love those Photoshops tutorials over at 10.steps. You have done such a great job too!
Kristopher

Congrats on the 1st year! I am new to OXP and I like what I see so far! I really benefited from the article I found on SixRevisions.com by Aidan from OXP about "Destroying Designer’s Creative Block and Unleashing Your Creativity." May your next year of blogging be greater than your first! Keep up the great work!

Balsamiq or the Smashing Magazine book would be awesome!
Jesse

Awesome new look - congrats on the launch! I would love either the Smashing Book or Digging into WordPress...both are more timely than ever as I'm getting into custom designing wordpress layouts, and also trying to take my overall design skills up a few notches - Which OXP has helped me do with several articles and tutorials. Thanks for the chance at these great giveaways!
http://typethefont.com/ Dannci

It says everything. Onextrapixel was one of my first rss feed I grab!

I would like to have: The Smashing Book
Louis Gaal

Thanks OXP for the amazing year! A year stronger and I will be looking on for more exciting mixture of great articles! One of the best design blogs around and my favourite read!

Oh yes! Happy B'day!
Ty gossm

Excellent swag you're on my twitter list me wants digwp copy :)
http://blog.tamarodesign.com ptamaro

One awesome year, and looking forward to many more... Here's one more comment :)

Thank you for all the great posts!
http://webexpedition18.com Nikola Lazarevic

Excellent redesign, congratulations!

Oh, and Smashing Book is my wish!
Pavlina

Happy happy birthday from me, too!

I've been reading your RSS feeds for months now. I follow a lot webdesign blogs and yours is one of my favourite. Hope that you will celebrate lots of birthdays!

If I happen to win, I would like to get The Smashing Book or Digging Into WordPress.
Boyko

Happy birthday to one of my favourite webdesign blogs! Keep up the good work.

All of the prizes are fantastic, If I win, I would love to get number 6 or number 7.

Happy birhday again!
http://twitter.com/hellokwerk Austin Cooper

Happy birthday and congratulations on the success! I hope year 2 is even better.

I've recently discovered web design and it has become my absolute passion. In learning everything I can about design, OXP has been an essential resource for me. I'm amazed at the constant quality of content.

Your post on wireframes was especially helpful. It's helped develop my design process.

By the way, I wouldn't mind a copy of Digging Into WordPress. It's one of the last books on my wish list.
http://warstwy.com adone

Happy birthday. Congrats. I love books (Smashing Book, Digging into WordPress) and stock photo credits.
http://www.paxcreative.com Erhan

Great stuff OXP!! Happy Birthday! You made the online world a slightly better place to live!
Andrew Bale

Congratulation OXP! An amazing design blog and definitely one of the unique style with a good mixture of many type of article.

I was introduced by my friend to his site and have been following it ever since. It makes the design community much better! Thanks!
http://www.iBatesDesigns.com Ian Bates

Happy Birthday! Congrats, and thank you for providing a plethora of information for the design community. A long-time lurker, your posts have definitely geared me in the right direction as a college student/freelancer. All the freebies and wordpress tips have certainly helped me launch successful sites for a couple of school organizations. A long time ago I stumbled upon the site through the Smashing Network links and affiliates.

I'm interested in the Smashing Book, and the Snippets.app prizes if I am lucky enough to be chosen. Thanks for the opportunity, and thanks again for enhancing the community with your wealth of knowledge. Keep it up!
Dewayne Dodd

Thank you for your website. It contains so much information that is very helpful to everyone.
Max Bent

Happy birthday guys! I cannot believe that you are only one-year old :) It feels like you have always existed in my RSS reeder. Thanks a lot for your tutorials and how-tos. Please keep up the good work. Congratulations!

I'm crossing fingers to win Snippets.app! This is invaluable tool for storing my favourite CSS and HTML tricks. I've been using it since 0.8 and now using trial that's expiring in 3 days :D
http://www.se7enize.com Nice from Thailand

Happy birthday OXP!
I'd love to win Icon Dock. :)
http://www.mooresofburbage.com/ Mike Speer

4 years ago I started writing websites for friends to help me over a very quiet patch in my self-employed world of IT consultancy.

For 3 and a half years I thought I knew what I was doing.

6 months ago I stumbled on OXP and shouted to my partner Jill (a professional graphic designer) "You have gotta see this site!" She did. She loved it. I loved it.

Jill and I have learnt so much from you and we have changed the design of our sites based upon your articles.

The best pressie from you, to Jill and I, would be "Digging into WordPress eBook". WordPress has revolutionised the way the web works.
It allows people like me (who once tried to write a CMS package) to offer affordable solutions to everyone.

Regards and happy birthday OXP.

Mike
http://www.spencersy.com/ Spencer Sy

Happy Birthday Onextrapixel! Wishing you more blessings for the years to come!

Whenever my workload permits, I would visit blogsites related to web graphic designs or illustrations. Upon visiting Onextrapixel, your site gave me a new perspective on the importance discussing and sharing comments, articles and tips on designs in blogsites. And the overall interface of your design is very user friendly wherein users can easily navigate through the different categories.

Blogsites have gotten quite popular nowadays and has become a "powerful venue" to connect around the world. The book "Digging Into WordPress" by by Chris Coyier & Jeff Starr would be a nice and helpful addition to my collection on Web Design library.

Best regards,
Spencer
Sacha Cohen

Great to see you guys hit the big 1st year! Best of luck in the future! :)
http://birbilis.spaces.live.com George Birbilis

Would love to win Balsamiq Mockups... Wish all of you many productive years!
http://www.simplywp.net/ Kathie – simplyWP

Happy anniversary~! OEP has grown from zero to hero in just a year time. :)

Back to the prize, I would love to win " Digging into WordPress eBook"
damnedbrain

Dreaming of the "Smashing Book"... have a good birthday and successful year:)
http://www.clearideaz.com Clearideaz

Yeah, happy birthday ! The new design is awesome. It's a great example to every designers like me !
http://fabmedia.com Arlen Nielsen

I come here for the tuts and manage to stay a lot longer than expected. Lately it's been about the CSS and trying to update my coding skills. I keep an eye on the site via RSS and especially Twitter. I'm a big of a piggie, so I'd have to say that I can use 2 of the items, first being the Pixmac subscription. That would be most useful at this point. The next in line is the SmashingMagazine book. Dying to get my hands on that one.

Cheers and good luck all!
http://www.animhut.com/ sriganesh

Congrats on your first birthday!! this blog helps me out in resources and to improve my skills. logo and redesign is great, keep helping the design community!!
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My wish to get the FlashEFF (iam pc user) or Smashing Book !
http://imregabri.carbonmade.com/projects/2443863 imregabri

Happy Birthday and at least 10 years of more extra pixel!
jPomfret

Nice giveaway :) Thanks guys!
Zach

Happy 1st Birthday guys!

Love the new look, and practical changes made here I've seen you guys have grown so much in terms of the type of articles and content since the start...there're quite a range!

I've been a web designer for some years now, and have always been wanting to get Flash Eff, but its way to expensive. So I really hope to get the Premium Plus License if I win.