It’s the Dog Days of Design!
Last week may have been the official Be The Change day (click that link to read our post out about it and help out Feline Forever Ranch), but that by no means says that it has to stop there. This week on April 21st, there will be a PawPawty (or BlogPawty as the case may be this time) to help raise money for Pets Without Parents. To help out, I am going to be hosting a giveaway of my own.
The Giveaway
If you didn’t know it already, I am a web designer. I work for a small company here in Austin, but in my spare time, I freelance under the name Design Coyote (and @designcoyote on twitter). So to do my part in this great twitter pawty, I will be giving away one awesome pet design (estimated cost up to $500) for one lucky pet blogging winner!
You can see my work here at ILRA (the current design and the illustrations), over my personal blog Snailbird, or my design site that I linked to above.
The Rules
01. You don’t have to have a blog to win. We can set you up with an awesome blog either on Blogspot or a self-hosted WordPress blog (or another blog platform of your choice). The only catch is, whether you do have a blog or you’re going to be making one, it has to be about animals/pets!
02. WordPress.com blogs are not eligible unfortunately, only because they do not host custom designs. If you have a WordPress.com blog and win, you have two options: either move to a hosted wordpress blog, or move to blogspot.
03. You do not have to make a donation to be eligible to win.
How To Win
Now here’s the fun part! Ash and I tried to think up different ways that would not only be fun to do, but would also get people to promote adoption, shelters, and rescues and here’s what we came up with. To have your name thrown in the hat, we would like for those of you on twitter to pick a twitter account that posts about animals in need (be it urgents needing fosters or adoption, or animals requiring donations for injuries or rescue purposes) and RT it.
Once you’ve done your retweet to help the cause, comment here with a link back to your retweet, and we’ll toss your name into our hat of entries. If, for some reason, you do not have a twitter account, no worries. Just find something you would like to “retweet” and post it on your blog and post that link here! This giveaway is open as of now and will continue on until 1am EST on Monday the 26th of April I will announce the winner sometime later that day.
Be sure to attend the awesome BlogPawty on Wednesday starting at 7pm eastern time. It’s going to be a blast – full of new friends, great music, and awesome connections. See you there!
Contest Closed!
Winner will be announced soon.
What a great idea!
Here is my RT: http://twitter.com/fidoandwino/status/12482898181
Wanted to share with you also:
I’ve started a project called the ROAR Squad (Rescue Owners Are Rockin’)- idea is to make adopting rescue pets THE coolest thing around. Here is a link for more info: http://fidoandwino.com/roar_squad/
Would be fab for you to join!
Here’s my RT http://twitter.com/barknupatree/status/12677128163
I’m new to twitter and I do not currently foster shelter animals or sponsor an animal shelter so not sure if I’m eligible to enter. I do have pets of my own and am hoping to one day make my golden retriever puppy a reading therapy dog. I also have a rat terrier and a maine coon cat. I was working on starting a new blog and I came across your tweets. I was going to blog about my pets and animals in general, photography, nature, my kids and being a mom and anything else that comes to mind. You may prefer to work for the poster above. So if that makes me ineligible honestly that’s okay too. I’m learning a lot about reading all the blogpaws posts from the various participants and it’s wonderful you are using your talents for such a good cause.
I hope that I am doing this right, but here is my tweet:
http://twitter.com/aimeeroo/status/12798675313
Would love a redesign for our bloggy blog!
Hopefully this will link correctly. I’d love a design for a new blog!! … My first one.
This tweet is from our most recent #pawpawty…
http://twitter.com/home#search?q=cosmohavanese%20feline%20ranch%20pls%20help
Thank you!
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