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Friday, June 13, 2014

One of the newest marketplaces for responsive themes and templates is Gridgum. This marketplace carefully assesses all items submitted before approving them, so you can be sure that all themes or templates that you buy are fully responsive and also have engaging, attractive designs.

Developers and designers can submit themes developed in a wide variety of frameworks, from Bootstrap, to Foundation, Gumby or Skeleton or even a framework they developed themselves, the only restriction is that all items have to be responsive. Also, Gridgum offers shoppers anything they might need from Bootstrap or WordPress themes, to Admin Panels.

In order to be assured that they will keep supplying shoppers with some of the best responsive themes and templates available, Gridgum is holding a giveaway this month that will definitely pique the interest of many web designers and developers. Here is what Gridgum is calling their Mammoth June $2000 giveaway.

All developers that publish themes on Gridgum by June 30th2014 are eligible to be a part of this giveaway that includes the following prizes.

The first prize Gridgum is giving out is $100 for the first 10 developers who submit their themes. In order to be eligible for this prize, you must be a first time submitter on Gridgum. But, don’t worry, all the rest of the prizes are for all publishers.

The second prize is for the theme with the best Admin panel that gets $250. The third prize is for the developer who submits the best WordPress theme and is worth $250.

The big prize will go to the developer or designer that has the best overall theme and is worth $500.

The first three prizes are for both exclusive and non-exclusive themes, while the big prize is only available for Gridgum exclusive themes.

So, all you have to do in order to be in the running is go over to Gridgum and check to see if your theme respects the following criteria:

1. It has to follow the submission guidelines defined by Gridgum;

2. It has to show high quality and be visually memorable;

3. In order for a theme to eligible, the item must be approved;

4. The item must be kept online on Gridgum marketplace for at least 6 months after it has been accepted;

…and a few others, read more here:

Gridgum will announce the winners within 30 of the closing of the contest and the prizes will be sent via PayPal.

So, why don’t you give it a try, you have a good chance of your theme getting picked especially if you’re a new submitter and amongst the first 10 designers who send their theme and will receive one of the $100 prizes. Head over to Gridgum right now, register and upload your theme and, after it gets approved, wait to see if you’re one of the lucky winners.