Gridgum is a new marketplace dedicated for responsive themes and templates. Shoppers can be assured that all items available here have already gone through a through screening process and have been approved by the Gridgum team, before they’re put up for sale. Gridgum offers a variety of Bootstrap and WordPress themes but is not limited to these. Also, Gridgum encourages all developers that choose this marketplace to publish their work to offer full support to the people who buy their themes.
Developers and designers that have created responsive themes and templates are welcomed to publish their work on the Gridgum market. They can choose to build their work with either their own framework or employ known responsive frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, Skeleton or Gumby. Gridgum assures them that their items will receive their due exposure.
In addition to all of this, Gridgum is currently hosting a Mammoth June $2000 giveaway that will surely attract even more talented and passionate developers and designers to their marketplace. What you have to do in order to get a chance to participate in this giveaway is sign up, or log in, if you’ve published on Gridgum before, and submit your theme by June 30th 2014. As soon as your item gets approved, you are officially a participant of the Mammoth June Giveaway.
To give you a sense of what criteria your theme should fulfill, take a look at the following list:
1. All themes submitted have to follow the submission guidelines (http://gridgum.com/submission-guidelines/) defined by Gridgum;
2. All themes have to show high quality and be visually memorable;
3. In order for a theme to eligible, it must be approved;
4. After the item has been accepted, it has to be kept online on the Gridgum marketplace for at least 6 months;
…and a few others, read more here:
Before submitting your work, you might want to hear about the prizes.
The first prizes going out are$100 for the first 10 developers who submit their themes. In order to participate for these prizes, you must be a first time publisher on Gridgum.
All the other prizes are for old and new developers alike. The second prize will go to the theme with the best Admin panel that gets $250. The third prize is for the developer who has submitted the best WordPress theme and is worth $250. All prizes up until now are available for bot exclusive and non-exclusive themes published on Gridgum.
The big prize is only available for Gridgum exclusive themes and it will be for the best overall theme that will get its creator a prize of $500.
All winners will be announced within 30 of the closing of the contest and the prizes will be received via PayPal.
So, why not give it a try. If you’re a first time publisher on Gridgum and if you’re fast, you stand a very good chance to be one of the first 10 lucky winners of the $100 prizes and maybe more. Go over to Gridgum right now, register and upload your theme when it gets approved all you have to do is wait to see if you’re one of the winners.
Loveish Kalsi
Loveish Kalsi is a freelance Web and Graphic Designer from India. He is the owner of famous design blog Creativedesignmagazine.com
