Happy Birthday UBD! 1-Year Anniversary Contest

58 Comments August 23, 2008 / Posted in Blog Development, UBD

Today, August 22nd, 2008, is the 1-year anniversary of Unique Blog Designs. One year ago, UBD was born with the redesign of John Chow dot Com.

Fast forward one year, and we have worked with over 200 clients, including John Chow, ShoeMoney, Zac Johnson, Uber Affiliate, Fat Man Unleashed, Alex Shalman, MakeUseOf, Here.org.uk, Blog World Expo, Entrecard, and now, Yahoo!

Enter the UBD 1-Year Anniversary Contest

In celebration of our one-year birthday, we will be running a contest for the remainder of August (until Sunday, August 31st). The contest is open to everyone on Earth! If you are not from Earth, you are responsible for the cost of shipping. So, what are the prizes?

UBD Prizes

Grand Prize - Brand New 8GB iPod Touch ($299 value) and One (1) Copy of our New UBD Citrus WordPress Theme (coming next week).

Three (3) runner-up prizes include copies of our new UBD Citrus WordPress Theme.

How do I enter?

Entering the UBD 1-Year Anniversary Contest is super simple!

  • For one (1) contest entry - just reply to this post with a comment. Only one comment per person will be counted.
  • For five (5) contest entries - write a blog post about the UBD 1-Year Anniversary Contest and link back to this post. If your blog post does not appear under the “Pingbacks,” leave a comment with a URL to the post.

The winner will be randomly chosen Monday, September 1st, 2008. We will draw the winner via streaming video from the UBD office.

Official Contest Rules

  • The contest runs from 12:00AM PST Friday, August 22nd, 2008 to 11:59PM Sunday, August 31, 2008.
  • Winners will be chosen Monday, September 1, 2008 through a random drawing.
  • Only one (1) comment entry per person and one (1) blog entry per person. The total number of entries any person can receive is six (6) entries.
  • Prizes include (1) grand prize of an Apple iPod Touch 8GB ($299 value) and three (3) copies of our new UBD Citrus WordPress Theme ($99 value) - coming next week.
  • Contest is open to everyone world-wide.

Thanks to everyone who has supported us over the past year! We have many exciting things planned for this next year!

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  1. matt said on August 23rd, 2008 at 12:28 am

    Congrats UBD!

  2. Gary said on August 23rd, 2008 at 12:58 am

    Awesome, congrats on the 1 year anniversary guys! Keep on doing your fantastic work!!!

  3. Matt Freedman said on August 23rd, 2008 at 1:57 am

    Nice, congrats.

  4. Jaseem Umer said on August 23rd, 2008 at 4:02 am

    You have did a great work in the one year. Congratulations UBD and designing the blog of the most used email service is not an average work.

  5. Michelle Rosborough said on August 23rd, 2008 at 7:19 am

    Happy 1-Year Anniversary !!!!!

  6. Ashwin said on August 23rd, 2008 at 8:16 am

    Congrats. Keep up the nice work.

  7. Nicole Price said on August 23rd, 2008 at 9:10 am

    1. Hearty Congratulations.
    2. Great way to celebrate.
    3. My compliments on a well chosen contest/s.

  8. Utah SEO said on August 23rd, 2008 at 11:44 am

    Happy Birthday!

  9. David Airey said on August 23rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    It passes fast, eh? Happy UBD birthday, Nate! What a first year :)

  10. Andrew. Business Lawyer. said on August 23rd, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    Congrats! I thought I’d seen lots of your work around, so now I know why. :)

  11. BeeOne said on August 23rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm

    You guys do excellent work. Congrats and Happy Anniversay UBD!

  12. Unleashed Unlimited said on August 23rd, 2008 at 5:27 pm

    Happy Birthday to UBD! You guys did a great job on our site, and we wish you all the best!

  13. Matt R. said on August 23rd, 2008 at 9:46 pm

    Keep up the good work!

  14. BlogSavvy said on August 23rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm

    Congratulations UBD Team! Keep it up!

  15. Shopping USA said on August 23rd, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    Best wishes to UBD Group. Best of Luck For the Next Year…

  16. Zlatan said on August 24th, 2008 at 4:46 am

    Congratulations and best wishes!

  17. Quitting The Day Job said on August 24th, 2008 at 8:06 am

    Good Luck. Achievement of goals should always be celebrated.

  18. Kyle T said on August 24th, 2008 at 9:09 am

    Congrats on making it to the one year mark and best of luck in the future.

  19. Peter said on August 24th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    Cool Nate :) the first year of business is always the hardest one ;) i am happy that you guys have big success. Don’t count me on the iPod, I am just here to say my congrats :) keep going that direction!

    cheers to all in the office and don’t drink too much :)

  20. Young Blogger Dot Net said on August 24th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    Congrats on the One Year Anniversary! Time goes by so fast, doesn’t it? Also, thanks alot for the premium theme, best of luck to you guys for years to come!

  21. Steven Wilson said on August 24th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

    Congrats on your one year anniversary.I hope you have many more successful years to follow.

  22. Daniel said on August 25th, 2008 at 12:23 am

    Congratulations and good luck for the next 100 years…I love the UBD themes.
    Great work.

  23. Eva White said on August 25th, 2008 at 1:06 am

    Congrats. Hope your second year surpasses all expectations.

  24. Internet Age said on August 25th, 2008 at 7:52 am

    Happy 1st Anniversary UBD!

  25. Quitting The Day Job said on August 25th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    I will take an entry!

  26. Bob Buskirk said on August 25th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    I’m in nate!

  27. Metaspring said on August 25th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    Happy Birthday and wish you many more.That is quite an impressive client list you have there; a veritable who’s who of the blogosphere!

  28. Colin Dean said on August 26th, 2008 at 6:04 am

    I’m totally in.

  29. Rico said on August 26th, 2008 at 7:20 am

    Congrats… love your stuff. Keep rockin.

  30. Mastermind said on August 26th, 2008 at 7:37 am

    Congrats on the One Year Anniversary & Best of luck

  31. Amanda (DrifterMama) said on August 26th, 2008 at 9:15 am

    I am in!!! :)

  32. Alex said on August 26th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    happy first anniversary!

  33. Anthony Carbone said on August 26th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    Congrats boys, I am excited to visit you again in the very near future for some more pool lounging and SL55 driving ;)

  34. David Lithman said on August 26th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    Congrats on making it through your first year!

  35. Lana said on August 26th, 2008 at 7:21 pm

    Congratulation for the 1st anniversary!

  36. Sean said on August 26th, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    I’ll take the gold, thanks!

  37. andrej said on August 27th, 2008 at 5:12 am

    Congrats, I really like your site!

  38. TJ Compton said on August 27th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    too cool, congratulations!

  39. Metaspirng said on August 28th, 2008 at 12:12 am

    How is the contest going? Let us know how it turns out.

  40. Nate Whitehill said on August 28th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    Contest has been going awesome! Almost 500 comments in the past 5 days!

  41. Israel said on August 30th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    I’m in, hook me up!

  42. Women's Clothes said on September 1st, 2008 at 4:07 am

    Keep it up, your blog is a good read.

  43. C.D. Allen said on September 1st, 2008 at 9:03 am

    Nate,

    I commented on this a week ago, and I don’t see my comment. Where did it go?

    Nevertheless, congrats (again…lol)!

  44. Nate Whitehill said on September 1st, 2008 at 11:09 am

    @ C.D. did you comment on this post or the post on the UBD site?

  45. C.D. Allen said on September 1st, 2008 at 11:17 am

    @ Nate - Oops…lol. Now that I think about it, I did comment on the UBD site, not yours. Sorry about that Nate! :)

  46. Internet Age said on September 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 am

    Yo Nate, what do have in store for us this September? You definitely haven’t posted in a while. :-(

  47. Nicole Price said on September 2nd, 2008 at 7:54 am

    Come September! what is new on the contest?

  48. Metaspirng said on September 2nd, 2008 at 8:02 am

    @Nate that is awesome indeed!

  49. Metaspring said on September 2nd, 2008 at 8:04 am

    @ Nate - That is awesome indeed!

  50. Internet Shopping said on September 2nd, 2008 at 9:52 am

    Happy aniversery to UBD, it;s now become a Brand in designing quality blogs…

  51. Christmas BG said on September 3rd, 2008 at 2:34 am

    My sincere congratulations!!! Your work deserve appreciation!

  52. Lana said on September 3rd, 2008 at 9:23 am

    Where can I find the result of this contest?

  53. SEO Florida said on September 5th, 2008 at 5:14 am

    Why i can not be visible on the top ?

  54. iPod Fan said on September 6th, 2008 at 2:27 am

    arggghh too late

  55. Kingston Rentals said on September 8th, 2008 at 11:45 am

    Are the results posted?

  56. Jobucks said on September 24th, 2008 at 10:12 am

    CONGRATULATIONS GUYS, You’re great, I really like your design specially johnchow’s new blog theme, it’s really superb

  57. Motorbeam.com said on October 10th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    Is this the personal blog theme?

  58. Nate Whitehill said on October 14th, 2008 at 2:17 am

    @Motobeam - this is a one-off custom blog design.

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