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Wallpaper feature on Smashing Magazine

31 March 2008 by kristarella

Blooming Blue

I was very excited when I heard that my wallpaper would be featured on Smashing Magazine’s April Calendar Wallpaper post! I decided to contain my excitement until the post came out and I could point you to it.

There’s some great stuff there. Very cool idea to incorporate a calendar into a wallpaper: it’s practical and it can be a nice feature by itself.

Happy April!

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  1. Rafie says

    31 March 2008 at 17:23

    :up: Good work!

  2. Hamish M says

    1 April 2008 at 11:24

    Great work! The wallpaper is awesome 🙂

  3. kristarella says

    1 April 2008 at 12:01

    Thanks Rafie and Hamish!

  4. tracy says

    1 April 2008 at 12:11

    Congratulations!!! :up:

    I guess this means my kristarella header photos just went up tremendously in value?

    tracy
    http://www.Living90045.com

  5. kristarella says

    1 April 2008 at 15:18

    Thanks tracy…

    Haha, umm I have no idea about the value of the photos, but I’m glad they’re working out for you! 🙂

  6. Satya says

    3 April 2008 at 12:32

    congratulations!

    it’s quite simply
    smashing…

  7. kristarella says

    3 April 2008 at 14:54

    Cheers Satya 😀

  8. heleng says

    4 April 2008 at 11:15

    Just catching up with your blog. Congratulations! Really love your design – you are so o o o talented!

  9. LaurenMarie - Creative Curio says

    9 April 2008 at 03:24

    Too cool! How did I miss this post?!

    How did they find your wallpaper? Did you submit it? Did they find it on dA? Or…?

  10. kristarella says

    9 April 2008 at 08:00

    I submitted it – I made it for that. I guess it’s not so much a competition because you don’t win anything, but they asked for people to make calendar wallpapers and submit them before the end of each month.

  11. LaurenMarie - Creative Curio says

    9 April 2008 at 08:32

    Perhaps you don’t get a physical prize, but for a blogger, traffic from a site like SM is just about as good! So they announce it at the end of the month? Like at the end of a post? I’ve never seen it before. Of course, I usually don’t read SM so much as look at all the pretty pictures 😀

  12. kristarella says

    9 April 2008 at 13:12

    I agree, increase in traffic is a good reward. Although I didn’t notice a significant increase… perhaps it was indistinguishable from a spike in StumbleUpon traffic 🙂

    They announced it in this post. Me too, I often don’t read the whole articles and just look at the pictures 🙂

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