Michal Bulla's Blog at HomeRefurbers.com http://homerefurbers.com/members/buli/blog Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:59:08 GMT HomeRefurbers Awards - Summer 2008 #3: And the Winners are http://homerefurbers.com/members/buli/blog/70 Today is the Day we were waiting for. Our successful HomeRefurbers Summer Awards are over, so let me officially announce the winners.

DECKED OUT IN COMFORT

1st Place – My new Deck by karson (25 points)

2nd Place – Our deck short of decked out and painted by PaBull (19 points)

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Click here to see the complete results.

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And here is the lucky winner of our stylish HR shirt (randomly selected from all the voters):

  • Dick, & Barb

Congratulations, everyone! I’m going to PM the prize winners shortly.

THANK YOU EVERYBODY! I’m already looking forward to the next Awards edition …

]]> Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:59:08 GMT http://homerefurbers.com/members/buli/blog/70 Michal Bulla New Contests page http://homerefurbers.com/members/buli/blog/69 Take a look at our new feature. I have now added a “contest” tab on the top of the page. This will allow you to review our current and past Awards and Challenges much more easily. This tab links to the new contests page where you can see all information together with the corresponding dates.

Enjoy!

]]> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:04:23 GMT http://homerefurbers.com/members/buli/blog/69 Michal Bulla HomeRefurbers Awards - Summer 2008 #2: Cast Your Votes http://homerefurbers.com/members/buli/blog/68 July has been an entertaining and inspiring month, as the entries for our Awards category came in. I am very pleased to see the great response – with 9 Decked Out In Comfort entries.

And now, it’s time to select our Awards winners. So, you have until August 7th at 3 PM Central make your selections.

Only HomeRefurbers who have posted at least one project in the past are allowed to vote and, for those of you who have submitted an Awards entry, you will notice that your project is not listed when you make your selections. (You are not allowed to vote for yourself.) So don’t panic when you do not see your entry in the list for voting purposes – others can pick your entry without any problems.

Then on August 8th I will announce the Award Recipients. Click on the big VOTE AND WIN button on the Awards pages to cast your votes now. Yes… the button caption contains WIN word since the one lucky random voter will win our stylish HomeRefurbers Shirt ;)

GOOD LUCK to everyone!

]]> Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:26:57 GMT http://homerefurbers.com/members/buli/blog/68 Michal Bulla HomeRefurbers Awards - Summer 2008 #1: Announcement http://homerefurbers.com/members/buli/blog/61 Let me introduce our very first HomeRefurbers Awards - Summer 2008 edition.

Feel free to compete in this unique category:

Decked Out In Comfort: Whether your outdoor space is a balcony, terrace, patio or deck, turning it into “your space” is part of the pleasure! Show us how you have renovated your deck (whatever that is for you) and how you have made it your own personal retreat. We want to see creativity, comfort, and skill, all rolled into one, in this first-ever Awards event for our HomeRefurbers site.

Show others your creativity and win one of our special prizes. Don’t forget that entry deadline is July 31, 2008 at 3 PM CDT

Have fun!

]]> Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:45:13 GMT http://homerefurbers.com/members/buli/blog/61 Michal Bulla What awards category would you like to compete in ? http://homerefurbers.com/members/buli/blog/54 The first Summer HomeRefurbers Awards is approaching fast and we are wondering what categories would suit you best. Please let us know what award categories you would like to compete in. It would help us a lot…

Thanks!

]]> Fri, 23 May 2008 08:16:55 GMT http://homerefurbers.com/members/buli/blog/54 Michal Bulla Embeddable Project Cards For Easy Sharing http://homerefurbers.com/members/buli/blog/29 For those who came from LJ it’s nothing new, for the others – new feature which allows you to share your projects with style. It’s as easy as sharing the youtube videos or photobucket pictures. You just copy the embed code and paste it to your posts on the Web. Let me introduce the one and only HomeRefurbers Embeddable Project Cards!

Each project page now features the Embed This Project box at the sidebar:

As you can see it contains following three codes:

1. HomeRefurbers code that you can easily use on this site
2. HTML code that you can use to display the project cards on your own website or blog
3. URL/IMG code in the BBCode format – it’s one of the most used formatting codes on the Forums across the Web.

Just copy and paste the proper code to enjoy nice project card linked to the corresponding project post:

Enjoy sharing your projects.

]]> Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:57:38 GMT http://homerefurbers.com/members/buli/blog/29 Michal Bulla