Just before the holidays, you took part in the iPhorm WordPress Plugin Giveaway, where two of you had a chance of winning a copy of the plugin. Now it is time to draw the winners!

And the two of you who got a late Christmas present are WPH and Mike Dedmon. They have been contacted and will receive their prizes shortly.

iPhorm winners

For those of you who did not win, I wish the best of luck next time!

WordPress is undoubtedly the most popular CMS in the world. It is used for so much more than the authors initially envisioned. With all of its wonderful features and incredible plugins, you can build anything – from a personal blog to a fully-fledged online shop.

With the holidays right around the corner, we decided to give away two copies of the iPhorm plugin which will help you create forms for your website with an easy to use drag-and-drop builder directly from WordPress.

The iPhorm Plugin

iPhorm is a WordPress plugin that makes building forms easy with elements that include email address, date and time, file uploads and many more. The form submissions are received as emails or directly in your dashboard. Designers have full control on how the forms looks, and for everybody else, two themes are provided. For a live demo, see here.

How to Win

For a chance to win a copy of the plugin, do the following:

• Leave a comment below this article;
• Tweet it.

The winners will be announced on January 5th 2012.

Ten days ago you took part in the IM Creator giveaway, where three of you had a chance to win a lifetime subscription for their new web site building service. Now it is time to draw the winners!

And they are kit, Richard Bland and Chen YH. They have been contacted and will receive their prizes soon.

The Winners

I am wishing the best of luck in the coming competitions for those of you who did not win!

Every website is different. From complex online stores that test your development skills, to presentation oriented pages that depend heavily on design, and everything in between. But there is a right tool for any job. You can use an open source CMS to lift the development burden off complex sites, but it would be an overkill for simpler ones.

This is where a tool like IM Creator comes into play.

IM Creator Lifetime License

IM Creator is a new simple and free HTML-based drag and drop website builder that allows you to create your website in a trouble-free, accessible and pleasant experience. With IM Creator, you can build a beautiful site, fast. Start from an existing design or make a new one - it’s up to you.

The Prize

The folks behind IM Creator have generously offered three lifetime licenses for their premium plan to Tutorialzine readers (valued at $95/year each). The offer applies to new clients of their service.

How to Win

For a chance to win a lifetime subscription, do the following:

• Leave a comment below this article;
• Tweet it.

The winners will be announced on December 15th 2011.

A week ago, you took part in the 4Templates giveaway. The curtains are closed, so are the comments, and now is time to draw the winners using the giveaway randomizer app from a while back.

The winners are: Momcilo, SubZero and Imran. They get to choose a premium theme or template from 4Templates for free.

4Templates Winners

For those that did not win, I am wishing best of luck in the giveaways that come!

We are all programmers and writing code is what we do best. But there is a common pain we all share – making our sites look as good as they function. Lets face it – design is hard. Luckily for us however, there is a quick solution to this – a beautifully designed theme that is ready for use.

With the help of our friends at 4Templates, three of you will have a chance to win a premium theme or template of their choice for free.

Win a premium theme from 4Templates

4Templates.com has hundreds of awesome website templates and WordPress themes with amazing graphics, standards compliant XHTML and CSS code, PSD files, and great tech support whenever you need it. And with everything under 30 bucks, you’ll always find something that works great no matter the project or budget.

How to win?

To participate, do the following:

• Leave a comment;
• Tweet about this post.

The winners will be announced on December 1st 2011 in a followup post.

As this is the first post of the year, I would like to thank all of Tutorialzine’s wonderful readers for the amazing support over the past twelve months. In 2011 you will continue to enjoy the highest quality tutorials and articles on the site.

Over 220 people took part in the FormBuilder giveaway, proving that forms are in fact one of the most tedious aspects of web development. But, lets not keep you waiting any longer. Using last year’s Giveaway Randomizer App, I selected five of you to receive a free copy of the script.

The Winners

The winners are:

• Marcelo Conceição;
• Daniel Henrique;
• Feed55;
• gabriel;
• brum;

They have been contacted and will receive their prizes shortly.

It has been a while since I last released a new script on ZineScripts, so I decided it was about time to implement one of the ideas that I’ve had for quite a while now.

Because Forms Suck

If you’ve spent any time as a web developer, you’ve surely come across one of the most tedious aspects of the job. Forms. No matter how many times you’ve created one, nor how much code you have amassed, it is still tedious as hell for a number of reasons:

• Validation You absolutely have to validate user emails, check if important fields are left empty, and in some cases even validate phone numbers, zip codes, dates and so much more. You also need a friendly way of displaying those errors;
• Captchas You don’t want spam bots to submit your form;
• Markup You still have to write all the markup for the forms;
• Design You’ve put so much time in designing your form, only for it to be ruined by the non consistent browser controls;
• AJAX After you’re done with the validation, you will have the pleasure of implementing it all over again on the client side.

This is where FormBuilder comes into play. It solves all of the above in an easy, programmer – friendly manner.

What is FormBuilder?

It is a PHP script that you can upload to your web hosting space. It can build web forms with unlimited length, complete with validation, captcha, error display and custom design by reading a configuration file. Here is what a typical contact form (see it here) looks like :

$config['fields']	= array(
	array(
		'label' 	=> 'Your name',
		'type'		=> 'textField',
		'required'	=> true,
		'errorText'	=> 'Please enter a valid name.',
		'fromName'	=> true
	),
	array(
		'label' 	=> 'Email',
		'type'		=> 'textField',
		'required'	=> true,
		'validation'=> 'email',
		'errorText'	=> 'Please enter a valid email.',
		'fromEmail'	=> true
	),
	array(
		'label'		=> 'Subject',
		'type'		=> 'select',
		'default'	=> 0,
		'items'		=> array('Please Choose','Business proposition','Partnership','General Inquiry'),
	),
	array(
		'label' 	=> 'Message',
		'type'		=> 'textArea',
		'required'	=> true,
		'errorText'	=> 'You are missing a message.'
	)
);

With this approach, developers and designers can finally have a breath of fresh air and automate the dirty work. You can learn more about what FormBuilder is capable of, including tutorials and examples at its official page.

A FormBuilder - Powered Contact Form

Win a Free Copy!

Five of you will have a chance to win a free copy of FormBuilder, complete with sources and PSDs by doing the following:

• Leave a comment below;
• Tweet about this post;

The winners will be announced on January 10th in a follow up post.

I want to take the opportunity to thank all the participants in Tutorialzine’s first giveaway. I was amazed by the interest demonstrated by the community – the post amassed 215 comments and over 120 tweets! Undoubtedly, the great prizes, offered by Viva Themes and ExtendStudio, have whetten your appetites, so lets proceed to the important part.

The winners

I wish there could be a prize for every one of you, but it just wouldn’t be as interesting, would it?

So, with help from this week’s Giveaway Randomizer App, here are the winners of Tutorialzine’s first ever giveaway.

The Winners and their Prizes

Theme of their choice from VivaThemes:

William Rouse
iGilbeys
krypto

A copy of Flexi CSS Layouts Dreamweaver Extension:

webmasterdubai
Fraz Ahmed
dev

Script of their choice from ZineScripts:

Rajasekar T
Alexandre Gemellaro
Objeto Orientado

All the winners will be contacted by email shortly, with directions on how to collect their prizes. For the rest, better luck in the next Tzine giveaways!

Exactly one year ago, in September, 2009, Tutorialzine was born. And it’s been a great year, with over 52 tutorials and a fresh redesign.

The facts

First, some facts about the site:

• Each tutorial takes two to three days from start to finish. This is also why you will probably not see more than one per week. But you will see more useful non-tutorial articles, in addition to the tutorials;
• The tuts are usually written in the week they are released. Which, basically, makes it impossible to have a Tutorial Monday like Chris Spooner does. However, I do plan to organize things better from now on, and have up to a month worth of articles ready to be released. This will not only optimize my time, but also add the benefit of a consistent posting schedule;
• The tutorials are mainly targeted at intermediate / advanced users. This means that beginners may find it challenging to follow the steps in the articles. I have considered starting a “beginners” section, but I haven’t observed any demand for it. If you’d like to see something similar on the site, share it in the comment section;
• I receive a fair amount of support request, regarding tutorial code. Although I try to help everybody, the accent is on the newer tutorials;
• A lot of the support questions I get (both as comments and as email), have already been answered in that same comment thread. Hopefully, the new comment section will improve this observation;
• After one year of building a readership and concentrating on the site, Tutorialzine is finally open for advertisement. The first sponsors to back the site are maxcdn, who made the new theme load significantly faster. If you want speed, I can advice you to take a look at their services.

The Giveaway

For the occasion, some fine folks have offered great prizes for Tutorialzine’s readers.

Three Scripts from ZineScripts

ZineScripts - Awesome Web Apps

Three readers will win a script of their choice from ZineScripts.com.

Three Copies of Flexi CSS Layouts

Flexi CSS Layouts Dreamweaver Extension

Flexi CSS Layouts is a Dreamweaver Extension that helps you create browser compliant table-less web pages with ease. Unlike other products that are limited to templated CSS layouts with 1, 2 or 3 columns, with Flexi CSS Layouts for Dreamweaver you can build your own custom layout structure without coding.

Three commenters will win a free copy of Flexi CSS Layouts.

Three WordPress Themes from Viva Themes

Viva Themes

Viva Themes creates quality and professionally designed WordPress themes. They offer themes for your business, blog or personal sites. All of that comes with their excellent lifetime support.

Three of you can have a theme of their choice from Viva’s site.

How to participate?

To participate, just leave a comment with a valid email in the comment section below. The giveaway ends on September 9^th when 9 winners will be chosen at random and announced in a follow-up post.

For bonus points, you can tweet the following message:

Happy Birthday @tutorialzine! http://bit.ly/cSOfyg
( click to tweet )