And the winner is...

Once again, thank you to everyone who entered our competition and filled out the survey. We have randomly selected a winner and the proud recipient of a new CSSEdit 2.6 copy is Domantas Jankauskas. Congratulations!

If you are interested in the outcome of the survey, please feel free to read on. We’ll be discussing some of your responses and how Design Shack has changed as a result.

Silverback Previews

Silverback is a new app which lets you run your own usability tests really easily. It looks set to be a great new tool for designers who want to analyze how users interact with their site. After a recent request for beta testers, a few interesting details are emerging:

• Read Kyle Meyer’s initial impressions
• Quicktime movies are created which show the user’s interaction with the site
• A video and audio recording is also taken of the user, showing their expressions and remarks
• It can also be used for testing desktop applications
• It’s Mac only for now, likely due to the standard hardware features of Apple laptops

It’s certainly an application which could bring the idea of usability testing to a large market. There’s no substitute to actually watching someone using your website when testing it. Keep your eyes peeled for a release and give it a try for yourself.

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9rules Submission Open

For the next few hours, the blog network 9rules have opened their doors to website submissions. They run a high quality network of sites and provide a central way to access all their content. Members includes sites such as Smashing Magazine, CSS Globe and PSDTuts.

If you think that your site has a great design, great quality content and regular updates then it is definitely worth submitting. There are some great tips to help with deciding whether you will qualify as well.

Submit your site to 9rules

Follow us on Twitter

A few of our kind readers wouldn’t stop pestering us…! All updates to the CSS gallery and news will now be sent to Twitter, providing another yet another way to subscribe to Design Shack.

Follow us on Twitter

We are also likely to use this method to notify you of competitions, updates and new features to the site – so make sure you don’t miss out and become a follower.

See you there!

Changing for the Better

First of all, a huge thank you to the hundreds of people who responded to our survey – we’ve had some great suggestions of improvements to the site. The survey will be running for the next few days before we announce the winner of the contest so if you haven’t filled it in yet, please do!

Win a CSSEdit License in 30 Seconds

Update: The survey is now over, thank you to all those who participated – we will be contacting the winner shortly

We have four questions to ask you – it will take somewhere between 30 seconds and a minute to answer them and you stand a chance of winning a copy of CSSEdit.

CSSEdit is a highly acclaimed piece of software, allowing you to design beautiful websites with greater ease. Our introduction to CSSEdit highlighted some of the application’s features, along with how to get started using it.

You can click the link below to fill out the survey – be sure to include your email address and we will be in touch if you are a winner!

New Job Board Launches

Sure, the idea of providing a job board is not a new thing, but we are just going to quickly take you through a few features of our brand spanking new recruitment section. The board is powered by Krop, so it is already filled with positions from a range of impressive blue chip firms.

You have the ability to search by position (e.g. ‘css designer’), or by location (e.g. san francisco). If no jobs exist for a particular search, you can elect to be emailed when one is posted. Full details are available for each job and application is usually as simple as sending an email.

Obviously if you are a prospective employer the option to post a new job is available, which is seen by our audience as well as a whole range of other websites.

We hope you like the new feature – as ever, please hit us with your thoughts and comments!

May 1st Reboot

May 1st Reboot is an international re-launch of websites around the world by authors and creatives working in the web design field. Voting has just gone live until the 8th May, so head over to the site and decide which designs you prefer.