Submitting a design

This section will cover the questions related to submitting a design to our contests. You should note that our rules are especially strict for Professional contests.

General Contest Guidelines

1. Entering Contests

• Every entry should meet the requirements of the contest description
• A short description of the design may be provided in the entry's notes box upon uploading
  
• Designers may only post 3 entries into each contest
• Revisions may only be made upon request of the contest holder

Please Note: At times, a forum administrator might allow more than 3 entries to be submitted. However, designers shouldn't ask for this directly!

If you have submitted a contest entry and misunderstood the contest brief, or made an assumption about something not covered in the brief, your corrected entry will count as one of your 3 submissions. For this reason, we kindly ask that designers pay careful attention to what is, and what is not, stated in the brief.

2. Late Submissions

• Designers should check the current contest deadline before entering
• Post-deadline entries are not allowed and will be removed immediately
• Revisions that were requested prior to the deadline may be honored

Please Note: A contest deadline may sometimes get extended. Designers will not be notified when an extension occurs, so please watch for it.

3. Communication (during an open contest)

• Designers may only contact the contest holder via the contest thread or contest page
  
• External communication with the contest holder will lead to banishment
• The contest thread shouldn't be used to comment on others' designs
• Comments left to the contest holder must be polite and professional

Please Note: If you wish to comment on a particular design, consider sending a Private Message to the designer, or report the entry to the site moderators by clicking on the "X" in the lower right corner of the entry or starting a thread in the Chat with the Mods area of the forum.