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So, let’s bask in the Thanksgiving spirit getting some really cool gifts from the kind Monster!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ok, here we go with the results of our research - as you know it, in this research we were kindly assisted by our audience. So it appears to be that in our first Halloween research post we were right and wrong at the same time. We were right about the fact that there are not much websites that really pay attention to the Halloween design customizations. Come one, 40 websites or so suggested by thousands of our audience… That’s not as many as we expected.

On the other hand judging from what we have received, there’s more that we were able to find initially. Anyways, it’s good to know that our audience really did help us without making us look like idiots that didn’t see something obvious

Plus, we have already started contacting the participants who’ve been suggesting the customized websites and delivering the prizes to them. In case you didn’t know, the prizes are 10 free unlimited hosting accounts from JustHost, 5 free templates from TemplateMonster as well as significant discounts both from TemplateMonster and JustHost. By the way, we want to address the participants (and the winners) - guys, please allow 2 business days for the prizes to be delivered, ok? No one will be forgotten.

Ok, enough of talking. It’s time for some rating. Please welcome the Top 20!

20. Ehow

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19. Bagolitas

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TemplateMonster is glad to present you a comprehensive tutorial of customization of your website Header for such a majestic holiday as Halloween. With a little help of Adobe Photoshop you can spread some festive mood on your website. Just follow all the steps in this tutorial, written in details by our designers, to create outstanding vivid designs for your website. Here we explain you general techniques of how to customize your header. Following our tutorial step-by-step and using your reach imagination you can produce fascinating designs for your website to give it 100% up-to-date look. So let’s begin!

1. Cleaning the Header

At first you have to remove all the useless elements of your header:

Go to the Layers Panel and select Layers or Layer Sets you would wish to remove and then hit the Delete button;

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Ok, guys, remember this post we’ve published earlier today? About how bad things are in the field of customizing the websites for Halloween. Well, we were serious when we said that we’re going to do something about it. Right now we’re working on the design part of this ‘awareness’ campaign that will help website owners get prepared for holiday customizations.

And today we start the most awesome part (that by the way will be something that will bring you the killing treats from TemplateMonster and our lovely hosting partner JustHost.com). We know that there are websites that ARE customized for Halloween and that we were unable to find (sadly). So please go ahead and suggest websites that in your opinion have a good Halloween customization and enter your chance to win the freebies.

So here’s the deal. In case you’ve seen a website that was decorated with Halloween customization (that’s supposed to be a non-Halloween-related website, just decorated with Halloween elements) please let us know its URL in the comments section on this page. Based on what you all suggest we will arrange a rating of Top 20 Halloween website customizations and publish it all on our blog this Friday. And here’s how you get these presents from us and JustHost.com:

1. Submit the website URL in the comments section (please note that only websites that ARE NOT directly connected to Halloween are eligible; the ones that have the permanent Halloween topic are not allowed).
Plus, be sure to use an active email while posting the comment. That’s the email we’ll be using to contact you when you win.

2. In case the website you have suggested makes it to the Top 5 of our list you will receive a FREE Website Template from TemplateMonster and one year of FREE Hosting (free domain included) from JustHost.com

3. In case the website you have suggested eventually takes the position 6 to 10 you will get one year of FREE Hosting (free domain included) from JustHost.com and a 50% discount for any product from TemplateMonster.

4. In case the website you have suggested eventually takes the position 11 to 15 you will get a 50% discount for ordering one year of hosting from JustHost.com and a 35% discount for any of TemplateMonster products.

5. In case the website you have suggested eventually takes the position 16 to 20 you will get a 50% discount for ordering one year of hosting from JustHost.com and a 25% discount for any of TemplateMonster products.

6. In case the website you have suggested doesn’t make it to the Top 20 but it does have Halloween decorations and you were the first to suggest it you will receive a 20% discount for ordering one year of hosting from JustHost.com and a 10% discount for any of TemplateMonster products.

Disclaimer:

The results will be published on Friday, October 30th and all of the prizes info will also be delivered on Friday. Off to the comments everyone! Good luck!

Halloween Customizations, guys, is a useful experience we should say. In fact it brings lots of benefits to the site owners attracting the greater customer pool and consequently the amount of profits. If you take care about wonderful foundation to your site visual look, someone will surely notice you.

But as previously, in case of hosting sites, we have encountered with the absence of good Halloween customization examples in a sufficient number. Or else, we may suppose that they do exist, but are thoroughly hidden.
Update: Ok, we assume you might have seen some decent halloween website design customizations. So let us know of those and enter your chance to win the killing Halloween treats from TemplateMonster.com and JustHost.com including free website templates and free unlimited hosting packages. Please see more details in the promo post.

And what we have as a result? The great mass of websites does not have enough serious approach towards customization issue. And in the long run, we see Halloween customizations that, in terms of design execution, leave much to be desired. Many thanks for them even! At least someone undertakes the festive actions for the holiday. By the way, TM home page Halloween customization design is upcoming, shortly (or maybe it’s there as you are reading this).

Have a look at the rest of the bravehearts:

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Enom.com

By the way, this particular customization made by Enom is the best we’ve seen while searching. The elements of customization perfectly fit the design. Way to go, Enom!
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