Hi, we've been dealing for the past few weeks with some transaction MYSQL error's. We are in the process of fixing them, and got some of the bugs fixed. Hopefully now as soon as you buy a credit, the credit should be effective in your account immediately.

Also, the new contest prize minimum is $100. We had a large volume from our community saying that $50 minimum for a logo is way too low. We want our community to feel encouraged to enter contests. If you feel that that your contest should be $50 then please feel free to contact us and we can arrange something.

Thanks all,
Denook.com

Hi all,

It's been a while since we posted a blog here on Denook.com. The last couple of weeks have been hectic here at Denook. We have been dealing with some serious spam issues. We repeatedly keep having the same users who post fake entries, and send some nasty comments. We are trying our best to control this issue - by blocking their IP Addresses, Banning their user names, and deleting their entries.

To improve our environment here at Denook.com. We have just installed a Spam system, and Word Filtering system for future spammers. If the spam gets worse our Spam system will detect the patterns of those users and eventually block them for good.

We want to thank everyone who has been hanging in there with us and supporting the community by sending us emails about the spammers. We thank you for your concern, and lets keep making Denook a better place!

In the past 3 days, Denook hasn't been loading on IE7. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you can please use Firefox until then. Luckily we will be launching a major update to Denook hopefully by tomorrow. The new update should fix the IE7 Issues.

Hi all, OpenSourceHunter wrote about us yesterday! They are a respected site with great and useful open-source resources, tools, tutorials, interviews, inspirations, contests, and lots more!

Make sure to check out the article they wrote about us at the link below, and leave a comment. Thanks!
http://www.opensourcehunter.com/2008/10/17/denook-a-community-of-designe...

We experienced over 12 hours of downtime today with our payment system. We went over some upgrades last night, and this morning with getting content paths friendly names. During the upgrades our previous contest payment system went completely broke.

After the hours of downtime, we now have a new payment system, and denook credits! You can now purchase a design contest and then after purchase a credit is added to your profile to add a design contest. You can see your contest credits by looking in your profile tabs "My Denook Credits".

Sorry to all the contest holders who wanted to post today, and had troubles. I have personally contacted each of you to get your contest listing up. All of our members, we should have some new contests up soon :)

Hey all,

Just wanted to let you all know that Denook.com is now on Crunchbase!

Crunchbase is a division of Techcrunch and it is known as one of the top growing company directories on the internet.

If you have a chance, drop us a comment on our company profile:
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/denook

We've improved the new user feedback system on the design entries.

What improved?
- Now when submitting feedback to a design entry it shows the entry your submitting to.
- After submitting feedback it takes you back to the appropriate page it belongs to.

What's to come now that the feedback system is being improved?
- RSS Feeds for your latest feedback
- Latest feedback on your user profiles

I hope you enjoy the new feature! And many more to come as we continue to make your experience at Denook better.

We've added thumbnail views to your profile of your recent entries, and yes you can see if your entry is a winner!

More cool user profile features coming:
- Latest feedback
- Recent stuff for sale

We want to thank everyone who has visited the site, and we are proud to say we have touched over 1k of Unique Visitor's today for the very first time!

This is the start of a milestone to keep the activity going. We are also making an attempt to upgrading to a new hosting company that can handle a better load.

Thanks for the support!
Denook.com

We got a new email this morning from NewWebPick that we've qualified as a NewWebPick site for our design & technology!