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Spreadshirt API Contest Begins Today

Calling all developers! The time has come: as forewarned we are looking for innovative and creative apps developed with our REST API. And today we’re starting that quest with the first Spreadshirt API contest.

Basic Details

The contest starts today and runs until the end of the day on May 31st, 2011. First place gets €3,000, second place €2,000 and third €1,000. You can pretty much create whatever kind of app you want – but we’ve provided you with a couple ideas on the Developer Blog API Contest page. You’ll find even more details there along with the T&Cs for your perusal.

Apps can be submitted either in the API forum, or if you want to keep your stuff private in an email to api-contest AT spreadshirt . net. If you have any questions, let us know in the comments below or directly in the forum.
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Resistance is Futile – Brand (Spanking) New at Spreadshirt

A common question that goes through my head when I put on a shirt: do I look sexy in it? Up until now this answer has only come from the eye of the beholder. But how, how, how can I guarantee that my shirt can become a flirt-shirt?

We’ve thought long and hard about this question – and decided to try and do something about it. To offer our customers something they’ve never had before. We put our test lab on the task. And they didn’t disappoint.

Starting today we are releasing our brand new Pheromone t-shirts. The results were quite astounding. And the best part about our newly-developed spray – you can select it when going through checkout and we will add it to the shirt during production. All you have to choose is whether to attract women or men. Find out more details on our Pheromone Shirt landing page. You can also see the spray and its guaranteed results in this (small) promotion video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqIFZOmowGQ

Here’s to shirts making flirts that much more successful!

Get Some Inspiration for your Spring Outfit

We’ve already officially made it into spring, but thankfully the temperatures are starting to get nice and warm. That means we can hit the streets in more comfortable and lighter clothing! I take these change in seasons as an opportunity to clean up my wardrobe – and what a coincidence: we’ve updated our fashion trends and brands page. Have a look at our ideas on how to create your own spring outfit. Read more

Spreadshirt and WordPress: How to List Your Designs in a Blog

Adding to our guest posts SEO Tips and Creating Cool Shirt Designs, we now bring you WordPress. Our newest guest writer Patrick will show you how to add your design to a WordPress blog. And that’s without using iFrames. It gets a little technical, but it can really be worth your time.

Many of you are already using WordPress to run your shop on an external website or simply to advertise and link to your shop. There isn’t yet a way to completely embed your shop in WordPress. There are a couple of ideas in the Forums and there was even a plugin available at some point. If you want to see how that kind of integration looks, check out Sheepshirts or Katelein, there’s already a WordPress installation running in the background.

Some also use the RSS feed from their Spreadshirt shop to dynamically embed products. That’s actually not that far from what the new Spreadshirt Rest API does – both deliver XML data. This can be read with PHP or other programming languages.

I first want to show you a little example how you can dynamically embed your newest design in a WordPress blog. I am working with the standard theme from WordPress 3, namely the TwentyTen theme. Read more