This
is the 3rd year we are holding this contest. Like previous years, all
winners will get a nice award certificate from the Department of
Computer Science as well as a small prize. Being a winner will of
course be a great recognition on your Web design skills.
Objective
The objective of this contest is to encourage students to use a balance
of well-proven Web engineering principles coupled with good Web design
guidelines to produce high quality Websites that follows Web standards
and good usability/accessibility best practices.
Eligibility
- All full-time/part-time students at CityU
- Any major/department
Teams
- Maximum 2 eligible members per team
- Each person can only join one team
- Each team may submit only one entry
- Team members names and academic departments must be clearly listed in website entry
Details
- Contest End Time: 14 Nov 2007 - 8pm
- Search Keywords: "CityU Web Hacker" Turtle
- Design Theme: turtle
Rules
The following are the general rules for the contest:
- Good Content
To participate in this contest, you will need to design at least one
page with content and design related to this year's theme. (To join,
you might only need to spend a few hours of work.)
- Follow Web Standards
All websites must be W3C validated for XHTML and CSS to qualify for this contest.
- Good Search Engine Optimization
At the specified contest end time, the combined top 15 search results from both Google and Yahoo will be considered as the finalist of this contest. The search will be performed using the specified set of keywords.
- Good Usability/Accessibility
From the list of finalists, the SiteScore
(excluding Visitor Rating score) or similar rankings will be computed.
These score will be combined with other usability/accessibility
guidelines to determine the quality of the overall design. The top
resulting scores will be used to determine the winning entries.
Disqualification
- Entry will be disqualified if it used spamming to improve its page ranking.
Judging Panel
The
contest judging panel will consist of CityU academic staff members. The
decision of the judging panel is final. The judging panel may at their
own discretion award less than or more than 10 award winners.
How To Participate
Just create your website and make sure it is accessible from search
engines. All contest participants must add the following statement in
their website:
Agreement
This website was
created as an entry to CityU's "eXtreme Web Designer Award" contest.
The authors of this website agree to abide by all the rules and
regulations of this contest as specified in:
http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~hwchun/extreme/
Use of Entries
By
participating in this contest, the participant agrees that CityU may
use screen images and/or source code of the participant's entry website
as well as use and publish the participant's name and entry in any type
of media. Entrants further agree that their submitted statements are
expressions of their personal belief and opinion.
