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This is the "CityU Web Hacker" Turtle website participate 2007 Extreme Web Designer Award (aka "CityU Web Hacker" award). The contest is created by Dr. Andy Chun at the City University of Hong Kong to encourage students to use a balance of good engineering and good design principles to produce Websites with high usability and accessibility.
The theme of this site is "Turtle", which is the design theme of the contest this year. All the pages are valid with XHTML1.0 Strict and CSS2.0.
Dr. Chun give the keywords and design theme every year. Websites which are in the top ten of the search result of Google and Yahoo, would be the winner of the contest.
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.
Details
Contest End Time: 14 Nov 2007 - 8pm
2007 Search Keywords: "CityU Web Hacker" Turtle
Design Theme: Turtle
Name : Cyrux, Wong Ying Kit
SID: 50566636
Program: BSCS
Hobbies: Web Porgramming, Basketball, WE
E-mail: cyruxwong@gmail.com
Turtles, Tortoises, and Terrapins are reptiles of the Order Testudines (all living turtles belong to the crown group Chelonia), most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs. The Order Testudines includes both extant (living) and extinct species, the earliest known turtles being from around 215 million years ago, making turtles one of the oldest reptile groups, and a much more ancient group than lizards and snakes. About 300 species are alive today; some are highly endangered. The largest turtles are aquatic.
The largest chelonian is the great leatherback sea turtle, which reaches a shell length of 200 cm (80 inches) and can reach a weight of over 900 kg (2,000 lb, or 1 short ton). Freshwater turtles are generally smaller, but with the largest species, the Asian softshell turtle Pelochelys cantorii, a few individuals have been reported to mup to 200 cm or 80 in (Das, 1991). This dwarfs even the better-known alligator snapping turtle, the largest chelonian in North America, which attains a shell length of up to 80 cm (31½ in) and a weight of about 60 kg (170 lb).
The largest ever chelonian was Archelon ischyros, a Late Cretaceous sea turtle known to have been up to 4.6 m (15 ft) long.
The smallest turtle is the speckled padloper tortoise of South Africa. It measures no more than 8 cm (3 in) in length and weighs about 140 g (5 oz). Two other species of small turtles are the American mud turtles and musk turtlesthat live in an area that ranges from Canada to South America. The shell length of many species in this group is less than 13 cm (5 in) in length.
Although the word "turtle" is widely used to describe all members of the order Testudines, it is also common to see certain members described as terrapins, tortoises or sea turtles as well. Precisely how these alternative names are used, if at all, depends on the type of English being used.
British English normally describes these reptiles as turtles if they live in the sea; terrapins if they live in fresh or brackish water; or tortoises if they live on land. However, there are exceptions to this where American or Australian common names are in wide use, as with the Fly River turtle.
American English tends to use the word turtle for all species regardless of habitat, although tortoise may be used as a more precise term for any land-dwelling species. Oceanic species may be more specifically referred to as sea turtles. The name "terrapin" is strictly reserved for the brackish water diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin; the word terrapin in this case being derived from the Algonquian word for this animal.
Australian English uses turtle for both the marine and freshwater species but tortoise for the terrestrial species.
Information and photos above are from Wikipedia , to read more, please visit Turtle@Wikipedia.
