Web Designer Contest

Posted on February 15, 2001

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The WDF Contest site is currently having its third contest. This time it's a web design studio competition. If you're interested in what we are doing, visit out site and vote if you'd like to. Any one can vote and the contest is run on a pure fun basis.

The WDF Contest a free contest developed by 4 volunteers: Wesley Grubbs, designer and Moderator; Tim Booker, designer; Mike Lessar, cgi developer; Ashwin Kandoi, domain donator. Our goal is to promote web design and give designers insight on how the general public views their site. Many people ask to have their sites critiqued and this is a helpful way to do that objectively. We are also constantly developing our site. The voting script improves with each contest and a new re-design is on the road of being released.

www.wdf-contest.net

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is it running?

Submitted by aardvark on February 16, 2001 - 19:43.

There's nothing detailing qualifications. What makes a good site? Compliance? Design? Will Flash sites have an automatic leg up for the eyecandy factor?

And it says that the contest is accepting entries after 15 February, but the link in the header isn't going anywhere.

It is running.

Submitted by wgrubbs on February 17, 2001 - 04:26.

There are rules and regulations detailing whether or not you may be qualified for the contest. The rules up now are for the personal homepage contest and new details will be up in a few days for the next Web Design Studio contest. The public decides what makes a good site. That is why the public votes on the site. If you go to the contest, you will notice that you rate each site on different catagories: navigation, design, content, navigation, overall. As far as Flash sites are concerned, I have not had many major sites with Flash involved. However, keep in mind that not every computer has the Flash plugin and everybody can vote. That makes the results on the site more realistic. The contest has been extended to the 20th of Feb. I have just changed that. After this time, you should be able to enter your site for the next contest. Thanks for the Feedback! Wesley Grubbs Moderator

evolt and the contest

Submitted by guava on February 17, 2001 - 06:50.

what is evolts role?

evolt has no role

Submitted by aardvark on February 17, 2001 - 08:08.

evolt.org has no role in this. Mr. Grubbs posted his announcement to the site, it was approved by the evolt.org admin, and that's about it. There was no reason not to, since it relates to web development, and doesn't appear to be a scam. Do you feel that evolt.org is doing something it shouldn't?

Evolt's role

Submitted by wgrubbs on February 17, 2001 - 09:05.

Actually, I'm new to the group here. I am part of WDF, the Web Designers Forum list and from there I had the idea to create a contest for Web Designers and Developers. Several people from the WDF told me about evolt. The WDF Contest is a contest to give us, or those of us who consider ourselves designers and developers, a general idea of how the public may view our sites. It's just an objective approach. It's non-profit and pure fun and it's definitely growing. It's is small for the time being, but since we've had our own domain and more advnced designers submitting their sites, I've had a lot of positive feedback about the contest and growing traffic. This is on evolt, because evolt is a site specifically for Web designers and developers, as is the contest. Evolt's only role here is to promote the contest and let more developers know what is going on in their industry. I feel it is totally justifiable to put this article here, that's why I posted it.

No qualms about posting...

Submitted by damclean on February 19, 2001 - 12:21.

While I see no reason not to post an announcement of a Web development contest by WDF, I have to wonder, who the public is?

Technically speaking the majority of people seeing the contest will be Web developers and thus they will vote according to what they liked seeing. And so really you may only get a sense of how web developers see your (contestants) sites.

But still, sounds like fun. Be sure to let us know when everything is fully functional.

The customer is always right...

Submitted by nmyers on April 12, 2001 - 10:26.

...I don't think I'll ever win any competitions for my design work, but I've never had a complaint or sore customer yet - so I'll just judge myself by that :o) Perhaps one day I'll be able to enter such a competition - but right now - I'd just feel a fool.

hmmm

Submitted by guava on April 12, 2001 - 23:16.

are evolt staff allowed to join?

evolt staff?

Submitted by aardvark on April 12, 2001 - 23:26.

You mean, can evolt.org admins compete? Well, I don't see why not. Not only does evolt.org have no staff (just volunteers and donated time, on Friday nights for me), but it is in no way affiliated with the group holding. I'd never even heard of them until this article came through. However, I don't think any admins have signed up (although now I'm thinking...). Is there a reason you ask?

bias

Submitted by guava on April 13, 2001 - 01:28.

just wondering about fairness, but overall i think evolt is cool. i posted my first thread after i saw a senior evolt member joining the contest and i thought it was unfair then. now i think theres no problem to being part of a group that competes amongst themselves. something ws wrong in my xt brain those past weeks. hmmm, long live community!

anyone can participate

Submitted by wgrubbs on April 13, 2001 - 13:17.

i'm the moderator and even i submit my own site for the personal contest. and i still haven't won:( Actually.. this contest is not about winning or losing. It's more about the fun of it all. And, I just found a sponsor to offer a couple things in the next contest we'll have. Like overall winner will get a free domain (.com or .net) and 1 year hosting.. And we are about to do a whole face life on the site with other features, like site reviews, forums, design tutorials..etc. We are also volunteers, so it depends on how much free time is available before all of this is ready.. but hopeully in 2 weeks. For now the current contest is running until I decide it's a good time to stop it.. hopefully after there are enough votes to make it legit enough to have each site rating objective. the goal is to increase the awareness of the wdfc and promote an improvement of the web in this way. one thing that hypes me right now is that this is only the third contest. the first one had only a few entries and i even counted votes by hand:), now there are quite a few entries (like 60) from which i make my selection as well as an automated system that rocks and was build from scratch just for the site. any feedback or comments are strongly welcome. we are looking for ways to improve. and thanks for the comments so far.

cool

Submitted by guava on April 13, 2001 - 21:50.

yeah id like to volunteer too, just that theres just so little i know. i think the net should be 'free'. so more power.

ideas are welcome

Submitted by wgrubbs on April 14, 2001 - 07:09.

you can always submit ideas.. and we have a list that you can subscribe to from the site. we don't always communicate over the list, but it's a way to contact all of us at once.. and the list is planned to be used more in the near future.

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