CSS Off

The Contest

  • Convert a .psd into HTML making use of web standards, in 24 hours or less. Think SimpleQuiz, except it's the final exam.

The Mission

  • To actively engage the web community in web standards with an emphasis on valid, semantic markup
  • To emphasize good web design as an integral part of the development process
  • To use the contest as an opportunity to teach

Other Stuff

Wikinetic Judging is Underway

We’ve got a total of 8 entries for the third CSS Off contest. Considering our judge-to-entrant ratio, our entries should get some pretty decent customized feedback.

We heard mixed reactions on the higher focus of design for this contest. We’ll take your comments to heart and re-evaluate our implementation of bullet number two of our mission, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we will do less of that sort of thing.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that we will break a record of how soon results will be posted.

Commentary

  1. It’s a shame that so few participated this time. Most of the best contestants from last time are now judges! Nonetheless, I will appreciate the feedback.

    It’s also a shame that I postponed checking with IE 6 until a short time before the deadline. What’s worse is my broken conditional comment that screwed up IE 7, sealing my fate.

    A note to the judges: for what it’s worth, here is a link to the exact same page with just the lacking space in the conditional comment added:

    http://jose.kotvas.efata.org/wikinetic_final/

    Now IE 7 looks just about up to spec. Could feedback be based on this version? There are other obvious fixes needed, but I left them alone.

    Oh well, such is the nature of frantic, last-minute corrections. Thank you for the contest.

  2. You should have guest designers. The last 2 designs have been very similar.

  3. hey! I really wanted to participate this time around, but I couldn’t make it on that day, unfortunately. I will for sure participate the next time. I really appreciate your effort!!

  4. definitely not breaking any records =P

  5. :)

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