College of
Technology
Anderson/Muncie
Community Service Web Design Contest
Who: High school students
What: Show the
world your creativity and serve your community
When: Friday, February 29, 2008
Where: Purdue College of Technology Anderson
2705
Enterprise Drive (I69 @ Exit 22)
Anderson,
Indiana
Contact: Gary Randolph
(gbrandolph@purdue.edu) – 765.648.2906
More
Info: www.tech.purdue.edu/anderson/webcontest
Sponsored
By
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Innovative Technical Solutions, Inc. |
Computer Renaissance |
Deltec Information Solutions 2418 West 7th Streett Muncie, IN 47302 |
Prizes
Trophies
or plaques will be awarded to the first, second, and third place teams.- Drawings for other prizes.
- The winning entries will be served on the Purdue College of Technology Anderson website for six months following the contest.
Rules
1. 
The
contest is open to high school students working individually or in teams of
2-4. Students must do all the work of creating the web pages, but may accept
advice and guidance from teachers or other adult sponsors.
2. Each entry must be a web site of four or more web pages. The web site can be on any topic that serves the community, such as local tourism, school pride, local sports, community environmental issues, biography of someone local person, etc.
3. Entries must be brought to the competition on a CD. Entries will be loaded to a local web server during judging.
4. Entries must adhere to copyright laws. All graphics and multimedia used in the web site must be listed in a paper brought to the competition with notations that (a) the team members own the rights to the graphic or file, (b) the file is free to use (with a URL reference to the source and a URL reference to proof that it is free to use, or (c) the team has obtained permission to use the file with the permission documentation included.
5. Web pages may be developed either with an editor such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver or with hand-coded HTML. Web pages may not be created from Word, PowerPoint, or other programs with web converters.
6. Web pages must employ standards-based web design with well-formed HTML and CSS. The following will be applied in judging regardless of whether the HTML was hand-coded or created with an editor:
a. Every HTML opening tag (i.e. <p>) must have a matching closing tag (i.e. </p>). Tags that have no closing tag should include a space and the closing slash at the end of the tag (i.e. <br />).
b. Opening and closing tags must match in case (upper or lower).
c. HTML should use no font tags. Cascading Style Sheets should be used for font styles, sizes, and colors.
d. Tables may be used, but should be formatted primarily with Cascading Style Sheets.
e. Frames should not be used.
f. Web pages may employ JavaScript. If the JavaScript is required for navigation, a non-JavaScript alterative navigation option (such as hyperlinks at the bottom) must be included.
g. Flash, Shockwave, and other technologies that require plug-ins may not be used.
h. Server-side programming, such as ASP, ASP.NET, or JSP, may not be used.
i. Web pages must employee techniques to be accessible by the visually-impaired. All images should be coded using ALT attributes. All text should be coded so that users can enlarge it in their browsers.
j. Web pages must be fully functional and maintain approximately the same appearance in Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.
Judging
Criteria
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Content
(30%) · Quality of content and relevance to community · Spelling and grammar Design &
Style (35%) · Overall visual appeal and style · Consistent look-and-feel throughout web site · Readability (color, contrast, font, whitespace) |
Coding
(35%) · Standards-based web design · Effective and successful navigation and links · Accessibility for vision-impaired · Cross-browser functionality and appearance · Page load speed · Adherence to copyright laws and documentation |