Suggestion: Contest

heebiejeebieclu's picture

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Why don'r we have contests on TWF? If someone want their site or signature designed or something like that, they could name a price/prize and the best one wins! They have it on other forums of this kind and I think it's a really good idea.

Busy's picture

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TWF isn't other sites Wink

The idea of TWF (or at least my understanding of it) is for people interested in the web world to come together to help one another. To ask for or help with a problem.
Unlike other webmaster forums, TWF is a non profit site run by volunteers, has never included affiliate banners or links to pay for it's running. the banners up top are for advertising of members sites - for free.

Also, to run contests etc would have to mean someone was better than everyone else. We are all equal here, age is only a number, skills and talents are so varied, locations of members stretch across the world back again.

How would you judge the best web site? by page rank, by awards won, by money earnt, by visitors received, by amount of eye candy used ... ?
I could use one of my sites as a perfect example, has a page rank of 0 (as I block all SE's) yet my log files average on 90mb a week (nine zero and it's not a porn or casino site) and has very little in the way of eye candy, has never won an award - is only newish but is mostly valid XHTML. Would I win?

my favorite quote:
Is being different really a crime?

KarenArt's picture

She has: 354 posts

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I don't know... a contest could be fun...
if there was a swimsuit event....

for the guys. Wink Laughing out loud

Afraid I gotta agree... there's no way I could ever pick a "best" website or "best" anything from this talented group.

Even though the swimsuit thing could be fun. Wink

gotta finish redesigning my sites so I can show them again.

The purpose of education is... to get more jokes!

heebiejeebieclu's picture

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What I mean is.. say you wanted a logo designed, people would design it for you, and you would pick the one that you liked the most, and that suited your site the most. And there could be lotsof different 'classes' to bring out the best in everybody.

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Quote: What I mean is.. say you wanted a logo designed, people would design it for you, and you would pick the one that you liked the most, and that suited your site the most. And there could be lotsof different 'classes' to bring out the best in everybody.

Confused

Roo

Busy's picture

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If someone wants a banner designed they can advertise for one in the market place

If someone wants advice or opinions on banners they have created they can list in the graphics section

IMO this way works as no one is better than anyone else, everyones tastes and opinions vary so no one person is right or wrong.

heebiejeebieclu's picture

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I jsut thought it would be fun. Perhaps we should have a poll...

He has: 578 posts

Joined: Jun 2004

You could have people submit new skins. Then you could have all of them implemented and people could use whatever they wanted.

heebiejeebieclu's picture

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Now that's good idea. I never thought that this topic would get dredged up again...

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