The Impossible Design Challenge - our first contest!
That's right, we are holding our very first contest – hopefully the first of many. The theme for the contest is “The impossible design challenge”. Participants must design a web page or web site based on a seemingly impossible design theme. And just in time for Hallowe'en
This month's theme is the color orange. And not just any orange. We're going with the ugliest, most hideous shade(s) of orange we can possibly find. You've got two choices: #FF3300 (Red-Red-Orange) or #996600 (Dark Orange-Yellow). Your challenge is to design a web page or site using one of those colours.
Contest Process
- Entires must be recieved by 4:30 PM Eastern Standard Time on October 31, 2006. You may submit your entry by posting it in the Contest Entires thread (availalbe on or around October 27th) or by sending it directly to Megan by Private Message. Include the URL to your design and a title for it (if you don't include a title Megan will make one up for you)
- After entries are closed, Megan will choose 5-7 finalists (judging criteria below)
- The five finalists will be put into a poll for voting by the forum community at large. Names will not be posted with the submissions at this stage so you may submit anonymously if you'd like (submit to Megan by PM)
Prizes
Free advertising on the forums: One month free banner ad one year in the “filler” sponsor ad area (these are the Opera/Advertise here/Tidget.com ads that rotate in the remaining sponsor spots).
Additional prizes may be named at a later date. Please contact me if you have anything you'd like to donate. Lots of kudos will be posted if you do.
NEW! Cash prizes to be announced soon!
Judging Critera
Submissions will be judged based on the following critera
- Use of the design theme (in this case, the colour orange. The more orange you have the better you score!)
- Attractiveness and quality of design
- Level of difficulty (i.e. Do you take the easy route or do you make it more challenging?)
Extras:
4. Theme and content of page/site (you have to make it about something!)
5. Quality of HTML/CSS code
Additional judging criteria may be defined later. This is our first run at this so we will work things out as we go
Rules
- All TWF members are eligible, including moderators (Megan excluded, of course, and Jeevesbond due to potential conflict of interest with the judge
)
- Maximum of two entries per person
- Your site/page may be about anything you like, as long as it is not against the general TWF content regulations.
- You may submit a single-page design, a full site, or a CMS/blog theme (implemented). It must be coded in HTML/CSS (no graphic mock-ups)
- You must use the specified shades of orange (#FF3300 (Red-Red-Orange) or #996600 (Dark Orange-Yellow)). You may not modify or adjust this colour.
- Your work must be original. It may not be based on any other work or template. Any submissions found to be derivative works will be immedately removed from consideration. Should the winning entry be found to be derivative work the prizes will be immediately revoked.
How to enter
A new thread entitled "Contest Entires" will be posted on October 27th. Contest entries will not be publicly accepted before then - just so you don't influence the other entrants. If you prefer, you can send entries to me by private message any time before the contest deadline. All entries must be recieved by October 31, 2006 at 4:30 PM Eastern Standard Time.
Any Questions??
Please post. As I mentioned above, this is our first contest so there might be some kinks to work out.
Jack Michaelson posted this at 21:38 — 17th October 2006.
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LOL, this is great
Zork posted this at 22:04 — 17th October 2006.
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Megan, you don't like orange?
1fastbmw posted this at 22:11 — 17th October 2006.
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if i won could i post a banner to one of my sites?
most are adult i only have 2 nonadult
greg posted this at 22:26 — 17th October 2006.
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can we have a link so judges viewing the page can change the orange and choose their favourite colour?
NO? :eek:
oh, ok then!!
Sounds like fun.
Will enter if I get time
Good luck everyone!
mawooshen posted this at 22:53 — 17th October 2006.
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I love orange...
So how much of those orange colors do we have to use?
1fastbmw posted this at 22:49 — 17th October 2006.
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so the 2 colors are the ONLY colors that can be used?
text has to be one of these colors as well?
Megan posted this at 02:46 — 18th October 2006.
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No, you can use other colours if you like. In fact, that would probably increase the level of difficulty
mawooshen - you can use as much or as little as you like, but the amount of that colour is one of the ranking factors. So the more you use the better you'll do
1fastbmw - adult sites wouldn't be allowed in the banner ads (sorry).
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Megan posted this at 02:47 — 18th October 2006.
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No, you can use other colours if you like. In fact, that would probably increase the level of difficulty
And you don't have to use both of those colours, just one (although if you used both that would be a seriously high level of difficulty!)
mawooshen - you can use as much or as little as you like, but the amount of that colour is one of the ranking factors. So the more you use the better you'll do
It should be the primary colour in your design.
1fastbmw - adult sites wouldn't be allowed in the banner ads (sorry).
Suzanne!!! So cool to see you back
:D
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Design007 posted this at 22:58 — 17th October 2006.
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What if you win the prize and then put your banner advert on this site in that horrible horrible ORANGE!!!
I would like to enter my site www.gr8secrets.co.uk
We use the horrible orange anyway! And we like it!
lex posted this at 23:00 — 17th October 2006.
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I can't wait to see what people come up with. With some imagination I'm sure someone could build a really nice site.
1fastbmw posted this at 23:23 — 17th October 2006.
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we can have pictures on it correct? logos and whatnot?
dmwhipp posted this at 00:06 — 18th October 2006.
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Damn! I had to create a site using lots of orange, but they let me pick the shades and they don't match up.
Actually, considering how much I hate orange and how much orange is on the site, it came out pretty well.
DMW
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Suzanne posted this at 00:48 — 18th October 2006.
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Boo! Megan, this places looks great!
I love the contest idea, too. I will have to come back to see the results.
1fastbmw posted this at 02:14 — 18th October 2006.
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are we posting the links in here for all to see?
1fastbmw posted this at 02:26 — 18th October 2006.
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anyone know the rgb numbers for FF3300?
jbladeus posted this at 02:37 — 18th October 2006.
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"anyone know the rgb numbers for FF3300?"
R:255 G:51 B:0
C:0 M:91: Y:100 K:0
try photoshop, its a graphic designer's second best friend.
craig6398 posted this at 20:12 — 18th October 2006.
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I'm having difficulty in deciding if #996600 is actually clasified as orange?
Okay we could go into well there's so much red and so much green so it must be orange.
However to me it looks brown so either I am color blind or the person who picked the color is color blind.
I think we definantly need a poll to decide if this is orange or brown.
On the brown/Orange ColorScale i'm voting:
80% Brown
with a 20% tint or orange.
It must be brown.....
Craig
DDoSAttack posted this at 22:30 — 23rd October 2006.
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Hello all...
I just signed up here (found this via Digg) and I'd like to give it a whirl.
JoseffB posted this at 02:42 — 24th October 2006.
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One looks red and one looks brown. Not too ugly either. Were you going for more of a #FF9900 color?
My URTournament.org uses this orange all over.
1fastbmw posted this at 03:39 — 18th October 2006.
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i got close 255 58 58 according to a website i found
here my submission spent too much time on it already gotta get rid of it
so i can get some real work done
demonhale posted this at 06:38 — 18th October 2006.
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this is exciting...
1fastbmw posted this at 07:21 — 18th October 2006.
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is anyone else doing one? im kinda curious to see others
can i modify mine now that is has been posted??
Jack Michaelson posted this at 08:33 — 18th October 2006.
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I already started, but the first attempt only made it to the trash bin
Megan posted this at 12:47 — 18th October 2006.
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You've got 2 weeks to do it so take your time
Submissions won't be final until the contest deadline. So yes, you can change it
Tariffcalc posted this at 17:26 — 18th October 2006.
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I can't make my mind up whether I should be honoured or gutted lol
Anyway, I think it looks, er, nice
1fastbmw posted this at 20:26 — 18th October 2006.
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i agree more brown than orange
when i was looking for the rgb codes it was actually listed under browns
Megan posted this at 21:25 — 18th October 2006.
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I'm looking at it on another computer now and yeah, it does look more brown here. What-ever though. The point is that the colour is ugly
alucardsol23 posted this at 09:17 — 19th October 2006.
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can i design a webpage with animation but still on orange color?
im just planning to insert 3d animation to the page just to make it looks good ^_^
Megan posted this at 12:56 — 19th October 2006.
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Sure, that's fine.
jmfilms posted this at 17:13 — 22nd October 2006.
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I can't wait to see what people come up with
Megan posted this at 13:05 — 24th October 2006.
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Yes, one of them does look a little more brown. We did discuss some "uglier" options but decided to take it a bit easy on you for the first contest. I wasn't really sure what kind of response we would get, to be honest
The next one will be harder!
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JoseffB posted this at 17:27 — 24th October 2006.
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is URTournament using the right colors?
Megan posted this at 18:07 — 24th October 2006.
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A little bit. It would probably fail on criteria #1 - Use of the design theme (in this case, the colour orange. The more orange you have the better you score!). And by that we mean the two colours chosen for the contest. There isn't a lot of the contest colours, it's mostly #FF9900
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TheHegemon posted this at 01:55 — 25th October 2006.
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So does the entire webpage have to be nothing but those two colors?
Megan posted this at 13:40 — 25th October 2006.
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No, you can use other colours if you want. The other colours chosen will increase the difficulty which is one of the judging crtiera.
Roo posted this at 18:47 — 28th October 2006.
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Where's the post to submit to? I took this chance to do two things I don't normally do...a complete CSS layout (I normally use tables and control everything with css), and it's fixed width...(I nornally do fluid).
It was a great excersie for me!
Roo
DDoSAttack posted this at 20:21 — 18th November 2006.
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Ok I am going to have give a MAJOR apology here...
As much as I would like to do this, I don't know if I am going to have the time to do so all the way up until the 1st of the year.
I am working on finishing the mastering portion on my album that will come out soon.
I also have 2 large networking projects that I am about to begin next week. Those projects will run into the new year and take up most of my time.
I did make a layout that I like. I went with the brownish color instead of the harsh red. I attached it so that you can see that I am not really blowing smoke up your proverbial rear ends
No matter what happens here I am going to continue to complete the design. There are things I want to do to it that I think would serve it well.
Please bear in mind that I haven't made a site in about a year. I had become extremely burned out and just dropped it cold turkey.
I loved it though so that is why I am getting back into doing it.
Anyway, keep em coming they all ROCK HARD!!!
BIGMONAY posted this at 02:10 — 27th November 2006.
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Who Won??
timjpriebe posted this at 13:41 — 27th November 2006.
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No one yet. Voting ends today.
Voting thread here:
http://www.webmaster-forums.net/showthread.php?t=36622
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