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WOW Iron Chef Webmaster Showdown
Sponsored by the World Organization of Webmasters
Ontario, CA – February 4, 2004 TechEd Events and The World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) issued a Call for Participation regarding the 1st annual Iron Chef of Web Design Contest for education Web professionals, to be held on Tuesday, March 23 on the exhibit floor of the 9th Annual TechEd International Conference and Exposition. (TechEd will be held March 22-24, 2004 at the Ontario Convention Center in Southern California.)
Calling all Web design teams and Web design judges!
As a team of education Web designers, webmasters or education Web professionals, you are invited to submit a proposal to do a makeover of an educational institution's existing working Web site, or to serve as an individual on a four-person panel to judge each team. If your design team is selected, you will bring a team of three (3) designers and compete against two other teams on Tuesday, March 23 for the entire day. If you are selected as a judge, you will join three other education Web professionals who will choose the winner of the competition. Go to http://www.joinwow.org/ironchef/ for more information on the WOW Iron Chef competitions.
Does your school’s Web site need an upgrade?
Here is a chance to see your school or organization’s Web site receive a quality makeover by professional Web designers, who will bring new life to your site and increase it’s functionality and effectiveness. Most importantly, the three chosen design teams will spend an entire day competing against each other to upgrade your site at NO COST TO YOU!
What does it take to produce a quality Web site under pressure?
The WOW Iron Chef of Web Design contest will occur live during TechEd 2004, giving thousands of attendees a first-hand look at what it really takes to make a great Web site--and fast! The competition will be a head-to-head format with each team competing against the clock and the other teams. An emcee will provide moment to moment insights while a monitor will display to the crowd all keystrokes made by the teams as they design, code and deploy their Web site.
Proposals for Design Team, Judging Panel and Institutions seeking a Web site makeover
Potential design team contestants, judges and institutions seeking a Web site upgrade will submit a one-page proposal of how their team of three Web designers and/or developers will creatively identify the main needs of the educational institution for whom they are doing the makeover, and a brief description of how they plan to create a working design in one day’s time. Sign up for proposal at http://www.joinwow.org/ironchef/sign-up.asp (please write DESIGN in the area of interest).
Potential judges will state their credentials and submit a site they have designed, and institutions wishing to have a makeover of their Web site will submit their current site and state their specific needs as they relate to visual design, markup, and style. Go to http://www.joinwow.org/ironchef/sign-up.asp to sign up (please write JUDGE or WEB SITE in the area of interest).
Design Expectations
On the day of the contest, chosen design teams of three people each will be expected to:
1. Identify the main needs of the educational institution for whom they are creating the site
2. Create a visual design for the site including graphics and navigation
3. Render 3-5 pages of its content in HTML
4. Add any specialty features they can adequately plan for in the time allotted
5. Address a specific Web design challenge pre-conceived by the judges; and
6. Be able to describe to the judges their process and rationale for the design approach taken.
This is an all-day event with the following schedule:
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10:00 a.m. - Start - Teams gain access to their stations
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10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. - Planning, design, and deployment: Teams assess the design needs and deploy the site
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3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. - Presentation: Each team will present the main concepts of their challenge, how they approached it and why.
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4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Judgment: A panel of judges will analyze the results using agreed upon criterion and determine a winner.
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4:30 p.m. - Winner announced!
Who Will Reign Supreme?
Each design team member, judge and one (1) institution Web site representative will receive a complimentary full-conference registration to the TechEd conference (not including pre-conference activities), and a certificate of participation. The winning design team will receive the following:
Making the grade – Contest Rules
1. Each team will consist of three people. Teams must have no knowledge of the education institution's Web site needs prior to the event. In addition to providing a general design, navigation scheme, and deployment of the site, each site will have one specific, identified challenge that the team must overcome.
2. While discussion of server-side technologies certainly should be brought into the planning of the site, the focus should be on the client-side needs: visual design, markup, and style.
3. The teams will not be allowed to use any external or third party resources to assist in their design. The idea is for competitors to use common Web design tools and skills to achieve their goal.
4. Each team will be provided with 3 computers (Mac Al PowerBook G4 12.1" display 867MHz-1GHz/256MB/40GB/Combo), Adobe Photoshop, a text editor, and an HTML visual editor (such as Macromedia Dreamweaver MX)
About WOW
The World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) is a non-profit professional association dedicated to the support of individuals and organizations that create, manage or market Web sites. WOW provides education as well as certification, technical, employment and member advantage services to thousands of aspiring and practicing Web professionals worldwide.
About The Community College Foundation
The TechEd Conference is a program of The Community College Foundation, a Sacramento, California-based nonprofit, public-benefit 501(c)(3) organization established in 1983. The Foundation and its programs are committed to technology in education, technology access to remote and underserved communities, life skills training, youth and family services, environmental education services, and student internships and scholarships. Through its creative programs, The Foundation fosters relationships between business, education and government for the betterment of our nation's communities.
Email or Fax proposal to:
Bill Cullifer, Executive Director
World Organization of Webmasters (WOW)
bill@joinwow.org
www.joinwow.org
fax 916-987-3022
Or
Michael Coe, Attendance Manager
TechEd Eventsfax 916-922-2346
mcoe@TechEdEvents.org
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