CSS Design Competition

[Admin]

This is your chance to practice, learn, and design using CSS. Even if you have never touched CSS before, you can have a go.

Tutorial
If you're looking for somewhere to start:
www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/

I find this a nice clean looking site to get to grips with it all

What do you need to do?

Create a layout for a blog using CSS - you do not need to actually put any PHP or serverside languages before it. Just create a layout.

This involves a lot of useful skills such as choosing suitable colours, text sizes and fonts, whilst at the same time creating something appealing.
Who can enter?

Absolutely anyone, new or old.

Anything specific I need to include?

- A content area where the person would have their blog entry.
- A header area, with the title of the blog.
- A navigation area


Apart from that, you can do anything else you feel you'd like to have. The choice of theme and colours is completely up to you, be as strange or professional looking as you like.


If you're wondering what a blog looks like, take a look at my outdated one
olivermat.blogspot.com/index.html

Prizes, Prizes, Prizes

I will give a custom title to the winner of this.

Feedback

You shall get a little feedback from our judges Chantry and Scorpion who have kindly volunteered some of their time to help out here

Hosting

If you cannot host your file, you can email it to me at [e-mail] and I shall upload it for you


Questions? Ask here. Entries? Post here!


Closing date will be 30th April

[Kay]

...gee, I may actually take a whack at this. Hmm.

[Josh]

So, we are allowed to design it all in Photoshop and then slice it up and code it ourselves? I may be able to do this one. lol

[Dude™]

I might take a crack at it

[Tobias]

I'll probably do this one.

[Dude™]

Harder than I thought as a novice coder..... But I'll handle it

[TROWLIN']

i'll get OZ to do this for me

[Me]

jaj43123 said:

So, we are allowed to design it all in Photoshop and then slice it up and code it ourselves? I may be able to do this one. lol

Make sure you "spice" it up with CSS. Make it clean, professional, and impressive.

Scorpion and I will be judging it, so your photoshop skills won't win it for you .

[splatcatballa99]

I'm in.

[Admin]

jaj43123 said:

So, we are allowed to design it all in Photoshop and then slice it up and code it ourselves? I may be able to do this one. lol

Yeah, although remember we aren't really giving a huge amount of credit for graphic work.

[DBuzzin]

im in

[Shockeye]

Okay, I may do this

[Josh]

Damn. I'll have to see if I can do anything all that impressive with CSS then

[eternity]

Yay CSS If I'm not too killed by work, I'll play

ps if you're going to do something like this again, may I suggest an already labelled html template that we have to design the css for (ie csszengarden.com/zengarden-sample.html)

[Me]

Part of the competition is making the html clean and well organized with the CSS. So, supplying the html wouldn't be a good idea.

[gimli10567]

shazink.com/usr/ross/webproject/seacalm/

I guess that is good enough... Hope it qualifies. I made it originally as a portfolio, but I fixed it up a lot, and just kept the old text cause I' lazy.

[Signore Kai]

Seems fun. I'll whip up something, if I have the time.

[Tobias]

Wait, you're judging the HTML, too? It can't all be on one line, then? What if it validates, but the source just isn't pleasing to the eye?

[Me]

If the html is short and simple, it is fine. Part of designing with CSS is shortening the html.

[Tobias]

I'll space it anyway, I've been meaning to do that for a while.