Online contests like a web design contest, will not only help you gain monetary benefits and instant fame, they will also help boost up your confidence & sharpen your (web) skills. Many upcoming websites come up with such events to promote themselves and generate a user database, though it is recommended that one checks the genuine nature of the contest and its organizer(s).
Before beginning over your masterpiece, do read the terms and conditions of the web design contest carefully. It might happen that the event is restricted to a certain region or group of people (e.g. contest for amateurs). Make a note of the technical specifications like the technologies that can be employed, the maximum size of the website, the theme (if any) and so on. Most of the events will allow the use of images ‘borrowed’ from the Internet. Do keep a tab of the deadlines. Use a universal scheme of arranging the folders for the source files. Do not keep unused files or folders within the archive which you propose to send over to the panel. The only file which remains outside should be the index.html file which will provide an entrance to your website. Try not to fool the panel by using ready to use templates and snippets – there might be smarter guys out there. Once you are done with the execution, check for any execution related errors and debug them immediately. Once you have sent ahead your artwork, intimate the organizers about the same and get the confirmation of the receipt.
Web designing is a task that requires a set of skills, a great gift of creativity and the ability to grasp what your client needs. Getting a certification is just a start in your career as a web designer. There are still a lot of things that you will need to do to become proficient in designing websites.
Start with Easy Tasks
Design simple yet elegant websites. Do not start with complicated designs that will involve action scripts and a lot of flashy graphics. Focus first on designing a website that is easy and pleasant to anyone who will see it. Take easy web design tasks first and start gaining experience. This will help you master the basics, which are very helpful in the long run.
Join Competitions
A web design contest is not a rare event. There are several of these posted online. Treat this as a learning experience and do not aim to win. You will usually be given a theme in a web design contest and you will design a website base on that theme. This will help you improve your creativity forcing your mind to think of great designs that will perfectly express the theme of the contest.
Continue Learning
Web designing also have coding conventions and syntaxes that are changing as time goes by. Keep yourself updated with the recommended syntaxes and coding conventions and learn to forget about the ones that are now obsolete or deprecated. This will allow you to have a modern standard to follow when you design websites.
Graphic designs are made by graphic designers to convey a certain message or messages to several audiences. The design is made by the client with the designer, of course. This focused on visual presentation and communication. There are various methods to create a presentation- combination of words, images, symbols and ideas may do. Many are hosting graphic design contests to know more about the trend in web designs. Graphic designs are used in advertisements, product packaging, logos of company, and even branding. One important feature of a graphic design is the composition especially when diverse elements are being used.
Best graphic designs are made by combining several factors. Graphic designing also involves the skills in the art of doing it. This may include the stylization of the design like the images and the existing texts. The designer is responsible for the layout of the whole magazine; he or she will create a certain design that will incorporate all the elements needed to make the job organize. Modern designs have been extended to the computer such as in websites with multimedia and interactive designs.
There is different software available online which may be free, you can just download or some you need to purchase. These softwares will help you make the best graphic designs. This list will give you an idea on what latest softwares offer the best graphic design. This will be beneficial to you. It has amazing features. This is a must have to most, if not all graphic designers. But for graphic design contests all you have to do is to make it more original, simply saying that you work with your own capabilities.
In today’s market, graphic designs are used in the web for ads and promotions. A stiff competition is present among graphic designers, especially designers in the web multimedia. All you have to do is make your graphic design, the best graphic design.
As a freelance web developer, you keep learning new tricks and useful information on a daily basis – and if you’re crafty enough, you can easily design a strategy around which to work and achieve your goals as quickly as possible (so that you can take up more work and progress). However, there are some important details relevant to the job, which sometimes get missed by even the more experienced ones. Go through the list below and make sure you match every criteria! More »
According to recent reports, Google uses page load speed in its algorithm for assessing a website’s worth and eventual search results ranking. Taking this into account and also acknowledging that page load speed is an important element of optimising your site for good web marketing results, we have compiled a list of some online tools that can be very useful. They allow you to identify the factors that can be slowing you down and offer recommendations on how you can speed it up.
Yahoo! Yslow
Of all the speed optimisation tools available this is possibly the most user-friendly and no matter what your experience you will find this a great tool to use. Its main feature is that it provides a means to analyse your web pages with a list of recommendations.
Google Page Speed
Google Page Speed is a tool that has been designed as an add-on to Firefox. In the same way Yslow splits best practices into categories to assess the performance of the website so does this tool. When tests have been carried out results are presented for each of the pages and again tips for improving the speed are provided.
Google Webmaster Tools Site Performance
This tool offers a wealth of information on how well the pages load, whether the speed of the page load has altered over time and compares your loading time to those of other sites. This is an excellent tool if you want to analyse your results and compare them to your competitors.
At www.clickconsult.com, we have a great team offering PPC management, SEO services and all the help you need to develop winning internet marketing strategies.
The other day I met with the public-relations representative of Asus here in the Philippines to discuss their upcoming design contest. And it’s really interesting. Designers (anyone is welcome, actually) are invited to submit their own skin designs for special edition Asus Eee computers. The theme will be something in the lines of being Proud to be Pinoy.
Electronics giant ASUS is currently seeking interested and talented individuals to take part in their Eee PC contest – create the best and most original Eee PC notebook skin for the Eee PC’s LCD cover and palm rest. Not only will you get the chance to win an Eee PC of your own, but your winning design will also be featured in the Eee PC line in the Philippine market!
The contest will be running from February 1 through March 15, 2008, and the Eee PC template to be used is available at http://www.ph.asus.com for downloading. Only the entries with Adobe Illustrator, Freehand, JPG, and TIFF file formats; designed in a landscape A3 size based on the template given; and in at least 300 dpi, shall be accepted.
Submissions shall be done through the contest website at http://www.ph.asus.com no later than March 15, 2008. Entries will be made available for public voting from March 15 through 25, 2008. Judging shall be based on 80% public voting, and 20% organizer voting. The 1st prize winner shall receive an ASUS Eee PC, while the 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive an ASUS 17″ LCD display and ASUS wi-fi router, respectively. Winners shall be announced on March 29, 2008.
To recap, prizes for the contest will be:
- First prize: an Asus Eee PC
- Second prize: An Asus 17″ LCD display
- Third prize: An asus WiFi Router
The contest page seems to be offline as of the moment so we would have to wait for the official mechanics, which I was told would come out officially by February 7, 2008. No purchase of any Asus gadgets is required. So this means anyone can join.
So here’s your chance to get yourself an Asus Eee free and have your design featured in Asus’ special Philippine edition.
Here are some samples from previous contests elsewhere.
Asus says they’ve had successful runs of their Dress mEee Up contest in other countries. Technically, of course, Filipinos residing outside the country are welcome to join the contest (as are other citizens, as apparently from the initial contest mechanics there is no citizenship requirement).
Watch out for more details here!
Update: Site is now online
You can access the contest page over at ph.asus.com. You can download the template for the designs, submit your own design, and vote for other submissions. Remember, 80% of the judging criteria comes from votes and only 20% comes from Asus. So if your design is popular, you have a good chance of winning!
A sad note, though – the contest pages on ph.asus.com are not very Eee-friendly. The page is too wide for the Eee’s screen resolution and too graphics-intensive (hence slow-loading even on broadband).
