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      CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2008 edited by Sean on the 13th May 2008 at 15:23:44 EDT
     
    Hey fellow admins and moderators... a little help on explaining what an 'OD Garden design theme' would be, then I can update this post with official contest rules, etc and we can get this thing finally rolling.

    Now that voting is over on the contest theme, lets work out the details on what is an OD Garden Design and how long people have for submissions, etc.

    As for general guide lines, I think the contest entries should follow the rules on normal OD designs (validate, no tables, no java&#115cript, etc.).

    Thoughts?
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      CommentAuthorgnome
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2008 edited by gnome on the 13th May 2008 at 19:22:18 EDT
     
    EDIT: sean, I was halfway through this when you posted and closed that conv, and vanilla told me that "YOu do not have enough priviliges to do that" :P

    Does this sound sane?
    • All designs must use the same HTML source, with own link in the bottom, and their own stylesheet calls
    • The use of CSS frameworks is discouraged (it is extra baggage)
    • Design must meet the submission guidelines set for all submissions here
    • Judging will be based on several broad categories: cross-browser/cross-platform consistency, visual appearance/asthetics, readability/usability, uniqueness/creativity, quality of code, general efficicency (both net file size and number of CSS properties changed)
    If not, then we'll need to work that out, as this is just a rough suggestion.
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    I like all of gnomes' suggestions except the one about CSS frameworks, I think people should be given the freedom of choice to decide whether they want to use one or not.

    Main point though, who does the HTML for this contest?
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    can we allow js execptions for IE only and transparency hacks? I know a lot of templates on here have already gotten away with that
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    Sean: I agree on following the standard OD submission rules. I think that just a style sheet should be submitted, and a link can be added to the footer after the contest, that way it's super easy to see that the proper XHTML was used. I edited a version of the css Zen Garden htm