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Vote in 5K Contest

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pregnant-chad dept.

antidigerati writes: "The annual 5k website contest is closed and in the voting stage! Some impressive entries this year. Take a look and vote for your favourites!" Slashdot will take first place in its little-known cousin, the 500K contest.

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  1. irony by pipeb0mb · · Score: 3

    a.> they use active server pages
    b.> their own images are 5k plus
    c.> their pages are bland and slow

  2. Re:Slashdotted? Nope! by eric.costello · · Score: 3

    Nice smirky attitiude! My name is Eric and I built the site.

    >Betcha they're running SQL Server too.
    We are indeed running SQL2k. The server is doing fine, btw, though we seem to have maxed out the pipe with the recent /. traffic.

    >How much to you want to bet everything including
    >the front page is dynamically generated for each
    >and every request?
    I will take your bet! I am using an XML caching system I built so that calls to the DB are minimized, which means that the front page is not dynamically created every time (unless you count an XSL transformation). Each entry description page, and even the list of all entries are pulled from cached XML now (the list /was/ created dynamically so as to show up to the second stats for the entries, but it was a matter of changing few lines of code to have it used the cached XML.)

    Anyway, thanks for your interest in the contest.

  3. WTF *is* it?? by -brazil- · · Score: 3
    How ironic that this site, too, is victim to the "insiders only" pitfall: nowhere on the site can you easily find an explanation of what "5k" actually is: even on the about page, they explain what the purpose of the competition is, but not what the competition itself is! And people who don't have a technical background most likely couldn't deduce it either.

    I've seen this several time, and it's quite frustrating: people write their website with themselves in mind, assume that everyone who visits it will have a certain knowledge base to make sense of it, and never think of those who don't.

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    The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
    --Henry Kissinger

  4. 5K in real life please by Codeala · · Score: 3

    As many posters already pointed out the the5k.org itself is extremely bloated. You have to jump through so many hoops just to look at a couple pages... Wouldn't it be nice if the 5k principle is applied more often in real life.

    Size does matter, even if you have a fast connection (at the server AND the client side). Don't use FONT tags, don't specific "Arial, Verdana, sans-serif". Instead use Style Sheet and "sans-serif". Remember "Dynamic Font" from Netscape? "You want me to download some fonts just to look at your text page?" How silly is that?

    I like to consider web programming, with HTML, CSS, images and other sources, an art form. An elegant programmer can (and will) create a well layout page using minimum amount of code. Not some hacks that know how to convert a .doc file into a "web" page or make an image map with DreamWeaver.

    So yeah the 5k contest was interesting, but I would rather see more real examples of people writing good clean web page.

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    Codeala - Just another mindless drone