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WthRemix Winners Announced

Posted by michael on from the slashdot.org-still-needs-help dept.

joeclark1159 writes "The contest to redesign the World Wide Web Consortium's homepage to look like something vaguely superior to 1982-era lpt output has announced its winners, judged on criteria including standards compliance, accessibility, graceful degradation, and aesthetics. The grand-prize winner, Radu Darvas, is arguably head and shoulders above the competition."

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  1. From the contest FAQ. by Rhinobird · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is the relationship of this contest with the W3C?

    This contest is not affiliated with the W3C, entries will not be submitted to them. Enter this contest if you are inspired by the challenge and/or excited about the prizes.


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  2. Look ma, no tables! by Rhinobird · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Say, those pages looked alright, I bet Slashdot could do a redesign and get rid of thier tables too.

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  3. Free at last (almost) by buddha42 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Regardless of the nitpickign we could all do, whats important to realize is that the day has finnaly arrived when you can have a standards compliant and cross-user-agent accessible site, and look good!.

    Whats important now is to keep moving forward! Don't let your self, friends, family, clients, company, etc put up any new sites that don't at least try to validate. They don't have to be perfect, just at least try and put some effort into it.

    For those of us who learned HTML in the 2.0 & 3.x days, it takes a little bit of relearning in terms of how you approach markup, but it really is worth it.

    Go run your homepage through validator.w3.org. Fix 5 things. Make it a goal one weekend to make your site validate with less than 5 errors. It really is remarkably easy, we're talking about markup and stylesheets here people.