[Dayon]

I'm holding a web interface design competition. The design will be used by my site. The prize is £50 ($100).

Full info at: ravora.com/competition/1/web-interface/

[RaelRode]

The prize for the winner is $100 (£50 / 77 Euros),

OK if you want a 10 year old kid to do you a website then thats a good prize. You want designers you need to pay designers rates.

The look of the web interface should be very modern with some web2.0 white, having colourful links and easy to read text.
Extra points for designs that cover many of Ravora's sections (home, browse, artworks, forums).

Please include the word "Ravora" as many times as you can to show the entry was made for this competition.

You said Web 2.0 white. Its not a style web 2.0 is about the technologies behind the website AJAX etc. But is web 2.0 white different to white white?? Thats bloody new to me. Having the website name on a site too many times is off putting and annoying. if you want my opinion go do it yourself. What happens to someones design if they didn't win?? Its on your server.

i ont know why I am actually posting!

[art.]

i agree with rael....think...more..dayon...

[Maerk]

Originally Posted by RaelRode

OK if you want a 10 year old kid to do you a website then thats a good prize. You want designers you need to pay designers rates.

i ont know why I am actually posting!

Saves me saying it lol

[Dayon]

RaelRode,
This is my first competition, i wanted a good design, but i did not want to pay too much in case i could not advertise it well enough.

What prize fund would you suggest?


I'm starting to think web 2.0 is a style. Different sites use different technologies and methods, but the one thing that makes me think 2.0 when i look at a site is the style.

An example is this designerstalk forum, it's got the same vB Software that has been around for years, but it feels 2.0 because of the look.

[Maerk]

Web 2.0 isn't a style, people often consider it a style because one of the current design trends is for curvy corners soft grads, reflections and shadows.

Web 2.0 refers mostly to the next generation of community based content, youtube and myspace and social networking. Forums are firmly "1.0" but I still like them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

[mx]

Originally Posted by Maerk

Web 2.0 isn't a style... curvy corners soft grads, reflections and shadows.

Stop being pedantic. Though Web 2.0 isn't a style, we all know actually what he's on about. It's the style commonly associated with websites that advocate those technologies. And if Dayon was offering a decent prize (£500 imo), I well imagine the inaccuracies of his terminology wouldn't even be discussed.

[Maerk]

Not being pedantic, if someone asks for a web 2.0 style logo everyone knows what they're looking for.

But he seemed to be drifting off introspectively with a completely inaccurate definition of it.

I'm not looking to enter any competition if he made the comment with a bigger pay I'd still have cleared it up... Wasn't meaning to be harsh, just offering a little education.

edit- and as a friend just reminded me, if we're really pedantic Web 2.0 started out as a joke, and it snowballed into something big and ill-defined. Plenty of "2.0" features were around prior to its creation, and plenty of other older things live on or fill the same roles, forums ARE social networking too lol But general definition is the thing on wiki :P But yea anyway terribly sorry for sharing knowledge.

[Dayon]

Originally Posted by max h

And if Dayon was offering a decent prize (£500 imo)

That's a little high for my new website. Maybe when i start making money from the site i'll splash out on something that big, but at the moment £50 is as far as i can go.

The entries so far are not too bad, some can be tweaked into something good.

[mx]

Originally Posted by Dayon

That's a little high for my new website.

But remember what you'd be getting though. By being a competition, your getting to have creative work done for you by a whole range of people, whilst only paying for the one you like. At the moment no professional or semi designer is going to even consider opening photoshop for the possibility of £50 quid, but if their having a slow day in the office, for £500, they just might.

I think the fundamental rule of monopoly applies here...

[Dayon]

Very true.

The competition ends in a few hours and i think for my site it has gone quite well. When my site is bigger, maybe i'll do another competition with the big prize