Fusebox Web Site Design Contest

Things are really starting to happen within Team Fusebox and one of the main goals is to start off fresh with a new and improved website. New content, new everything. Including a new look.

The top design that will become the public face of Fusebox.org was designed by Lydia Dugger.

See Shayna.com for more details.

Current Design Entries

Current design entries in the contest can be found on these pages.

• Design Entries - February 9, 2007 to February 24, 2007
• Design Entries - February 28, 2007 to March 6, 2007
• Design Entries - March 7, 2007 to March 8, 2007 (9:00 am EST)
• Design Entries - March 8, 2007 (9:00 am EST) to March 8, 2007 (4:40 pm EST)
• Design Entries - March 8, 2007 (4:40 pm EST)) to March 8, 2007 (5:00 pm EST)

=== The Contest is Now Closed Announcement March 29, 2007===

Thanks to everyone who entered. We have 25 entries and now comes the work of trying to decide between some great entries! A winner will be announced here as well as at Shayna.com and Fusebox.org on the 29th.

Contest Rules and Dates

Contest Rules

To start the ball rolling, we need to come up with a cool design. We've looked at the other Cold Fusion Frameworks, CFEclise and Ruby on Rails Web Sites. Heck, we've even looked at Struts and Spring. Some of those sites have really cool ideas, like the ROR home page for example. But we are Fusebox, and even though we've been around the longest, we don't want to be known as the "oldie, moldie". We want something that is:

• Usable and Cool.
• Pops out at ya, but doesn’t burn your eyes.
• Easily translatable to a liquid HTML/CSS layout.
• Follows (but doesn't copy) ideas that are stated at Web Design From Scratch

Since for the most part, we are programmers and not designers, we need your help. So we are announcing the first ever Fusebox Website design contest. To enter, submit your designs to webdesigncontest@fusebox.org.

• Designs shall be in a graphical format (either jpg or png).
• Don't bother to do a CSS layout at this time, we are looking for design work, not actual sites.
  • If you insist on doing a CSS layout, you may still only submit a screen shot.
• When submitting your designs, please name them in the following format firstnameLastName(a|b).(jpg|png).

Contest Dates

• Site submittals will close on March 8, 2007, 5pm EST. Submittals after this time will not be accepted.
• A winner will be announced on March 29, 2007.

Once the submittal process closes, the original submittals will be narrowed down to 5 and the members of Team Fusebox will choose the final winner. The winner will provide any specific graphics from the site in specified formats upon request from the Web Site team.

Contest Prizes

The winning design will be used on the Fusebox Web Site. TeraTech will retain all rights to the winning design. Besides the Fusebox community's heartfelt appreciation and knowledge of a job well done, the winning designer will also receive:

• Attribution in the form of a "Site designed by:" with corresponding link on the footer of the home page.
• 2 free passes to CFObjective held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 3 - 6, 2007, (courtesy of Jared Rypka-Hauer)
• 1 free pass donated by Teratech, (courtesy of Michael Smith) to CFUNITED held in Bethesda, Maryland, June 27 - 30, 2007.

Design Requirements

• 2 pages tied Thematically together
  • Splash Page
    • Incorporates 5 Main Navigational Elements, (can be, but not necessarily a Navigation Bar)
      • Getting Started with Fusebox
      • What is Fusebox?
      • Learning Fusebox
      • Fusebox Community
      • Download Fusebox
    • Generic Header and Paragraph Content in Lorem Ipsum
    • Up to 3 areas of news type items(in Lorem Ipsum)
    • Footer with standard area of copyright
  • Internal Page
    • Can be 2 or 3 column with a header and Footer
    • Main Navigation (with room for up to 6 Navigational Elements) - Same as Splash Page, Add "About Fusebox"
    • Sub Navigation (will be tied to active Main Navigation)
    • Breadcrumb Trail
    • Content Area containing:
      • Generic Content (Headings and Paragraphs)
      • Up to 5 News Items
      • Up to 5 Recently Added Content Areas.
      • Possible Eye on something (Project, Case Study).
• All Text must be able to become text, the site will not have any graphics that contain text except the Logo.
  • Graphic Items can be background graphics with text floated on top of it.
• Can use the existing Logo, can create your own