This page provides vital information that will guide the decision of the Panel of Judges in screening and final awarding of points to individual projects, as well as popular red flags which contestants must beware of. The following rules and regulations are to be strictly adhered to by all prospective contestants. Note that any violation of the stated regulations would warrant penalties that puts the contestants at a disadvantage such as loss of points and other severe penalties.. Good Luck!
Web Application Development
- For the web development category, use of Microsoft related technology and/or tools such as Visual Studio.Net, SQL Server, Silverlight etc as the defacto technology will give contestant an edge. Other technologies such as the regular open source PHP/MySQL is equally permitted but should be used sparingly or has a complement.
- Object – oriented programming approach used to build application should follow best practice e.g ease of code refactoring and maintainability
- Either of Dot Net Nuke (DNN) and Drupal may be used to build Content Management Site.
Web Design Category
For the web design category, HTML/CSS structure of the code must be web standards compliant and should meet the following quality requirements:
- HTML is formatted with <div> tags
- No table structures in HTML
- HTML doctype declared must be version “XHTML 1.0 Strict”
- CSS classes and/or ids will be used for all positioning of content
- HTML must be valid per W3C: [Check http://validator.w3.org/]
- CSS must be valid per W3C: [Check http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/]
- All layout dependent images are referenced in the CSS file
- Only content related images are embedded in HTML for place-holders.
- Page Logo is wrapped in an <h1> tag
- Unordered lists are used for positioning, not tables
- HTML/CSS is formatted for the following browsers: Firefox, IE6 or IE7
- Contestants are permitted to use any graphics tool and animation software of their choice
- Use of particular scripting language such as Javascripts, VB Scripts etc are left to the discretion of the contestant
- Content is the original work of the students and not paraphrased or copied from outside sources in any way
(Plagiarism would be duely penalized)