[SOLVED] Ubuntu Website Look'n'Feel Contest

[Jeff Waugh]

Ubuntu Website Look'n'Feel Contest
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Today we are announcing the most exciting competition since Willy Wonka put
heavy metal in chocolate bars and purged rude children with coloured sugar.

No, we're not giving away gold tickets for a trip to the ISS, although that
would be cool... We're giving YOU the chance to give www.ubuntu.com a total
look'n'feel makeover, so it can be the most attractive *and* usable project
website EVER!

Canonical is sponsoring the competition, offering a US$1000 first prize for
the winning design!


Competition Guidelines
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* Goal: We're looking for a fantastic, new look'n'feel for the current
www.ubuntu.com site, which is based on Plone 1.

* Entries do *not* have to be completed Plone skins! You may send mockup
images, html+image samples, or if you really want to, an example Plone
skin. They will all be judged equally - we're looking for an innovative
look'n'feel more than ability to create Plone skins. :-)

* Designs should cover as many Plone widgets and structural elements as
possible, so we know how to apply it to a complete skin. See the first
documentation link below for more about this.

* Entries must be entirely your own work, or based on clearly licensed,
credited, DFSG compatible works. The final website look'n'feel may be
based on a combination of entries.

* Entries must include the Ubuntu logo. :-)

* Send your entry to jeff.waugh+webcomp@ubuntu.com or simply reply to this
mail.

* Entries close on January 31st, 2005.

* sabdfl's judgement of the competition is final, even if he polls the
community for input. :-)


Documentation and Resources
---------------------------

Here's some documentation and inspiration to get you started with Plone
themes...

http://plone.org/documentation-old/howto/CreatingACustomSkin

http://plone.org/documentation/howto/creating-custom-skins (Plone 2)

http://plone.org/development/teams/ui/p2uicookbook/ (Plone 2)

http://www.ploneskins.org/ (for inspiration, mostly Plone 2)


Thanks, and good luck!

- Jeff

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[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Jeff Waugh">

> * Goal: We're looking for a fantastic, new look'n'feel for the current
> www.ubuntu.com site, which is based on Plone 1.

Errata: This is *wrong*. www.ubuntu.com is based on Plone 2, so you should
refer to the Plone 2 documentation and resources, not the old documents. I
included these in the first email, but here they are again for reference:

> http://plone.org/documentation/howto/creating-custom-skins (Plone 2)
>
> http://plone.org/development/teams/ui/p2uicookbook/ (Plone 2)
>
> http://www.ploneskins.org/ (for inspiration, mostly Plone 2)

Thanks, my apologies for the mix-up.

- Jeff

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like computer programs; they barely need menus. [When combined, they]
suddenly look like software." - Havoc Pennington on 'software' design

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