51 20 Prize For 5120 Byte Pages
Martin Burns
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User since: 26 Apr 1999
Articles written: 143
Think you write neat, compact code? The
5k competition is now open for entries.
The idea is simple: write the best page in under 5k with no server-side coding at all. Client side script & CSS files are fine, but all count toward the total. You get points for design, usefulness, and (of course) how small your project is.
Unlike the entries, the judges are no lightweights, and include
- Jeff Veen
- Jeffrey Zeldman
- Derek Sisson, User Experience Manager at Borders
And the prize? 5k cents. That's US$51.20. And the honour, of course.
Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.
Amongst his favourite things is Zope
He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.
Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?
Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?
