Re: WebCup 2015

From: S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 08:04:18 -0700

Hi Ish,
At 06:51 24-05-2015, Ish Sookun wrote:
>Did anyone from this mailing list attend the
>WebCup 2015 as a participant or out of
>curiosity? I'd like to know if there was
>anything mentioned regarding the use of
>off-the-shelf templates for this competition.

Jochen Kirstätter is part of the jury for this WebCup.

>Then I had a look at Blue Dragons[2] and
>instantly thought they could be a team of young
>students. Indeed, they appear to be from
>Universite des Mascareignes. Okay, let's admit
>that their website look is amateur, nostalgic,
>contains Flash :P etc etc etc. But this is what
>is taught to students at university level and it
>is what they applied when asked to design a website.

It's nostalgic web design.

>On the other hand, Ynot Team might have spent
>$48 to buy a Joomla theme and spend 24 hours of human time to mess it up.

Is this WebCup about spending 24 hours to mess up a $48 (web) template?

>Does it take to be a genius to produce 5
>beautiful HTML pages with some nice JavaScript
>in 24 hours rather than copying others work and editing texts?

I looked at the four entries for this WebCup. I
would expect better even from amateurs.

>I visited maurice.webcup.fr and it redirected to
>http://www.webcup.fr/wp-signup.php?new=mauice.webcup.fr.
>See the typo. The page is very slow. Then I
>clicked on "contact" to get an email address,
>waited more than 2 minutes in front of a blank page and got bored.

The Association WebCup (CCIFM, MITIA, OTAM)
forgot to renew their webcup.mu domain name.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Sun May 24 2015 - 15:17:24 PST

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