Hello Everyone,

Would you call this an Industry Challenge?

http://www.ByNigerians.com/ is organizing a Web Template Design Contest for Nigerians and they are giving away N50,000 plus more.

There's more information on their website. KASPA, I hope this challenges you?

From the mentioned link above, it say:

[center]Contest opens: Tuesday, 1st July, 2008

Contest closes: Friday, 1st August 2008

Results will be announced at a date in September 2008[/center]

First off, I must say I like the layout of the site.

So I go to the page and see this in the header:

Did I hear you say yes?". Hold on a second, before you give that answer. Does CSS mean anything to you? What about XHTML? Can you do clean Website interfaces without utilising JavaScript and Flash? Do your designs validate correctly? Is your Markup light? How well do you optimise your images? Ever heard of Cocatenated Images? If your answer is still "yes" after all these questions, then the information below is for you.

I then went to register, and fill in only my email address, captcha letters and agree to the terms (which don't exist, but I digress). I click submit and get the customary "thank you page". I then go to the page of contestants and get a blank name (as I didn't enter any first or last name).

Questions:
1)Am I to trust a competition that specifies a premise (above) that they themselves aren't following? Just curious. This isn't a bash, just a well deserved question.

2) None of the left nav items are working. Doesn't this go to the trustworthiness of the site? In other words, y bother putting up such a site if functionality isnt complete?

yawa-ti-de:

2) None of the left nav items are working. Doesn't this go to the trustworthiness of the site? In other words, y bother putting up such a site if functionality isnt complete?

Na why we dey hammer on functionality since last 4 years.

It seems this functionality thing will stick with us for a long time to come.