Looking for a Topic
airbornflght
Houston, TX Icrontian
Well, as quite a few of you know, we are working on a site for the thinkquest competition.
Our original theme/topic was digital media and tutorials over all sorts progs.
I was looking at the winners of past years, and it seems that most of the winners have had their sight topics deal with some sort of issue, be it DRM, the Digital Divide, or others. Im just wondering if we should change topics to impress the judges more.
We arent very far into the page itself (though vash may kill me if he has to make one more layout)
here is a link to the winners of last year, we will be in the 19 and under category.
so you think that it would be wise to pick a topic with more meat, or stick with digital media. I'm kind of at a crossroads right now, I'm trying to see what kinds of sites the judges favored in the past, to get an idea of their tastes.
I've been talking to vash, and he said to post a thread here, and get a consensus of what you all think, and if you think we should change, do you have any recommendations of an issue or topic we could do our site over?
Our original theme/topic was digital media and tutorials over all sorts progs.
I was looking at the winners of past years, and it seems that most of the winners have had their sight topics deal with some sort of issue, be it DRM, the Digital Divide, or others. Im just wondering if we should change topics to impress the judges more.
We arent very far into the page itself (though vash may kill me if he has to make one more layout)
here is a link to the winners of last year, we will be in the 19 and under category.
so you think that it would be wise to pick a topic with more meat, or stick with digital media. I'm kind of at a crossroads right now, I'm trying to see what kinds of sites the judges favored in the past, to get an idea of their tastes.
I've been talking to vash, and he said to post a thread here, and get a consensus of what you all think, and if you think we should change, do you have any recommendations of an issue or topic we could do our site over?
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vash, I think that we should go with a white bg, and then blue&gray accents them, I think it will look a lot more professional. even if we went with like a grey and red,
The black theme looks nice, but it looses a notch or two of professionalism. Especially is our site is going to be presenting a political issue.
I wrote a final essay on it for a college class. No one in the class knew what it was before (including the teacher) so she made sure I defined it in layman's terms. The best arguments are point out Google was built by college students with no large funding as well as Hotmail (bought later by MS) and AOL Instant Messenger (later bought by AOL). None of them would exist today if had to pay (for bandwidth/open ports/etc) to compete with large companies and their services.
However, DO NOT link http://www.wearetheweb.org/ AT ALL
Does anybody else have a topic that would be presentable, with enough concrete details and facts in order to educate someone about it?
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110054/
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0116405/main.php (WTF!, why is this main.php?)**
http://library.thinkquest.org/C006960F/
**Almost all their pages end with PHP. I don't know what to make of this, but I'd think they used PHP...
Net Neutrality is a new, hot topic, that nobody in your competition has had the chance to do before. More than that, it directly impacts the future of anyone who might make a career out of webdesigning; it could potentially impact the ThinkQuest organization's ability to market and recruit via the web. The entire landscape of the internet could change..
Isn't that worth talking about?
Watch these:
http://www.politicstv.com/blog/?p=261
http://www.youare.tv/watch.php?id=545
They are credible sources for information.
Note: PHP may have been allowed in past years and they decided against it this year. Isn't there someone you can talk to who would know?