We held our 16th annual web design and development competition in Louisville, KY the last week of June. We provided mandatory training to all competitors so they had a better understanding of the process involved with web design and development…
Advice to competitors
Our national web design and development competition is only a couple of months away (June, 2019). We thought it might be helpful to provide some advice to competitors before the competition this year. We will try to provide a printed…
WorldSkills Abu Dhabi videos
In addition to our interview with the US competitor at WorldSkills Asia in Abu Dhabi, we also interviewed a number of web design and development experts who participated in the event. We previously posted these videos on our Facebook page…
WorldSkills Asia (Abu Dhabi) Interview with US competitor
WorldSkills Asia held their first web design and development competition in late November, 2018 in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). I was the invited U.S. Expert; this was a great training opportunity for our 2019 WorldSkills Web Design and Development…
2018 National Web Contest Judges Comments
During our national web competition, we ask judges to provide comments as they review entries. We then summarize those comments and place them here for reference in future competitions. We do not provide comments to individual teams; however, we have…
Designing the Server Environment for the Web Design Contest
As discussed in the previous post, we are incorporating competitor feedback and updating our web design contest to include more dynamic server-side interaction. Server environment We procured a server to contain all the necessary services to host the contest. Being…
Designing the Network for Web Design Contest
Our national web design contest is changing this year. We always ask for feedback (from competitors and their advisors) and have heard a similar message for a few years. We realize the emphasis has shifted to development on a server…
Competitor’s view of web design contests
We recently asked Riley Johnson to share his experiences and insights about being a competitor in web design and development. Riley was a member of the winning team at our national web design competition in 2016 and a competitor at…
2017 National Web Contest Judges Comments
Our national web design contest for 2017 is now history (it happened June 20 – 23, 2017). If you would like to see some photos of the event, please visit our Facebook page (photos are linked). I thought it would…
2016 Web Contest Judge Comments
At our 2016 national web design contest in Louisville, KY (June 21 – 24, 2016), I mentioned that I would pass along general comments received from our judges. These notes are directed at all submitted work (we are not singling…