The SPF Pure HTML & CSS competition - The Winners!

**YuriKolovsky** · Mar 22, 2011 07:52

imaginekitty's source is beautiful!

Off Topic:

At some point I had the "microsoft paint" part of text in a rainbow color where each letter had a varied size and was blinking, I mean it's fun to make fun of m$ paint, but I also have a special place for it in my heart as a very challenging medium to work with, you can't spell "Microsoft Paint" without "Pain".

a small tribute to Microsoft paint, here have a laugh.
1 2 3 4.1 4.2 5

haha np guido

**molona** · Mar 22, 2011 07:55

Thanks for the kind words Yuri. I really like the clean and straight forward design you did, and it is amazing the resemblance of the twitter and facebook logos

I've been truly impressed with the designs in general and all the work every participant put into this. I hope that I can have new ideas from this contest, and learn something new from here.

My only complain is that I don't get the cup for being in the second place... of the "staff entries"... it is so hard to compete against Paul

**RyanReese** · Mar 22, 2011 09:26

Yuri. The cloud is moving but just so slow you can't see it. I set the speed very low and it's perfect in FF but it's too slow in Safari.

I decided that instead of increasing the speed, I'd leave it be. I didn't want it to be distracting.

**Paul O'B** · Mar 22, 2011 09:46

Originally Posted by YuriKolovsky

Paul LOL, looks like you had the most fun here, the newsletter was the most surprising, very nice tech demo, and surprisingly clean html for the amount of features, and how did you make the background so striped, will have to analyze for a while.

Yes, I just had a bit of fun with it. Nothing serious and all over the top.

I'm not a designer as such so I just throw code at it until something happens or it looks better than it was. The diagonal gradients really slow the page down though in Firefox. My favourite part was the ugly fish in the contact section (safari or ff4 only) - and the fluid table.

I'm impressed with all the entries as there was something in each that I liked and I'm glad I didn't have to judge.

Congratulations again to all those that entered and made this more interesting.

**Logowizard** · Mar 22, 2011 11:00

I enjoyed the comp, it was my first venture into HTML 5 having been using XHTML up to now. Since the comp I have been swatting up on HTML5 and CSS3 and have started to incorporate into my sites :-)

Just wondering if anyone has hovered over my fish yet? It has a little easter egg, but works best in safari and chrome.

Thanks for the chance to take part, and well done to all the winners :-)

**YuriKolovsky** · Mar 22, 2011 11:10

@Ryan, ah now I see it.

Originally Posted by Paul O'B

My favourite part was the ugly fish in the contact section

LOL I missed that one completely.

@Logowizard yeah I noticed it

Mine has little title attribute jokes scattered around it :P

**Logowizard** · Mar 22, 2011 11:32

@ Paul O'B, just seen your fish... you're right it is ugly, but fun all the same :-)

**xhtmlcoder** · Mar 22, 2011 11:33

Originally Posted by Logowizard

Just wondering if anyone has hovered over my fish yet? It has a little easter egg, but works best in safari and chrome.

Yes, Graham we noticed the fish and it's 'trick'. We liked many of humorous or unique aspects such as that and Ryan's moving cloud... or the blinking text in Jaap's tribute to MS Paint.

Even some of the funny title text; like in Tim's social media icons, or Csaba's moving fish, etc. There is plenty to keep you entertained within the examples and it's nice to see how different people tackled the challenge.

**Logowizard** · Mar 22, 2011 11:37

Originally Posted by xhtmlcoder

it's nice to see how different people tackled the challenge.

and how they all approached it differently. Some fantastic designs and examples of HTML and CSS at it's best.

**scout1idf** · Mar 22, 2011 11:57

I came up with 4 designs total and let my wife choose the one I submitted.

Here are the other 3 if you want to have a look...

Thanks for a fun competition and again, congrats to the winners...

**Pikacsu81** · Mar 22, 2011 14:08

Congratulations to all the competitors and winners.Thank You for the kind
words!

I can't wait to get the Html Cup to drink my morning coffee from it.

**HAWK** · Mar 22, 2011 14:17

I am seriously impressed with the quality of the entries. Amazing work.

I am also seriously impressed with how hard the staff worked to run this contest and want to give them a big thanks. You guys rock.

I'm PMing the winners now to organise your prizes. Congratulations.

**xhtmlcoder** · Mar 22, 2011 15:08

You wife has good taste Dan and I like your cartoon fish Csaba. We have our Galactic Overlord to thank for all those wonderful prizes and allowing us to host the fabulous Showcase on the SPF servers.

Plus like I've said, it's all you competitors that have really supported this competition and you should be proud of your achievements.

**imaginekitty** · Mar 22, 2011 17:18

Originally Posted by YuriKolovsky

imaginekitty's source is beautiful! ...

Yeah? Really?

My favorites are:
Candygirl (because it's blue and orange like mine. Hey, I like blue and orange!

)
tommuseth (excellent font choice)
transio (fantastic effect!)
YuriKolovsky (BIG BOLD TEXT. Best background color ever.)
zcorpan!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice work everyone. I'm envious of the design skills here.

**xhtmlcoder** · Mar 22, 2011 17:29

Yes, Mark like Tim said you had some fairly nice markup and should be proud of yourself.

**imaginekitty** · Mar 22, 2011 18:03

Originally Posted by xhtmlcoder

... We are only listing the top four places in the SPF. Albeit for everyone who has entered; we possibly could arrange to give them some 'feedback' via PM about how they fared or some constructive criticism. ...

I welcome any comments that would help me improve. I'm no designer so any advice on any sort of artistic improvement would likely go over my head but you're welcome to try.

**imaginekitty** · Mar 22, 2011 18:09

Originally Posted by transio

... especially the logo in IE ...

HAHAH! Nice! I just saw that.

**RyanReese** · Mar 22, 2011 19:09

Originally Posted by imaginekitty

I welcome any comments that would help me improve. I'm no designer so any advice on any sort of artistic improvement would likely go over my head but you're welcome to try.

Same.

**lbispo** · Mar 22, 2011 20:57

Thank you very much for the honor! I feel a little unworthy among so many great entries...

Thanks to the Sitepoint folks for the fun and interesting competition. This was one of the first times I've gotten to try out media queries and some of the other cool CSS3 stuffs. Fun times - thank you!

I just can't wait to walk into work with my ultra-awesome SP mug...!

**transio** · Mar 22, 2011 21:53

Originally Posted by imaginekitty

HAHAH! Nice! I just saw that.

Oui, oui..... this is my piece de resistance.

**thierry koblentz** · Mar 22, 2011 22:16

Those are very nice designs!
Congratulations to the winners!!

**scout1idf** · Mar 22, 2011 22:54

Originally Posted by xhtmlcoder

You wife has good taste Dan.....

Thank you and I'll let her know.

**spikeZ** · Mar 23, 2011 08:30

All the pant wetting, dummy chucking and thread crapping has been moved to a new thread. This thread is for the congratulations to the winners and for a good FUN competition.

**xhtmlcoder** · Mar 23, 2011 09:29

Louis, glad you like your cup; it was a pleasure judging your web page and it sounds like you enjoyed yourself taking part, which is the main thing.

Originally Posted by lbispo

I just can't wait to walk into work with my ultra-awesome SP mug...!

Will you be drinking anything special out of the cup when it arrives?

**imaginekitty** · Mar 23, 2011 10:40

I'm making my own mug and writing "I ♣ HTML" and drinking my own tears out of it because I didn't win.

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