Monday, December 29, 2008

High School Contest Page


Breaking News: I've done something over the holidays: It's a website for the BYU ACM High School contest. It can be found here: http://acm.byu.edu/hs2009.

I'm pretty proud of it because it incorporated a bunch of custom images made in photoshop, with perl and html.

I think the resistors as menu items are pretty creative and recognizable, but I had some problem with the main content panel design. I tried to make it look like a chip, but I ran into two problems:
  1. I wanted to keep at least the BYU blue as a color, and didn't want to sacrifice that for a the normal chip black color. and then I really liked the light blue color for the pins.. perhaps I should have chosen a bright yellow color for the pins to make it more realistic. However, a bright yellow would have to match the green title color as well as the BYU blue. Whatever.

  2. The second problem was that after I had completed the chip graphic on the large-screen multimedia lab computers, it looked the right size. However, when I viewed it on my smaller low-res mac screen, I couldn't see all of the edges, which made it hard to recognize the pins and square shape.


My next task is to find some local tech companies to sponsor us.

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