WE MAY HAVE BEEN HACKED BY THE CHINESE BUT THIS ISN'T OVER YET

I've had an idea - we can have a competition section and we can invite people to submit their sites (all based on a certain theme). Try to get maybe five entries and put a write up about how we only choose the best of the category and don't allow the small fry to even compete.

Then we "review the site" - we do extensive write-ups where we constructively but agressively criticise each site for not looking like the other ones. Hopefully one of these sites will be paying attention.

Now all we need is a theme.

For posterity:

To be designing to design by design.

In the interests of maximizing the interactive potential of this audience leg over I have populated this pro-action-list for your actualization processes.
Additions and expanded views on these topics are encouraged.
--Theo

•Things to avoid

"The top", "The best" etc. Use 'A', 'One Of' and the like.
Numbers, unless you know you have that number/many already. Don't shoot the moon by making a top 20 list that only has three items.

•Obvious TLA's and phrases

Any sex slang that can be found by google/urbandic/etc
Same for trade names and variations even sound alikes.

•General observations

Time of year is good 2007/2008 both can work in this time frame and it may be worth the effort to populate a previous years award winners page or two.
All awards are synthetic. This is as real as you want to make it.
Real sponsors and co-op ideas can be explored. After all--Eyeballs are eyeballs.
There's no reason anyone that mentions, or discovers, its all a pile of poo can't just join in the fun of flinging it.

•Award page structure and notes

I suggest a single page with the award and any list of nominations/winners.
Any collective/catalog page should be left for when we have items done.
Basic types of awards-- dispensed, nominated with voting, nominated with conditions, and open nominations via comments.
Awards that are a single user to give with and group dispensed.

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PS: Anyone having problems posting can Gmail or Gaz me the links to their assets, and the copy they want, and I'll get it up as quickly as I can.