Web Designers Are Taken To the Test
Submitted on March 24, 2000 - 1:00am.
Claus Rasmussen - Spring 2000
CYBERSPACE _ For weeks, freelance Web designer Heather Champ of Montreal has been having cyberspace nightmares. Bits, bytes and squiggles of HTML have chased her into a World Wide Hell.
"I can't get it out of my head," says Champ. "This mind-game has really put me to the test."
The test: Build an appealing Web page of only five kilobytes – or the Web equivalent of making a beauty queen with five pieces of secondhand clothes and a worn-down lipstick. Her potential prize: 5,120 cents, or $51.20. That's the exact number of bytes in five kilobytes.
Champ is one of the more than 500 Web page designers who've taken up the "5k" challenge. The unusual contest's father is Canadian Web designer Stewart Butterfield of Vancouver.
"I can't get it out of my head," says Champ. "This mind-game has really put me to the test."
The test: Build an appealing Web page of only five kilobytes – or the Web equivalent of making a beauty queen with five pieces of secondhand clothes and a worn-down lipstick. Her potential prize: 5,120 cents, or $51.20. That's the exact number of bytes in five kilobytes.
Champ is one of the more than 500 Web page designers who've taken up the "5k" challenge. The unusual contest's father is Canadian Web designer Stewart Butterfield of Vancouver.
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