The Contest:

We are going to give you all the opportunity to make your mark on the IUGA website. You have from now until the end of the summer to create a fresh look for this website. You may keep or abandon any color scheme or theme you detect, but the final product must look professional, and serve to promote the Informatics undergraduate program and encourage collaboration amongst it’s members.

If you find yourself wanting to redesign the IUGA logo, let me know and I can send you an archive of past logo submissions and ideas.

The Requirements:

The redesign must be submitted in the form of a WordPress theme that can be installed on a current version of WordPress. If your strength is design, you may pair up with someone who is strong in development and submit as a team.

The code must pass at least Transitional(for HTML) and Level 2(CSS) validation tests(Strict is encouraged. See XHTML Validator and CSS Validator.

All components of the site(about, members, forum, etc) must be contained in the redesign, but you are encouraged to reorganize the layout in a manner that reinforces the overall goal of the website(promoting Informatics).

For help getting started, see this tutorial

The Process:

Send all finalized submissions to behle{at}u{dot}washington{dot}edu before the first day of the 2009 Fall quarter.

At the first IUGA officer meeting of the 2009 Fall Quarter, we will select the top 3-5 designs and send our to picks out in the form of a survey to be voted on by the Informatics student body. All nominations will be final, and possibly completely arbitrary

The Motivation:

The winning person/team will recieve attribution at the bottom of the IUGA page with a link to their website/profile/whatever for the duration of the design’s presence on the site. We are working on getting sponsors for this contest, more details to follow.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask me or another officer via email or talking with us in the TE Lab(our home away from home).

Good luck! I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

-Braxton, IUGA Director of IT

Just a brief note for those of you who are interested.  Forums have been set up, a wiki has been created, and we are basically open for business.  There are a few things left to do, but besides a last coat of paint this place is ready to move in to.  If you or if you know of anyone in Informatics who has a good eye for graphic design and wants to help me make things look good and a little less samey, please get in touch with me so we can make things look nice as well as functional.

Additionally, I will be making some changes to the way IUGA membership registration works.  So if you’re an incoming member of the 9th cohort, please follow the forum link and create an account there and I’ll modify the member display code to display everything correctly.

Cheers!

To all of you who have been wondering “When oh when will I know who is in IUGA??”, your wait is no more!

Click on the ‘Active Members’ button at the top of the page to view a current listing!!

You can now join IUGA from the IUGA Website! Simply click on the ‘Join IUGA’ button at the top of the page and you will be prompted for your NetID login credentials. If you were previously joined, you can either fill in this form or you will be manually joined in the near future…

Other upcoming features:

1. Updated forum with more security features to prevent spammers from posting unnecessary information.
2. Order your IUGA gear online using PayPal!

Questions? Contact Micah Huff.