HelioHost Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Yup, you read that right, it's time for another website competition. As it's been nearly a year since the last competiton here at HelioHost, we've decided it's about time we got rolling with another. Now, for those of you who don't know, the rules of the game are simple, to qualify for a contest entry you need to have your site hosted on HelioHost, and abide by our standard Terms of Service. Breaking either of these rules will result in an instant disqualification from the contest, and breaking the second clearly leads to a suspended account, which nobody wants. You can create a brand new website just for the purpose of the competition or if you think one of your current sites is your swan song, feel free to let the whole of HelioHost bask in it's glory. The purpose of the competition is to let yourselves be free to try new things and see how you stack up with your colleagues. Winning gives you bragging rights and feels awesome, but don't think that's all you'll get for being top dog. The winnder of the competition will also receive a customized Forum title on HelioNet, what this means is that instead of "Rank <roman numeral> Member" above your HelioNet profile image, it will display whatever you feel like having us put there . And as if that wasn't enough, we're also throwing in 500 MB of extra space on the winning account, that's 1GB of total storage for all your webpages plus whatever else you feel like storing, it's your space, use it however you want (as long as it doesn't break the ToS). We hope many of our 25k users will register their sites to be judged, and we hope that any users that enter enjoy themselves while working on their websites and learn something new in the process. Here at HelioHost we're all regular users who help out other users any chance we get, just because we're competing against each other that philosophy won't change, so if you run into problems trying to make your site "perfect", don't hesitate to post on our Website Management or Questions forums. You may notice I haven't said anything about where to register, or how websites will be judged yet. This is because registration will not begin until April 1st, this is just a heads up to all potential contestants to get their creative juices flowing. Information on the registration process and judging criterion will be posted mid-March to give you guys time to brainstorm ideas. Feel free to discuss the competition and what else you'd like as a potential prize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKSH101 Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Where to submit the website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExtremeGaming Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 You may notice I haven't said anything about where to register, or how websites will be judged yet. This is because registration will not begin until April 1st, this is just a heads up to all potential contestants to get their creative juices flowing. Information on the registration process and judging criterion will be posted mid-March to give you guys time to brainstorm ideas. Feel free to discuss the competition and what else you'd like as a potential prize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKSH101 Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Is site performence I mean pagespeed and other things will be judged? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krydos Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 It's the Heliohost users and everyone you tell about the contest that will be judging the sites. Any sites that are not hosted on Heliohost servers will automatically be disqualified so that sort of evens the playing field as far as page load speed. I imagine if your site does a 60 second mysql query to load each page the people judging your site will probably get annoyed and leave or not vote for you so it is in your best interest to optimize the loading speed of your pages. However, we have no control over who votes for what though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLaDOS Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 good thing my two sites fm1337.tk and fm1337.me load fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sq10prog Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Ooh, sweet. I'll be sure to build something awesome for this contest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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