It's time for the first "Homepage for the Holidays
WebAwards," being offered to folks who have, as the contest name would
imply, decorated their home pages for the holidays before December 14.
AIP, which meets the third Wednesday of every month, decided to come up
with some ideas to promote this month's special meeting in which members
of AIP will be able to meet organizations that need Web volunteers, said
AIP's Hans Cathcart.
Thus was born the holiday contest.
The idea actually was inspired by another Web site, Cathcart said. "A few
years back, Arizona State University for
Christmas had snow falling onto the logo. They had Christmas lights all
over their site. It gave the site a neat feel to it," he said.
(Incidentally, the page is decorated with lights this year and features
free holiday email cards users can send to each other.)
"People go out and dress up their own street with tinsel, put Christmas lights on
the houses," he said. "Some have started to do that with the Web."
Representatives from corporations and elementary schools as well as individuals have
entered the contest. For instance, Orchard Hill
Elementary School has dressed up its page along with a company called
Clear Ink.
Corporate sponsors have lined up behind the contest, offering prizes including 3Com PalmPilots, U.S.
Robotics 56-kbps modems and Big Picture video kits, memberships to the AIP, a year's worth of free Web site co-location and hosting services from
GlobalCenter, complete conference passes to CNET's Builder.com conference
in April (CNET publishes NEWS.COM), and EmblazeCreator 2.5 from Geo Publishing.
The contest is open to anyone who has a Web page. As word trickles out,
entries have come in from spots as local as Silicon Valley and as far away as Germany and Australia.
"I've been getting about a submission an hour the last couple days,"
Cathcart said.
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