Website Competition
2010 winner
The winner of the 2010 Website Competition is Crofton Lions. The webmaster is Reg Norton. Congratulations Reg!
Eligibility and aims
The 105D Website Competition is open to all Lions, Leos and Lioness clubs within the District 105D. The aim of the competition is to:
- promote the use of websites by clubs
- raise the standard of club websites
- recognise our club webmasters
- promote the sharing of club information, project manuals and so forth
- promote communication via electronic means for environmental reasons
- encourage participation in all District competitions
The Rules
Clubs must enter their website. There will be no automatic entry. Form to be available soon...
The club website must be maintained by a member or members of the club entering the competition.
Entries must be received two weeks before the date of District Convention to allow time for judging to take place.
The Judges' decision is final.
Judging
The District Governor and two Vices, the District PR Committee and the District IT Committee shall judge the Competition with points awarded for content, accuracy, ease of use, accessibility, innovation and design.
As the competition is about club websites the Judges will be looking primarily for content directly relating to the club, the community it serves and the activities carried out. A greater percentage of the points shall be allocated to this area of judging
The Judges will use the following as a guide to awarding points to ensure that all entrants are treated fairly and that personal bias does not come into play.
PR Judges
The District Governor and two Vices and the District PR Committee will judge all entries and will concentrate on the content and ease of use components of the competition using the following as guidance: -
- Is it obvious that this is a Lions website (use of latest official Logos etc)?
- Is the website information current?
- Is it easy to find information on various projects?
- How much information on Lions projects is there?
- Is there information on the local community?
- How easy is it to navigate the website?
- Is it obvious the site is part of an International Organisation?
- Does the site link back to District/MD/International websites?
- Does the site contain contact information or a way to contact the club?
- Is there an archive of previous events?
- Is the club history on the website?
- Are the club officers named?
- Is there any inappropriate content or links to inappropriate external websites?
- Is the site attractive to look at?
- Overall how effective is the website from a PR perspective?
- Overall how effective is the website from a membership perspective?
IT Judges
The District IT Committee will judge all entries and will concentrate on the design, usability, accuracy and accessibility of the web site using the following for guidance:
- Do all top level menu pages validate against the W3C validation checker at http://validator.w3.org/?
- If the website uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) does it validate against the CSS validation checker at http://jigsaw.w3.org?
- Is the image quality acceptable?
- Are images too large and therefore taking a long time to load?
- Is there a site summary or site map?
- Is there a site search?
- Are there any broken links?
- Do external links open in a new window?
- Do internal links open in the same window?
- Is overall download speed acceptable?
- Is there any keyboard navigation on forms?
- Are all pages just three clicks from the home page?
- Is all text easily readable with acceptable contrast?
- Are font sizes changeable usng the browser controls?
- Is the site listed on search engines?
- Does the site display consistently on the main browsers - Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, Chrome?
- Is the layout consistent throughout the website?
- How original is the website design?
Notes
The closing date for this year's Competition is Friday 5th March 2010
Template based websites are acceptable
