Let CH know that there is no specifiCODING category
This is getting beyond a joke~ more and more requests for design & coded contests - and most are for the barest minimum in prize money... they don't ask for one page, but for a fully functioning website !
I'm fed up with being abused by CHs whenever I point them towards the prizes help page to enlighten them as to the minimum prize levels as well as showing them 'the no coding' line at the bottom of that page.
Either there is or there isn't a coding category. At the moment, it is all up in the air.
Please, either allow a coding category - with a 'buyer beware' notice as to the quality they may be getting,
OR at the very least, when a contest is being created , show in 'big capital letters' that there is no coding category - design only at this time...
Unless of course I'm wrong and you are allowing these contests to go ahead with no thoughts to the quality of the final project the contest holder will receive.
I've seen some of the coding that's been passed around here and I can see a lot of CH's being ripped off with the final deliverables - where the html has been spit out of a graphics program and where html pages don't validate and are not cross browser compatible.
99designs needs to make a stand one way or another... and certainnly clarify the position so that both contest holders and designs know where they stand !
Nadia
not sure why this isn't getting more votes - there are numerous complaints about this situation all around the web design contest area !!
1 day ago
runikols
continued frm above:
I wish CH would at least specify coding prize. So we know the original prize for design and prize for coding.
This is important because, say, designing for an uncoded $300 is different from designing a coded $300. :)
about 1 month ago
runikols
Oh man, there's a bug when posting.
Please delete my multiple post including this post. Thanks!
about 1 month ago
runikols
And then, coding category may better define the competition between designers and designers with coding ability (refer to coding issue as Nadia said).
Now it seems that the prize amount virtually can cover coding work (especially if those CH set the prize a bit higher)
about 1 month ago
runikols
And then, coding category may better define the competition between designers and designers with coding ability (refer to coding issue as Nadia said).
Now it seems that the prize amount virtually can cover coding work (especially if those CH set the prize a bit higher)
I wish CH would at least specify coding prize. So we know the original prize for design and prize for coding.
about 1 month ago
runikols
And then, coding category may better define the competition between designers and designers with coding ability (refer to coding issue as Nadia said).
Now it seems that the prize amount virtually can cover coding work (especially if those CH set the prize a bit higher)
I wish CH would at least specify coding prize. So we know the original prize for design and prize for coding.
about 1 month ago
runikols
And then, coding category may better define the competition between designers and designers with coding ability (refer to coding issue as Nadia said).
Now it seems that the prize amount virtually can cover coding work (especially if those CH set the prize a bit higher)
I wish CH would at least specify coding prize. So we know the original prize for design and prize for coding.
about 1 month ago
runikols
Such contests appear more frequently than ever in the last two weeks. I wonder why...
This is just IMO:
I think coding category should be re-opened with its own prize guidelines to avoid confusion and unnecessary dispute regarding the work covered by the prize amount.
about 1 month ago