Jabroni Entries

Red = received after the deadline

blue = narrowing down the finalists. The deeper the blue, the closer the entry got to the winner

They are in order as I received them in gmail. For some people, I knew your name — for others, I didn't. If you are looking for your entry, hover over each link, and the link path should contain some recognizable part of your email or name.

For some browsers, we put "false" for the instances when the desired result just didn't happen. We understand that there could be some differences for browsers like IE6, but if it just looked wrong, we had to list it as "false".

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Entry Timestamp IE6 IE7 FF2-Win FF2-Mac Safari Validates Size (kb) Notes
01 June 1, 6:56pm True True True True True False 31
02 June 1, 7:19pm False True True True True True 30
03 June 1, 8:51pm False True True True True True 44
04 June 1, 8:58pm True True True True True True 47

Room for Improvement

  • id="boxes" and name="boxes" is treated equally in some browsers. use unique names/ids for elements.
05 June 1, 9:21pm True True True True True True 24
06 June 1, 10:33pm True True True True True False 108
07 June 2, 1:56am True True True True True True 125
08 June 2, 2:43am False True True True True True 36
09 June 2, 4:02am True True True True True False 78
10 June 2, 4:19am True True True True True False 111
11 June 2, 5:20am True False True True True True 38
12 June 2, 5:43am True True True True True True 36
13 June 2, 5:39am True True True True True True 43
14 June 2, 6:15am False False True True True False 36

Room for Improvement

  • id="merchandise" used twice. use unique ids!
15 June 2, 6:24am True True True True True True 83
16 June 2, 6:51am True True True True True True 38
17 June 2, 7:37am True True True True True True 93
18 June 2, 8:06am True True True True True True 48
19 June 2, 8:13am True True True True True True 45
20 June 2, 8:19am True True True True True True 35
21 June 2, 8:32am True True True True True False 32

Room for Improvement

  • id="event" and id="eventblock" were used repeatedly. id values must be unique!
22 June 2, 9:13am True True True True True True 35

Notable

  • great favicon
23 June 2, 9:25am True True True True True True 28
24 June 2, 9:30am True True True True True ??? 78

Room for Improvement

  • I think there was an extra closing div tag thrown in here
  • no title in the head - that raises a flag
25 June 2, 9:34am False True True True True False 35
26 June 2, 9:44am True True True True True True 48

Notable

  • liquid layout
  • text resize for ie6 -- good stuff.
27 June 2, 10:15am True True True True True ??? 54
28 June 2, 10:23am True True True True True False 34

Notable

  • allows resizing in ie6
  • good merchandise hover
  • compact, but readable stylesheet (if text wrap is off)
29 June 2, 10:34am True True True True True True 31

Notable

  • accesskeys
  • great nav rendering
  • all is marked up well

Room for Improvement

  • customer support isn't a link, and is all caps
30 June 2, 10:50am True True True True True True 48

Notable

  • nailed the nav spacing/curves pixel for pixel...

Room for Improvement

  • ... but the nav was at the price of including mootools js library. was it worth it?
  • no hover for nav (or any other link)
  • actual fake client testimonials header indent seems a bit awkward
  • at one glance, I saw a use of single quotes in the html to surround an attribute value, but all other attribute values used double quotes. stay consistent!
31 June 2, 10:56am False True True True True True 33

Notable

  • very slick merchandise item highlighting

Room for Improvement

  • upcoming events dates are not consistent. i'm not showing the day on a new line after the month.
  • i have to give a no for IE6 - i can't see the logo!
  • all-caps used in markup for nav and headers.
32 June 2, 11:08am True True True True True True 120

Notable

  • text resizing in ie6 - looks great
  • I like the focus state on the email field
  • good line-height on testimonials

Room for Improvement

  • nav items could use a hover state in ie6
well-organized directories and readable css file.
33 June 2, 11:19am True True True True True True 40

Notable

  • text resizing in IE6!
  • I like the hover on merchandise items.

Room for Improvement

  • spacing above testimonials headline could be a little more
  • why is photos highlighted by default?
  • nav items spacing
I like the way upcoming events was marked up. Use of <b> tag was an appropriate choice over <strong>.
34 June 2, 11:20am True True True True True True 29

Notable

  • text resizing is impressive.

Room for Improvement

  • 1px gap under nav items in several browsers
35 June 2, 11:33am True True True True True True 61

Notable

  • meta data
  • stretchy banner works well
  • hover for merchandise

Room for Improvement

  • too bad one text size bump causes return policy to be lost
  • images for headlines? nooo!
36 June 2, 11:37am False False True True False True 31

Notable

  • the stretch works great

Room for Improvement

  • wrong page is highlighted, and not so well (look at home to the left)
  • Rounded corners problematic cross-browser
  • images wider than 1px for tiling would be favorable, not only to the human eye, but less overhead for the browser, too.
37 June 2, 11:39am True True True True True True 98

Notable

  • hover for merchandise.
  • Scales well

Room for Improvement

  • didn't pay much attention to text styles in upcoming events
  • font choice for headers
  • image was used instead of text for "actual fake client testimonial"
  • White gap at the bottom
38 June 2, 11:40am False False True True True True 29

Room for Improvement

  • nav troubles.
  • Why no links or merchandise?
  • Background color of gray
  • Save h1's for page headers, not for subheads like "merchandise".
  • Inline styles are not as favored as keeping presentation separate from content.
39 June 2, 11:44am True True True True True True 34

Notable

  • Good hover for merchandise
  • good use of abbr
  • nice background color choice
  • like input focus for email
  • like cursor for email label (I'm iffy on this in general, but it works well here)
  • like that upcoming events and merchandise headers were thought of as links, but not email - can tell that thought was put into that
  • nav scales well.
  • ie6 text size scales well.
  • interesting background images

Room for Improvement

  • quality of logo
40 June 2, 11:46am True True True True True True 30

Notable

  • arrow character for fake client testimonials - in the spirit of our look.
  • good hover in nav - great nav altogether
  • title attribute for call to action
  • Excellent text size bumping - holding integrity of the design very well, except... (see below)

Room for Improvement

  • ...calendar dates get lost after just one bump
  • Hovers in the merchandise are good attempt, but jumpy.
  • attaching merch category to the image
41 June 2, 11:47am False False True True True False 70

Notable

  • Good hover in nav

Room for Improvement

  • no other links have hover states
  • aligment issues
  • if you didn't want to use curves in the footer, that's an acceptable design decision, but we wanted to see the footer image expand the full width of the window with this approach
  • inputs have type="text", not type="txt"
42 June 2, 11:47am True True True True True False 51

Notable

  • nav scales nicely.
  • Interesting hover on 'get yours now'.
  • Text size scales in ie6 - good job.
  • line break after the leadin sentence in the under the main h1 (its an h4).

Room for Improvement

  • not a fan of the merchandise as a blockquote with divs
  • merchandise has different links for imgs vs text links
43 June 2, 11:48am True True True True True True 26

Notable

  • Used "&#9660;" character for down arrow - good choice.
  • favicon!

Room for Improvement

  • cheated on nav dividers - not scalable.
  • We don't mind you deviating from the header fonts, but the main header looks less bold than the secondary ones.
44 June 2, 11:52am True True True True True Tentative 28

Notable

  • full fluid - nice
  • hover frak
  • interesting nav hover color
  • in ie6, resizing the browser smaller results in the nav wrapping, and it looks pretty good.
  • submit hover and active are nice
  • good merchandise hover

Room for Improvement

  • Ie6 has a bug affecting testimonials divider when hovering over "get yours now".
45 June 2, 11:55am True True True True True True 28

Notable

  • text seems small by default
  • nav gets lost on the bump
  • like the attempt to of stretching banner fullscreen, although... (see below)

Room for Improvement

  • ...the left color doesn't match up. An option to accommodate for this could be to modify the hero image to fade to purple on teh left.
  • to avoid raising flags, use unique identifiers for anchor text (name="content" and id="content")
46 June 2, 11:55am True True True True True True 26

Notable

  • Background pattern?
  • interesting that right-angle question was used instead of down graphic fro testimonials header, even if it doesn't point down

Room for Improvement

  • if you're going to use a background pattern, use one that matches the site
  • merchandise section is bad design choice.
  • hover effect for nav is not doing it.
  • with css disabled, it's obvious that all caps were used in the code for the menu. we recommend "text-transform:uppercase;" instead.
  • no html title
47 June 2, 11:58am True True True True True True 39

Notable

  • Good hover effects on nav

Room for improvement

  • valiant effort for the last list item in teh nav, but it doesn't work completely cross-browser
  • why not indicate that home is already selected
  • Customer support should be a link
48 June 2, 11:59am True True True True True True 48

Room for Improvement

  • link tags need type attribute
49 June 2, 12:09pm False False True True True True 46

Notable

  • text for tagline
  • date looks good on calendar

Room for Improvment

  • in ie6 and ie7, the head and upcoming events is messed up
  • banner trick was an interesting attempt, but doesn't completely work.
50 June 2, 12:11pm False True True True True True 36

Notable

  • hover on merchandise
  • rounded corner on nav hover
  • html title
  • good formatting of code

Room for Improvement

  • text size increase fails - was absolute positionging used for layout??
  • nav hover causes bump
  • no img tag for merchandise items?
  • img tags were used instead of css for dividing nav options
51 June 2, 12:22pm False True True True True False 57

Notable

  • When css is off, page looks good

Room for Improvement

  • nav issues
52 June 2, 12:26pm True True True True True False 71

Notable

  • hover effect on nav
  • attempt of fluid layout
  • Interesting to right-aling the email header, but it doesn't look intentional

Room for Improvement

  • font choices
  • the second testimonial column drops from the layout when the browser is expanded - I expect it do that if the browser is shrunk, not expanded.
53 June 2, 7:45pm True True True True True Tentative 47

character encoding issue here - not sure what happened

Notable

  • Emphasis on the date - a bit off center in IE7, though.

Room for Improvement

  • No hover in nav
  • text resize in IE6 not only fails, but negatively affects the calendars