Tell me about Web.Comp!

Web.Comp is a web design competition for school students. We’ll teach you HTML & CSS as we go along, rather than expecting you to be an expert already.

How does it work?

Web.Comp is a 4-week series of challenges where students learn as they go along. Each week, we'll release interactive notes with the information students will need to complete the week's web design challenges. Students earn points for completing problems and claim a place on the leaderboard - participants will receive certificates for their results in this competition.

See the upcoming dates and more information here.

Beginners Stream

The Beginners stream is a four week competition in which the following topics are covered:

Intro to creating websites using HTML & CSS;
Styling text, changing fonts, and adding colour;
Adding images and background images;
Adding links to other pages and websites;
HTML document structure;
Page layout, including margins, borders, padding, layout modes, and grouping elements together;
Styling with classes, adding icons, and hover text.

All problems are open-ended: Student submissions are marked by our auto-marker, but outside the problem requirements, students can use their creativity to design their solutions however they like.

Intermediate Stream

The Intermediate stream is also a four week competition, covering:

Text readability and visual accessibility;
User actions and action discoverability;
The Squint Test and visual hierarchy;
User goals and expectations;
Locality, intuitiveness and orienting in digital space;
Interacting with and understanding users;
Form inputs, controls and navigation;
Cross-platform design;
From brief to prototype: user personas, stories and tasks;
User experiments and experimental design.