AITP National Collegiate Conference
Tampa, Florida 2000
Webmaster Competition Rules

1. Microsoft FrontPage2000, running on a Windows 98 client platform will be utilized. The default tools, installed automatically when FrontPage installs itself as a "Typical Installation", are the only features that will be available.
    
2. Contestants will be required to develop a corporate intra/internet system and submit their URL to the competition supervisor at the conclusion of the contest time period. Contestants will also be required to copy their entire web onto diskette at the end of the competition to demonstrate portability. The judges will install these webs on a new server for evaluation.
    
3. All HTML/Java/ActiveX elements supported by Frontpage 2000 may be utilized in the development of the application. Each team will have their own web on the server, which will be running Microsoft NT 4.0 and the Microsoft IIS HTTP server software supporting Active Server Pages.
    
4. SPECIAL NOTE: Each team will have to create an empty Microsoft Access database (data cannot be stored in text files) in their web directory, their own "File DSN" (for ODBC use) and set up their own connection string. Sample code for creating the File DSN and connection string can be found on the FrontPage Webmaster Contest "Additional Information" page (see link back on the "Competition Events" page. (also, see attached copies in the contest packet)
    
5. Basis for evaluation:
• Functionality (40%)
• Ease of Use (30%)
• Overall Appearance (20%)
• Ease of Maintenance/Documentation (10%)
• Only Programs/solutions that function will be initially evaluated by the contest Judges (unless no one has a functioning solution).
   
6. Only Programs/solutions that function will be initially evaluated (unless no one has a functioning solution).