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Frontend Challenge v24.04.17
Flex your CSS and JavaScript skills!
For this Frontend Challenge, we’ll be celebrating our planet’s largest civic event: Earth Day. 🌍 🌏 🌎
We are bringing back the CSS Art and Glam Up My Markup prompts for this challenge – don’t worry, One Byte Explainer will make an appearance again in the future!
Like last time, there will be a winner for each prompt, and to celebrate Earth Day, we will also have an additional prize category for this challenge. That’s three chances to win bragging rights, a gift from the DEV Shop, and an exclusive DEV badge. As always, participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge.
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Key Dates
- Contest start: April 17, 2024
- Submissions due: April 28, 2024
- Winners announced: April 30, 2024
Badge Rewards
Winners
Congratulations to our Frontend Challenge v24.04.17 winners! Read the full announcement post here.
CSS Art: Earth Day
Glam Up My Markup: Earth Day Celebration Landing Page
Earth Day
Challenge Prompts
CSS Art: Earth Day
Draw what comes to mind for you when it comes to Earth Day. Is it our beautiful planet? Is it a symbol that drives awareness about climate change? Whatever it is, show us!
Your submission should not use any JavaScript and should flex your creativity in CSS. Your submission will include markup, may include SVG, etc. but should mostly show off your skills in CSS.
Judging Criteria:
- Creativity
- Effective use of CSS
- Aesthetic outcome
Glam Up My Markup: Earth Day Celebration Landing Page
Use CSS and JavaScript to make the below starter HTML markup beautiful, interactive, and useful.
Your submission should be more fun and interactive than the HTML we provide, but also be usable and accessible. You should not directly edit the HTML provided, unless it is via JavaScript. We expect style and substance. You may add basic boilerplate, including meta tags etc. for presentation purposes.
<body>
<header>
<h1>Welcome to Our Earth Day Celebration!</h1>
</header>
<section>
<article class="facts">
<h2>Did You Know?</h2>
<p>Earth Day was first celebrated on April 22, 1970, and now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries.</p>
</article>
<article>
<h2>Why Celebrate Earth Day?</h2>
<p>Earth Day is more than just a single day — April 22. It's a day to remind us to take action in our communities and beyond, to protect the environment, restore damaged ecosystems, and live a more sustainable life.</p>
</article>
<article>
<h2>How You Can Help</h2>
<p>Join us in making a difference! Here are some ways you can contribute to preserving our planet:</p>
<ul>
<li>Reduce, reuse, and recycle.</li>
<li>Volunteer for cleanups in your community.</li>
<li>Conserve water and electricity.</li>
<li>Plant a tree.</li>
<li>Educate others about environmental conservation.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<div class="action-call">
<h2>Take Action Now</h2>
<p>Join our Earth Day quiz to test your knowledge and learn more about what you can do to help our planet!</p>
<a href="#">Start the Quiz!</a>
</div>
</section>
<div class="testimonial">
<h2>Inspiration Corner</h2>
<p>"The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth." - Marlee Matlin</p>
<p>This Earth Day, let's remember we are part of a larger ecosystem and our actions have a profound impact on our planet.</p>
</div>
<div class="events">
<h2>Join an Event</h2>
<p>Participate in local and global Earth Day events to take action towards a sustainable future. Check out <a href="#">events near you</a>.</p>
</div>
<footer>
<p>Happy Earth Day! Together, we can make a difference.</p>
</footer>
</body>
Judging Criteria:
- Accessibility
- Usability and User Experience
- Creativity
- Code quality
Prize Categories
Earth Day
Awarded to a top submission that brings awareness to climate change.
Frontend Challenge v24.04.17 FAQ
Participation
Can I submit to multiple prompts?
Yes, you are welcome to submit to multiple prompts.
Can I submit to a prompt more than once?
Yes, you can submit multiple submissions per prompt but you’ll need to publish a separate post for each submission.
- In the event that you may win two or more prompts, and your submission is very close with another participant, we will favor the other participant.
- In the event that you do win two or more prompts, you will only receive one winner badge.
Can I work on a team?
Yes, you can work on teams up to four people.
- If you collaborate with anyone, you’ll need to list their DEV handles in your submission post so we can award a badge to your entire team! Please only publish one submission per team.
- DEV does not handle prize-splitting, so in the event that your submission wins the shop gift, you will need to split that amongst yourselves. Thank you for understanding!
How old do I have to be to participate?
Participants need to be 18+ in order to participate.
If I live in X, am I eligible to participate?
For eligibility rules, see our official challenge rules.
Submission
Can my submission include open source code?
Riffing on open source code and borrowing and improving on previous work/ideas is encouraged but it’s important your changes are significant enough to ensure your submission is valid.
When does riffing become plagiarism?
It will depend, but transparency is important, license compatibility is important. You can use someone else’s code to give you a jumpstart to demonstrate your ideas on top of someone else’s base, but not just re-package the base.
It should be clear to the judges what you added to the project in terms of the code and conceptual inspiration. This means, you should clearly state what you were building on and what elements are original to this new submission.
When building on existing code, we expect a significant change that adds something tangible to the output. i.e. a new animation, and new sprite, a new function, a new presentation. Not just changes to the source - i.e. changing colours, changing one sprite, changing one function.
What happens if my submission is considered plagiarized or invalid?
Anything deemed to be plagiarism will not be eligible for prizes. Incidental plagiarism may simply result in your disqualification from the challenge (regardless of the number of other valid submissions you have published). Egregious plagiarism will result in your suspension from DEV entirely. Any non-generic, non-trivial usage of prior work, including open source code must be credited in your submission.
Do submissions have to be in English?
Non-english submissions are eligible for a completion badge but not eligible for prizes due to the current limitations of our judges. We will not be judging on mastery of the English language, so please don’t let this deter you from submitting if you are not a native English speaker! We hope to evolve this in the future to be more accommodating.
Do I need a license for my code?
We strongly recommend including a license for your code, here are some you may consider: MIT, Apache, BSD-2, BSD-3, or Commons Clause.
Can I use AI?
Use of AI is allowed as long as all other rules are followed. We want to give you a chance to show off your skills in realistic scenarios. If you use AI tools to help you achieve your submission, all the power to you.
How do I embed my project directly into my DEV post?
Our editor supports many types of embeds, including: Stackbliz, Glitch, Github, etc. You can typically use the {% embed https://... %} syntax directly in the post. Click here for more information on our markdown support.
- For CodePen, you will need to use this syntax:
{% codepen http://... %} - For CodeSandbox, you will need to use this syntax:
{% codesandbox http://... %}
Judging and Prizing
Can there be ties?
In the event of a tie in scoring between judges, the judges will select the entry that received the highest number of positive reactions on their DEV post to determine the winner.
How will I know if I won?
Winners will be announced in a DEV post on the winner announcement date noted in our key dates section.
When will winners receive their Forem Shop gift?
The DEV Team will contact you via the email associated with your DEV profile within, at most, 10 business days of the announcement date to share the details of the shop gift.
When will I receive my DEV badge?
Both participation and winner badges will be awarded, in most cases, the same day as the winner announcement.
Frontend Challenge v24.04.17 Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to 18+. Contest entry period ends April 28, 2024 at 11:59 PM PDT. Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law or regulation. All entires must be submitted during the content period. For Official Rules, see Frontend Challenge v24.04.17 Contest Rules and General Contest Official Rules.
