Challenge Summary
TopCoder is launching another exciting set of branded competition about Remix. Here is your chance to implement the website that will be the competition "hub" for all of the Remix competitions.
WordPress is a popular open source blogging and CMS tool built in PHP with a mySQL database. For this contest you will be creating the WordPress Theme for the new REMIX Challenge Mini-site by adapting the provided storyboards to an existing WordPress Theme.
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The Remix Challenge is getting ready to begin but first we need a website to serve as the competition hub and with this contest, you will help bring the site to life. You will build a complete WordPress theme, so that the Remix Challenge website can be powered by WordPress, the powerful open source blogging and content management system. What is a WordPress Theme? A WordPress theme is a folder containing all the images, css, javascript, and PHP files that describe the appearance and layout of a WordPress blog. The PHP files have a standard naming convention for page types, and contain and use template tags to call for specific information from the blog's database, such as a post title, the post date, it's categories, and more. Theme Requirements - Individual post pages - Category pages - Main page listing post excerpts. - Search page - NO comment forms - Error Page In general, the site should be built to load all content via WordPress's static pages. Each page or area of content should be a static page in the WordPress backend. Areas of the Prototype and Suggested Theme Solutions General Structure: The theme we had challenged has a homepage with three columns. The middle column will be blog posts while the left and right columns may contain widgets. The secondary pages have a two column layout with a widget in the right column. Navigation/Pages Home: Three column layout (see storyboards) Learn More: Two column layout - static page describing the contest Get the API's: Two column layout - static page Forums: Two column layout Right hand column: Active contest sidebar widget: This will be an RSS widget to read a specific RSS feed: http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=BasicRSS&c=rss_remix&dsid=33 Additional widgets could be added Left hand column: Challenges list: This will be an HTML link to a page describing each contest overview. Additional widgets could be added such as a twitter feed via RSS: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=%23BBYRemix Prototype Files We have provided the WordPress Theme we want you to build off of and the winning storyboard design. A good example of a basic three column Wordpress Theme can be seen at: http://randaclay.com/themes/diy-theme/ Here is the actual theme zip: http://randaclay.com/diytheme.zip How-to-customize theme: http://randaclay.com/how-to/the-easy-way-to-learn-css-and-customize-your-blog-theme/ Tutorial- Building Custom WordPress Theme: http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/building-custom-wordpress-theme/ http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/ The WordPress Codex (a guide to template tags) http://codex.wordpress.com/
The Remix Challenge is getting ready to begin but first we need a website to serve as the competition hub and with this contest, you will help bring the site to life. You will build a complete WordPress theme, so that the Remix Challenge website can be powered by WordPress, the powerful open source blogging and content management system. What is a WordPress Theme? A WordPress theme is a folder containing all the images, css, javascript, and PHP files that describe the appearance and layout of a WordPress blog. The PHP files have a standard naming convention for page types, and contain and use template tags to call for specific information from the blog's database, such as a post title, the post date, it's categories, and more. Theme Requirements - Individual post pages - Category pages - Main page listing post excerpts. - Search page - NO comment forms - Error Page In general, the site should be built to load all content via WordPress's static pages. Each page or area of content should be a static page in the WordPress backend. Areas of the Prototype and Suggested Theme Solutions General Structure: The theme we had challenged has a homepage with three columns. The middle column will be blog posts while the left and right columns may contain widgets. The secondary pages have a two column layout with a widget in the right column. Navigation/Pages Home: Three column layout (see storyboards) Learn More: Two column layout - static page describing the contest Get the API's: Two column layout - static page Forums: Two column layout Right hand column: Active contest sidebar widget: This will be an RSS widget to read a specific RSS feed: http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=BasicRSS&c=rss_remix&dsid=33 Additional widgets could be added Left hand column: Challenges list: This will be an HTML link to a page describing each contest overview. Additional widgets could be added such as a twitter feed via RSS: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=%23BBYRemix Prototype Files We have provided the WordPress Theme we want you to build off of and the winning storyboard design. A good example of a basic three column Wordpress Theme can be seen at: http://randaclay.com/themes/diy-theme/ Here is the actual theme zip: http://randaclay.com/diytheme.zip How-to-customize theme: http://randaclay.com/how-to/the-easy-way-to-learn-css-and-customize-your-blog-theme/ Tutorial- Building Custom WordPress Theme: http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/building-custom-wordpress-theme/ http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/ The WordPress Codex (a guide to template tags) http://codex.wordpress.com/
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