Overall Design - Web ( Division 4)
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- Place Name: First Place
Contestant Name: St. Edward's University
Entry Title: Hilltop Views
Entry Credit: Claire Lawrence, Chloe Almendarez, Lola Claire
Judge Comment: St. Edward’s University is Austin’s tiny but mighty college, and the Hilltop Views proves it. A model website made by dedicated students who are eager to report on everything around them. You want to keep scrolling simply because of the strong feature story, though the teaser text should be adjusted to at least have one sentence or a strong lede, as is the case with other articles. You should be proud of the TIPA award, but social media, which is broken, comes first, followed by announcements and corrections. Sports headlines are too long and the photo stories need some more love, almost as if they are an afterthought.
- Place Name: Second Place
Contestant Name: Sul Ross State University
Entry Title: The Sul Ross Skyline
Entry Credit: Brooke Manuel, Johanna Covington, Dawson Beard
Judge Comment: Sul Ross State is known for many things, and that should include The Skyline. The clean header and no-frills header with a distinct font draws you in. The mix of campus issues, opinions and illustrations is refreshing, though certainly more is going on campus than just the presidential election. However, why on earth is the font so big? It makes no sense and should be reduced and the website reorganized, like on each section page. And needs more photographs, or none at all.
- Place Name: Third Place
Contestant Name: Dallas College - North Lake
Entry Title: News-Register - website
Entry Credit: News-Register Staff
Judge Comment: There’s little else to say the News-Register’s website because it is so straightforward. Nice layout with everything placed and spaced well. Props for photographs, even if accompanying content that is two months old. Suffers the endless scrolling issue that other news sites face, whereas having top stories from all sections shows us what we value the most: work by promising young journalists.
- Place Name: Honorable Mention
Contestant Name: Our Lady of the Lake
Entry Title: Lake Front Online
Entry Credit: Amanda Brown, Teresa King, Jacqueline Sifuentes, Carolina Rojas
Judge Comment: Lake Front Online has promise, and it's clear someone is paying attention to campus. But the stories are old, the site is cluttered and visually overwhelming. LFO can do better, and hopefully will. OLLU deserves another point of pride.
- Competition Comment: Where websites may lack, the content still shines. That's how I'd sum up most of this category of quality campus publications with diehard dedicated students.
