https://skillsalberta.com/
Hall B, Edmonton Expo Centre, Edmonton
May 10 and 11, 2017
Duration: 12 hours
Worldskills Trade #17
SkillsCanada is an organization dedicated to promoting growth in the skilled trades and technology. I competed at their provincial level competition in my final year of high school.
Thanks to the support and guidance of my Computer Science teacher, Mr. Couprie, and my passion for software development, I was awarded the gold medal in Web Design and Development. This gave me the opportunity to represent Alberta at the national level competition.
Published here is a copy of my website. The entire site was developed in 12 hours with restricted Internet access.
Students were required to create a website for a fictional small business. The website was to be created using only HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL. Project details were provided at the start of the competition, and we were expected to create the website as if it was for a client.
- A proper planning process must be presented on paper as a storyboard or flowchart
- Websites should be functional and visually pleasing at various screen resolutions
- Sites should be easy to maintain and user friendly
- Cross browser compatibility with Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer
- Menus, graphics, forms, email, tables, styles, internal and external links, and bullets
- Use of a database
- Server-side scripting
- Client-side scripting
- Animation