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Thursday, May 10, 2012

How CMS Can Improve With The Crexendo Web Design Competition

By Leonel C. Kopeky


Site owner students still learning their skill can earn a bonus if they enter and win the annual Crexendo website competition. Hopefully, this competition gets students interested in building their own websites and making professional use of the internet. Additionally, students have a chance to test out their website development skills in exchange for some potential prize winnings. Students looking for some additional cash for their college education or to help them get off to a good start in life may want to consider the potential of several thousand dollars in prize money. Any person who joins in this contest can potentially win a lot of cash.

To start, a bit about the contest that remains about the same from year to year. This contest is called the UP Website Competition and it's free for any student of a college that is participating in the Crexendo University Program. This company runs the university program to help students learn the skills necessary to make use of current technology and successfully run a business through the internet. Students of any major at the participating universities can enroll in the program and also the contest. Anyone who enters the contest has an equal chance of winning with their entry website.

When entering the contest the students must use the eCommerce web based software that they are provided a license to for their website Colleges that participate in the university program already have access to the license for free and that includes students too. The purpose of the competition is to use this software to design, build and launch a fully functioning website. Furthermore, contestants have a chance to learn more about website design using the company's eCommerce Content Management System (CMS) software.

Any student at a participating university gets access to this CMS software for up to six months for free. This gives everyone a chance to stretch their website development skills and even allows beginners from other fields the chance to learn something about website design. The cloud based CMS software provides modifiable templates for people to use when creating sites. Plus, they have access to the SEO tools made available for the company's business clients.

In the year 2012, this is the second year for the UP Website Competition. That first year offered prizes equaling $18,000 in cash, the winner won $7500. All participants of the contest also had their websites hosted free of charge by this company for six months. The colleges that are participating in the program and have students which can join the contest are Bringham Young University, the University of Utah and California State university Fullerton.




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