Hey everyone, New to the community here, and I wanted to share a project I've been working on and hopefully get your feedback. I began learning CSS when I started working on a startup called MetaBright. The idea of the site is that in the context of a resume, it's way more useful to provide demonstrations of your skills as opposed to listing work experience and education. Basically we give people the opportunity to prove themselves across a wide variety of skills, but we focus on programming. Anyways, I ended up learning on the job and doing the front-end work for the entire site. To make this whole thing very meta, I decided to create a CSS "Challenge" so other people could prove their skills in the same way I was able to. I just published it today, and would love it if you took it (it's like a game-y quiz) and let me know what you think. Here's the link: http://www.metabright.com/challenges/css Thanks!
Uhg, that site is so horrifically bad I closed it as soon as I opened it. Illegible color contrasts, illegible fixed metric fonts, inaccessible fixed width layout that falls apart when zoomed, broken heading navigation (though gibberish use of numbered heading tags), etc, etc, etc... If you're going to have people 'prove themselves' maybe you guys shouldn't have a page built from half-assed fat bloated non-semantic markup with ZERO accessibility? -- edit -- after finally waiting for the bloated wreck to load -- NEITHER of the logins work, reporting errors... so much for taking a 'test' either. -- edit -- Oh hey, after FINALLY getting it to log in, I get to 'begin test' and it won't even being the test as the anchor is disabled/non-functional. Dudes, ease up on the inaccessible scripttard BS.
Hey there, sorry you had such a lousy experience. The accessibility issues are something we're aware of and are fixing iteratively (although everything should work fine when zooming up/down several levels). I'm concerned about the login issues you had, as well as the issue you hit starting the Challenge. I'm unfortunately not able to repro any of this stuff. Could you elaborate a bit on what happened? Thanks!
Well, it's working now, so whatever it is you fixed it... though the timer costing points is a bit annoying since I was looking at the question about which LINK to use, and going 'none of the above' since none of them had MEDIA targets... which means I only got half points on that one question and despite answering all of them correct, and all the others before the countdown even started, there's not enough points to go on to intermediate? As a user that's enough to make me think those tests are pointless BS and navigate away to some other less bloated less bandwidth hogging, less fugly, less "scripting for nothing other than making the page HARDER to use" site. Though to be frank most of the questions I did see were that anyways; much less the garbage of one question per page and endless scripttard nonsense making it slower and harder to use. god forbid you just list all the questions with radiobuttons as a single page since there were what, only four or five of them?
Hi, most questions in our Challenges are submitted by our users. By and large, the quality of the content is awesome, but every now and then something isn't great. For every question, you'll see a "Report question" link which allows you to report a question that you think isn't up to snuff.
hey, nsdub, the site is good. I liked it! What I didn't like is the way you lose points for every second you spend reading the question. At first I panicked, then I got frustrated and eventually I lost a lot of points even though I em pretty sure I gave the correct answers. And it would be a good idea to give the correct answers in the end of the test so that one can still check what he got right and what not. What I liked in particular about the site was that it is well gamified and it is heavy on JavaScript. JavaScript improves the user experience but keep in mind that the search engines don't like it.