"Designing with the Stars", Take Joe-I-Can't-Design/Code-Crap and make him/her design... Options

[*Duchess of Dork*]

This came up because I was banging my head against the wall trying to figure out ways to graphically contribute here (other than my silly icons), so I posted the following Backstage and thought I would bring it up here as well to see what folks here in the Community thought of it:

I am so ignorant when it comes to creating a layout. I almost feel that as the only HeadStaff that cannot do this, we should have some type of "Dancing with the Stars" type thing where someone takes a person that can't dance, well, in this case, do a layout, pair with them and at the end of the show they can do a killer layout!

After a little encouragement, ranting continued:

Who knows though, it could be fun to see folks paired up with some of our infamous designers (such as Rachael, Carrie, Kristina (although I know she's very busy right now), Kathleen, Ryan, et al). Could even put up AIM transcriptions of the star designer trying to coach the learner on how to design (if so desired).

Any thoughts? (Oh and sorry for pointing certain super designers out, I know there are more than those, but they are the first to came to mind that morning).

[GREASEbaby]

^Yeah.While reading this thread I thought that idea doesn't really seem possible..

but I love the sound of this contest.
i know i'd like to learn graphics and coding better..


perhaps, when the contest is over, the partners could team up and write a tutorial explaining how they made their graphic/layout.


The step concept is a good idea..
Perhaps during the whole thing, we could making a certain type of layout.
For example, website.

For the first round, just have the learner show what they can do.
sortof like a pretest kind of thing.
No judging in this round probably..

For the second round, make a series of basic things. Such as writing out css, making/finding/uploading brushes.
Judging would be based upon how they've improved through those simple steps.

For the third round, design a header and learn the coding to 'place' it into the layout. This round can also be for placing div's and such..
Judging could be based on the learner's capability to figure out div's and using brushes, etc etc.

For the fourth round, a background could be designed.Preferable a more complex background.
Judging could be based on how much knowledge he/she has gained from the header phase.

For the last round [if doing a website layout, as suggested], integrate wordpress, cutenews, etc.That'd be a nice challenge.Maybe music players could go along with this too?Probably anything interactive that would be a little challenging.
Final judging could be based upon who's improved the much, gained the most skill, overall performance, etc.

Thoughts?

edit//
perhaps administrators can provide a temporary subdomain with cbstaff if we go with the website idea.?
geocities or freewebs or something with the same likeness probably wouldn't perform very well...