articles

How low can you go? 5k?

By Simon Worthington, 10 September 2000

Entrants to the 5k web design competition had to design a complete web site in 5120 bytes (1k=1024 bytes). The challenge of turning around a design within such tight parameters seems to have tickled the fancy of the web community: the judges were swamped with entrants. Among the winners was the Web’s smallest art museum, displaying a Barnet Newman, a Rothko and a Mondrian. To view the other winners under the categories of Function, Aesthetics and Concept & Originality point your browser at the address below.

http://www.sylloge.com:8080/5k/home.html

Simon Worthington