Connect Marketing and Design
Ugliest Website Contest

• The Ugliest Website Contest is open to residents of North Carolina only.
• Submissions must be for companies or organizations. No personal sites, blogs, or social networking site (MySpace, Facebook, etc.) pages.
• The Winner will receive one website re-design with a Joomla content management system from Connect Marketing and Design and ITRIA Solutions. Winner also receives one hour of business brainstorming/consulting and one press release with 10 free media send outs from Artisan’s Press.
• Submissions must be for your own company.
• To win, you must be able to show proof of employment at the submitted company.
• The site itself must be live, accessible, and must have launched before the beginning of the Contest.
• Sites residing on eBay and similar communal e-commerce services are not eligible to win.
• No porn. No hate groups.

Official Rules

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE DOES NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. ONLY LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.  Entrees must be from the owner, controlling partner or authorized representative of the company or organization who has ownership of the submitted website.

ELIGIBILITY: the Ugliest Website Contest is open only to legal residents of the U.S. (except Puerto Rico) who are 18 years of age or older on the date of entry. Legal residents must also be the owner, controlling partner or authorized representative of the company or organization headquartered in the State of NORTH CAROLINA.

The Ugliest Website Contest is sponsored by Connect Marketing and Design, Artisans Press, and ITRIA Solutions, (the Sponsors), no officers, directors, employees, and agents of the Sponsors or its affiliates, subsidiaries, their suppliers, contractors, advertising and promotional agencies and/or members of their immediate families and persons living in the same household ("Affiliates") are eligible to enter or win.

TO ENTER: Visit http://www.connectmarketingdesign.com/uglywebsitecontest.html to enter the URL of the nominated web site. For participants entering through this method, normal Internet access and usage charges imposed by participants' on-line. Entries will be received between 8am, Monday June 1, 2009 through midnight June 15, 2009. Limit one entry per person regardless of the method of entry. No mechanically reproduced entries or facsimiles allowed. Sponsors are not responsible for malfunctions of electronic equipment, telephone networks or lines, computer hardware or software, or lost, late, illegible, mutilated, incomplete, misdirected entries or for any other technical problems related to the Internet or web sites. Sponsors reserves the right to modify, suspend or terminate the Ugliest Website Contest at any time in the event that there is any evidence or suspicion of any tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud or any other failures which could affect the intended conduct of the Ugliest Website Contest, as described in these Official Rules. Sponsors reserves the right to disqualify anyone who interferes with or tampers with the entry process or any other aspect of the Ugliest Website Contest or fails to comply with any term or condition of these Official Rules. In the event of a dispute regarding identity, entries will be deemed made by the person in whose name the e-mail or Sponsors account from which the entry was submitted is registered.

Entries will be judged by our panel of industry experts (The Judges) including:
Jeff SanGeorge, Owner of Connect Marketing Design
Lisa Wynn, Owner of Artisans Cup
Karl Brustmeyer-  President of ITRIA Solutions
Dwayne Johnson- Chief Technical Officer of ITRIA Solutions

The Judges will consider votes as one factor in determining the winner of the Ugliest Website Contest,
other criteria for judging include:

• Overall ugliness
• Usability/ navigation
• Color scheme
• Layout/ presentation of information

 

The Winner will be announced on Wednesday, June 17 in the Connect Newsletter and on the Connect Marketing and Design website.

One (1) Grand Prize Winner will be selected by the Judges. All determinations and decisions of the Sponsors shall be final and binding on all matters relating to the Ugliest Web Design Contest. The Grand Prize winner will be notified by email, and will, except to the extent prohibited by law, be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility/Liability and Publicity Release which must be received by Sponsor within 14 days of notification of selection as a Grand Prize winner or the prize concerned will be forfeited and an alternate Grand Prize winner selected from the remaining eligible entries. Return of any notification as undeliverable will also result in disqualification and selection of an alternate Grand Prize winner.

PRIZES: The Grand Prize Winner will be receive one five page website, including design consultation and a Joomla content management system (CMS) from Connect Marketing and Design and ITRIA Solutions. The Winner will also receive one hour of business brainstorming/consulting and one press release with 10 free media send outs from Artisan’s Press. Website graphics and Images are included. Limited training and support for the Joomla system is included.  Logo design is not included. The winner is responsible for providing all written content. eCommerce or online payment systems are not included, but can be added for a charge. Additional web pages, and other services can also be added for payment. 8 months of hosting/full-support and maintenance included, after that time the charge monthly charge of $30.00 will apply.
The estimated retail value of the Grand Prize is $1800.00 U.S. dollars.
Prizes may not be transferred, exchanged or substituted by the Winner, however, the Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value, in its sole discretion. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. The Sponsors are not responsible if any prize winner is unable to accept or use all or any portion of the prize due to failure to qualify or comply with these Official Rules or any law, regulation or other rules which apply to their acceptance, receipt or use of the prize award.

GENERAL: By entering, participating and/or accepting a prize, each entrant agrees: to release the Sponsors and its Affiliates from all liability, loss or damage arising out of entry, participation or selection in the Ugliest Website Contest and/or the awarding, receipt, possession, use and/or misuse of the prize; to be bound by these Official Rules that the determinations and decisions of the Sponsors are final and binding on all matters relating to the Ugliest Website Contest; and to the use of his or her name, company name, website, company images,  photographs, likenesses, biographical information, and city and state of residence for advertising, trade and promotional purposes in all media worldwide (including online) in perpetuity without additional compensation, except to the extent restricted or prohibited by law, agree to receive further information via email from the Sponsors. By accepting a prize, winners agree to release the Sponsor and its Affiliates from any and all liability, loss damage, personal injury, death or expense arising from or in conjunction with the awarding, receipt and/or use or misuse of any prize or participation in the Ugliest Website Contest. All applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws and regulations apply. Each winner is responsible for all taxes.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION; LIMIT OF LIABILITY: By entering or participating in the Ugliest Website Contest or accepting the prize, each entrant agrees that: (i) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with e Ugliest Website Contest or any prize awarded, other than the administration of the Sponsors the determination of winners, which is in the sole and exclusive discretion of the Sponsors, shall be resolved without resort to any form of class action. (ii) any and all claims, judgments and awards to you shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering the Ugliest Website Contest but in no event attorneys' fees or costs; and (iii) under no circumstances will you be permitted to obtain and you hereby waive all rights to claim punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased.

VIOLATION OF RULES OR LAWS: Any attempt to damage or undermine the conduct or operation of the Contest or intercept or interfere with the Ugliest Website Contest, any entries and/or the prizes, may be a violation of criminal and civil laws and the Sponsors reserves the right to seek damages and pursue any and all remedies available, to the fullest extent of the law. The delay or failure of Sponsors to enforce any provision of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of any kind.

WINNER'S NAME: For the name of the Winner, visit http://www.connectmarketingdesign.com/uglywebsitecontest.html June 24, 2009 and before September 1, 2009.

Check back on this page On June 1st, 2009 for
more information and to enter the contest.

May the worst site win!

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