Running a website design competition…advice?

Hello all!

My name is Lina and I am new to this forum. I work for a nonprofit called March On ([url]www.marchon.com.au[/url]) and we really want to overhaul our website. To do this we are planning to run a global web design contest. The winner will receive a cash prize, a paid contract to work with us on the site as well as other goodies. As I am still at the very early stage of development, the purpose of this thread is to outline what we are looking for and ask for advice/suggestions.

So, March On is a Spinal Cord Injury non-profit. And we would like to create a spinal cord injury resource by indexing web pages relating SCI. Ideally, it would be a search engine which is focused specifically on spinal cord injury issues. Some categories would include: Travelling with SCI, Medical Developments, Blogs, General News Stories etc We were thinking that the entrants could create a sample (skeleton) website and submit it to us for consideration.

Would you say that it is practical to run a contest like this? Are there any pitfalls/problems/obstacles that you could see with the website idea or the way we are thinking of running the contest?

I will freely admit that I have no experience with Web Design at all, so any thoughts on this will be greatly appreciated.

Lina

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