Doing some reading this morning lead me to this site which has a collection of 10 bits of code that you can tweet. Reading this reminded me of the 5Kb website challenge. The premise was to create a functional website in 5Kb of code. That included all images, javascript, css, html… EVERYTHING! I recall there were a number of very complex graphic manipulation tools and even a shopping cart. Today I’m building out a new design for a client and my CSS include alone is already 3,197 bytes. This got me to thinking, we need a new 5Kb website challenge.

So here it is! What can you make in 5Kb?

Rules:

• All HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Images and any initial httpRequest() content loaded at startup must be less than 5Kb
• Content loaded via AJAX (if used) must be less than 5Kb per load request. In other words, it it loads a json object that references an image, the image + json must be less than 5Kb in size.
• The site must “do” something.

Prizes

I’ll give the three (3) best entries a 512Mb Memorex Mini USB Thumb Drive. Entries must be submitted by June 16, 2008 to be eligible for a prize. Submit your site and description in the comments below.

Judging and all that good stuff is subject to participation. If we have enough entries, I’ll open it to the community - otherwise, I’ll be the judge. I’m off to get started on my (non-eligible) project.