Morten Rand-Hendriksen is the owner and creative director of Pink and Yellow Media, a boutique digital media company offering design and web solutions since 2002. He writes extensively about Microsoft Expression Web, WordPress and design in general on his blog www.designisphilosophy.com and is a regular contributor to the official Microsoft Expression Newsletter.

For his work with Expression Web he was honored with a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award in 2008 and invited as a Canadian VIP to the MIX08 and MIX09 conferences in Las Vegas.

He has spoken at Microsoft and WordPress events and is considered an expert on designing and developing WordPress sites using Expression Web. Well-known as a designer, developer, WordPress Adept, digital media expert, and information philosopher, Rand-Hendriksen is author of Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 2 in 24 Hours.

Robert Ian Axford has 15 years experience producing internal and external corporate communications services. His accumulated knowledge in strategic communications and the assessment and implementation of web technologies, specifically for the purpose of improving business processes, has been well received by audiences at more than a dozen business communications and intranet technology conferences around the world.

Robert has been part of the DotNetNuke community since the ASP.Net forum days in 2004 and has concentrated his efforts on building a business supporting website resellers in New Zealand and Australia.

“I’m honoured to have been asked to judge this year’s contest. As I am concerned primarily with the satisfactory experience of website audiences rather than the technicalities of development, I will focus on practicality over ideology in my assessments. However, a systematic approach to your coding, and great attention to detail will also sit very well with me.”

William Charlton runs yMonda Ltd, a company he set up in 1999 to develop an XML based mapping system for mobile/cell 'phones. The (hardware) technology required, phone plus integrated GPS, proved to be always just around the corner, so whilst waiting for the technology to catch up, yMonda moved into XML data handling and were, as far as we know, one of the first companies in the UK to commercially implement what are now known as web-services.

William’s first experience at code, ignoring the early dabbles with a Spectrum ZX, was through using Xerox Ventura, an early DTP package. The program couldn't do quite what was required and PostScript was the answer. It was a useful exercise and added an interesting perspective when CSS emerged.

yMonda built one of the first, if not the only, entirely XML/XSL based, CMS systems, complete with its own CSS editing/creation tool and spent the early years fighting the HTML produced by the rich-text-editors which were then available, so the difference between HTML and XHTML was made absolutely clear.

"As the son of the artist Michael Charlton and being brought up surrounded by art, I will be looking at the overall “artistic” presentation as well as the technical implementation of any entries. For me a winning entry will be visually pleasing above and below the skin. I will also be marking on (obviously) XHTML compliance and economic use of code, especially CSS. Good Luck!"