Redesign Watch

A listing of notable standards-oriented redesigns. Note that I don't insist on perfect validation to include a site; demonstration of significant intent is generally enough.

Site	Comments
Softchoice	Standards-oriented design: not a hard choice at all.
10 Downing Street	Never have so many been served with so much by so few bytes.
The Scottish Borders Council	An interesting layout, especially for a government site. Remember: if it isn't Scottish, it's crap!
San Francisco Examiner	Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
Drupal	Managing content is always easier when there's more content than there is markup.
ABC News	This just in: standards-oriented design speeds sites, increases intelligence. Film at 11.
Disney Store UK	A beauty of a site, both on the surface and underneath the hood.
Movies.com	I think we just got closer to one day seeing 'CSS: The Movie'.
Kansas City Chiefs	Happy Cog kicks off another great standards-oriented design.
Amnesty International	A great design for a site supporting a great cause.
MacCentral	C'mon, as if I could resist linking to a redesign of a Mac-centric site.
Chevrolet	The body lines are clean, but what's under the hood is far more impressive.
Technorati	Combine Adaptive Path's work with Tantek Çelik's technical savvy and this is what you get.
The Mono Project	A clean design and the hope of standards support in a .NET context. Glee!
AT&T	The future called; it said this is pretty much how sites ought to be made.
DMXZone	Loads twice as fast now; maybe it should be called Speed Zone.
The Register	Biting the hand that feeds IT while kissing off bloated markup.
Scott Polar Research Institute	The SPRI: chillin' with standards.
East Sussex County Council	Will smaller page size lead to smaller government?
W. Frank Steely Library	Cross-referenced under "accessible," "efficient," and "valid XHTML 1.1."
University of Florida	An institute of higher learning with a site of a higher caliber.
California Voter Foundation	Bright, bold, and balloty.
gotomedia	Elegant and lovely.
America Online	You've got standards!
Sprint	After the redesign of the SprintPCS site, this seemed almost inevitable.
Democratic National Committee	Love 'em or hate 'em, they do have a standards-oriented site. Very forward-thinking.
PGA Championship	Sterling work from Todd Dominey.
SprintPCS	Now all they need is a Web-enabled phone that reports itself as being a handheld device.
Macromedia	I'm proud to have a played a role in this one.
Adaptive Path	Doug Bowman puts another site on the right path.
Inc.com	More standards goodness from Dan Cederholm.
Fast Company	Maybe now the "Fast" part refers to the speed at which their pages load.
AMI	A leading chip maker takes a leading role in design.
Wired News	Doug Bowman rocks the house and makes Wired jump again.