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.
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Site | Comments |
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Slashdot | Old news for nerds: standards matter. |
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Web site, consider thyself healed! |
Cleveland Public Library | A hometown institution makes good. (No, I wasn't involved.) |
AlterNet | Alternative content, mainstream web design practices. |
Turner Broadcasting | Colorized for the masses, standardized for you. |
iVillage | A great design with a great foundation. |
McAfee | Cleaning up their own site markup and hard drives everywhere. |
Everything Tori | Rock on! But in a sensitive, standards-based way. |
News.com.au | This just in: standards-oriented design continues to speed sites, increase intelligence. Bonzer! |
Huntington Banks | Nice design, decent markup. Somebday ought to put this one in a CSS vault. |
MSN | First the microsoft.com home page, and now MSN. What next? |
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. |