WSA Winner
Wednesday March 24th, 2004
With such a strong team behind them, you'd be forgiven for expecting great things from the Adaptive Path website. Luckily they don't disappoint. Adaptive path were one of the first web design teams to "practice what they preached" and build their own company site to web standards. The design is extremely well executed, the mark-up is solid and semantic and the CSS uses some very neat tricks to get things working exactly how they wanted. This all combines to create something that is both beautiful to look at, easy to use and highly accessible.
The Adaptive Path website is also one of the first to make extensive use of Movabletype, not only as a blogging tool, but as a Douglas Bowman, you can find out more about the redesign, on Douglas's site, Stop Design, also a WSA winner.
Reviewed by Andy Budd
#1
sooooo nice and simple!
Posted by GaBuBu :: March 24th, 2004 at 03:37 PM
#2
Oh yeah.. Nice site...
Simplicity but not... hehehe
My only complaint, blue links... I cant figure out what is a hyperlink and what isn't. They should be green, or the same color as the copy.. that way they look better. ;-)
Nice job!
Posted by Todd Lambert :: March 24th, 2004 at 03:56 PM
#3
Always the same kids from the same gang. Who will be the next? Dave Shea? Jason Kottke? Big Daddy Zeldman? C'mon guys, you can't be serious with those winners. You're not even funny. Try to surprise us... sometimes... if you are able... >_>;
~Neko
Posted by Neko :: March 24th, 2004 at 04:16 PM
#4
Hi Neko. No conspiracies I'm afraid. We give out awards based on the sites themselves, not the designer/developer. The reason these names keep popping up is because they are at the forefront of the web standards movement, and are the ones producing the goods. However, we have an open nomination process. If you've built a really nice looking, standards based site, or know of one that's worthy of an award, please let us know.
Posted by Andy Budd :: March 24th, 2004 at 06:47 PM
#5
"The Adaptive Path website is also one of the first to make extensive use of Movabletype, not only as a blogging tool, but as a content management tool for the entire site."
Is this a good thing? I thought building a bespoke content management system would be a more commendable task..
Love the design though. Cue the "Breaks in IE2 on Windows 3.1.1" comments... ;)
Posted by gray :: March 24th, 2004 at 07:34 PM
#6
I don't know... Seems pretty cluttered and tough to read to me. Another example of "standards" being more important than content.
Posted by Bryan :: March 25th, 2004 at 01:57 AM
#7
It is not a matter of "conspiracies"; it's your site after all, and you are welcome ^_^ to do with it whatever you want.
That said, the winners are a list of well known people we're all aware of and it's gotten pretty boring so far. Everyone can award Zeldman for Web standards (and probably get linked back for it). You know... such a breeze.
It's like the Formula One Championship: the Ferrari Team always win and it gets boring after a while.
You should try to add more "fresh meat", even small realities far away from the same group of stinky, over-abused links everyone already found on prominent blogs and publications.
~Neko
Posted by Neko :: March 25th, 2004 at 02:28 AM
#8
Hi Niko,
Thanks for the feedback. Like I said, we have a very open submissions process and are always on the lookout for good, standards complaint sites. If you know any that you feel deserve an award, please do let us know.
Posted by Andy Budd :: March 25th, 2004 at 10:56 AM
#9
The way I see it, since this site is so new.. they should be paying homage to the recognized great ones first... There is plenty of time to do others.. but first take care of the biggies.. then once they are out of the way etc...
Posted by Todd Lambert :: March 25th, 2004 at 02:09 PM
#10
I think the Adaptive Path site is excellent, and I'm sure I'm not alone in being very grateful for Doug Bowman's explanations of parts of it. I stand back and admire.
And I think that this point about awarding established designers is a bit misguided: if the rest of us see (or make) stuff that's good enough, we should put it forward. If it's up to it, it'll get awarded. Right?
Posted by Richard Northover :: March 26th, 2004 at 02:06 PM
#11
oh dear, site of the MONFTH is coming soon (fth) ..,. which one does everyone think it will be?
Posted by Danny Cohen :: March 26th, 2004 at 08:09 PM
#12
Don't you hate it when they give all the awards to the designers who create well-coded attractive web sites?
I like this one, it's not 'flashy' but it's everything it needs to be.
Posted by mark :: March 27th, 2004 at 05:59 AM
#13
Well, I think people may be angry about how the awards are being given to already well known sites and such... Is that how people feel?
Posted by Danny Cohen :: March 31st, 2004 at 04:10 AM
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