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Best Design Award - 4/14/2006 22:31:02
The NFL has 32 teams and each has an official site. Each year they give out a Webby Award in a number of categories. The "Best Design" Award went to the Baltimore Ravens.
I find it interesting that this design breaks many of the "standards" that many "experts" get retentive over. The NFL is a billion dollar industry that knows more about attracting eyeballs than I will ever know. So I believe that their "standards" trump any of the gurus that will whine about validation, liquid design, load time and page weights.
It's a brave new world out there. Please be careful.
http://www.baltimoreravens.com/
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RE: Best Design Award - 4/15/2006 5:07:20
You can forgo many, many concepts that get stressed by "design gurus" when you, among other things, have a few hundred links from a site like nfl.com to your site and your logo splashed across television sets of your exact target market (football watchers). I doubt that they are depending on SEO to drive traffic to their site.
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RE: Best Design Award - 4/15/2006 6:51:07
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ORIGINAL: Minix
I find it interesting that this design breaks many of the "standards" that many "experts" get retentive over. The NFL is a billion dollar industry that knows more about attracting eyeballs than I will ever know. So I believe that their "standards" trump any of the gurus that will whine about validation, liquid design, load time and page weights.
I get "retentive" when people are too lazy to do their jobs properly or too unprofessional to care. Mainly because I simply don't understand why people wouldn't want to do the best they're capable of - it's bizarre, truly odd.
As metioned previously- popularity by itself isn't a measure of quality (Coca Cola, MacDonalds etc etc). I would imagine that a site for an American Football Team would really have to try hard to be unpopular given that I presume the sport is very popular.
Thankfully, people are improving their standards - slowly but it is happening. For instance, the site quoted is using CSS for layout - they've got some silly errors but still, no table layouts. Next time round they could fix those errors and they'd have a reasonably standard compliant site!
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RE: Best Design Award - 4/15/2006 13:23:43
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I have to say I'm quite impressed with that site. They have at least made a stab at compliance and as Tail says they don't have too much work to do to sort it out completely.
Minix I am aware that you disagree with those of us who try to design compliant sites, that is your prerogative but there is no need to come in and attack us for doing so.
The design awards are just that, design. Eye candy. They are not for technical excellence.
Please re-read my post. I didn't attack you.
My whole premise was that I'm pretty sure that the NFL knows that the site breaks many "rules" - a 75 second load time, scrolling at any resolution less than 1024, no validation, etc. And I'm pretty sure the NFL decided to say screw that - we'll do it our way.
I don't disagree with anybody who designs following the standards that they choose. To me, "compliant" is if it works properly in the major browsers and the aesthtics work. Whether you use CSS or tables or Harry Potter magic.
The real attack in this thread comes from people who continue to label the average web designer as lazy and unprofessional for not accepting their holy scripture on design code. Reminds me of the Hare Krishnas at a busy airport.
Now if you'll excuse me. I'm going to put together a missive of standards by which all people must post by when they go into any forum on the internet. It's a daunting task but I think I'm up to it. I'll let you know when my validation process is ready.
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RE: Best Design Award - 4/15/2006 13:29:58
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I agree with Jaybee completely.
And I always thought the critiques forum was for asking for comments about your own creations, not those of other people?
Forgive me. It will never happen again.
That thinking outside the box thing is way overrated.
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RE: Best Design Award - 4/17/2006 8:54:03
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Now if you'll excuse me. I'm going to put together a missive of standards by which all people must post by when they go into any forum on the internet. It's a daunting task but I think I'm up to it. I'll let you know when my validation process is ready.
I think you left the smiley icon off of that post, at least I hope so.
Take care,
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RE: Best Design Award - 4/19/2006 10:48:29
I've noticed that most sports teams sites are in your face. In fact, football is an in your face sport.
The following site plays a recording of their radio announcer describing a recent homerun, which adds excitement along with the WOW effect.
St. Louis Cardinals
Although I've been designing my own site (via templates) for 4 years, I'm still a newby.
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