CSS World Awards
My recent redesign of Kettering Borough Council’s website has the honour of being nominated for the first ever CSS World Awards. No honestly!
The original Kettering website was launched in June 2005 and was, to our knowledge, the very first UK local authority site to completely use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for layout and presentation.
The redesign of www.kettering.gov.uk began in mid April of this year culminating in it going live mid May. The purpose to increase the use of Web Standards and help the site become more accessible as well as breathing some freshness and vitality into the site design, as it’s first incarnation was looking pretty tired.
The CSS World Awards are, to quote the website, to “recognize the work done by developers that build websites using CSS. To heighten the awareness of the companies using Web Standards.”
With ten different categories, Kettering is one of ten sites nominated under ‘Institutions’. For each category there will be one winner and two finalists with the awarded sites being announced at the beginning of July. The awards are truly international, with nominated sites coming from, well, all over the world.
I really am happy the site has been nominated, I am designer whom sometimes lacks belief, so these (very) occasional pats on the back do me good. I can’t see it winning, looking at the other nine in the group but regardless of that, I’m still chuffed to buttons!