Thought & Theory

When you are the site of coveted internet awards, your website should reflect that prestige. Right now, there is a little bit of clip art, mixed with non browser compliant code and some left/right alignment gone a wee-bit too far.

I am not advocating adding gradients, rounded corners and reflections by any means. I just think that an award website dedicated to a certain genre should reflect that genre. Blogs are the largest forms of self expression on the internet. People spend hours trying to customize a template, wrangle in a style sheet and even write their own blog code from scratch.

The bloggies website does not equally reflect the sites it is giving awards to. I understand that the awards aren’t always given to the most well designed websites, but a high percentage of the websites up for the awards have some pretty great design.

It would be great to see some love given to the bloggies. Here are a couple examples of awards sites that the bloggies should think of taking a look at:

My favorite of the group, the Webby Awards:

Grammy’s, solid design and a great reflection of the award:

Definitely nothing to write home about, but at least the Screen Actors Guild Awards site is making a concerted effort:

ESPY’s. Yes I know ESPN has a ton of money and resources, but it doesn’t take either of those things to create good design:

Very surprising to me - a site that the bloggies should NOT follow is the Emmys:

So what do you say bloggies? Maybe go for a little “funksex” (thanks B4) style design? Something to really encapsolate what it means to have free speech, solid design and the ability to show off your individualism/creativity?

By the way, everyone vote for /Film (best entertainment weblog)!