If you haven't gotten your daily dose of Zeldman, he's announcing the re-design of the Kansas City Chiefs web site. It includes all of the great css/standards based design we expect from Happy Cogs. However, I have to point out the option of choosing styles. In the right nav, there are three buttons for different styles and two text size options. Check out the third style. It looks like Zeldman went through a victoria's secret catalog, grabbed the bra ads, and turned them into a header image.
Now, that is NFL branding! If they look at their stats, how many people do you think will end up with that style? I also love how the bra-girls reflect the wholesome values of the Billy Graham button at the bottom of the page. (non-US people, Billy Graham is one of the old time fill up the stadium for a whopper of a preaching, preacher) This is a nice table design, I like his use of flags to denote injury status http://www.kcchiefs.com/depth_chart/ The store didn't get the full zeldman treatment, at least they were able to make it look consistent. Hopefully this is the next step in the redesign http://store.kcchiefs.com/ I just noticed a nice feature. In the right nav, there are a series of buttons. These buttons are of various sizes, so instead of worrying about sizes and placements, he's putting them in a pre-sized/background applied div. If they are the max size nothing shows, but if they are smaller, they have a nice gradient halo and white border to keep the bar looking consistent. What do you think? Ted ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
