Tantek takes on the top 100

Tantek Çelik has begun to take on the Top 100 Technorati sites in a match of CSS wits. According to Tantek, he will makeover his site in the style of a different Top 100 blog (using CSS for presentation) every few days. His first "redo" is the well known Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things.

This is very cool stuff. It is amazing to me the freedom and flexibility CSS affords the modern web site. It is also strange to me as a web designer that more mainstream (read Corporate) sites do not subscribe to this philosophy. Although very notable mentions go to the likes of Wired, Cingular, ESPN, Sprint, and most recently AOL for attempting true standards based, sematic, CSS compliant sites (although none have actually delivered on all points) much more work is needed in this respect.

In the coming months, I will be redesigning one of my Company's web sites to be W3C standards compliant and Section 508 accessible. This comes not from a need to have a forward compatible web site, but instead from a partner mandate. Maybe more mandates such as this will continue to drive more mainstream sites to a standards based, accessible end.