Cool Homepages Award
“About 10 years ago, as a busy web designer, I wished I could scan good looking web design work to help inspire me for new projects from time to time. Sometimes I’d feel in a rut, and I often wished there was a good source to VISUALLY browse the coolest designs.
This is not to say I wanted to steal other designs, which is a conclusion some people jump to — this is to say that viewing creative work from others would open my thinking and allow me to take something I’d seen, and by the time I was done, I’d modified it into something distinct and my own.
CoolHomepages.com is the answer to this need, and thankfully, it’s become evident that I wasn’t the only one who was looking for a resource like this, based on all the great feedback we receive from all you webheads.
Cool can be a lot of things. Almost the only thing it can’t be is something we’ve already seen over and over again. Our watchword is ‘REMARKABLE’ - there must be something remarkable about the homepage design that others may be interested in seeing. It could be a layout, a cool way to embed a Flash movie, maybe just the navigation scheme. Almost anything we haven’t already seen before, and is clever and usable, could qualify.”