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HTML5 – demos and tutorials

December 16th, 2009

It’s the new big thing in the world of HTML and CSS – HTML5 is here. Sort of.

Although it’s not yet fully supported across all browsers and the spec is still in discussion, the basics are now known and developers areound the world are starting to embrace the new HTML standard. If you’re unsure of what the differences are and how it will affect you as a designer and front end developer, take a look at our new 101 Best site:

http://101besthtml5sites.com/

We’re trying to get together a gallery of the best HTML5 sites including demos and tutorial sites to help you get started producing your own HTML5 website.

Let us know what you think, and start submitting your own sites to the list!

101 Best Websites updates and new software!

September 29th, 2009

After months of development and testing we can now bring you our new and improved system making 101 Best Websites the most feature rich showcase site on the internet today!
The new features include:

Editing and ownership of your submissions
Up to 4 images per site, either automated screen shots or directly uploaded from your desktop, realtime!
Time sorting [...]

Updates and 101 Best Twitter Apps

September 20th, 2009

We’ve been working hard over the last week trying to get the updated version of 101 Best Websites live but it’s proving trickier than we realised – moving all the entries to the new database and making sure all our registered users are transferred without a hitch. We’ve come across a few problems which are [...]

Bees seem to like it…

August 27th, 2009

Continually viewing and moderating as many new websites as I do every day you start to see trends in design quite quickly – if not a lot earlier than most people. We all remember the “web 2.0″ trend of 2006/2007 and not so long ago there was a definite move towards white, clean with big [...]

New sites and new targets

August 13th, 2009

It’s been a few weeks since my last post – and since then we’ve been regularly getting over 1,000 visitors. Our visitor numbers have jumped considerably – growing on average 25% month on month. And you may have noticed the recent increase in approved submissions, we’re getting more and we’re trying to keep the quality [...]

Getting over 1000 visitors in one day…

July 20th, 2009

Just 12 months after we launched 101 Best Websites we’re getting close to 1000 visitors a day, which we’re pretty excited about! Last Tuesday we got 952 unique visitors and even with the weekend drop in traffic (only 500 visitors a day) we still managed over 5000 visitors for the week.
So, we’re looking for a [...]

The future of CSS with HTML 5

July 10th, 2009

In the web industry, in particular the front end developers, usability and accessibility experts, SEO consultants and designers there’s one central skill that has to be mastered to make sure even the most basic website works and that is HTML.
We all need to keep up to date with the latest version of HTML and what [...]

Comments , bookmarks and Twitter

July 2nd, 2009

Although we only approve good quality websites we know that a lot of people like to submit to CSS showcase sites and Flash portfolios to gain a bit of traffic and links from search engines. It’s a great idea and often, if you get onto the homepage of one of the popular showcase sites you [...]

My site hasn’t been added to the list

June 27th, 2009

We get quite a lot of submissions to 101 Best Websites and we go through every single one to make sure that our showcase only contains the highest quality sites.
For CSS sites we check the code: Is it standards compliant? Are there errors? Are there any unnecessary tables used for layout? Although we like to [...]

100,000 visitors reached!

June 24th, 2009

Since we launched last year we’ve been very busy on various other projects but have always tried to make sure 101 Best Websites was kept up to date and full of new and inspiring websites. The aim of building the site was to make it one of the premier design showcase sites on the web [...]

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