UPDATE: Polls are now open.
Sir Francis Younghusband has been recognized with medals and a knighthood for his long and distinguished service to Her Majesty’s Empire. Now, his web design talents are being recognized by the blogosphere commons: ComingAnarchy is a 2005 Weblog Awards finalist for Best Blog Design! Yes, this beautiful Wordpress blog you see here was built from scratch by Younghusband. The design, the graphics, and the theme concept are his work alone—you won’t find this design anywhere else in the blogosphere.
Voting will be open for ten days from December 5th until December 15th, and each computer (ISP address) can vote once per 24 hour period. So please, vote early and vote often! The icon in the right sidebar will remain until December 15th.
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Simon World added these pithy words on Dec 06 05 at 2:20 amHouse of the rising sun
I will be travelling to the land of the automatic toilet warmer and bidet until Friday and will likely be out of blogging range. But fear not, I’ve got some activities to keep you occupied: 1. The forums are going strong. Take a look, start a topic an…
tdaxp added these pithy words on Dec 06 05 at 5:01 pmWeblog Awards 2005
Here’s who to vote for
Best Blog – The Corner—where else can you find Catholic libertarians debating neocons and Darwinism, Schwarzenegger, the age at which girls become attractive, and English literature.
But Humor / Comics Blog – ScrappleFa…
Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace added these pithy words on 05 Dec 05 at 2:36 amIndeed; vote early and vote often!! Looks as though you vould get 10 votes in if you try hard… now there is an example of democracy at work!!
Dave Schuler added these pithy words on 05 Dec 05 at 2:54 amI’ve endorsed Coming Anarchy for the category on my blog and plan to vote for it daily. Note also that Mark Safranski’s ZenPundit has also made the cut in the 1751-2500 category.
And The Glittering Eye is a finalist in the 1000-1750 category.
Plunge added these pithy words on 05 Dec 05 at 3:10 amCongrats on the nomination. We’ll give it a vote from home and work.
Ben Shobert added these pithy words on 05 Dec 05 at 3:38 amPut my vote in … I point people your way for content and design … both are top-notch. The diary additions really took your site another step forward. The occasional graphics coupled w/ traditional short blog entries and longer articles is a really nice combo. Great job, all round!
Gaijin Biker added these pithy words on 05 Dec 05 at 4:36 amYou’ve got my vote, Curzon.
And in the finest traditions of political backscratching, I hope you’ll kindly consider Riding Sun for Best New Blog.
It’s the only Japan, Asian, or International-themed blog in that category.
darin added these pithy words on 05 Dec 05 at 4:38 amOh yea, I think ComingAnarchy.com is the winner… The only other entries that even come close are “Antipixel” and “What do I know” but even they don’t have the coolness that ComingAnarchy.com does. :D
Younghusband added these pithy words on 05 Dec 05 at 5:15 amThanks Darin, and all others. I can’t believe we are up against What Do I Know. I have been following that blog for some time. I think the header for The Shape of Days is pretty slick looking. I also thought it interesting that most of the entries were the products of Apple users.
gigglechick added these pithy words on 05 Dec 05 at 5:55 amgood luck to you as well!! good stuff being nominated with you!
Eddie added these pithy words on 05 Dec 05 at 10:31 amCongrats CA, the design here rocks. I’ll vote every day the Navy internet is up….
darin added these pithy words on 05 Dec 05 at 11:43 amDan, no you’re not blind, but I thought i was for a while too. Voting isn’t open until Monday morning Eastern USA time. For me though, it’s already monday night here in Japan and I can’t vote.. hehe.
Curzon added these pithy words on 05 Dec 05 at 1:18 pmOhhh TOUGH! Marmot v.s. Simon for best Asia blog—now that’s a competition I will be watching.
Chirol added these pithy words on 05 Dec 05 at 9:45 pmI have to protest Curzon and my picture on the button on the sidebar. You deserve all the credit. We just provide content to fill your beautiful design!
Younghusband added these pithy words on 06 Dec 05 at 4:06 pmJust had a look at the polls today, and we are in 3rd place. GiggleChick has pulled out way ahead and is kicking some serious butt. The Shape of Days is 9 points ahead of us, and Mom2Mom is right on our tail. Still 9 days to go, so vote early, vote often, vote anarchy!
Grendel added these pithy words on 07 Dec 05 at 12:31 amYH: IMO “The Shape of Days” is the only site in the category that could (should?) endanger CA’s victory – just looking at the css and some of the tricks he used to create the page, that’s a real pro, tough competition (besides, he’s a BSG fan)... since this is about design, I don’t know why mom2mom got as far as it did, but then, this is actually a popularity contest. ;-)
From a holistic point of view, CA is the one site that combines clever design with a consistent theme that fits to the content. That alone should be worth the award.
p.s.: watch those validation errors
p.p.s.: vote anarchy?
Younghusband added these pithy words on 07 Dec 05 at 12:31 pmThanks Grendel.
Re: validation errors. There are a couple of tiny things that ruin our passing of the test. But they are minor in effect and would take too much work to fix, so I am not worried to much about them. It would be nice to have a perfectly clean validation record though.
Grendel added these pithy words on 07 Dec 05 at 12:52 pmhey,
it’s code’s fine print that spoils the party, I don’t know how many hours I’ve spent before I got an all-clearLooking at CA’s code, lots of it is just missing alt tags and omitted list tags, which shouldn’t take too long to fix. I find it more difficult to write valid posts. Usually, there’s an invalid character or missing tag somewhere ;-)
