Just wanted to know what happened to the idea of participating in the CSS Reboot with the intention of redesigning your site. Basing the new design on CSS standards and realigning" the look of the interface to improve the aesthetic, acessibility, usability, organization, overall communication. And once you were completed you would launch the revised incarnation of your site on May 1st or November 1st.

Now it just seems like people are signing up, putting something quickly together and submitting CSS substandard, aesthically appalling and unusable sites. And there are those people who have decent robust websites which they submit to the reboot. But they actually launched the new design weeks before and you can easily spot them doing so because a screenshot the new design has been available on several different showcases for weeks in advance. I know that Adam at webjillion, didn't intend this when he first conceived the CSS reboot.

Recently "standards reboot" was introduced, but most of those rebooters actually failed to pass standards compliance as thier code either failed CSS or Xhtml validation. And there were those serial rebooters who have to reboot every reboot season purely for promotional purposes and to keep the spotlight on them.

Maybe a solution to all of this is that a single website should be submitted for reboot only once. Because invariably web designers should focus on designing a site that requires little need to constantly redesign and revise. If not the focus shifts from communicating to interior design. Designers must develop a plan with the intended goal of gettting it right the first time, and refreshing when necessary.

"Forward thinkers understand content is still king and focus on such while deploying minimal upgrades, rather than relying on skillful
makeovers that gain shortlived traffic spurts following award listings but offer downright weak content." - Cameron Moll

I say it's time for many designers to reboot their approch to web design and adopt higher purpose - designing for the end user, designing for effective communication.

Yeah, it can be really silly for a non-design company to reboot biannually, but it makes total sense for the freelance designer. Not only does it show their versatility and skill, it's fun for the designer.

But I don't know. My personal site has gone no where because I'm never happy with anything I come up with.