Late last week, the nominees for the 2010 .net Awards were announced and I was amazed to find myself nominated for not one, but two awards.
The first nomination I received is for “Standards Champion.” It’s an absolute honor to have been nominated alongside Derek Featherstone, Molly Holzschlag, Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Zeldman, and a handful of other folks who’ve not only played a pivotal role in the widespread adoption of web standards, but who’ve also contributed greatly to my development as a web professional and educator.
The second nomination I received was in the category of “Mobile Site of the Year” for colly.com. As some of you probably know, I wrote a little article on adaptive layouts with media queries for .net’s Summer Issue (#205). In that article, I gave the homepage of Mr. Simon Collision a makeover for the iPad and iPhone. Colly was so excited with what I’d done that he used my changes as a baseline to convert the remainder of his site to employ adaptive layouts. The adaptive redesign turned quite a few heads and became an oft-cited example of adaptive layouts in practice.
While I’ve received numerous awards for my work over the years, these two nominations were greatly appreciated. I offer my sincerest thanks to those who put my name in the hat. Win or lose, I can honestly say that I’m a very happy man.
Of course it wouldn’t hurt if you voted for me though. ;-)
Public voting ends on 12 October 2010.
Full disclosure: I am also a judge in the .net Awards (as are several other nominees), but I did no lobbying to become a nominee.
