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The WWE SummerSlam 2008 Microsite that I helped design and built with Alan Chappell has received an honorable mention from CableFax's Best of Web Awards in the Supplemental Web Content category. Thanks again to Alan for his awesome design work, Mark for entering us in all these awards contests and the video department for getting us the great keyed-out footage of the superstars. It's amazing how much we accomplished and all the accolades we have received to date for a project that was nothing short of creativity, technological feats and overall hard work. We were among great company for the award, such as: AMC's The Prisoner, Discovery's When We Left Earth, and Comcast's The Sunny Side Up Show. For the full list of winners and this issue of CableFax Magazine, click here.

Just received notification that the WWE SummerSlam Microsite that I helped design and built has been selected as an Official Honoree for the Television category in The 13th Annual Webby Awards. Amongst other winners, to name a few, are: SouthParkStudios, Comedy Central Redesign and AdultSwim.

For a full list of winners, click here.

"As a result of the exceptional quality of submissions this year, the Academy has recognized outstanding entries as Official Honorees alongside our Nominees and Winners. The Official Honoree distinction is awarded to the top 15% of all work entered that exhibits remarkable achievement.  With nearly 10,000 entries received from all 50 states and over 60 countries, this is an outstanding accomplishment for you and your team."

ESPN.com just released the beta version of their new redesign (http://beta.espn.go.com/) and unlike their past redesigns, it affects index pages across the board and actually adds value to the website by cleaning up the interface. To my surprise, someone finally decided to take out content instead of adding, adopting the "less is more" approach.

After giving it a test run for the past few days, I have the following observations to share: