Happy Cog redesign

Admired web design studio Happy Cog have updated their website.

Home to author and web standards advocate Jeffrey Zeldman, as well as designers Jason Santa Maria, Greg Storey and Dan Cederholm, Happy Cog publish A List Apart, host events and somehow find the time to design websites for the likes of Amnesty International.

So a redesign of their own website is bound to cause a stir among the web design community, and it doesn’t disappoint.

Zeldman has a post describing the rationale for the design on his personal website. The crux of it is that it connects the diverse activities of the company by expressing them in a sentence and building the navigation upon that statement.

As usual, their design is simple and effective with a warm, friendly palette. I also note with interest that their blog is built on WordPress.

Have a look. While you’re at it, buy Zeldman’s book Designing with Web Standards. I’ve read the first edition, and it proved a solid starting point for learning XHTML/CSS based design.