Already in February 06 TXP Mag did point its readers to Thomas Silkjær´s thrilling Webdesign Reference Book Project.

The Web Design Reference Book project aims on publishing a book on the 150s of the internet’s greatest web designs. For months users could submit sites which design they considered to be outstanding. On top of that the sites had to be W3C standard compliant to enter the judging process.

Thousands of sites were submitted, over 700 met the criterias and 355 nominees were selected.

Among the nominees you`ll find such candies like the ModX CMS website, Kemie Guaida`s monolinea.com and Francois Pradignac´s web-atelier site. (All have been featured on TXP Mag already.)

Since last week the nominees are reviewed by a great team of judges: Andy Budd, Tammie Lister, John Oxton, Marco van Hylckama Vlieg, James Archer, Kyle Neath, Chris J. Davis and Thomas Silkjær himself. Their top 150 sites will enventually enter the paper book.

Though the book itself will be a showcase of wonderful internetdesigns, it shall as well contain some comprehensive articles on web standards. Right now Thomas is seeking professional authors who contribute articles on the following topics:

• Why standards
• Learning standards
• What is the British Disability Discrimination Act
• From HTML to XML – differences
• Why DIV’s

You can easily contact Thomas through his website. For now we wish all nominees Good Luck!

Further readings:
Thomas Silkjær got recently interviewed by netmag.