Beautiful 2.0 - Success!
Beautiful 2.0 has become a much bigger hit than I had anticipated. In just two weeks, it has been awarded & featured by 23 prestigious websites. When it was launched, the Alexa rank was over 10 million - that's 10 millionth most popular website. Today, it stands at just over 800,000. At this rate, the site will reach its initial goal of 500k in a few days. The goal beyond that is to be below the 100k mark, and sustain it.
Some of the interest with Beautiful 2.0 is the fact that it is not only a css gallery, it is also a flash gallery, web 2.0 gallery and overall artistic resource. The site does not feature every excellently rendered css or flash website; it caters only to those websites that show exceptional artistic quality. It has become extremely selective, only admitting about one tenth of the submissions it receives on a daily basis.
This gives artists and designers a chance to forget about having to have a huge amount of content, being popular, mainstream or even likable to most css galleries. It gives them a chance to be noticed for the pure artistry they have achieved in their design - even if their website just so happens to be only one page.
Beautiful 2.0 doesn't look at W3C compliance, clean code or cookie cutter css. It looks at the visual communication and artistic quality of the website itself. It's a breath of fresh air to most web artists out there. On the contrary, it isn't going to be very popular with most web designers out there that follow trends or think as long as everything is correct, functional, and clean, they will be admitted to any high quality gallery. Not this gallery, sorry.
If you're interested in seeing the daily submissions, check out beautiful 2.0 or subscribe to the feed. You can also follow Beautiful 2.0 on twitter.
Thanks for all the support!
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