I love it when big 'institutions' redo their sites to make them standards compliant :) There's no reason why you can't have a beautiful, functional page in 2006 - and when the big guns do it, they remind the rest of us why we should (if we haven't committed to it already).

Happenned to be looking up something at one of my old employers this afternoon - and stumbled across a beautiful job done to the main Gov't of Ontario web site. Don't know when this happenned - sometime since April of last year judging by the Internet Archive - but it's great. Not only have they done a whole new look and feel, they've obviously sat down and done a proper interaction design overview. I emailed them to say how impressed I was by their efforts - it's my new drug, thanking people who've made their products better. A site like this one makes it very easy; when the site's as beautiful as the real thing it's hard not to love it. (For those not familiar with Ontario, here's an interesting quick primer from that site).
Now if only they'd get a Mac OS X compatible Ontario Parks screensaver - why should those with System 7+ get all the fun…

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