Glenn Davis (web design)
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Glenn Davis was one of the first web designers
. He is best known for his websites Cool Site of the Day
and Project Cool.
Davis created Cool Site of the Day
in August 1994. Linking to one single recommended site off its homepage each day, the site soon became an arbiter of taste on the Internet, and its award was a coveted prize among Silicon Alley
start-ups.
Davis became a celebrity through Cool Site of the Day, giving interviews to magazines and radio networks such as NPR
while fending off gifts from site maintainers who sought his recommendation of their sites. Newsweek
celebrated Davis as one of the 50 most important people on the Internet in 1995, dubbing him the "King of Cool."
In time for the first anniversary of Cool Site of the Day, Davis inaugurated the Cool Site Of The Year award, also known as the Webby
, which was first presented in Hollywood, California
, in August 1995, and was given to The Spot
.
Davis left Cool Site of the Day in November 1995. In January 1996 he founded Project Cool with Teresa Martin, a new media specialist at Knight Ridder
. This new venture was conceived as an educational resource center teaching web development. Project Cool continued the daily award concept under the name "Project Cool Sighting." The site became a respected and widely-used resource on web development techniques, and its founders co-authored two books to complement it.
Davis has been recognized for defining the technique of "liquid" web design, and he co-founded the Web Standards Project
with Tim Bray
, Jeffrey Zeldman
and George Olsen, among others.
Web design
Web design is the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser...
. He is best known for his websites Cool Site of the Day
Cool Site of the Day
Cool Site of the Day is an early website created in August 1994 and originally maintained by Glenn Davis. Linking to one single recommended site off its homepage each day, it soon became an arbiter of taste on the Internet....
and Project Cool.
Davis created Cool Site of the Day
Cool Site of the Day
Cool Site of the Day is an early website created in August 1994 and originally maintained by Glenn Davis. Linking to one single recommended site off its homepage each day, it soon became an arbiter of taste on the Internet....
in August 1994. Linking to one single recommended site off its homepage each day, the site soon became an arbiter of taste on the Internet, and its award was a coveted prize among Silicon Alley
Silicon Alley
Silicon Alley is a nickname for an area with a concentration of Internet and new media companies in Manhattan, New York City. Originally, the term referred to the cluster of such companies extending from the Flatiron District down to SoHo and TriBeCa along the Broadway corridor, but as the location...
start-ups.
Davis became a celebrity through Cool Site of the Day, giving interviews to magazines and radio networks such as NPR
NPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
while fending off gifts from site maintainers who sought his recommendation of their sites. Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
celebrated Davis as one of the 50 most important people on the Internet in 1995, dubbing him the "King of Cool."
In time for the first anniversary of Cool Site of the Day, Davis inaugurated the Cool Site Of The Year award, also known as the Webby
Webby Awards
A Webby Award is an international award presented annually by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for excellence on the Internet with categories in websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile....
, which was first presented in Hollywood, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, in August 1995, and was given to The Spot
The Spot
The Spot, or thespot.com, was the second episodic online story , after an earlier experiment by AOL's QuantumLink Serial, and pioneered the underwriting of bandwidth and production costs by offering paid advertising banners on the web pages and product placement within the journal entries...
.
Davis left Cool Site of the Day in November 1995. In January 1996 he founded Project Cool with Teresa Martin, a new media specialist at Knight Ridder
Knight Ridder
Knight Ridder was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. Until it was bought by The McClatchy Company on June 27, 2006, it was the second-largest newspaper publisher in the United States, with 32 daily newspapers sold.- History :The corporate ancestors of...
. This new venture was conceived as an educational resource center teaching web development. Project Cool continued the daily award concept under the name "Project Cool Sighting." The site became a respected and widely-used resource on web development techniques, and its founders co-authored two books to complement it.
Davis has been recognized for defining the technique of "liquid" web design, and he co-founded the Web Standards Project
Web Standards Project
The Web Standards Project is a group of professional web developers dedicated to disseminating and encouraging the use of the web standards recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium, along with other groups and standards bodies....
with Tim Bray
Tim Bray
Timothy William Bray is a Canadian software developer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Open Text Corporation and Antarctica Systems. Bray was Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems from early 2004 to early 2010. Since then he has served as a Developer Advocate at Google, focusing on...
, Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey Zeldman
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and George Olsen, among others.