Firstly, thanks to everyone who has submitted their site. We have only been live for a few weeks and have already had lots of interest in the site. We already have designers from over the world!

Now thats been said, check out this post from Joe Clark found on Web Standards Project. It sums up very well the situation that inspired Real Design Network to be created:

” A failed redesign is a Web page created from scratch, or substantially updated, during the era of Web standards that nonetheless ignores or misuses those standards. A failed redesign pretends that valid code and accessibility guidelines do not exist; it pretends that the 21st century is frozen in the amber of the year 1999. It indicates not merely unprofessional Web-development practices but outright incompetence. For if you are producing tag-soup code and using tables for layout in the 21st century, that’s what you are: Incompetent.

When teenagers’ hobbyist blogs (short for “Web logs”) have better code than brand-new Web sites, somebody’s doing something wrong. And that somebody is you, the developer. In a just society you would simply be fired; in an Orwellian society you would be sent to a re-education camp. Failing either of those, you could at least read a f*****g book and upgrade your skills to a point where you are no longer a total laughingstock “.

Harsh, but very true.