[Sigia-l] Beautiful Functional Interfaces

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 12:48 -0700, Tom Donehower wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Looking for examples of beautiful and functional interfaces/sites that sit
> on top of a CMS. Any recommendations? Will consolidate and send to the list.
> 

Since just about any web site of any note uses some kind of CMS (at
least, by "CMS" I assume you mean "not hand-crafted using Notepad or
something"), we may as well start with the inevitable:

http://www.apple.com/

then

http://www.ted.com/

followed by

http://www.dailycandy.com/

and possibly

http://www.bbc.co.uk/  

and let's not forget

http://www.uniqlo.com

and so on.

On a rather tangential note, I have it on good authority that until
about 1997, yahoo.co.uk used to FTP individually hand-crafted HTML files
(edited using HomeSite) directly to their live servers in the States. It
was neither beautiful nor functional though.

Jonathan