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My friend dave has just relaunched with a crisp, clean, lean version 3. Typography and Minimalism have free reign here…nice job man!

Why am I jubilant right now? I just paid a visit to Tori Amos’ new site. Hats off to her. I’m not sure the amount of involvement she had in the course of this site, but I would put forth the probability of her final sign off on the project, now who ever managed the project then hats off to them as well for hiring turntable to build it. The backend is powered by the expression engine, which has quickly been gaining popularity.

Now, here are some of the main reasons for my excitement here…

1. The markup is semantic and valid (with an exception see below).
2. Effective use of separating presentation from markup, just needs a few tweaks to achieve validation.
3. No Flash, except for the media player, for which they could get those pages to validate in a few seconds by using the satay method.

Give Tori a visit and experience a well designed, forwards compatible, shiny new site.

Over at Happy Cog, you can see Jeffrey Zeldmans video keynote from web essentials 04, held in Sydney Australia.