The shortlist for the 2008 McFarlane Prize, which recognizes and encourages excellence in Australian web design, has been posted, with the winner being announced at this year's Web Directions conference on Thursday 25th September. The Jury for the prize has now drawn up the shortlist for this year's prize. The standard of this year's entries was without doubt the best yet, demonstrating that each year, the quality ... Read full entry

The McFarlane Prize, which recognises excellence in Australian Web Design, is now accepting nominations for this year's award. This year the judges will be slightly relaxing some of the early stage web standards and accessibility assessments in order to give websites that are more visually focused in their design a greater chance of being short listed. But what became apparent last year was that this process was privileging ... Read full entry

Entries for this year's McFarlane Prize open in about a week on 1 July, and any Australian website "launched since September 1st 2007, or ... significantly updated since then", can be nominated for the award. The prize aims to recognise "excellence is Australian web design" - and focusses on 4 key areas of best practice. Design, Coding, Accessibility and Usability. A Jury of four eminent experts in each ... Read full entry