Cool can be a lot of things. Almost the only thing it can't be is something we've already seen over and over again. We intend to include pages and designs that have done something unique, and something that works well for some reason, usually due to their attractiveness and functionality.

In the interest of pushing the envelope and breaking new ground, sometimes a design or element that's just plain different can be "cool".

The art of the homepage is a dynamic and changing pursuit, as users become more accustomed to navigational and informational devices and paradigms (I hate myself! I've used the word paradigm!). We can usually tell a bad homepage design right off the bat: it confuses us and is unattractive on some level. What makes a good homepage is a more difficult question, and 10 people will give you 10 answers to it.

We believe the best and coolest homepages are a mixture of functionality and visual attractiveness. What's the best percentage of each? That's a question you'll have to answer for yourself.

We strongly encourage you to submit homepage designs that you feel are outstanding in some way, in order to build this site and it's usefulness to the development community.

If your site was submitted and hasn't been posted yet, it may be that we haven't gotten to it -- we get quite a lot of submissions, and keeping up with them is a full time job, so please bear with us. We DO look at each and every submission eventually!