Win a copy of Getting Real
You know, John Oxton’s Joshuaink winning two categories in the 2006 Bloggies and 456 Berea Street winning none (though it was nominated in one category) actually made me a bit envious. Not so much of the Bloggie awards, but more of his superb tagline.
“More love than a bus full of hippies” sure sounds a lot more fun and original than “Articles and news on web standards, accessibility, and usability”. So… I guess you can tell where this is heading:
Come up with a new fabulous tagline for 456 Berea Street and get a free copy of 37signals’ book Getting Real.
A few simple rules:
- The tagline must reflect the content and personality of this site.
- The tagline should (but doesn’t have to) contain “web standards” and “accessibility”.
- I pick the winner. I may ask a couple of friends for their opinion, but it’s my site, so in the end I decide.
- You can use the comment form on this page to submit as many entries as you like.
- You need to leave a valid email address (in the email field of the comment form) so I can contact you if you win.
- No new submissions will be accepted after 20.00 CET on Thursday March 30, 2006.
- I make no obligation to use the tagline that wins (in case there are no really good ones submitted).
Ok, that’s about it. May the best tagline win!
Update: That’s it. The time is up and no more entries are accepted. I’ll pick my favourite and let you know who the winner is in a couple of days or so. There are many good ones to choose from, so it won’t be easy.
Update (2006-04-02): The winner has been chosen. Read And we have a winner to find out who won.
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” 456 Berea Street. So close, you could almost walk there”
“456 Berea Street. Noticing the unnoticed: Web standards and Accessibility.
“456 Berea Street. More web standards and accessibility than you could shake a stick at.”
“456 Berea Street. High Standards Accessible to Everyone.
“456 Berea Street. ‘Nuff Said.”
The Street standard.
“The web done right, with all those web standards and accessibility stuff too.” “Web standards and accessibility, these are a few of our favourite things.” “Watch out! We’ve got web standards and accessibility and we know how to use them!” “Web standards for everyone.”
“456 Berea Street: Where it’s actually cool to talk about web standards and accessibility.”
“If ‘web standards’ and ‘accessibility’ had a child, it’s name would be Roger Johansson.”
All about web standards - just around the corner.
More accessible than a bus full of standardistas.
“456 Berea Street: Web Standards’ Online Home”
“Its not the technology, its the implementation”
456 Berea Street - Things about all things web standards and accessibility
456 Berea Street - accessibility meet web standards
456 Berea Street - some tagline about web standards and accessibility
456 Berea Street - no need for a tagline about web standards and accessibility
Y’know Roger, me now being an award winning tagline 2.0 developer (and opportunist) you could have just contracted me to develop an appropriate tagline for your site. And ‘cos it’d be for you I’d have done it for around £1,000.
Anyhoo…
Web standards and accessibility…
Well come on, you’ll have to pay for the rest! ;
;)
I know it doesn’t have ‘Web Standards’ or accessible in it but i liked this one.
“Because every geek needs to get out sometime”
Or, running with the 456 Berea St. idea, “Because every geek needs to get out onto the street sometime”
456 Berea St.: At the crossing of Accessibility and Web Standards
“Between Web Standards Blvd. and Accessibility Rd”
“Right on Accessibility, right on Web Standards, left at 456 Berea Street”
“The corner of Web Standards and Accessibility”
456 Berea Street - “Making Information on Web Standards and Accessibility, accessible.”
“456, because 123 was too cliché.”
“Web standards, accessibility, a cricket on a slice of bacon”
“Web standards and accessibility, bitches.”
Maybe not.
“At the intersection of web standards and accessibility.”
I suck at this :-)
“It’s not a tag(line), it’s an attribute!”
just a few steps away from the gutter.
one more…
taking web standards and accessibility to the streets.
“The intersection of accessibilty way and web standard place” “Web Standards and Accessibility: Without the pretensious long drawn out sentences on why they are important and how they can improve your website and make you a better Person/find God” “The a great streat for accessibility and web standards” “456 Berea St: More Accessible, Better Standards, and Berea Oh My!”
I did it on the fly, so I apologize for the totally awful mis-spellings above.
My Two Entries:
Have fun with the hunt, might come back if I think of anther.
uptown inspirational web standards and accessibility
456 Berea St. “No B.S. - only web standards and accessibility”
“More accessibility than a bus full of web standards. Er, no, wait a min…”
456 Berea St.; Gently poking web standards with a “div” stick.
456 Berea St.; A look at web standards that is not at all naughty.
456 Berea St. - We are your div ID.
456 Berea St.; Proudly not supporting Mosiac since 1998(or whenever - insert relevant date here).
If you ever find yourself wondering if we really need to be this serious about web standards, just repeat to your self -“Active X”.
456 Berea St. - Because seriously, have you seen the html Word generates?
Alex, the last one is GREAT !
456 Berea St. … eats tag soup for breakfast
Best on the Block.
One way street to accessible and standard Web
456 Berea Street: The standard address for all your accessibility needs!
456 Berea Street - highway of accessibility and Web standards.
Grasshoppin’ good!
456 Berea Street: The standard place for all your accessibility needs!
Mine: “This Weblog is informative.”
456 Berea Street: Home, Sweet Accessible, Home
I have two.
456 Berea Street: Accessibility and Standards, sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g.
and this one’s fun to say out loud…
456 Berea Street: simply sexy accessible standards
Ok, three…
456 Berea Street: All live! All nude! All Accessible! Standards, standards, standards!! (ha!)
Web Standards, Accessibility
04560-456
456 Berea Street - More knowlegment than a bus full of geeks.
My proposals: Web standards and accessibility served hot
Web standards with accessbility in mind
Getting high on web standards and accessbility
Web standards with accessbility under hood
Web standards powered by accessibility
456 Bereat Street - Access the address for high standards of accessibility and web standards.
Access to the golden standard of accessibility and web standards.
456 Berea St. Knock once for Accessibility. Twice for Web Standards.
or of course
456 Berea St. Knock, click or tapdance once for Accessibility. Twice for Web Standards.
This is fun! This site is a wonderful resource and more should know about it. My efforts:
456 Berea Street: An Accessible House Built to Standards.
roger johansson - the fonzie of accessibility and web standards
“If you lived here, you’d be accessible by now”
“Where Accessibility hits the Standards asphalt”
“Accessibility! Web standards! Two for the price of one!”
“If you lived here, you’d be accessible by now”
That’s a good one.
456 Berea Street: The accessible home of web standards.
456 Berea Street, Web standards and accessibility, one size fits all.
456 Berea Street, Where web standards and accessibility meet.
456 Berea Street, Come for the standards, stay for the accessibility.
I gotta say DaveMo has a pretty good one.
Depends how ..um.. forthright you want to be ;)
456 Berea Street: raising standards on the mean streets of the web
456 Berea Street: getting the web’s standards out of the gutter
456 Berea Street: making the neighbours jealous about accessibility and web standards.
or
456 Berea Street: making the neighbours jealous since 2003.
one more variation: Keeping the web’s standards out of the gutter.
456 Berea Street : “Putting the STAND in Web Standards.”
456 Berea Street : “Our Standards can beat your Standards up”
456 Berea Street : “Where Web Standards Live”
One More… “Providing Affordable Housing to Web Standards”
456 Berea St. - Where a bus full of hippies come for web standards and accessibility.
456 Berea Street: “You want web standards with that?”
456 Berea Street: “Accessibility with street cred’”
456 Berea Street: “More standards than a truck load of rednecks.”
456 Berea Street: “Taking web standards to the streets, since [insert start date, here].”
456 Berea Street: “Bustin’ accessibility standard rhymes, yo.”
Honestly though - there are limitations as to how ‘out there’ one can get by including both standards and accessibility in the same sentence. John doesn’t suffer from needing his tag-line to fit his blog - it resonates well with his readers instead. Live a little and go with something that resonates with your readers. :)
Okay, one more:
456 Berea Street: “More standards than a jedi temple.”
:)
Short and sweet is the ticket!
456 Berea Street:
456 Berea St. - Where Web Standards are Accessible……
456 Berea St. - More Accessibility on Standards….
The ABC’s and 123’s of design
Hm, how about just:
Accessibility through standards.
Or:
Better accessibility through standards.
Better accessibility through web standards.
I have to say, though, #16 for the win:
“Web standards, accessibility, a cricket on a slice of bacon”
This site is an absolutely great reference and I don’t know if a clever tagline will really boost your popularity. This site has seemed to be pretty much all business since I started following it, but if this were a democracy I’d vote for #31 “Have you seen the HTML word generates”
123 web standards, 456 berea street, 789 accessibility.
I do like the last one in #31…
Yes, neither mention standards or accessibility, but I couldn’t think of something that did. It is a Friday afternoon after all.
456 Berea Street : the right path to learn web standards and accessibility
456 Berea Street : more than 456 good reasons to use web standards and accessibility
Float left, then right… clear your floats… you’re there for web standards and accessibility : 456 Berea Street !
Jesus….
I go to sleep, and when I wake up you have written yet another post that has already got 70 comments. Soon I’m not even worthy to comment here…
My suggestion:
456 Berea Street: The Man
456 Berea Street - Boulevard of broken Standards
456 Berea Street: No pets or salesmen
If there was a vote, mine would go out to #20.
My 2 cents:
Because we suck at taglines.
Street sense for web designers.
456 Berea Street - the address where the door bell has an Aural property behind.
456 Berea Street - Your Web Standards and Accessibility on-ramp to the information superhighway
Okay, they first one is ripped off of #76.2 and some other guy, but what about cultural patriotism? (The British panties were mentioned above) ;)
Throwing Tables Out the Window – not only on Jan 13th
Put some standard Köttbullar and a lace of accessible Glögg in your tagsoup!
456 Berea Street - web standards and accessibility, what?!?
this is the word on the street.
spacer image spacer image table with 12 rows and 5 columns table with…
The never ending story 2.0
Where tag soup goes cold
since the name of the site is (looks like) an address:
Some other ideas from my twisted mind:
want to attract more visitors:
Mr. Web Standards said to Mr. Accessibility, “so where the bloody hell is 456 Berea Street?”
If you want web standards and accessibility, there’s only one place to go.
A web standard and accessibility superhero lives in 456 Berea Street.
Accessibility is nothing without web standards, where are you going to go today?
The street where only four words matter - web standards and accessibility.
The only place to be street smart about web standards and accessibility.
Where web standards and acessibility are more than door stops.
Sounding the acessibility bell, opening the door to web standards.
Web standards soup, accessibility-flavoured.
Bring your acessibility and we’ll treat you to our standards.
Accessibility soup for the web standards impaired.
Displaying acessibility for all web standards to see.
Standard bells for all your accessibility problems.
Serving acessibility through web standards.
Ok, I think I’ve caused enough suffering as it is.
I think what we should do is to pay collectively to John Oxton for the BereaStreet tag. Its a pity he dosnt want a book though.
Or maybe you could randomize it like they do @ spoono.
456 Berea Street: If you can read this, mission accomplished.
The best thing about this tagline is that about the time you finish reading it you realise it doesn’t say anything.
Let’s see if I can get lucky:
456 Berea St.: Making web dev as easy as 4, 5 ,6.
456 Berea St.: The first address on the web.
456 Berea St. : Standards, semantics and accessibility…OH MY!
Keep up the great work :)
“Assessing Accessibility and Standing on Web Standards.”
or
“Assessing Accessibility and Waxing Up Web Standards.”
There’s a lot of good ones out there. Better than mine. #17 was hilarious.
Wow, that’s a huge number of entries so far! Thanks! I really like a whole bunch of them. Keep ‘em coming though :-).
Just a clarification, and it may make coming up with a fantastic tagline just a little bit easier: it doesn’t have to contain “web standards” and “accessibility”. If it does, that’s great, but it is not a must.
John: Well, I think maybe £1000 is just a little bit steep. Perhaps we can make some other kind of arrangement? ;-p
456 Berea Street - Hang around with Standards and Accessibility
Where “Acstandardscessibility” is Defined
Now you know it too.
Where people who “get it”, get it from.
The Standards and Accessibility Day Spa.
One Shop Stopping for Standards and Accessibility
The end of your search for a friendly church.
Because S&A shouldn’t be like S&M (unless you like that kind of thing).
Never mind the dog, he’s just there to keep the riff-raff away.
Standards and Accessibility served up home-style.
“Please secure your Standards and Accessibility in their upright and fully locked positions”
“Why didn’t you think of this?”
“Just leave the seat down when you’re done.”
oh I came up with one more.
“It’s what’s inside that counts … because it shows”
“Accessibility wears the Standards pants in this house, young man!”
“A Web Designers shortcut to Easy Street”
“Warning - Your brain may no longer be the Boss!” (Thanks to Firesign Theater)
“It’s amazing what a lick of paint will do, eh Gromit?” (Thanks to Wallace)
“Home of the Accessibility Hillbillies! Yee Hah!”
“If you can’t find it here, You’re probably using IE”
“One Day, One Deal” No, wait…
“Give me Standards and Accessibility, or give me death!”
No wait…
“Give me Standards and Accessibility, or give me IE!” Better.
“See No Evil, Speak No Evil, Code No Evil!”
456 Berea Street: Writing a working web
Mantis? Cricket? I’m pretty sure that’s a grasshopper….
“Accessibility and STANDARDS, grasshopper!”
456 Berea Street : the place where web standards and accessibility cohabit.
456 Berea Street “Making the web more than just pretty pictures.”
Or… 456 Berea Street - “Resources on web standards and accessibility, because the web is more than just pretty pictures.”
3 more for consideration:
Giving standards and accesibility a good rogering - You might have to be british to understand that
Sod Web 2.0 here comes Web 4.5.6
Getting Real with Accesibility
‘The street that hippies most love and ex-hippies most access.’ Ok, sorry..
‘Finding grounds between geeks and common man’
‘Fighting its way for a more accessible web’
‘The site with an url so complex but yet surprisingly memorable’ (I haven’t bookmarked bereastreet yet, I am typing it all the way, all the time, and I am not even selecting it from the history list on my Opera. I feel urged to type it all the time.)
Here’s my advice based on the comments you’ve gotten so far:
Don’t go for something humoristic, beacause your content isn’t.
Don’t go for something based on John’s tagline :P
Go for something short and to the point that describes what you do.
Have the tagline include the words “accessibility” and “web standards”.. because.. quite frankly, that is what you write about — why make the content harder for new visitors to distinguish than it has to be? .. or even recurring ones?
Don’t make it something only a handful of frequent visitors understand.
But what do I know? — I like: “Articles and news on web standards, accessibility, and usability” :O
In that case:
456 Berea St. - No need to knock.
“All about web standards - just around the corner. by Dutchkid”
Is my favorite :)
This one slipped past me .. the taglines in #13 are clever, yet meaningful.
Here’s another one: ‘Where you won’t trip on the threshold’
I’m not sure if that’s correct English, though :-)
“456 Berea street: Skip to content.”
“Pretentious Tagline Goes Here”
456 Berea Street - More hits than Madonna
I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down 456 berea street when suddenly the prescription ran out.
I saw your momma kicking a can down 456 berea street. I asked her what she was doing, and she said “Moving.”
456 berea street - “We own the streets.”
456 berea street meets quality standards: compiles without errors.
456 berea street - Great thing about webstandards is so many to pick from!
456 Berea Street - an Explorer’s wet dream
456 Berea Street - still figuring out the 123 ?
456 Berea Street - fear our super shaolin syntax
456 Berea Street - come on my pseudo-selector
456 Berea Street - standards roadblock
(I really like #117, clever…)
456 Berea street - the missing link 456 Berea street - Felande länken
456 Berea Street - the best pitt-stop you’ll ever make on the Internet Highway.
“356 Berea Street- way to web standards and accessibility”
“356 Berea Street - jolly way to web standards and accessibility”
“Leads to web standards and Accessibility”
“Even momma can walk it”
456 berea street - Web standards avenue
456 berea street - A walk in the Web standards and Accessibility park
456 berea street - Web standards and accessibility close to home
456 berea street - Web standards and accessibility just across the street
450 Berea Street: Nude girls, web standards and accessibility
this will give you a much higher page rank in a very short time ;-)
456 Berea Street - Web accessibility for theorists.
Some more:
Someone should do a comparison with the 10, Downing Street. I’ll leave that to imaginations better than mine.
Well, that should get me at least the “best effort” prize.
456 Berea Street: Where taglines go to die…
Two Americanismsm,
Web Standards or Bust! Give Me Web Standards or Give Me Death!
Must say that i really like the second one at comment #121 - short and quite fun.
456 Berea Street - Your only address for that perfect website
456 Berea Street - One way to web standards and accessibility
456 Berea Street - Beyond the 123 of web standards and accessibility
456 Berea Street - where standards and accessibilty meet
456 Berea Street - Accessible from everywhere
111001000: simply does what it says on the tin.
456 Berea Street - Loitering on the corner of Accessibility Road and Standard Lane
456 Berea Street - “Always looking both ways before coding.”
#136 - I like that one a lot.
Here’s some more silly and serious. “Web Standards & Accessibility – Apply, Rinse & Repeat”
“The Rhythm & Blues of Web Standards & Accessibility” (R&B of S&A)
“The ‘School House Rock’ of Web Standards & Accessibility”
“Assistive Technology for the Rest of Us”
Here’s a couple that I didn’t make up but thought they were pretty good. Let’s see who figures out where they came from first!
456 Berea Street, your tour guide to webstandards and usablity.
456 Berea Street, a one-way street to better web practices.
456 Berea Street, a paradise for geeks and webstandardistas.
456 Berea Street - Bork! Bork! Bork! Get ready for webstandards and usability gourmet kitchen.
456 Berea Street - the place to be for all true geeks!
456 Berea Street - your perfect web host.
456 Berea Street - Access All Areas!.
456 Berea Street, ‘Usability made Standard, Standards made Accessible’
456 Berea Street, ‘Where love is accessed, used, and standardised’
456 Berea Street, ‘Accessible Love For The Standards Geek’
456 Berea Street, ‘A place of thought’ 456 Berea Street, ‘We got a place for everyone’
1)…instead i install 456 Berea Street. 2) To geek or not to geek on 456 Berea Street. 3) Guess how many lucky sperm in 456 Berea Street? One. 4)…take a left of 456 Berea Street. 5) Rel=”follow” 456 Berea Street. Tired, add rel=”nofollow”. 6)John Lennon for Prime Minister and 456 Berea Street as the Deputy. 7) You,the guy in blue..get me some geek. 8) 456 Berea Street, the next Miss Universe? 9) Nano-techs is just above the water. 10) Alice in not in wonderland anymore but in 456 Berea Street.
Ok,thats all.
I agree with comment #112 — the tagline has to suit the content.
Suggestions:
456 Berea St. First stop for web standards, accessibility and usability.
456 Berea St. Your one-stop shop for web standards, accessibility and usability.
456 Berea St. A finger on the pulse of web standards, accessibility and usability.
456 Berea St. - That place with the praying mantis.
456 Berea St. - Been around the block.
That one site with the cricket and some articles.
The self-proclaimed king of -pop- web!
456 Berea St. - No, don’t Mapquest it - you’re already here.
Free stuff, hot stuff - it’s like the web’s greatest whorehouse!
The Ultimate web design articles repository (sounds a little more like ALA.)
Wow, there’s some great ones. Far better than mine :)
Skip to content is my fave so far.
Another contribution from moi: 456 Berea Street: It’s not a crackhouse, it’s a crackhome.
“On tag soup? Detox here.”
456 Berea Street - Land Ahoy! Stop right here, bugs free articles ahead!
456 Berea Street. The road to standards
456Berea Street. It’s like a website, with standards and stuff..
…running with the theme from #146…
The Betty Ford Clinic for Table Addicts.
hello. Try this:
456BereaStreet - More web development than Wysteria Lane.
in punctilious care of web standards and accessibility
in punctilious care of web standards, accessibility, and global harmony
scrupulous steward of bare-knuckle web standards, accessibility, and best practices
That’s it. The time is up and no more entries are accepted. I’ll pick my favourite and let you know who the winner is in a couple of days or so. There are many good ones to choose from, so it won’t be easy.
456 Berea Street - A lousy name for a site mostly about web standards.
Oh No! I got here too late, but I’m going to add my two pence worth anyway, even if it won’t be considered.
456 Berea Street - its no dark alley.
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