A Library Website Redesign to Envy

Aaron Schmidt redesigned the Thomas Ford Memorial Library's website, and the new site is amazing!  Aaron has posted about the redesign elements and process on his blog, walking paper.  He also created a Flickr category for the redesign with some annotations about the various elements.  And, he did this in three work days.  Gah, we should all bow before the greatness that is Aaron. 

So, why is this site so spectacular?  Here's what I like about it (can also be read as "things I wish I could do on our page, but can't due to being stuck in a county frame"):

1. The wording: active patron-driven language, no library-ese spoken here
2. The navigation is laid out according to category: audiences on the top (adults, teens, kids), popular tasks on the left, info and "about" stuff on the right
3. Visible variable font sizes: click on the little "A" pages over on the left to resize the text
4. Obvious contact info: front and center
5. Simplicity: no useless bells and whistles, just plain simple usable content and navigation
6. Liquid layout: automatic resizing for screen resolutions and sizes (800x600 sweetness)
7. Quick Search: quick catalog search box right on the homepage (ok, we have this too, but it's awesome)

Good stuff, and an inspiration to those of us looking to better our own library websites!