In 2023, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Mozilla’s founding, they held an awards show to honor 25 people that exemplified the Mozilla spirit of openness, innovation, and principled application of technology. Then they did it again in 2024 and I built the website for it.
Well, first I built a single page on mozilla.org in February of 2024, calling for nominations.
A few months later it was time to announce the honorees (we avoided the term “winners” because it isn’t a competition). This called for a standalone website, rise25.mozilla.org. It didn’t need to be too complicated, it was really just a few static pages. I used the HTML Bundler Webpack Plugin we had used on a few previous projects as a simple, bare-bones static site generator (indeed I’m using it for this website you’re reading now).
As simple as the site is, structurally, I think it looks nice and has some
cool CSS effects. Lots of fun with gradients and background-clip.
During one design review someone said “it looks expensive” which I suppose is
pretty good feedback.
The site is still online as I write this now in early 2025 but I expect it’ll be decommissioned soon, so I may need to make my own archival backup for posterity. But for now you can visit the live site and of course you can see the code on GitHub.