Now that there are 250 sites listed on my MOSS hosted public Internet site directory, I have decided to maintain a top 100 list with a thumbnail image of the site to enable visitors to quickly identify sites they might want to take a closer look at rather than just going by the title and brief description (a picture paints a thousand words...).

http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/topwebsites.aspx

There is no science behind the selection of sites that appear in the top 100, unlike Joel's Top 100 SharePoint bloggers, as I don't have access to the site statistics that would be required to rank sites by popularity. So I have just selected sites that "look good" in my opinion.

The page is driven from a Data View which shows a small bug in the way the OOTB XSLT works out the multi-column view when grouping is enabled. Instead of fixing this, I decided to add a cool image preview function when you click on a thumbnail.