Just a quick note on a great article written by Cameron Moll over at Authentic Boredom. Cameron takes a second out to give you, the budding (and not-so-budding) designer eight important things to remember when doing that voodoo that you do so well. Just to encapsulate the points: Details a Great Designer Makes There’s a…
Category: Design & Dev
It Must LOOK the Same!
Eric Meyer encapsulates my feelings on standards based web design. It is a overly stated fact that designing non-compliant web sites drives me insane. I find designing standards based sites much easier to handle and much more logical to deal with (and thus highly appealing for my overwrought analytical side). Standards also equal a certain…
SVG
I was reading an article over at ZDNet (When standards don’t apply)… well, skimming it, really… when I saw them make mention of SVG as an alternative to Flash. I chuckled. As it is well known, I am a standards evangelist, and well, SVG is most certainly the standards-based alternative to Macromedia’s proprietary Flash. I…
Talk in Print
I’ve spent the past hour or two (yes, it is almost 4am… I have some sort of sleep disorder) tinkering with print-specific Cascading Style Sheets for talktalk. What is that, you’re asking. Well, if you take a look at the source of this site (well, the talktalk section at least), you’ll notice that there is…
How to look like an asshole
A week or so ago, I made a post on Amputate, a message board for Utah-based designers that I discovered via a post on Cameron Moll’s website. In this post, I asked the following: How do you compromise between web standards and clients with out-dated browsers? I had dealt with a long exchange with my…
The Slumbering Giant Shifts in His Sleep
A few days back, I noticed an entry at Webstandards.org stating that “The IE Team is listening.” I thought it was a nice sentiment, but didn’t really think much of it (sounded more like a PR ploy to tell people that the thousands upon thousands of bug reports and feature requests weren’t just directed to…
Pop Up
I was making my rounds on the ol’ Interweb, I stumbled across a nice site (Tim Berners-Lee would be proud at my method of finding stuff by simply following link after link after link, et al.), which happened to be written in XHTML 1.1. My site is written in XHTML 1.0 Strict, and one of…
Sexually transmitted… uh, Web Standards?
I’ll be brief, as today may prove to be insanely busy. I ran across an awesome article by John Allsopp’s girlfriend, in which she, self-described as a former member of the “Clueless Majority,” describes her “conversion” to an appreciation of web standards. It makes you feel all warm and fuzzy.
I am a code monkey
Still in the middle of being a code whore. Needed to try out some extra sections to see how they show up. These first few entries are a real snore, I know… but stuff it… I need to do them.