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Here’s an end-of-day recap of what I saw and heard today at SXSW Interactive. A Decade of Style Doug Bowman, Molly Holzschlag, Eric Meyer, and Chris Wilson from Microsoft. Eric Meyer’s last name was misspelled on the card in front of him. He asked the audience for white out and amid jeers such as "What’s … Continue reading “SXSWi Saturday Recap”
Dan Russell has a couple of posts on sense making over at Creating Passionate Users. Today’s post said something that stuck me as a key element in terms of teaching web design. The point is that you need to frame things because the act of framing helps to focus on what to do next. There’s … Continue reading “Framing the web design experience”
The word semantic gets tossed around a lot in connection with web design. A comment from someone made me realize I had overlooked discussing what that means here on Web Teacher. I use the word logical quite often instead, although I am not in a majority by talking about the logic of HTML tags as … Continue reading “Tip: What is semantic markup and why should you care?”
The New York Times – Breaking News, World News & Multimedia has a new CSS layout with five, count ’em, five columns. It looks good and uses standards with menus constructed of lists and a layout built of divs. There’s a bit of JavaScript directing readers with really ancient browsers to some text-heavy pages for … Continue reading “Another big name adopts standards”
Aaron Gustafson, Eric Meyer, and Ed Shull are the panelists for this one. They began by talking about the people who try to cheat their way to good search engine ranking. The search engines usually catch up with this sooner or later and the sites get banned from rankings. Using standards and ethical methods usually … Continue reading “SXSWi: Web Standards and SEO”
I certainly did not originate this method of creating a two column layout, but I will summarize it for you. Step one: create a wrapper or container div and give it a CSS rule: position:relative. #wrapper { position: relative; } I’m temporarily ignoring the need for headers and footers. You can adjust for them. Step … Continue reading “Tip: Three steps to a two column CSS layout”
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report After judging the college student entries in the May 1st Reboot 2005, Zeldman had some interesting comments. The comment I found most powerful is his assertion, “I am not worried about these mostly very talented designers; I am worried about what the schools are teaching them, and even more … Continue reading “May 1st Reboot 2005 prompts pondering from Zeldman”