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• 6.1.07 Semantic Details posted in Web Design

  When we did our Circle Six redesign, it was important to me that we go out of our way to make this our most semantic and accessible site yet. Clean, semantic code was the goal, and here are some details that we considered that you may want to keep in mind for your next project…

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• 3.1.07 Selling Standards posted in Web Design

  I think that web designers (myself included) spend too much time trying to sell our obsession with standards to our clients. The fact of the matter is that clients don’t care whether or not a page validates. As web designers and developers trying to sell standards, we need to concentrate on things that our clients actually care about. Things like the speed of their site and, of course, the cost. Valid pages almost always mean lighter weight code, and if standards can speed development time and reduce maintenance time, it means savings for the client in the long run. Paraphrasing Ethan Marcotte, the Web Standards project notes…

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• 12.1.06 Review: Transcending CSS posted in Web Design

  I just picked up “Trancending CSS, the fine art of web design” by Andy Clarke and edited by Molly E. Holzschlag. It’s amazing. This is one of my favorite CSS books to come out since “The Zen of CSS Design“, which quite literally changed the way I look at CSS layout and […]

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• 10.29.06 The Wilds of Missouri posted in General

  So I’m leaving this morning to drive from Winona, MN to St. Louis, MO. It’s a little over 10 hours on the road, and I’m driving down today (Sunday) and driving back tomorrow. That’s a lot of road time. I got up at 4:30am to get ready, and completely forgot about […]

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• 10.27.06 I Heart Not Microsoft posted in Web Design

  Jeffrey Zeldman writes in IE7 CSS tweak show and tell: Once IE7 gains critical mass, a lot of our current thinking about ems and pixels and such will go out the window. I’ll write about that soon, probably on A List Apart. Funny how Microsoft has the power to change all the good that was coming […]

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• 9.12.06 Home(page) improvement posted in Website Updates

  I fixed up the homepage a little bit. It matches the aesthetic for the blog now. I’d like to eventually incorporate the two under the same address, but I’ve got so much traffic coming in from Google I’m afraid to make any major changes to the subdomain structure. I should have […]

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• 9.10.06 A legal precedent for standards and semantics posted in Web Design

  Finally something interesting filtered through to me today… Target corp. got sued by groups representing the visually-impaired community and their right to sue was upheld by the court. I’ve been whining for quite a while about the need for accessibility on the web. Even if every site isn’t built around screen readers, […]

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• 9.4.06 Website as DNA posted in Web Design

  There’s a fun new website up at http://www.baekdal.com/web2dna/. It takes a given website and converts it to human DNA, the brightness and density based on the markup. The more keywords and the more semantic the markup is, the brighter and denser the map. The image included in this post is from […]

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• 8.28.06 Internet Explorer 7 fixed up? Nope. posted in Web Design

  A recent post on the IE Blog seemed hopeful. They’ve made a lot of fixes recently. But reports from beta testers, found in the comments of the post, were discouraging, as what IE claimed to have fixed was still erratic and fundamentally broken, and there are still major parts of the CSS1 […]

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• 8.27.06 Higher Learning and Web Standards. posted in Web Design

  The Minneapolis College of Art and Design homepage is entirely CSS P and standards compliant! This discovery was the result of curiosity sparked over my weekend there… I was a graduate of the Interactive Media program and in 2000 when I graduated, we had all been taught table-based layout. So I wondered […]

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