Kind of a fun little quiz. I don’t feel too badly about the elements I missed for the most part. Although in my XHTML vigor, I forgot a whole set that I should have known – I won’t spoil it for you, though.
Thanks to News Goat for the link.
Just a quick reminder that I will be presenting at tonight’s Refresh OKC meeting. The topic is Typography Techniques for the Web, A practical guide to tips, tricks, and best practices for achieving elegant type in HTML and CSS.
The meet-up is this evening, August 21st, 2007 at 6:30pm. We meet at the downtown library in Oklahoma City. If you’re in the area please stop in — it’s a great little meet-up and refreshments will be served. More info at www.refreshokc.org.
Hope to see you there!
I wanted to everyone a heads up that I will be presenting at the upcoming Refresh OKC meeting. The topic is Typography Techniques for the Web, A practical guide to tips, tricks, and best practices for achieving elegant type in HTML and CSS.
The next meeting is next Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 at 6:30pm. We meet at the downtown library in Oklahoma City. If you’re in the area please stop in – it’s a great little meet-up and refreshments will be served.
For those of you who haven’t been before, Refresh OKC is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet professionals in the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area. It’s part of a national movement to promote design, technology, usability, standards, and our local cities. You can find out more at the group’s website, www.refreshokc.org.
Hope to see you there. Please say “hi” if you can make it – I’d love to meet more of you all.
2007 has been an exciting year at ElementFusion. Our products are really starting to take off and our design work is getting lots of attention, too. Earlier this week the folks over at Freelance Switch reviewed our content management system, Light. Light is a CMS designed to be used by designers and agencies that want to give their customers a robust, easy to use CMS system but that might lack the technical resources. That makes it a prefect fit for Freelance Switch readers who tend to be independent designers. Check out the review. Oh, and check out Light!
People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about the profession.
Let’s do something to change that. Take A List Apart’s first annual Web Design Survey.
I was fortunate to spend the last few days in Austin, Texas for the 2007 edition of the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference. This was my first trip to the big show since 2003 and it was great to return. SXSW is an unbelievable experience as a conference without pretense. Not only is it probably the best value in the field at about $225 for early registration, but it’s the only design related conference I’ve been to where the panelists aren’t held on a pedestal and separate from the plebeian masses. Here you may see Jeffrey Zeldman as a panelist in one session and sit next to him in the one that follows. For the most part everyone is approachable, friendly and most of all, genuinely passionate about their little slice of the web.
SXSW is hard to describe — my head is swimming with cool things, ideas, new techniques, and inspiration. I’ve got a list a mile long of things to try and websites to visit. Every year, SXSW seems to have a flavor. Themes, memes, and fun things that seem to capture everyone’s attention. In 2003 everyone was abuzz with online communities and the power of blogs. This year the theme seemed to be Web 2.0 and especially excellent web application design. Oh and don’t forget Twitter. It seems as if every panelist mentioned his or her Twitter obsession. If you happen to twitter, add me as a friend.
I have more to write, but I need to collect my thoughts first. There is nothing like the creative high that you ride on the tails of a good design conference.