As a rule, I am against forced acronyms. Take my least favourite - POSH. POSH is just awful.
Seven years into the new Millennium, an approximate 26,328 task forces, 3,402 unworking groups, and 5 fantasy comic book heroes are in existence on Earth. The unofficial and invented 2007 consensus of the interwebs discovered that of these 29,735 unworking groups, task forces and comic book heroes, the average working interweb developer was aware of two task forces, 1 working group and a full 5 comic book heroes, but still could not explain what any of them did.
I appreciate most of my readership will already be aware of the freshly-launched Email Standards Project, which aims to promote better support for web standards in the many, many email tools out there. Everyone here has long championed Web Standards, and we’re just as keen to see the revolution taken on board by email client manufacturers.
With Workshops For Web People, top quality, very affordable web design workshops have finally reached the East Midlands. With early-bird places priced at just £100, this stands up very favourably against the other more established workshop events we’re all familiar with.
Hopefully you will thank me that I do not have time, energy or desire to write up my lengthy moans about the big Arctic Monkeys super-gig I attended at the weekend.
My copies of Web Standards Creativity have just landed on the doormat, and mighty-fine they are too. Chock-full of wondrous colour (one for the coffee table), ingenuity and inspiration. Here are a few ropey photos…
At least have the courtesy to remove my portfolio grabs. It is also wise to remove Agenzia’s contact details from the footer so that my friend and former colleague Big Lee cannot find your plagiarised attempt at design via Google. Still, great idea to keep the Copyright notice - it’d be awful if someone ripped off your work, wouldn’t it?
It is all about web design as art these days, as the cover of Web Standards Creativity seeks to emphasize.
Finally, the sequel. Where Beginning CSS Web Development offered A New Hope, the Empire now Strikes Back with Pro CSS Techniques, a darker, more complex twist in the grand CSS fairy tale.
Phew! I’ve got a right sweat on down at the pixel face this month. My axe is almost blunt, and my torch is dimming, but I’ve just enough energy to share a snippet from the field.
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