1st
May
2007
“You’d think that as a result of open-source development practices, blog architectures would be pretty close to perfection in areas like Web standards and maximum SEO impact.
You’d be wrong.
Unbelievably, nearly every WordPress, MovableType, or TypePad theme that I’ve come across in the past year fails a simple test for truly semantic (and Google-recommended) XHTML markup. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that these failures are by no means fatal flaws. At the same time, though, I find it extremely unsettling that an inferior markup structure is prevailing in the face of an absolutely correct way of doing things.”
posted in HTML/DHTML/XHTML, Weblogs | Permalink |
1st
May
2007
“Microsoft Powerpoint transitions, running in sequence, switching from black to white by Daniel Eatock & Timothy Evans: After viewing Transition I remembered a quicktime I had seen on an avant-garde art website. The film was Rhythms 21 by Hans Richter from 1921. The similarities between the two films are quite exact at times, both feature wipes from white to black and black to white. It was quite interesting to me that there could be these parallels between works made 85 years apart.”
posted in Art, Software/Hardware | Permalink |
1st
May
2007
“In advertising, branding, marketing, design, public relations, we live and breathe creativity. And the thing about creativity is, not everyone agrees on the interpretation of the brand, whether ad concept or identity design. Guess what? That’s OK. It’s called collaborating. A healthy debate can lead to the best product, but I feel it’s the agency that needs to lead with authority. Otherwise, you might as well ask ‘Do you want fries with that website?’ So what happens when the client doesn’t want to be led? When it stops critiquing and starts bullying over design issues that you know are detrimental to the brand?”
posted in Business of design | Permalink |
