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June 15, 2008

No more IE6! Update your browser! Slacker!

How and why i'm now aggressively NOT supporting IE6

For years the web design community has been forced to deal with incompatible web browsers that fail to meet the standards set out by the w3c, resulting in a huge portion of the web design process being devoted to "cross ...

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June 9, 2008

Pragmatics vs Validation

Is code validation important in web design?

Something I've noticed recently which makes me wonder about people's understanding of how web design works is the designer/developer obsession with validation. I'm definitely not the first to realise this (i'm pretty sure i read an article not so long ...

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May 8, 2008

Why I hate Grid Systems...

..and why I hate formulaic website design.

Maybe this article would better be called, “why I hate what grid systems stand for in the design world”. Designers (especially web designers) these days seem obsessed with grid based design. While I LIKE the look that grid based designs ...

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May 1, 2008

Web standards, should we really care?

My opinions on a very grey area in web design

Having been a web developer (professionally and for fun) for the better part of ten years now, I’ve watched the art of making websites change significantly. In my first job, the majority of front end development time was spent trying ...

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