Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.
from: A List Apart: Articles: Understanding Web DesignOne could just link to A List Apart and be done with it. That would be short shrift to some excellent content though. A List Apart has damped the zealotry a bit in recent years and most of the preachy comes out of empirical observation these days. Take this article and its author for instance. Zeldman used to be all fire and brimstone but now measures his statements (somewhat). Where the article might have lambasted the designer who revels in brochureware, it now quietly mocks.
And underneath it all is a really good article on what web design is and why it isn’t like designing in any other media.
A List Apart: Articles: Understanding Web Design
November 20th, 2007
An Extra Hour
November 4th, 2007
Probably my favorite day of the year…the day we get the extra hour moving from Daylight Saving to Standard time. Oh yeah!
So I spent the extra hour revamping the blog a bit. While I was high on the blue background with wacky box thingers and on involving the dogs for some reason, I like this theme a bit better. I think I’ll mute it a bit more—the background color on the posts kind of screw with the Zen I had in mind. Still, I think we’re in a place where we’re mostly open for business. There’s still the per-category stuff to go over and translating the whole look and feel of The Millionaire’s Holiday site into the WordPress universe.
