hyalineskies

The Michigan Daily’s site is redesigned using web standards and sIFR. It’s leaps and bounds above the old site, but it’s still only temporary…

“He just wanted a website, wanted one visually, wanted one fast, and would seemingly sacrifice all standards for an instantly ready, Easy Mac version of a web presence. He was determined to use a WYSIWYG editor. I stopped posting. It wasn’t worth the argument.”
When a web newbie shrugs off my advice of following web standards for FrontPage, I didn’t get mad. No, I didn’t get even, either. I simply paid it forward, and every other web designer who cares about the future of standards or the industry should too.

“What my colleagues have failed to examine, though, is not only what that demographic has interest in, but, most importantly for the purpose of this article, not what the demographic is technologically capable of, but rather what they feel is technologically comfortable.“

If you really sit back and think about it, it seems rather silly on the most primitive level that we wait in massive queues to eat at restaurants. It’s not like restaurants can’t be found everywhere - I’m writing this entry in one - so why do we feel compelled to make our already starving selves wait it out for food when we can eat elsewhere? It may seem like a waste of time to think about such things, but I have to get my mind off of Adobe Illustrator.

“I walked into the warmth of the shop, a small branch on the Southwest corner of State and Liberty, amazingly sterile yet cozy and inviting. I started having second thoughts. Is this the right thing to do? I’m going to look foolish. It may not work, after all. I don’t want to be the guy that special orders coffee. I’m an editor, not an investigative reporter. Maybe I should just leave.

It was too late. The line in front of me had moved onto caffeinated bliss, and it was my turn.”