One Small Step
The site I recently designed for photographer Coleman Sellers is up and running. I think the site looks great; but what I am most pleased about is the fact that the page markup is valid XHTML 1.0 (Transitional) according to the W3 Validator. This marks an important step in my effort to learn and implement better, cleaner, more accesible, standards-based web development practices.
Now seems an appropriate time to mention a few people/sites who have shaped this transformation, not just in my thinking, but of all of web design practice.
Jeffrey Zeldman, also at A List Apart
More to come.
A Domestic Scene
After spending several hours working on a painstaking, rather fussy linoleum cut for a client, I needed to do something quick and loose—something to clear out the cobwebs and relax my tense mind. I looked up from my work table to see the scene pictured above, only, in reality, the image is reversed, left to right. This is because I drew the scene directly onto the surface of my linoleum block before cutting. Once cut and printed, it became flipped.
Roof and Trees
Here’s an up-close look at a recent sketch I did in preparation for cutting a linoleum block for a client. That’s all. I just thought it was neat.
Fiddling with the Site
Warning: geek rambling follows, read at own risk.
I have been trying to be more careful about structural and presentational markup of my pages. Just scoured through the site to remove a CSS class attribute that was being consistently applied to all h3 elements, when the h3 element itself could—and should—serve as the selector for the CSS rule. Whoops! "I think this may go back to the original Moveable Type template upon which my new templates were based," he said dodgily. I think this is what Mr. Zeldman called ”classitis.“
I am sure there are more of these gremlins lurking. I will find them...or, perhaps, will begin thinking about a purer redesign of the site.