RobbieTheGeek.Com

Welcome back folks, sorry for the lapse in blogs this last few days. I was a little burnt out from the technology tsunami from CES & MacWorld. Just because I wasn't posting doesn't mean I haven't been soaking up all I can get my eyes on. I have taken a few entry level and higher HTML classes through my job. These were very low-end but worth it to resurface all that old knowledge I have from doing website design and creation years ago. Next up in this series of classes is a CSS class. But I have to say that I have learned more listening to a new webdesign podcast called BoagWorld.Com. A lot of the infomation that is discussed in this podcast is related to Web Standards. The use and support of webstandards seems to be a crusade of Paul Boag, and after listening to the first 5 podcasts I have to agree with his view. I feel very lucky that I came across this podcast because a lot of what was discussed in the classes I took, and read throughout the web never discussed web standards and why you should use them. CSS is extremely intricite and sort of the linchpin that web accessibility relies on. The biggest thing that I have taken away from the podcast and all the sites that I have found through my own searches is seperate the content from the design. And this is where CSS becomes so important this contains all the design elements for your website. The website content then doesn't need to contain any of the formatting (font, size, blocking,...) within the HTML files. This makes changing the layout and overall design of an entire site but editing only one file, the CSS file rather then the old fashioned way which was to edit every single file of your whole site. There seems to be a little bit of an issue with comforming to the standards related to CSS and all the rest of web design set forth by World Wide Web Consortium. The benifit of becoming compliant is that you will futureproof your site, because all future browsers will be based on these standards. So I will make Paul Boag proud and say it one more time, use web standards it makes your site so much more flexible, updatable, and accessible.As you can tell this geek is very excited about web site design & creation. If you come accross any interesting web sites, blogs, or podcasts on these subjects drop me an email. Thanks for stopping by...