Today in #CSS on IRC.freenode.net found a link to this interesting propaganda article about using webstandards and semantic markup. If you need to prove someone the advantages of webstandards and everything related to it this might very well be the best page you can point him to. Clear to read and easy to understand.
Do you sometimes ask yourself this question when welding a visual design created by someone else into a CSS layout:
What the hell was he thinking here?
Well no more, with HTML Stamps. For some time now i’m using them myself to attach visual aids to my designs in Photoshop.
HTML Stamps are a set of custom symbols and brushes created by the people at Twinsparc and allow a visual designer to add clear guidelines to a layout he created. They are available in different flavors, illustrator, fireworks, visio and others included. I don’t need to tell you that using these increases teamplay and workflow by huge leaps.
Using them I never forget how that one element has to be implemented, does it need to be a h1 title, h2, or maybe a sIFR replacement? Is the menu ment to be a <ul> or <dl>? Even if I open up the a design I created several months ago, I still know how everything has to be implemented in CSS and I can start coding straight away.
Check them out and you might end up getting the css guy buying you a beer at the next geekdiner 
Looks like the guys at CSS reboot heard me complaining about the lack of structure in the list of CSS rebooters. For the moment there are a staggering 872 rebooters from over 40 different countries. One thing I found frustrating when browsing the list of subscribed rebooters was the fact that i couldn’t easily pull up a list of rebooters from one country, Belgium for example.
Well guess what?? It’s all possible now … with the new rebooters list. Search by country or even (buzz buzz buzz) tags I’ve finally found out about the other 12 rebooters from belgium. And Belgium is 9th in the list with 13 rebooters total. Only 308 rebooters less than the US, doh!
Anyhow … i’m terribly behind on schedule with my reboot so I guess I should get back to work now.
Yep, there are already 300+ CSS Rebooters for the Spring 2006 Edition. The Belgian redesigners i spotted are Davy from Sintax, Stijn van Assche who still didn’t add his site(s) and Chris from Skyrocket Concepts who obviously is me
Since the site doens’t offer filtering based on country I’ve no doubt missed several Belgian contenders, make yourself heard i’d say. It never hurts to know who’s along for the trip and living in the same country.
Oh yea, Bart? I couldn’t find you on the list?
It’s CSS reboot time again! I’m joining this edition of the redesign community or however you call it. You should too if you are interested in webdesign and webstandards. I’m even thinking of forming a little community among us dutch talking webdesigners to help eachother out and share ideas for our new designs. Anyone interested? You know how to comment.
At the time of writing there are only 73 days left … hurry up
