Cleveland, Meet Web Standards
It is my great pleasure to announce that the brand spankin’ new website for the Cleveland Web Standards Association is all systems go.
Handshakes, accolades and applause to Brad Dielman, who designed and coded (with a few tweaks here and there by me) our new home on the web.
I’m honored and proud to be involved with such a talented and fun group of Clevelanders, and excited to see what we can do. If you’re currently a web professional, student, or just interested in learning about modern web design and development and live in the Greater Cleveland Area, you should really think about heading out to our next meeting to see what we’re up to and rub shoulders with some of Cleveland’s best. I’ll be there too.
Plus, we have pizza.
So, stop wasting your time here and check out the Cleveland Web Standards Association website.
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Awesome! Great to the site go live! Thanks for all of your work on getting this up and running, Brendan.
· Brad Dielman · 21/01/08 12:25 PM · #
This is very exciting for us and a good milestone to have hit. Nice work to all designers/htmlers/cssers involved.
Now we just have to get Joe Fiorini to get us a nice backend :) he.
· Nate Klaiber · 21/01/08 02:05 PM · #
Shazam! Bolt-a-Laaghtnin! Lookin’ Good, guys.
PS: whoever wrote the copy for the ‘about’ section deserves a smack on the butt from the sidelines, too.
· Eric Wiley · 21/01/08 04:47 PM · #
The bunny is so happy!
· Bridget Stewart · 21/01/08 05:07 PM · #
Almost entirely unrelated:
I was fifteen, once. Charging pennies for my designs compared to the big baddies who raked in the cash flaunting their table-less designs and usability. Thing is, those designs are so boring. Let it be known I do know there are a slew of great, standards compliant, even table-less designs out there. But a good number of designers are stacking a few boxes, using a huge image as a header and labeling it “post modern minimalism with an emphasis on pretentiousness.”
I have no idea where I started this or intended to end up, but just let me say that designers are getting lazy and pretentious…and this bothers me. I had cooler designs when I was fifteen then a lot of designers do now, because I wasn’t afraid for a little extra effort for a kick-ass result.
· Zak MacDonald · 22/01/08 04:01 PM · #
I agree with Zak. I looked at the site. Haven’t you guys ever heard of Photoshop filters? I’m so tired of designers who think about readability, usability and emphasize content by using a hierarchical structure that lets the user quickly scan content to find the most relevant information. What exactly were you trying to communicate?
· Brad C. · 22/01/08 10:25 PM · #
Zak, there are more bad table-based designs out there in the wild than there are standards-compliant ones.
There are also a lot of people out there calling themselves “web designers” who don’t/can’t code. I can make pretty things in Photoshop all day long, but translating them into useful, readable webpages is a skill not many people have, regardless of what it says on their business card.
One thing you didn’t mention about those designs you were charging pennies for; you never finished most of them and left a lot of people with half-finished projects. They probably would have been happier with a few stacked boxes than a designer who disappeared without finishing their websites. Zing ;)
° brendan · 22/01/08 11:36 PM · #
Oh snaps! I’m not dogging anyone here, I just saw “usability” and it set off my bitch switch.
I did really have a problem with being timely, but my designs still kicked ass…most of the time. Nowadays some gang-star in his mom’s basement pirates Photoshop and fancys himself a designer. Now excuse me but pixel fonts and all your glossy gloss bling blang has a place and its not on my internet.
I see the meeting on 2/5 is at Tri-C…but a room number would be oh so handy.
· Zak MacDonald · 23/01/08 02:06 PM · #
Room WSS G4B (lower level of West Student Services/Galleria)
All the skinny can be viewed at the Meetup.com page
° brendan · 23/01/08 10:46 PM · #
I’m a little late, but congrats guys you did an awesome job!
· beth · 29/01/08 10:01 AM · #
@Zak MacDonald
Sigh. Sounds like you are still 15 years old, am I correct?
· Nate Klaiber · 29/01/08 03:57 PM · #
@Brendan – I love your design for this site. It’s groovy like an afternoon movie.
· Valerie · 25/02/08 08:28 AM · #