Last year when the University of Pittsburgh needed new web hires, I tried to figure out if there was anyone I could ask for help. Since there really aren’t any big names in Pittsburgh, I turned to Jason Santa Maria in Philadelphia, who has worked with Jeffrey Zeldman and Happy Cog. I simply asked if…

I was catching up on my blog reading, which has suffered as of late due to busy-ness (and business), and finally got to read Adaptive Path’s Seven Resolutions for 2006. The first resolution states: It??????s easy to create the same shopping basket, search mechanism, or navigation scheme over and over. Instead, plan time into project…

The SXSW Interactive Festival begins in just over a month. Thanks to some clever begging and much appreciated support, my employer is sending this year. I’m pretty excited, because a lot of great stuff came out of last year’s festival. It was last year that I decided that I had to go this year. Today…

A developer recently asked me how I sell clients on the extra time and cost it takes to built web standard compliant sites using CSS versus tables. “I don’t have to,” I said. “CSS is faster.” How could it not be? There’s less code. There’s less time spent slicing images in PhotoShop. And if you…

Molly contributed an interesting article on A List Apart about grid-based design for the Web, and the impact CSS will play on the future of web design. There are some good parallels between planned cities and table-based layouts, and some excellent visualizations of the underlying structure of a few example designs to show the types…