So You Think You Want to be a Manager
Every designer faces a choice at some point in their career - to manage or not to manage. Erin Malone asks “So You Think You Want to be a Manager?“.
Markup as a Craft
Excellent overview / inroad on the art of markup by Garrett Dimon. Simplicity is the key in Markup as a craft.Carefully crafting your markup is like making a lucrative investment in the future of your code base. It’s easier to create and maintain back-end code when it integrates with clean and simple markup.
Your CSS can be elegant. Your DOM scripting can connect seamlessly.
You’ll have made a significant first step towards improved accessibility. And you might even pick up some extra search engine traffic. It’s time to treat markup as a craft, and give it the love and attention it deserves.
Why do designers have such a hard time to keep it simple?
Simple websites are easy to use, easy to understand, nice to look at. In practice, websites are either unusable or ugly and in general filled with too many complicated words. Why do designers have such a hard time to keep it simple?
CSS 3 selectors explained
A quick overview (right!) of the selectors that are new in CSS 3 from Roger Johansson.