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Latest addition: Oct 16, 2005, 22:02: New interview: Clear: left!
You know them from their respective weblogs, but a little while ago, Andy Budd, Jeremy Keith and Richard Rutter combined their talents to form a new web consultancy, named Clear: left. I sat down with the three of them and asked them ten questions, hoping to get a good idea of what Clear: left is all about.
Whether you want to call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0 or prefer to not use buzzwords at all, it's safe to say that the Web of today is changing. The advent of blogging and feed aggregation has greatly influenced the way we spend our time on the web. More and more people rely on newsfeeds for their latest information and the blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 months, but is this all such a great thing? What dangers do technologies like RSS bring with them, and are we even aware of them?
Andy Clarke hurriedly posted an experiment on his way out (no, he's not leaving, just temporarily away from his own site. Don't worry, he's not jumping that bandwagon) on trying to create "a fluid/elastic XHTML layout with minimal markup, CSS2 and a sprinkling of DOM scripting magic." Now, I think it's a great thing to minimize markup and try out new approaches to creating modern websites, but you can overdo it.
Douglas Bowman is widely known from his design consultancy, Stopdesign. He is responsible for very popular redesigns such as Wired News, Blogger and, more recently, Capgemini. In London, Douglas shared his wisdom with us twice. His first presentation was The Beauty of CSS.
Robin Christopherson is an Accessibility consultant working for AbilityNet. Being blind, Robin is all too familiar with screenreaders and other assistive technologies. Robin presented Web Accessibility and Disability - A Practical Introduction on day one of @media 2005.
Joe Clark is one of the world's leading experts on web accessibility, author of the best-selling Building Accessible Websites and also an extremely funny guy. On day one of @media 2005 he presented the first presentation, entitled Accessibility: Simple Facts About a Tricky Subject.
Before the presentations at the @media 2005 conference (London, June 9-10) started, Jeffrey Zeldman, man and legend to all who deal with Web Standards, had the honor of giving the keynote speech. A reflection on Jeffrey's speech, and also the first in my series of @media-covering articles.
Some people say XHTML on the web has failed, but I say it is our biggest success in the fight for Web Standards.
There are millions of people making applications that use some sort of database or another, and there are several dozens of conventions which you can use to make a more well-formed database schematic. The CMS that powers this website is written by a semi-selfmade SQL convention. This article explains how it works.
