Well that’s two fantastic days of web stuff over with. Wednesday, Andy Clarke held a fantastic workshop on markup and CSS for our development team, which has really opened the team’s eyes to the possibilities inherit in good semantic markup and separation of presentation from structure. It’s going to be a pleasure working on future projects that follow up this workshop. So I’d like to say a big thanks to Andy for taking the time to work with us on this.
Today was the Highland Fling conference, which was simply amazing, Alan White and the rest of the people involved did a brilliant job putting together both a fun and informative day on progressive enhancement and I’d like to extend a thank you to all involved with that too. I walked away with lots of notes and tons of ideas in my head. Most of which relate to this site and improving it, it’s gonna be fun!
Working as an internal web designer/developer as I do, it’s often easy to lose sight of the bigger picture of the web world. Standards and new technology tend to get pushed aside due to the tight deadlines that tend to occur. Because of that I can find myself very disillusioned with my job, I think that’s why conferences like these are so important. Hearing other experiences and even that other people are having the same ideas and have the same belief in what the web can be is invigorating and re-establishes for me why I wanted to become a web designer in the first place.