OT: Web Designers

[Bill McGonigle]

On Aug 23, 2006, at 18:06, Seth Cohn wrote:

> Perhaps it's time to look into the current galleries of
> http://www.oswd.org or http://openwebdesign.org

So I went through the favorites galleries on these sites, bumped the 
font size in Firefox up a couple plus'es on each and nearly all the 
designs 'ate themselves'.  Enough so they weren't readable/navigable 
(e.g. content or navigation widgets disappeared under div borders, 
etc.)  And this is a collection of some of the best designs on the 
'net.

One called Frutopia seemed to hold up especially well.  Kudos to its 
author.

Don't get me wrong - there are gurus who can code this stuff correctly. 
  I just long for a model that doesn't require gurus to make accessible 
websites.  I like CSS, but CSS positioning can't be right if so many 
people have such a hard time doing conceptually simple things with it.

I forget the name of the lead fellow on CSS but he's famous for saying 
that aliases (ala macros) will never be a CSS feature because they 
complicate things.  Granted, he who steps up to the plate gets to make 
the rules, but it's also good to survey the field and borrow from 
previous successful designs.

-Bill

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