I'd say if you want to be a web designer then having a working knowledge of HTML would be pretty much be a prerequisite. But not necessarily... an art director I once worked at a web design studio didn't even know what H T M L meant... If you aren't proficient in HTML, you may be wondering why it is necessary to learn HTML when there ... Read full entry

Back in the day being a web designer meant knowing a little HTML (no CSS) and how to use image creation software like Photoshop. That was about it. That was a long time ago. There is just a little bit more to the role today however. You may find that there are plenty of job listings where the job requirements are described as, ... Read full entry

A very cool range of t-shirts for the web geek in your life. Maybe I'm a hard core geek or something though, I never knew, I kid you not, what HTML actually means :)

Flash is not sexy or so they say Flash, in a place where there was no need for Flash, is particularly non-sexy. To me there is nothing worse than going to a site constructed almost entirely in Flash that at first glance you are like, "wait is this just straight HTML & CSS?", nope they tricked you. I truly do not understand this one ... Read full entry

I Made This For You by Chris Ashley. An advent calendar featuring drawings, created not with Photoshop or Illustrator, but with HTML code, a "medium" Chris often works with, as well paint and canvases. Considered as a form of painting, Ashley's HTML, virtual and non-physical as it is, prompts musings such as, "What direction is the light coming from?" or, "How big are they?" The works don't ... Read full entry

Happy fourth birthday, real world semantics The semantic web is four years old today! Four years ago today, Tantek Çelik and Kevin Marks gave a presentation on real-world semantics. Working backwards from HTML extensions like XFN (created by Tantek, Matt Mullenweg, and Eric Meyer), the paper showed how designers and developers could add semantics to today's web rather than starting from scratch or waiting for a "purer" ... Read full entry