Today marks the second time (because it took me so long to design my website after I turned it into a blog) that I've celebrated CSS Naked Day, which is a time for designers to remove styles from their websites, showing the underlying semantic HTML in all its glory. The point of this has always been to show the point of and promote such semantic HTML and web standards by showing how they serve to organize a site's content before it is visually organized.
Recently, I reflected upon the concept of Theology After Google, to which a conference, a great podcast episode, and lots of blog posts have been skillfully devoted.
I'm a big fan of the Homebrewed Christianity podcast. I just got my first iPod for Christmas, and have been catching up on old and new episodes of this podcast, and some others, since then.
Each year since 2007, A List Apart has produced a survey for people who make websites.
There is a post today at Mashable about the final closing of Geocities, which was originally announced back in April. Geocities was the first place where I learned to code HTML, starting in August of 1997.
Recently, I was building a site at work that benefited from an auto suggest feature in some of the form fields.
Today, we have been informed that Google will support microformats and RDFa, which are ways to give machine-readable semantic structure, meaning, and connection to a web document.
Each year, there is an event participated in by many standards-aware web designers and developers, called CSS Naked Day.
Recently, I noticed that the default WordPress theme includes the following code in its comment form:
So, I've finally made my new design live, as you can see. I hope you find it pleasant and fitting to its content. All of the existing content has been given this new design, as there wasn't an "old design" with which the existing content fits.
Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.
"That is the question at the heart of this crisis, and as we struggle together to answer it, I am convinced that what we don’t need is bigger buildings or fancier sound equipment, better pastors or more parishioners, newer ministries or deeper pockets. What we need is bigger banquet tables."
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