I’ve been looking for a full-time web design job for a few months now. I graduated with my BA in Design this past November, and have had a heck of a time trying to find something that is in web design, without applying for positions that sound as intimidating as Sr. Web Development Engineer. Anyways, while digging through Monster, I came across the following blurb: Internet savvy individual with the ability to maximize return in acquiring and managing leads through the e-marketing channel.

I came across Geek Aggregator through a link from Twenty4.org. The posting is by someone who is involved somehow with the IE/Win development team. The question asks: What do you want from the Internet Explorer team? Here’s what a list of what I put. Feel free to add your comments as well, as I’m interested in seeing what other people think. Full CSS1 and CSS 2/2.1 support. Support for the application/xhtml+xml mime type. Full PNG support. As much of the CSS3 recommendation (not working draft) support as possible.

I came across this over at Sken.be this morning. It’s a Lord of the Rings name translator. You enter your name, and a couple other bits of information, and it’ll tell you your various names. Here’s what I got: Dear Ryan Parman, If you were a Hobbit, your name would be “Budoc Holeman” If you were a (male) Man, your name would be “Moddyn” If you were an Elf, your name would be “Isindil” If you were a Dwarf, your name would be “Vonus”

I’ve added some more sites to the Blogs I Read section lately. With how many sites I follow, I should really rename it to “Blogs I Scan”, but I still read more than I scan. On top of that, some aren’t even blogs. They’re news sites. Oh well. Most of them are read in heavy rotation by many people already, but I’m fairly picky with what I bother to read. Anyways, here they are (in alphabetical order). All of them have been added within the last 2–3 weeks.

I first came across news that Apple and HP were teaming up to release an HP-branded iPod over the summer from Douglas Bowman’s site, Stop Design. I then decided to read more about it at some of the Mac News sites. I must admit that I was suprised to hear something like this, but I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my chair when I read this over at As the Apple Turns: And when we say “stunned the world,” believe it: faithful viewer Mike referred us to a New York Times article which describes Microsoft as the proverbial deer in the headlights yesterday: “Thursday the company appeared unprepared for the Apple-Hewlett agreement, which clearly stung Microsoft executives.

I rewrote parts of Paul Sowden’s Stylesheet Switcher about a year ago to support media types, and to utilize my own cookie functions instead. At one point, this site had multiple styles. Now, it does again. You can switch between the Winter style (the one that’s been here since the beginning of December), or you can use the Default one (the one in place before that). I’m working on another style or two, even still. There are still a couple of quirks, though.

I thought this was clever… Three DIVs for the design-gods, painting on Macs, Seven for the usability-lords in their websites of grey, Nine for Windoze geeks doomed to debug, One for the Zeldman on his orange page, In the land of New York where the pundits cry. One DIV to size them all, One DIV to pad them, One DIV to colour them all And in the browser style them In the land of W3 where the standards lie…\

Dave Shea recently asked, Support the standards and nothing but the standards, regardless of whether or not browsers get them right? or - Support what standards are available given today’s browser support, and kludge together markup/script/CSS hacks to overcome deficiencies in implementations? I am all-for the extensive use of web standards. Anyone who’s talked to me for more than two minutes when I’m in geek-mode, or who has read anything I’ve written on the subject knows this.

2003 seems to have been a big year for the web design community… or, at least it seems that way to me. Many of the websites that I read regularly, as well as learn the most from have all come about in 2003. All-in-all, I’d say that this was a good year. Now, I don’t know if all of these websites came about in 2003, but I’d like to list some of the best ones I’ve come across in this last year (in alphabetical order):

Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m back up again! For those who aren’t aware, my Movable Type installation wouldn’t rebuild at all, therefore making updates nearly impossible. After an all-out fight with my web host (who wouldn’t check anything for me, and then outright deleted my support request), and several emails from helpful readers, I’ve finally got MT back up and running. This morning, I checked my email, and received an email from Andy McCulloch that read the following: “… I say this because I had a similar problem back in the summer, caused by a dodgy MT plugin that was tanking up to much processing time.