Comments on: Two More Contest Winners

By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:06:21 +0000

Andrew,

Here are a few ideas for topics that I’ve personally had to deal with:

1. When to know when to break the rules regarding standards. For example, right now I’m struggling with creating a custom dtd in order to get something to validate. Is that overkill?

2. How to convince back-end programmers to see the light regarding web standards. A real-life example is web forms. A back-end programmer is content to dropping form elements onto a grid, creating the back-end database, and having some program spit out the tag soup. How would you convince this guy that web standards is a better way to go than his current technique?

3. Describe why web standards helps in the server-side arena and not just on the client side.

By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:22:40 +0000

Congrats Simonne and Andrew! :)

By: Andrew Rickmann

Andrew Rickmann — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:04:11 +0000

I am certainly happy write about my design approach or to write about animating elements. Did you have anything particular in mind Simonne?

Vivien, if you want to drop me an e-mail once you are satisfied that everyone has had a chance to put forward their thoughts, with the final topic and any other points you want me to include I will get writing.

By: ibit

ibit — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:49:43 +0000

Look forward to getting your email, Simonne, and of course to Andrew guest blogging here.

Simonne’s topic suggestion is very interesting. One of the other things I personally like to know about fellow web designers is how they come up and execute website designs. So perhaps Andrew, you can talk about that.

Of course, it would be great if we could get some more topic ideas for Andrew from the readers. After all, you’ll be the one reading his article :-)

By: Simonne

Simonne — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:53:36 +0000

Thank you very much, you made my day :). Thanks everybody for the nice words. I’ll think of some possible topics and I’ll let you know, Vivian, via e-mail, so we don’t spoil the surprise of our readers ;)

As of Andrew’s wish, a topic could be “animated elements and blog design: why are animations not so frequent (if not absent at all) in blogs”.

By: Andrew Rickmann

Andrew Rickmann — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:33:15 +0000

I feel like a winner already, thank you.

I always have such trouble thinking up topics for my blog as I think so much has been done before so it will be nice to hear what it is people want to know more about, especially if it is something I need to go away and research first.

By: Shankar Ganesh

Shankar Ganesh — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:29:58 +0000

Congrats to Simonne and Andrew! :)

By: ibit

ibit — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:42:17 +0000

of course, I will, Ronald :-)

By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:37:15 +0000

Simonne and Andrew,

Congrats on winning the contest.

Vivien,

Do link to the posts you write please. :)