Helen at DesignInterviews.com talks to my pal Lea about various aspects of web design, as well as creating a personal brand (something Lea knows a thing or two about, as evidenced by her FOWD NYC presentation). Visit site »
The battle for web standards in browsers has largely been won — browsers are much better than even, and even those manufacturers that still have room to improve appear to be making sincere efforts to do so. But, the same can not be said for e-mail clients. Some (like Mail.app and Thunderbird) mooch off existing rendering engines (WebKit and Gecko, respectively), and therefore do a great job of rendering HTML and CSS e-mail. Others do a ridiculously poor job.
Love it or hate it, HTML e-mail is here to stay, and I’m glad to see someone setting out to solve the rendering problem in e-mail clients much the same way the web standards movement solved the rendering problem in browsers. The client tests alone are worth bookmarking this site for. Visit site »
Following-up on a point he made at FOWD in NYC, and also in his latest post on the Blue Flavor blog, Keith gets into some detail about why Design by Committee is almost always a really bad idea. Visit site »
Keith continues the Blue Flavor blog publishing blog onslaught with a really great post on what constitutes great design (particularly on the web). Visit site »
wonderes if he should stop using @Kitta‘s photos on those internet dating sites.
Overheard: “Outrage is a renewable resource on the Internet.”