11 Design has sense again.

Something we do love about web is its semantic markup.
XHTML helps to make friendlier and most consistent sites, besides, along Css to change or update a whole site is crazily easier.

posted at 08:08 pm on February 14, 2006 by Patricia Cabana

12 What I love about the web

I love that I find an interesting site design on the web almost everyday. It keeps me focused and energized, and that’s definitely a good thing!

And as a client-seeking designer, I also love seeing so many crappy sites. =D

posted at 08:36 pm on February 14, 2006 by Dan Boland

13 Just to Balance Things

To provide the positive, here are three things I love

1. The fact that the exquisite talent of so many designers out there is available for me to see and to take inspiration from.

2. CSS, XHTML and all things standards based – the beauty of it makes me very happy.

3. The fact that I can make a living from it and never feel like I have grown stale – the web changes and moves faster than I could keep up which means the challenges each morning are just as exciting as they were the morning before.

posted at 07:06 am on February 15, 2006 by Nancy Williams

14 I love the shared/available data

I love W3Schools . It’s horribly outdated (not necessarily up to par with today’s best practices nor info on today’s browsers), but the info is still correct and succinct. I used it as a reference for years when getting the hang of things. It was great to go work in a coffee shop and not have to bring a reference book with me to check what was what and what was it used for.

Add to that dithered.com , quirksmode.com and others that have been instrumental resources for learning the cross-browser bugaboos. And I cannot close this comment in good conscience without mentioning A List Apart, Eric Meyer and the CSS Zen Garden as well.

In general, whenever I butt up against a problem, there’s almost always someone else out there that has butt up against it too. Either they’ve found or created a solution, or they have at least confirmed for me that it’s not just my system (or as so may IT guys love to say, “it must be a Mac thing.”)

posted at 02:42 pm on February 15, 2006 by John Lascurettes

15 Untitled

What do I love about the web today? That is indeed a very controversial question, so I’m going to try and keep it simple.

Firstly, the web today is a very powerful means and medium of communication. It unites people, groups and pieces of information from around the globe. I dare to say that the web today truly resembles McLuahn’s “Global Village”. However, with great power comes great responsibility and although content on the web should not be censored, it should be controlled not by governments, laws or whatever, but by us.

Secondly, and speaking from a designer’s point of view, the web nowadays offers us unlimited resources in order to create more standards-adherent web sites. Web sites that should be accessible by all, especially now that the use of portable devices is rising steadily. People can now access web sites from their palmtop, their mobile phone and so forth. Hence it is up to us to try our best to create pages that conform to standards!

Forgive my long-winded and rambling post everyone. I did my best to keep it brief and concise.

posted at 02:45 pm on February 15, 2006 by Panagiotis Galatis

16 Wiki

I just love wiki stuff. I think CSS and XML is cool.

posted at 05:59 pm on February 15, 2006 by Timothy Clemans

17 Two-sided coin

Alas everything great about the web can also perhaps be classed in the list of what’s not great too. Examples, following the above comment:

• CSS – great for styling, with a lot of power. But also frustratingly primitive; lack of browser support etc.

• XML – Great idea for describing and manipulating data. But look at XSL-FO and see how unreadable it can become. Plus it has problems: a page of XHTML served as xhtml/xml in Firefox will stop dead if there’s a single error on it.

• HTML – got everyone onto the net; easy to use; errors are ignored. But those are also the reasons it sucks, leading to masses of poorly-written invalid pages by everyone from their grandmother to their dog. Also laughably poor range of markup tags (nothing for marking up poetry etc).

• Flash – I love it. But not when an advert takes over the whole page.

• Email – an amazing tool. But I hate the way HTML and replies get all mixed up into a soup of different fonts and sizes. Can’t any email client sort this out?

• Popularity – sites like eBay, Flickr and so on are great. They bring people together and provide much useful information. But then everyone registers and you suddenly have way too much information to take in and sift through. Likewise forums – can’t do without them for help. But they’re so popular it’s hard to find what you want in all the noise.

• Blogs – wicked idea full of future potential. But who has the time to read them all? Is the net drowning in them?

posted at 09:12 am on February 16, 2006 by Chris Hester

18 I love ★ Mom ★

My mom finally upgraded from IE/Mac (on OS 9) to Safari on OS X. Thanks Mom! I’m proud of you! :D

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

posted at 01:40 pm on February 16, 2006 by Mark Boughter

19 Amateurs

I love amateurs who use a lot of animated GIFs and star backgrounds to make their personal home pages instead of resgitering with Blogger or installing Word Press.

Keep up the great work, amateurs, you are the true stylists of the web! Make more midi background music as well and continue having flocks of pigeons or sprinkly stars going after the mouse pointer. Get some cheap web space and upload all your stuff there, don’t fall to the boredoms of visual standardisation offered by flickr and friends! It’s your web, understand?

posted at 08:37 am on February 17, 2006 by Dragan Espenschied

20 I'll limit it to three things

1. (My best reason to love the Internet.) It provided aging, eccentric, slackers like me with their first decent job. It continues to pay my bills.
2. The Internet made open source software viable enough to change the world.

1. If you really pay attention, the Web has managed to transcend and outlive all the trendiness and hype. The dot-bomb didn’t destroy it and neither will “Web 2.0.”

posted at 07:52 pm on February 19, 2006 by Pace Arko