Announcing a “reboot”:http://www.cssreboot.com/user/Montgomery of this site, using web standards.
“CSS Reboot”:http://www.cssreboot.com/ is a collection of web designers, all redesigning their sites on the same day, May 1.
It’s “Spring cleaning” for the web, with a little motivation and accountability mixed in.
A new photography site for “Montgomery Images”:http://montgomeryimages.com/ is now available!
The design is based on the excellent “widescreen template”:http://jamesmuspratt.com/widescreen/ for “Textpattern”:http://textpattern.com/ by “James Muspratt”:http://jamesmuspratt.com/.
Many design changes, upgrades, and modifications to come. Maybe even a redesign someday…
After much work, I’m excited to unveil the new portfolio site for “Montgomery Studios”:http://montgomerystudios.com/!
Some notes about the site:
* It validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict.
* Web standards: semantic markup, content separated from CSS stylesheet, etc.
* Fully liquid design.
* Portfolio page uses the “Hoverbox gallery”:http://sonspring.com/journal/hoverbox-image-gallery by “Nathan Smith”:http://sonspring.com/ and “Craig”:http://solardreamstudios.com/.
* Text cross-fade for the taglines uses “Image cross-fade” technique from “Steve”:http://slayeroffice.com/code/imageCrossFade/xfade2.html and “Patrick”:http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/65/.
Some items yet to do:
* Not yet happy with the shadow under the fountain pen.
* Contact page styling needs a little work.
* Needs a print stylesheet.
* Needs some work to render correctly in “a certain popular browser”:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/.
::sigh::
h3. CSS Problem Solving
_Christopher Schmitt (Heatvision.com), Ethan Marcotte (Vertua Studios), Dave Shea (mezzoblue.com), Charles Wyke-Smith (Nacio Systems), Tiffany Brown (Webinista LLC)_
* Great material, if rushed.
* The slides are available: “Ethan Marcotte”:http://sxsw2006.vertua.com/, “Dave Shea”:http://mezzoblue.com/presentations/2006/sxsw/css/q1.html, “Charles Wyke-Smith”:http://mezzoblue.com/presentations/2006/sxsw/charles/sxsw_files.htm, “Tiffany Brown”:http://www.tiffanybbrown.com/sxsw06/
h3. Does Your Blog Have a Business?
_DL Byron Principal (Texturadesign), Phoebe Espiritu, Eric Rice (Audioblog.com), Shaun Inman (haveamint.com), Jeffrey Zeldman Founder, (Happy Cog Studios)_
h3. Keynote Interview
_Craig Newmark (craigslist.com), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia)_
h3. WaSP Task Force Panel: Getting the Job Done Right
_Molly E Holzschlag (Molly.com), Steven Champeon (hesketh.com), Matt May (Blue Flavor), Drew McLellan, Dori Smith (Writer), Jennifer Taylor (Macromedia), Chris Wilson (Microsoft), Kimberly Blessing (KimmieCorp)_
* Web Standards: great cause, great group.
* The WaSP site redesign was unveiled later in the day.
h3. Design Eye for the List Guy
_Keith Robinson (Blue Flavor), Andrei Herasimchuk (Involution Studios), Cameron Moll (cameronmoll.com), Paul Nixon (Apple), Ryan Sims (Neubix)_
* They redesigned craigslist, which was described as being “undesigned.” That’s about how I would characterize it, and about where I would’ve stopped.
*Final note:* Denim is *in.* Khaki is definitely *out.*
_Photo courtesy of_ “Sooz”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/sooz/.
