the german friday

This is exciting news. I didn’t think there was anywhere else for HTML to go. I had read a while back that HTML would be developed no further. XHTML came along several years ago and solved some of the oddball, dead end issues with HTML. And then this. This answers a big question that I have. What is right and wrong when it comes to semantic markup. I didn’t know. Now I guess we do accepted semantic conventions will be put in place for everyone to follow. Also the functional placement tags will be much simpler. This is years off, but it gives the front end developers of the world something to look forward to. Yay!

I recently designed and built a site for an alternative Energy company in Texas. Element Markets helps companies abide by current emissions legislation, as well as manage the development of private land to produce alternative energy. Really interesting business once I got my head around how broad their footprint is in this area. It opened my eyes to what legislation exists to protect the environment and how loosely the system that controls this legislation is. Anyway, I am especially proud of this site because since I started building websites with standards, this is the first one I built with the XHTML 1.0 Strict Doctype. Riveting.

I’ve been extremely busy at work lately with the company change. Also the fact that I was trying to push 3 big projects out the door at once. All three have been published. 2 of which were the first sites I’ve published using standard and semantic building methods. Client intervention aside, I feel that all 3 of them came out pretty nice.

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Tepel Brothers Printing Company

Mars Industries

The company I worked for for nearly six years, SF Design, was recently purchased by a long-time client of ours, Marketing Associates. Many things have changed drastically. Some better, some worse. The biggest change is that we went from a 9 person, close-knit family to a 9 person cog in a much larger machine.