Hey guys look an update!

I’m sorry for the very rough writing here but I need to get this out of my system (will refine soon). In the early day of the web, development was a mess. Everything was intertwined and jumbled. HTML, Styles, and JavaScript lived together.

CSS3 and HTML5 are innovations to be practiced and mastered. And, while best practices like graceful degradation and progressive enhancement will continue guide implementation, I don’t think that the principles of separation will.

If you are designing in reverse, please stop. Design is not making things look nice. That is meaningless. Design is a form of emotional communication. It must be informed by the content it represents. You don’t smile when you’re angry… it’s freaky. And you don’t design without content… it’s scary.

A while back I had quite a bit of trouble getting Google to index one our my clients websites. The domain was new, not friendly and they lacked content, three things that Google takes very seriously. So I spoke with a few friends and got some really good suggestions I thought I would share here.