To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the
Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.
I decided to go a little early since I have to work tommorrow and none of those plugins would work for my whole site. Plus its April 5th some places
I noticed today, one of the recent sites I worked on has launched. Enspire Dental an Ann Arbor based provider of cosmetic and comprehensive dentistry. My responsibilities were the XHTML/CSS templates and a good portion of the pages. I got the chance to do some cool image replacement for the header area, which is one giant graphic including the logo and navigation, while keeping all the navigation text inside the code as an unordered list. Great for Accessibility and great For SEO.
It was a beautifully designed site to play around with and gave me the chance to work once again with the great people over at QLTD.
This year I will be participating in CSS Naked Day, where I will disable my stylesheet for you to view my content in its purist form.
The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words. It’s time to show off your
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I figured it would be fun for a day 
For the last month or so we have been in the process of purchasing a new home. We have been moving slowly but surely for the last 5 days or so and tonight is the first time I have been on the internet in my new home!! Its a great feeling, sitting here in my office, yeah thats right no longer just a desk in my bedroom!
Its a 3 bedroom ranch with a fully finished basement, and the yard already landscaped with a nice deck for some potential great barbeque’s.
Well anyways, hopefully I will be able to start posting some more now that we are almost all done with the hectic transition period.
Well I have been tagged by Ross Johnson on the “Top 5 Reasons I Blog” chain. Its really interesting to go up the chain and see the other people that have done this also. Compared to these other people, I am pretty inexperienced in blogging so maybe this is a good thing to think about and will help me in the future.
Most of you can tell that I’m not the most well versed writer, especially with grammar and all the other basic skills! Instead of just staying scared of what people and what they think about my writing, I decided to take it head on. To become a better writer you have to write! You can’t be scared of what people will think, although I still am nervous when I type up these things. Mainly from what I see on other blogs and sites like Digg. Hell there is probably 100 mistakes in this post already, but like anything practice makes perfect.
I typically haven’t been posting a lot of tutorials, basically because I see so many of the tutorials that I would be posting on other sites. I like to share information that I find on other sites so maybe I shouldn’t think like that about writing tutorials. I just find cool sites and articles and think maybe theres some out here that haven’t seen them and would enjoy. I think after this post maybe I will post more of my own ideas and tutorials instead of just posting my thoughts on others.
Without my blog, I don’t think I would have many visitors, besides the people I send my link to for job opportunities. Just like Ross states in his entry, a big reason is Search Engine Optimization. Before my blog if you entered my name, the site didn’t even show up. How bad is that. Now with all my feeds and Search Engines crawling my posts I see visitors from all over. I love checking my Google Analytics and seeing people from all over the world.
I think anyone whose career is creating web sites, should have a blog. Just like the rest of this site, creating a blog helps you become more familiar with the software and techniques that are out there. You could always wait until you have a project that utilizes certain software but it’s much easier if you have had your own experience with it. I also have a couple other things installed on my sever, such as Drupal. Its also a great place as a web developer to just talk about your issues through out the process of developing.
Instead of just surfing the web and gathering all this useful information. When I’m bored I can think of something to write about or find some cool web site to post for you guys to check out.
Ok so now I am suppose to post 5 other people to blog on this but since I don’t know many of you that read my blog I can only post the couple I do know have a blog and read mine.
1. Dan Klyn
2. Nate Olmstead
3. You - I don’t know many of you that read my blog and not many leave comments, but I know your out there. I see my analytics. I would love to get to know you all a little better so feel free to leave comments. If you do have a blog and feel like posting on this please leave a link in the comments.
