Saturday, February 18, 2012

A Little Help From Our Friends

Who knows where our next inspiration will come from?

I am doing some web design, hand coding the website, since I don't have access to my usual web creation tools. What better way to create a simple but workable - and attractive - website than to roll up your sleeves, open up Notepad ++ and start coding!

Web standards have changed quite a bit since I last created a website - the Web is always forging ahead. It seems I'm always running to catch its coattails, no matter how great or how little amount of time has passed since the last website design.

In searching information on the current state of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), I came across a great article on CSS3, CSS3 Flexible Box Layout Explained. I followed it back to the website of its author, Richard Shepherd, and then went on to his blog. This revealed the inspiration that I was alluding to in my opening sentence.

Richard has a blog post, The Next 30 Days, which features a TED talk by a man named Matt Cutt, currently the head of Google’s Webspam team. It was a proverbial breath of fresh air for me, so I thought I'd share it so others might also enjoy it.

Thank you, Richard Shepherd, Matt Cutt, TED Talks, and thank you, CSS.

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