Second Half

Well, they've finally done it. Web design standards bearers Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer have announced the date and location of their inaugural Event Apart.

As they describe it:

You will learn how to:

• Design, write, and structure your site to communicate clearly and effectively.
• Let user needs and business goals guide redesigns, and get buy-in from bosses and clients.
• Separate your site’s underlying structure from its visual presentation.
• Translate even the most sophisticated and complex visual designs to CSS layout.
• Make pages that load twice as fast, rank higher on Google, and work better for more users.

You’ll also gain insight into how experienced standards-based designers approach and solve common problems as Eric and Jeffrey re-create an attendee’s site in CSS and semantic XHTML, and then re-cast it to look and work even better.

This is not an introductory class. Not a rehashing of basics. Not for beginners. Not to be missed.

I will not be missing it and I suggest that if you are involved in web design, are an active practitioner of CSS/XHTML, and are anywhere near Philadelphia on December 5th, you too should attend.