Rodent Regatta

Nick Finck is the publisher of Digital Web Magazine. In a master stroke of service and consideration to all of us who did not attend SXSW, Nick has provided a list of links to people he met at SXSW. You’ll find some of the truly great designers listed.

David Shea is the designer/developer behind CSS Zen Garden. This site demonstrates exactly what is possible when it comes to doing the markup for a site in XHTML and ”styling” the site with CSS. For the uninitiated, you, the viewer, can change the style or look of the site yourself without changing any of the content at all.

At the SXSW conference – that’s South By Southwest – David apparently led or participated on a panel that discussed CSS. Here are the notes from that panel.

I’ve been doing a lot of searching for design and development help for a new web site/weblog we’re starting in conjunction with a business startup. It’s obvious that those that can make something look great may not be one-and-the-same with those who can do the software development behind the scenes. Taking credit cards and doing registration forms on the web is still more complex (apparently) than merely adding some canned forms or code to a page.

At any rate, I’ve been prowling the web for help. A by-product of roaming is a wealth of fantastic web design advice and material. Here are three lists of links to some ”weekend reading”: 1 | 2 | 3 |

Thanks go to Daniel Rubin Didier Hilhorst for compiling these.

• * * UPDATE * * * Note my strike-through above and the explanation for my error.

Movable Type 3.0 is undergoing testing. As the testing group expands, Six Apart is going to begin offering some details about features and capabilities in the new version.

Back later.

For now, learn some more about valid RSS feeds, or spend some time in the CSS Zen Garden.