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Flash goes Open Source; Are HTML/CSS coders doomed?

According to the latest episode from the Boagworld podcast, “you might be wasting your time designing with CSS” because now that Flash is open source, it’s “going to be everywhere and is the platform we should now be developing on”.
Flash versus CSS? What?
Let’s backtrack a bit. Adobe recently announced the Open Screen Project, which will […]

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Can you just ‘build’ a web application?

First off, in a quick paragraph I would like to introduce myself as one of Wisdump’s new bloggers. My name is Ryan Barr, and I am a young designer that has been designing for almost eight years now. My personal interests are web standards, validation, web programming, and seeing in what ways CSS can be […]

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Programming is an Art

Buildings that serve a purpose and enhance the beauty of the environment around them are created by artists disguised as architects. Buildings that are hideous and need to be torn down are created by architects. The difference is that the artist takes pride in what he is doing. He understands that his work will be […]

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The Weekend Web App

I have this idea for a web application and I think with the right group (*cough* Mike and Colin who are extrememly busy) it could be done in a single weekend. Then I started to think about a lot of the web 2.0 apps out there now and I am starting to think that most […]

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Handcoding

First I am not going to tell you why you should or should not use a WYSIWYG editor. I am going to say my thoughts on why we should hand-code our pages.
To learn how anything works in this world most of the time you have to dig into the guts of it. You can not […]

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Neversidian: Neverreadagain

CSS-based designs are becoming all too popular in many websites these days. Without taking the time to fully examine what “semantics” are doing to a website, many designers are making the switch to CSS-based design, simply because it is what the popular action to take is. Tabular layouts are often rendered more correctly than CSS/division […]