I wanted to follow up on my recent post highlighting the Save the Developers campaign, which is focusing it’s efforts on getting everyone to upgrade their outdated web browsers – specifically Internet Explorer 6.

Internet Explorer 6 Woes

I’ve been making several design updates to this blog, which is still in the Soft Launch phase while I tweak a few design elements, etc.

I have access to an older computer with IE6 for testing purposes – of course, even though this blog utilizes valid XHTML / CSS, it looks terrible on IE6!

On a personal note, this post marks the launch of version 1.2 of this WordPress theme. I’ve still got several tweaks in the works. Next stop? v 1.3

Thanks to @womanchild on Twitter for posting this link. I love the concept!

Save The Developers is promoting a campaign for everyone to…

Say NO to IE6!

Our current campaign focuses on assisting users in upgrading their Internet Explorer 6 web browser. This campaign will result in former IE 6 users having a more enjoyable experience on the web while (hopefully) creating a less stressful and complicated environment for web developers by hastening the retirement of an outdated browser.

About a year ago, I wrote an article for the main site that outlines The 6 Phases of the Web Site Design & Development Process. As part of my business web site, the article is slanted to how I personally help clients through the process of creating a web site.

Here, however, I wanted to create a more generalized post. Same basic idea, however this version can be utilized by anyone, regardless of who they hire to design their web site.

I hope this helps when considering building your own site!

The Web Site Design and Development Process

There are numerous steps in the web site design and development process. From gathering initial information, to the creation of your web site, and finally to maintenance to keep your web site up to date and current.

The exact process will vary slightly from designer to designer, but the basics are generally the same.

Welcome to my new blog… well, not so much new, but re-invented!

This is still unofficial – let’s just call it a soft launch. I’m very happy with it overall, but I realized this morning that there are some display issues with Safari on the PC, and apparently also on just about everything on a Mac.

Key phrase = soft launch… aka please pardon the dust!

Thanks Jon for pointing out the Mac issue as well! I’ve got a temporary fix, but it interferes with the footer. That’s secondary, though, so that will have to wait until tomorrow…

I’m pretty sure that I’ll end up spending a good amount of time troubleshooting that over the weekend. Hopefully it is a quicker fix than expected, though. It’s so strange… I’m used to IE being the one to cause me trouble.

Aside from the footer issue, there are a few minor design tweaks (font and spacing issues) that I’ll be updating over the weekend, as well. I’ve ported over many of the posts from the original blog, but still have a few more that I want to add to the mix, too. Overall, though, this is mostly finished.

Today’s Link Love has my fellow techie web designers and developers in mind!

If you are haven’t already visited Smashing Magazine – I urge you to go and run to it! Right now… ok, not right now, right after you finish reading this post and checking out the blog a bit more, LOL.

Then go over to Smashing Magazine and be sure to subscribe it, bookmark it, whatever… This site contains an insane amount of valuable resources and information for web designers. I’m honestly in awe of the amount of helpful information they offer.

Today though, I’m focusing on CSS. I found two fantastic articles with tons of tips and tricks. I am constantly working on increasing my web development skills, and the two posts below will certainly help me achieve this in regards to CSS.

I recently came across an article written by Andy Budd last year – 7 Habits of a Highly Successful Web Designer. It’s a very good read, and I found it to be quite motivating!I personally have quite a few of those habits well established. For example “Loving what you do” and “Never stop learning” – I took a bit of a break from the learning part, but am now back into the swing of things as far as keeping my skills up to date – this is a constantly evolving process.

I just saw a list of bloggers who are going to be featured in Blogging the Movie over ath the eMoms at Home blog. I watched the teaser and the name of one of the blogs caught my eye… Nate Whitehall’s Unique Blog Designs.

I’m brand new to this blog, but I like what I’ve read so far. A few posts that immediately stood out to me…

I recently registered to participate in Blog Action Day, October 15th, 2007, Topic: The Environment

At the time that I registered a few weeks ago, there were just over 6,000 participants registered to blog about the Environment. The number is now currently well over 14,000 and still growing!

Thousands of Voices

It’s a really great concept… The idea behind Blog Action Day is that there will be thousands of people blogging about the same topic, all on the same day. You can basically blog about whatever you want in relation to the Environment as it relates to your blog and your readers.

In my case, I wanted to write about the benefits of electronic media (specifically the areas of web design) on the Environment…

In gearing up to reach my goal of creating tableless XHTML / CSS web sites, here are a few some helpful links and resources I’ve come across. (Yes, I know, I know… I shouldn’t still be using tables. It’s tough to teach an old dog new tricks, though, lol.) At least my most recent sites I have been making sure validate – they just validate with tables, is all, lol.