Comments on: Professional Standards in Web Design http://meganmcdermott.com/2006/10/12/professional-standards-in-web-design/ Web design and that Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:50:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: kabonfootprint http://meganmcdermott.com/2006/10/12/professional-standards-in-web-design/comment-page-1/#comment-29960 kabonfootprint Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:35:08 +0000 http://www.meganjack.com/?p=78#comment-29960 The more time that is spent dissecting, analyzing, and critiquing a design by the wrong kinds of people the worse that design gets. The same trend applies to the number of people involved in the design process. Thx a lot for infomation! The more time that is spent dissecting, analyzing, and critiquing a design by the wrong kinds of people the worse that design gets. The same trend applies to the number of people involved in the design process.
Thx a lot for infomation!

]]> By: Joseff Betancourt http://meganmcdermott.com/2006/10/12/professional-standards-in-web-design/comment-page-1/#comment-2448 Joseff Betancourt Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:18:17 +0000 http://www.meganjack.com/?p=78#comment-2448 Hi. I'm an oldschool web designer that stopped for a long time and then began to find everything different (CSS, etc). Where would one goto to read up on the standards and such. I have two sites up currently, my personal joseffbetancourt.com and my hobby site URTournament.org and I'd love to imporve them with standard based design. Hi. I’m an oldschool web designer that stopped for a long time and then began to find everything different (CSS, etc).

Where would one goto to read up on the standards and such.

I have two sites up currently, my personal joseffbetancourt.com and my hobby site URTournament.org and I’d love to imporve them with standard based design.

]]> By: Megan http://meganmcdermott.com/2006/10/12/professional-standards-in-web-design/comment-page-1/#comment-2446 Megan Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:29:44 +0000 http://www.meganjack.com/?p=78#comment-2446 Molly - thanks for commenting! I totally agree about education. There are some people like yourself teaching to the experts but there aren't many who are able to reach the beginners and intermediates. I see people like you as being the university professors of web deisgn. And it doesn't make sense for the university professors to be teaching the beginners. What we need now are some high school teachers! That's where I see myself :) It is a challenge to reach out to those people. How do you find them when they're not looking to improve or don't even feel they need to? From the other end we can also try reaching out to business owners - the people who buy web design - and teach them about what good web design is. I really love the Web Evangilsm stuff they're doing at Opera. I actually applied for a job there :) I would have moved to Norway for that! I think now they've moved that part of the company to India now. Molly – thanks for commenting! I totally agree about education. There are some people like yourself teaching to the experts but there aren’t many who are able to reach the beginners and intermediates. I see people like you as being the university professors of web deisgn. And it doesn’t make sense for the university professors to be teaching the beginners. What we need now are some high school teachers! That’s where I see myself :)

It is a challenge to reach out to those people. How do you find them when they’re not looking to improve or don’t even feel they need to? From the other end we can also try reaching out to business owners – the people who buy web design – and teach them about what good web design is.

I really love the Web Evangilsm stuff they’re doing at Opera. I actually applied for a job there :) I would have moved to Norway for that! I think now they’ve moved that part of the company to India now.

]]> By: Molly E. Holzschlag http://meganmcdermott.com/2006/10/12/professional-standards-in-web-design/comment-page-1/#comment-2445 Molly E. Holzschlag Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:06:04 +0000 http://www.meganjack.com/?p=78#comment-2445 Education is absolutely key. Yet, there are very few really well educated folks doing the education. So we need to figure out how to train the trainers first, as it were. Initiatives from major companies such as Yahoo!, Microsoft and Opera are very welcome, too. When they send folks on the road to do true education and not just product hawking (go see Nate Koechley (Y!) and Chris Wilson (MS) for example, and insights and perspectives can really change. What's more, sharing of technology is imperative. This is something some companies are doing really well and we need to keep encouraging them to do so - they have the resources independents such as myself do not. At any rate, this is obviously a concern near and dear to my heart. Thanks for keeping the conversation going. Education is absolutely key. Yet, there are very few really well educated folks doing the education. So we need to figure out how to train the trainers first, as it were.

Initiatives from major companies such as Yahoo!, Microsoft and Opera are very welcome, too. When they send folks on the road to do true education and not just product hawking (go see Nate Koechley (Y!) and Chris Wilson (MS) for example, and insights and perspectives can really change. What’s more, sharing of technology is imperative. This is something some companies are doing really well and we need to keep encouraging them to do so – they have the resources independents such as myself do not.

At any rate, this is obviously a concern near and dear to my heart. Thanks for keeping the conversation going.

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