If you're feeling nerdy, you can check out the long-neglected comic book blog I run. It's been redesigned and moved into WordPress, which means I'm more likely to update it than I was when it was on Blogger.

The design is a "knocked out as quick as possible" special. I'll be tinkering with it over the next few weeks until I'm fully happy with it. I just wanted to get it out there. It's a full WordPress site now, which is really the fun part- Valid HTML; a YSLow score in the upper 70s; easier to update; a fancy new sprite; S3 integration for all those cover scans…

What's not to love?

Click. If you dare!

It’s All Just Comics

If, like me, you cut your web development teeth during while CSS was still in its infancy, you likely put together a lot of sites that featured two (or more) columns decorated with bgcolors or background images that flowed together in lockstep, always retaining equivalent height. It was pretty standard and basically came along free with tables for layout.

Then? Along came CSS, the separation of style and content (don't forget behavior!) and the two columns living in perfect harmony became a casualty of the war against crufty code.

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I used to use AddThis for social bookmarking here on the blog. And by "used to" I mean up until two days ago . Over the past couple of days I've been working on setting up my own version to use here and throughout the rest of the site. I launched it yesterday.
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I like the sound of the Email Standards Project

The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.

Our goal is to help designers understand why web standards are so important for email, while working with email client developers to ensure that emails render consistently. This is a community effort to improve the email experience for both designers and readers alike.

I don't do HTML emails very often any more (although they still sneak through,) but we still do a ton of them at Cramer so just for my co-workers' sake I'd love to see email clients come together the same way browser vendors have (finally) come together in order to allow us to code clean, light, standards compliant HTML emails. If I never had to rely again on the dirty tricks we use to get HTML emails to render I would be a happy man. It would also save clients money since the unwieldy beasts we send out are a lot more difficult to maintain and edit than something with nice structure would be.

There's absolutely nothing groundbreaking about the following code sample. People (who are lucky enough to have more time to mess around) have been doing this sort of experimentation for a while now. Thing is, this one is so simple and so plainly useful I just have to toss it out there for your (my?) enjoyment.
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