{"authorId":"1","title":"Weekly Link Round-Up #36","slug":"weekly-link-round-up-36","postDate":1214169190,"expiryDate":null,"enabled":"1","fields":{"2":"<p>I actually got started on my redesign\/realign this weekend. I think I want to have a larger focus on my portfolio, and not just my blog. But god is it hard to redesign when you aren&rsquo;t a designer. Hopefully it will all turn out well in the end. Here is what I found interesting this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jasonsantamaria.com\/articles\/a-new-day\/\">A New Day<\/a>\n<p>As much as I love <a href=\"http:\/\/v3.jasonsantamaria.com\/\">Jason Santa Maria&rsquo;s last design<\/a>, I think his new direction\/design is really interesting.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subtraction.com\/archives\/2008\/0617_spacing_is_e.php\">Spacing Is Everything<\/a>\n<p>Khoi Vinh shows what Gmail would look like with a little bit of spacing. I actually think it might look better, but he caught some backlash from the commentors saying that there would be less messages &ldquo;above the fold&rdquo;. But I think that you rarely look below the fold when looking for a message, and even if you did, you would be more likely to use the search instead.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!--more-->\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/issues\/261\">A List Apart: Issue 261<\/a>\n<p>I was pretty excited to finally see a CSS article in A List Apart, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/fauxabsolutepositioning\">Faux Absolute Positioning<\/a>. It had been quite a while. I was actually really disappointed with it though. It seems like extraneous markup, and I don&rsquo;t really see the advantages. The second article in the issue, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/sketchingincode\">Sketching in Code: the Magic of Prototyping<\/a>, brings up a much more important issue. Prototyping is probably the most important part of the process of developing web applications.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-web.com\/articles\/education_of_freaks_and_geeks\/\">The Education of Geeks and Freaks<\/a>\n<p>I think the current state of the education of web development is awful. I know how hard it must be to stay on top of new technologies and be a teacher, but still, it needs to improve. It&rsquo;s great to hear that some schools are starting to take the right step and teaching <strong>new technologies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nettuts.com\/site-builds\/from-psd-to-html-building-a-set-of-website-designs-step-by-step\/\">From PSD to HTML, Building a Set of Website Designs Step by Step<\/a>\n<p>I kind of skimmed this article because it was really just a discussion about what I do when I slice a site. From what I saw, it seemed like a pretty decent description.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>","14":{"old_id":{}}}}