<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’t a designer. Hopefully it will all turn out well in the end. Here is what I found interesting this week:</p>
<ul><li><a href="http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/a-new-day/">A New Day</a>
<p>As much as I love <a href="http://v3.jasonsantamaria.com/">Jason Santa Maria’s last design</a>, I think his new direction/design is really interesting.</p></li>
<li><a href="http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2008/0617_spacing_is_e.php">Spacing Is Everything</a>
<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 “above the fold”. 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>
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</ul><ul><li><a href="http://www.alistapart.com/issues/261">A List Apart: Issue 261</a>
<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’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>
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<li><a href="http://www.digital-web.com/articles/education_of_freaks_and_geeks/">The Education of Geeks and Freaks</a>
<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’s great to hear that some schools are starting to take the right step and teaching <strong>new technologies</strong>.</p>
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<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>
<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>
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