 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 arent a designer hopefully it will all turn out well in the end here is what i found interesting this week a new day as much as i love jason santa marias last design i think his new direction design is really interesting spacing is everything 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 a list apart issue 261 i was pretty excited to finally see a css article in a list apart faux absolute positioning it had been quite a while i was actually really disappointed with it though it seems like extraneous markup and i dont really see the advantages the second article in the issue sketching in code the magic of prototyping brings up a much more important issue prototyping is probably the most important part of the process of developing web applications the education of geeks and freaks 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 its great to hear that some schools are starting to take the right step and teaching new technologies from psd to html building a set of website designs step by step 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 