About
About this blog:
Deep thinking isn’t my forte. I don’t have the energy, stamina, patience or focus to do it. So, I’m going with what I have:
Surface level observations. Pithy quips. Smarmy sayings. Nonsensical musings.
Some might be relevant to what’s taking place in modern culture and current events. Some may be applicable to life’s struggles and triumphs. Mostly, I’ll probably base the material on what other people are doing, because they are far more entertaining than I.
You never know. It all depends on what moves me to write anything down. This might just be a failed experiment.
Only time will tell.
About me:
My mantra is that whatever is offered needs to be as user friendly and intuitive as possible. I don’t think that the latest web hotness should be limited to techies and geeks. I think all things should be designed with non-savvy people in mind.
But that’s just me.
I am passionate about sites being designed using best practices in web standards. Tables belong on the web for tabular data, not for the structure and layout of the site’s pages.
I am a Core Team member of the Cleveland Web Standards Association. We actively evangelize web standards and gather monthly to share best practices.
I recently worked for a non-profit child advocacy organization as the pro pet vitamins
Communications and Technology Manager. That is just a fancy way of saying that I made sure our computers/server kept running, I managed the website and newsletter content, and I explored opportunities to utilize the web to further the organization's mission. One of the big hurdles I faced was getting the site to break free from a table-based layout. The CMS used to generate the pages is capable of this, but the templates used are not. The cost to change the templates could not be spared at the time. It was still important to me that I advocate for standards based design from the inside, whether or not I was able to make it come to pass.
