I know I’m a little late on the bandwagon, but this book is excellent. 
The style suits me and the content is very appropriate to where I’m at in terms of web design. In fact PeterHolloway.org has just got XHTML compliant validation as part of my efforts to rebuild my sites to correct semantics and standards.
I’m sure this is all very old hat to most web designers, but I’ve added the word semantic to my understanding of how web pages are put together.
I’ve been quite cheerfully pursuing markup to web standards without considering the semantics of the markup.
Designing using CSS isn’t only about ditching table based layouts, but is to enable the separation of style/layout and structured content. It’s the structured bit that I hadn’t got before. The tags that are left in the HTML are just as important as the ones that are moved out to style sheet code.
What is left should be readable on it’s own, without need for the styling/layout. That’s the semantic bit, making sure that headings have h tags, paragraphs have p tags, lists use list tags etc. so that even without any fancy layout the content is accessible to all.
It all makes a lot of sense really
I’ve been doing some work for a client’s web site Carrier Transicold that needed some iconography to liven it up. I found what I was looking for at Simple Bits. The entire site is very well presented and useful. The stock icons were reasonably priced and perfect for the job in hand.
Stuart took a photo of some eggs a few days ago, the background was a little cluttered, so it has been replaced with a nice cloudy sky.
It’s a little rough around the egg outline, but shows the principal.
School’s back, holidays are over, and now the sun comes out! Typical British weather, but I don’t mind – it gives me half an hour alone with a book in the garden enjoying the sun before work beckons.
