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COSTA MESA — Goalkeeper Maya Van Den Heever first used her hands to stop the opposing keeper. She then beat the keeper with her right foot.
Soccer games rarely end in this fashion, keeper versus keeper. Thank penalty kicks for the unusual sequence at the end of the Daily Pilot Cup's fifth- and sixth-grade girls' silver division final Sunday.
California Elementary School can't thank Van Den Heever enough for her game-saving and game-winning kick efforts against Victoria. California rallied twice from two-goal deficits, once in regulation and once in penalties.
The last time allowed California to pull out a dramatic victory after winning the penalties, 3-2, at the Costa Mesa Farm Complex.
The two Costa Mesa schools were deadlocked at 2-2 after 60 minutes of play in regulation. After nine shots during penalties, California and Victoria were even at 2-2.
It was Van Den Heever's turn to kick the ball after stopping it a couple of minutes ago. Once again, she came through in a pressure situation.
Van Den Heever blasted a shot past the keeper's left side, sending California into a dog pile.
"This is like the longest [game] I have ever played," Van Den Heever said.
"It was really hard."
The title game was taxing on California. The team didn't have a bench.
If a player was fatigued or injured, there was no one to replace her. Van Den Heever and her teammates never complained.
For a player whose only soccer experience is at the Pilot Cup, Van Den Heever looks like a seasoned club player.
Coach Itzel Acuna and her husband/assistant, Ernie, just marveled at Van Den Heever's composure. Nothing fazed her.
Even though Emily Rodriguez helped Victoria jump out to a 2-0 lead in the first half, California fought back. Van Den Heever kept the team in the game by leaping to make saves and diving to bat away shots.
California repaid her for the effort.
Delani Guyot scored California's first goal in the 38th minute. Two minutes later, it was Lanai Acuna, the daughter of Itzel and Ernie, tying the match at 2-2.
Sheer hustle was why Acuna scored. She never quit on the ball after the keeper couldn't handle the bouncing ball in the box. Acuna gained control and kicked it past the keeper.
Victoria Principal Linda Tenno couldn't believe the score. She left the game after her school was up at halftime.
When Tenno returned, the lead vanished.
"I guess I'm not going to the bathroom again," Tenno said.
Tenno stayed put and Victoria and California stayed even for the final 20 minutes.
Brandy White and Aileen Gutierrez had a couple of chances late in the second half to give Victoria the go-ahead goal. They barely missed finding the back of the net.
During penalties, Gutierrez and Rodriguez converted Victoria's first two attempts. California misfired on its two shots.
Acuna delivered California's first goal to cut the deficit to 2-1. Victoria missed its next attempt, allowing California's Emily Martinez to even the penalties at 2-2.
Victoria continued to miss, as did California, setting up the stage for Van Den Heever to face Victoria's keeper.
The shot went straight toward Van Den Heever and she saved it. The two keepers switched positions.
Their teams did as well after Van Den Heever's game-winning kick.
"I am so proud of them," said Itzel, who has been working with the players for the last three years for this opportunity. "Whether they have skills or not, every kid is welcome to the team. We just leave everything on the field."


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Phillips went to the bus stop at County Road 13 and Railroad Street in Bunnell about 7 a.m., according to the Sheriff's Office. She confronted a 17-year-old Flagler Palm Coast High School student about a fight the day before between her son and a friend. Witnesses said Phillips argued with the student and pushed him in the face and ended up "slammed" to the ground as the bus arrived, the Sheriff's Office said.
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Participation is also open for international players, so if you want to compete you are more than welcome!
The championships are organised in such a way that you can participate in both puzzling and sudoku on the same day.
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More information can be found on the homepage of our website: https://www.wcpn.nl/
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maletero wrote:Hey guys. I checked out that Nature paper that hunjo posted on this page and saw the "Zanclean Channel" mentioned in fig. 2b. I checked to see whether this is the same flood as was on yesterday's Other Comic. Well, it was, but it's not on there, anymore. Was this already reported somewhere?
I believe you have been taken in (as was I) by the poster in this thread (mscha). As far as I know The Other Comic did not include mention of the Zanclean Flood.
Of course, it's always possible that the original post here was correct, and that Randall changed TOC, but that would imply Mustard spreading from OTC to TOC, and frankly that's doing my head in.
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Chris Collins has made millions in the private sector, investing in companies and turning them around.
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While some of the ad's claims are accurate, it leaves the viewer with the impression that Collins is shipping jobs to China and is getting rich from it. On the whole, the ad is somewhat misleading.
Hochul, of Hamburg, and Collins, of Clarence, are campaigning in a Republican-leaning district that includes suburban and rural areas between Buffalo and Rochester.
Collins, a one-term Erie County executive, has painted Hochul, who has held public office since she was appointed to the Hamburg Town Board in 1994, as a "public sector millionaire," while Hochul has taken aim at Collins for his business record, among other things.
Hochul's 30-second ad uses an older white man and graphics with accurate quotes from Collins to give "the real story" about Collins and jobs.
The Collins campaign notes that the candidate has invested in many local companies, creating or retaining 500 jobs, and that the business the ad discusses, Ingenious Products, hasn't been successful.
Claim: "Chris Collins recently started a new company. The work is done in China."
Fact: This statement is partially true. Collins started Ingenious Products in 2008, registered to his home in Clarence, according to business records on file with the Department of State. Collins told The Buffalo News in August that he created the company to invest in and distribute clever products, not to manufacture them. The company's website indicates that its products are manufactured in Oregon, South Korea and Yantai Shandong Province, which is in China.
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Claim: "How does China do it? Chris Collins says China cheats by manipulating their currency, which gives them a cost advantage."
Fact: This statement is true. In an interview about his platform, Collins in June told the Batavian, a news website, that China cheats by manipulating its currency.
Claim: "China cheats, we lose jobs, and Chris Collins makes more money."
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Campaign adviser Chris Grant said that Collins has not made money on the business, though he didn't have specifics on the company's balance sheet.
Claim: Collinscostsjobs.com says Ingenious Products "sent jobs to China."
Fact: This claim is false. The jobs were already there. The Balance Buddy was made in China before Collins invested in it.
"This ad is clearly a sign of a desperate campaign and a candidate that knows they have no record on job creation," Grant said, adding that Collins has never outsourced jobs and once brought jobs that were in Mexico to the United States.
Following this ad, the Collins campaign released an ad featuring people who work in Collins' companies, crediting Collins with giving them their jobs.
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WELCOME TO the Tuesday blog. Tuesdays mean Steve Collett, focussing mainly on match fishing but also delving into his styles of pleasure fishing and specialist angling.
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WHAT a difference a day makes eh? This weekend I walked the banks of the River Soar in Leicestershire in preparation for a forthcoming Winter League campaign with my new team Matrix Dynamite Trentmen.
Whilst delighted to fish for the mighty Trent men it comes with added pressures as they have already a very knowledgeable, experienced team. So I wanted to learn my new local river, and I have been slowly getting around the sections, studying who catches what, when, and how, sometimes a few weeks on the bank watching, is better than a whole year fishing.
On Saturday the river had a bit of pace on but was very clear, so it looked like it would be a good match with roach and skimmers making up most of the weights, and hemp tactics could be the order of the day.
That night, the rigs were done, the hemp done, everything ready, or so we thought, as come the morning of the match sections had to be taken out of the river, as it had started to come up overnight in a flash, and was now a raging muddy torrent.
What a nightmare for the Angling Trust organiser Brian, who had to walk the sections at 6.30am and cram more pegs in one section, and take some out of others… a logistical nightmare.
If you would have seen the river on Saturday you would not believe it had become so coloured in a few hours especially since we had no rain? So with new sections in, the "greens" section near Barrow would be my home for the day.
As I am still learning the river the captain Rob Perkins rightly decided that I should have a walkabout for the first few rounds and do a bit of bankrunning. It's something I actually enjoy. It meant I could keep an eye on Samantha Perkins who has fished the river from a very young age, Joff Woodget from Leicester Sensas, and watch "Higgy" the hemp master for Trentmen, and in the process learn from the guys who had served their apprenticeships on the Soar.
Looking at the Soar you could see things might be interesting, and looking at the weather it could be famine or feast. I am not saying I know the Soar at all, but I have kept enough match weights with the temperature and air pressure notes to know that a sharp 1019mb could see the first round of the winter league a tough task for many.
No one knows for sure the effects that air pressures have on fishing but I had a look at some notes I have from as far back as 1989 to see that it does something. I decided to look into it in detail, and it makes for very interesting reading.
A lot of different types of fish are affected by the levels of oxygen available to them. Many fish, including carp, seem to become very reluctant to feed during slight alterations in oxygen, and so do bream. The oxygen levels drop when the air pressure rises, or sudden changes in pressure. And judging by some of my notes, this combined with a rising river it spells disaster.
I have no idea where the fish go in these situations, but I know that in my own lake, high pressure causes the fish including roach and bream to swim in the upper levels, areas we rarely fish in the winter. Could this be where they are, or do they just switch off ? Whatever they do it's very frustrating, and maybe I don't want to know, but it makes you think.
I have jotted down a few results I have kept including a "guesstimate" based on the air pressure see what you think.
23 pegs, 1019mb sharp rise, air temp 15.5c, water 14c, bright – guess 33lb… actual 49lb 8oz
27 pegs, 990mb steady, air temp 17c, water 14c, overcast – guess 70-80lb… actual 103lb 1oz
27 pegs, 990mb change, air temp 15c, water 13.5, rain – guess 50lb…. actual 96lb 12oz
20 pegs, 1003mb change, air temp 16c, water 14c. sun – guess 100lb…. actual 29lb 4oz
25 pegs, 1012mb change, air temp 12c, water 11c, clear – guess 30-50lb… actual 22lb 9oz
As you can see the high pressure seemed to affect the results all of these taken Sept-Oct and with anglers that fished the venue regularly?
Back to the match in progress…
Anyway I digress, but the above does have a little bearing, Samantha drew peg 15 on the greens right outside the pub in Barrow right next to a bridge. And with 16 being the end peg with loads of room, I feared the worst, unless a few bream had settled in the bay opposite where the canoes are launched.
Joff had drawn a fancied peg, and the river above Samantha looked pretty good for a few bream. So it was a tough ask but she seemed more optimistic than I did, and even Joff had a wry smile on his face on 14 on the junction.
An hour into the match and you could already tell this was going to be very hard. Peg 16 who had a steady glide had soon put 20 or so roach in the net, and "Higgy" on a unfancied peg had already switched tactics and began to target bleak at 8 metres. Sam didn't seem to concerned and started at 11m over 5 or 6 balls of groundbait on a horrible looking "washing machine" boily peg.
The second hour of the match saw nothing change other than Higgy had put nearly 200 bleak in the net, and peg 16 had another 20 or so dumpy roach. Joff's tip hadn't gone round like he had hoped and I unfortunately wasn't learning a lot, the fish were not playing ball.
Masterstroke as Sam switches tactics
SOMETHING I see a lot doing features with big name anglers is the ability to "do" something to a swim, they seem to instinctively know what is going on.
Myself and Angler's Mail photographers have mused over this many times, we don't know what it is, but some anglers seem to have it.
And watching Samantha switch tactics with two hours gone was one of those moments. The feeder was ditched, the lobworm and flatfloat was ditched, and she decided to target the small roach and bleak with a steady feeding pattern on an inside line at 4 metres and 11.5, and three hours later 149 roach had given her 4 kilos 700g and a very very well deserved section win.
Further upstream Higgy had also put in a sterling performance catching over 350 bleak at 8 metres for 4 kilos 200g and another section win for Matrix Dynamite Trentmen.
Things were looking good, and during the match I popped back to the car to have a look at the weather on my iPad, and thought that 4kilo would be a great weight for the day, and it was. Four section wins later and Trentmen had secured a superb first round win.
Poor Joff who knows the river very well, had one of those days, nothing could be done, they just were not there, and coupled with unusual boat activity (first time boat users grounding) he needed a bonus fish. They didn't arrive. Was it the weather and the sudden rise? It just goes to show you, you never can tell.
Candy shop
This week sees the Tackle and Guns show arrive at Stoneleigh, and the who's who of the trade will be revealing their new goodies to the country's retailers.
I shall hopefully be teaming up with the Angler's Mail guys to give you the first looks and honest appraisals of the gear you will want to get your hands on, along with a few exclusive scoops.
Don't forget that the Angler's Mail brings you exclusive match results first on all the matches that matter and that usually includes Kamasan qualifiers, so keep logging in on Monday at www.anglersmail.co.uk and get first-hand results from the number one league for big matches.
A tough one this week as I witnessed a superb section win from Samantha Perkins of Matrix Dynamite Trentmen, as well as the rest of the team… but I can hear the groans already!
So I have gone for a previous winner, a guy who has had some superb results on the canal circuit this year, and has concentrated on winter league stillwater venues, the past few weeks and is doing the same, Mr Dave Brown of Maver Midlands.
He made the trip to Cudmore and drew an unfancied peg 35 on the Suez canal to record a solid 99 lb 4 oz to put some more pennies in his pocket.
A really adaptable angler who can cut it on any type of water, well done Dave – take a bow.
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Actor Edward Furlong was arrested on Tuesday for felony domestic violence after a bust-up with his girlfriend.
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The cultural tenets governing sexual encounters have witnessed a sea change in recent years because of the loosening of sexual mores, the feminist-inspired norms that pressure young women to "party like the guys," and the explosion of birth control.
The experts tell us that men have a much easier time obtaining sex than they did in days long gone. "College campuses and urban areas are often dominated by women, which means that men can and will decide how much — or how little — they will exchange for sex." Women who'd prefer to put a higher price tag on their sexuality are finding themselves locked out of the market. See here.
The results are all too predictable. Women are having sex more often when they secretly are conflicted about it. We've frequently reported here about the proven gender "regret asymmetry" where young women have much higher levels of after-the-fact regret than men following sexual hook-ups. Regret too often is transmogrified into feelings of being used, and feeling used too often metamorphoses into false rape claims.
Having studied the false rape phenomenon closely for a number of years, it is my conclusion that young women are increasingly resorting to false rape claims as an inappropriate method of skewing the current economies of sex, which favor men and which make sex cheaper than most women consciously or subconsciously prefer. Women are pressured by feminist-inspired norms to make themselves more available to men than ever, but they have also learned that crying rape after-the-fact is a culturally accepted, indeed feminist approved, antidote to sex they feel was too cheaply obtained. Instead of saying "no" up front, women are retroactively saying "no" -- with false rape claims -- after-the-fact. The feminists who dominate the public discourse on rape because of their roles in what can aptly be called the sexual grievance industry tacitly, and sometimes overtly, approve of this antidote by their open tolerance of false rape claims.
Where does this leave men, who have every legitimate right to depend on the woman's up-front assent? We see where that leaves men every single day on this blog.
One cure is to enhance the value of female sexuality by decreasing the supply and thereby reduce both regret and false rape claims. That, of course, can never happen in a society where "slut walks" are celebrated as liberating events, where colleges excuse women from underage drinking charges so long as they report they were raped, and where false rape claims are routinely excused and implicitly encouraged. In short, it can never happen in a society that encourages young women to be promiscuous and to then tell rape lies when that promiscuity results in an unfavorable sexual experience.
The other cure is the one that every fair-minded person should endorse: charging every false rape claim, and enhancing the sentences for false rape claims so that women know if they tell a rape lie, they risk serious punishment.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
False rape claims: increasingly a tool to skew the current economies of sex, where sex is cheaper than most women prefer
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When I ride everything feels great until I slow down or stop for a stoplight or something. When I start up again the first 5 to 10 pedal revolutions gives me a extreme stabbing pain on the media side of my right knee. The kneecap does not seem to be involved it is to the left of that and slightly above. After about 10 pedal revolutions the pain disappears and I can continue riding like nothing happened.
Some rides this happens more than once. On other rides it does not happen at all. The more fit I am seems to make it happen less. I get no swelling or redness or pain by pressing on the area. I don't feel it off the bike which makes it almost impossible to have the doctors look at it.
I've had the knee x-rayed for arthritis or whatever and it came back "unremarkable."
This has been going on for a couple of years.
Does anyone have a similar experience I might suggest to the docs to check into?


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn -- Tennessee Tech wide receiver Da'Rick Rogers has announced he will bypass his senior senior and will not be returning to the Golden Eagle roster next year, opting to make himself eligible for the 2013 NFL Draft.
Rogers caught 61 passes for 893 yards and tied the school record with 10 touchdowns in his lone season at Tech. The 6-foot-3 junior caught 18 passes for 303 yards in a 41-38 double-overtime loss to Southeast Missouri State to set school records in both categories. Rogers was named second-team all-OVC and earned a spot on the OVC all-newcomer team.
Rogers had 67 catches for 1,040 yards and nine touchdowns for Tennessee in 2011 to earn all-Southeastern Conference honors.
ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. said Rogers is a potential
second- or third-round pick and has ''as much talent as any
receiver in this draft.'' NFLDraftScout.com ranks him as the No. 77
overall prospect in the 2013 draft and the No. 9 wideout
potentially available.
Another mock draft, NFLdraftwizard.com, puts Rogers as the 71st overall pick going to the San Diego Chargers. Meanwhile, Walterfootball.com projects Rogers to go in the second round, 56th overall, to the Baltimore Ravens.
The 2013 NFL Draft will be held April 25-27.


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Back by popular demand, GOP Rep. Mark Waller today presented his Top 10 list.
It was in connection with a legislative tradition called "a motion to waive the reading of the journal," which basically says lawmakers don't have to wade through everything that happened the previous day of session. Waller, R-Colorado Springs, presented the top 10 reasons lawmakers should support his motion.
10 Democratic Reps. Claire Levy and Dickey Lee Hullinghorst will invite you to their new seminar titled, "Being nice to Republicans before eating them for lunch."


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Like most other B vitamins, thiamine is needed in regular supply, though after its absorption from the upper and lower small intestine, some B1 is stored in the liver, heart, and kidneys. Most excess thiamine is eliminated in the urine; some seems to be excreted in the sweat as well.
Sources: Since thiamine is lost in cooking and is depleted by use of sugar, coffee, tannin from black teas, nicotine, and alcohol, it is necessary to insure that intake of thiamine is optimal. There are a number of food sources for thiamine; however, they may not be the everyday fare for many people. Good sources of vitamin B1 include the germ and bran of wheat, rice husks (outer covering), and the outer portion of other grains. With the milling of grains and use of refined flours and white or "polished" rice, many of us are no longer getting the nourishment of thiamine that is available when we eat wholesome, unprocessed foods.
Other good sources of thiamine besides wheat germ and bran, whole wheat or enriched wheat flour, and brown rice are brewer's yeast and blackstrap molasses. Oats and millet have modest amounts, as do many vegetables, such as spinach and cauliflower, most nuts, sunflower seeds, and legumes, such as peanuts, peas, and beans. Of the fruits, avocado is the highest in vitamin B1. Pork has a high amount of this B vitamin. Many dried fruits contain some thiamine, though the sulfur dioxide often added as a preservative seems to destroy this vitamin.
Functions: Thiamine helps a great many bodily functions, acting as the coenzyme thiamine
pyrophosphate (TPP). It has a key metabolic role in the cellular production of energy, mainly in glucose metabolism. Thiamine is also needed to metabolize ethanol, converting it to carbon dioxide and water. B1 helps in the initial steps of fatty acid and sterol production. In this way, thiamine also helps convert carbohydrate to fat for storage of potential energy.
Thiamine is important to the health of the nerves and nervous system, possibly because of its role in the synthesis of acetylcholine (via the production of acetyl CoA), an important neurotransmitter. With a lack of vitamin B1, the nerves are more sensitive to inflammation. Thiamine is linked to individual learning capacity and to growth in children. It is also important to the muscle tone of the stomach, intestines, and heart because of the function of acetylcholine at nerve synaptic junction. It is conceivable that adequate thiamine levels may help prevent the accumulation of fatty deposits in the arteries and thereby reduce the progression of atherosclerosis.
Uses: Vitamin B1 is, of course, used to treat any of the symptoms of its deficiency or its
deficiency disease beriberi (discussed below). It is used in the treatment of fatigue, irritability, low morale, and depression and to prevent air- or seasickness. It seems to help the nerves, heart, and muscular system function well. By aiding hydrochloric acid
production, thiamine may help digestion or reduce nausea, and it can remedy constipation by increasing intestinal muscle tone. Thiamine is used commonly to improve healing after dental (or, often, any) surgery.


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It's not a surprise that Green Bay Packers quarterbacks coach Ben McAdoo is getting considered for job openings. The openings for which he will be interviewed for is a surprise.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported Tuesday that McAdoo will interview with the Cleveland Browns on Wednesday for their opening at head coach, according to a source informed of the Browns' search.
It was speculated that McAdoo could be considered for the Miami Dolphins' now-vacant offensive coordinator position, where he'd be reunited with former Packers offensive coordinator Joe Philbin. McAdoo currently has no coordinating or assistant coaching experience on his resume.
As Rapoport pointed out, McAdoo's interview for a head coaching job is a surprise, similar to when Andy Reid -- also a Packers quarterbacks coach at the time -- interviewed with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1999.
Current Browns CEO Joe Banner was with the Eagles when the team hired Reid as its head coach.
McAdoo's contract with the Packers is currently expired.
Keep track of all the coaching buzz with NFL.com's coaching tracker.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" recapped all the Wild Card Weekend action.


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Standards: Designing For the FutureAugust 27, 2003
Ian Lloyd is a member of the Web Standards Project and runs a site about web accessibility called Accessify. His full-time role is senior web designer/developer with Nationwide Building Society, a UK-based financial services organisation which, despite the protests below, doesn't do a bad job of making its web pages accessible and standards-compliant.
Designing for the Future, and the Training Gap
How do you encourage unenthusiastic developers/mark-up authors to adopt forward-thinking web development methods?
How do you engage people who consider their work on the web as just that: 'only work', something that pays the bills but doesn't exactly leave them beside themselves with excitement?
I am but one individual in a team of many (in my place of full-time employment) and I am from a strange breed - I have a passion for the web! What happens when you are part of a team that is not as uniformly enthusiastic to learn?
This is a problem that faces many IT managers and standards advocates working in the corporate sector. Though we're doing good things in adopting accessibility practices and optimising our code, it's still very difficult to get a site to conform to all the major standards in the real world. Why is this the case?
Learn from Textbook Cases
Andy King's book Speed Up Your Site includes numerous tricks and tips for committed web developers. Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing With Web Standards is a tome of practical, well-thought-out techniques. Both not only explain how to improve the way we develop sites for maximum efficiency and future-proofing, but they also clearly detail why the problems exist in the first place.
These are just two books among many that have made me think and re-think about how I build personal sites and company projects. I devour the content of these books and regurgitate it - metaphorically speaking - wherever I can. Sometimes these tips and tricks find their way on to the corporate work, but invariably they're resigned only to my personal work.
Most of my learning happens on the toilet. Sorry! As unappealing as that is, that's where I pick up most snippets of information (they say that the seat of learning is Oxford but I beg to differ - it's the downstairs loo). Because I have a passion for what I do, I've made it my business (no pun intended) to learn how to construct table-free page layouts, make pages accessible for keyboard-only users, provide different views of a page through alternative style sheets, and more. I don't have to. But I want to make things work better, faster and cleverer. But we're not all like this. Most people would rather read a newspaper on the toilet. Or maybe nothing at all. But that's quite enough of our potty habits for now. Shall we move along?
Individuals Lead the Way
It's true that most corporate sites fall way behind the personal web sites of mark-up and standards gods and goddesses (e.g. the aforementioned Zeldman, Owen Briggs, Ben Henick, Simon Willison, Dan 'Waferbaby' Bogan, Jeremy Keith to name but a few personal favourites among many).
This is because it's far easier for an individual to introduce a novel or clever way of doing things - there are no committee decisions (and therefore no split decisions or arguments). As well, no matter how progressive and forward-thinking the company you work for (and I believe Nationwide qualifies here), there will always be an issue with introducing 'new' methods. Let's just overlook the fact that many of the methods that I've alluded to are actually a number of years old (CSS2, hello?) - it's all about perception. If other people, and by that I mean 'corporates', are not doing it, then it must be new, right?
Look at just a handful of the things happening on these forward-thinking personal web sites:
- Totally CSS-based page layouts
- Gone are the tables that were never intended for layout purposes (tables are for data, folks - layout grids are an abuse of the mark-up, an abuse that we've come to live with and accept a bit like an irritable auntie with an equally irritable terrier that visits every weekend). Now we can view such sites on a PC, a handheld device, using a screen reader and more, and we get the added bonus of quicker-loading pages.
- More usable forms
- The
<legend>elements are supported by most modern browsers, and in the right hands they can make a form far more usable and accessible. And they're definitely semantically sound.
- Data tables that work
- Using elements like

, and attributes such as summary, scope, ids and headers, data tables become meaningful to blind users accessing the content with a screen reader (rather than a jumbled mush of words and numbers).
Training is the Weakness
Let's assume, for example, that browser support is not the issue, that you've taken a stance and agreed to support browsers that support web standards (while not completely turning your back on the older browsers). Let's assume you've already said that your company is going to focus on getting things right for IE5+, Netscape 6+ (or Mozilla/Gecko derivatives) and Safari. Now inadequate browser support is no longer an issue. You should be able to do things right, right? The browsers you've settled on are up to the job so what's stopping your company from moving forward? One word - training.
You may have a few individuals in a department that have a passion for doing things according to the relevant standards and as efficient as possible; but you are equally as likely to have a whole group of people - probably a much greater percentage - who do not share that passion. They may have learned HTML five or more years ago and are still using the same methods (tag soup) that they always have. Every team is different, but here are some that you may identify with:
- Fear of change - they know where they are with the 'old school' methods
- They believe that the new methods are more complicated
- They don't understand semantic mark-up (in fact they have never even heard the word 'semantic' before)
- Their job is just a job and learning new things is either a bore or an intrusion into their personal free time (they just don't get that whole toilet-seat-learning thing).
- They see themselves as 'back-end' people who would rather spend their energies optimising a SQL query than worrying about how the results might be rendered on screen, since "that's for the UI guys to take care of…"
But perhaps the biggest reason is:
- No-one's told them or shown them how.
And if we are indeed talking about people who otherwise won't actively go out and learn for themselves, not only can you discount the likelihood that they'll take a book home, you can also rule out them picking up new techniques from reading the weblog of an influential and knowledgeable individual. Perhaps you even know people who have been working on the web in one way or another for a number of years who would respond with: "What on earth is a weblog?"
When Simple Mark-up Causes Maintenance Woes
When I look at the mark-up on a well-conceived site, I understand the structure intuitively - "Ah, I know what that

 means… Ah, so that nested

 is the sub navigation" and so on. Editing such pages is - or at least should be - much easier than hacking away at one that relies heavily on the placement of
s for layout. Although the page may be 50% smaller than its old-school counterpart, and it may be simpler to edit, what happens when someone else wants to maintain the page that has been so carefully crafted?
Here's where I begin to fly in the face of common consensus - it being that if you code to web standards, it makes for easier maintenance of your site to those joining a project later. My experience has, thus far, shown the opposite to be true. It pains me to admit this.
No matter how simple the mark-up is, cleverly crafted pages can leave some people struggling. "Er, what are all these

 thingies? I don't get it … why can't we use a table like everyone understands?". And just wait until they get a load of the Box Model Hack in your CSS file (or any other CSS hack, for that matter)! It's not unknown for sites/web pages to go far forward in terms of standards compliance, only to be brought back down a level because the new, simpler methods are not properly understood by those who may need to maintain these pages.
Change Come from Within
From my experience though, once people do finally 'get it', they wonder why they didn't do things more simply before. There is a definite 'Eureka!' moment, but if the person or persons concerned do not want to learn, you may never reach it. So they have to be told, enlightened - it needs a push on your part rather than a pull on theirs. But that's not easy either.
Enforced training is not always gratefully accepted though (unless it involves a trip abroad and a nice expense tab, of course) and often the training is hideously outdated. The techniques described in Zeldman's, King's and other people's books are not taught in any residential training that I have ever seen. The latter are still stuck in the old school "Let's give 'em
 tags and nested

s" approaches.
Bottom line is - there are still too many people who only understand the old school methods of web design, and only when these people can get enthusiastic about adopting new methods will we be delivered to the promised land of perfect mark-up.
No Easy Solution
"So train them yourself!" I hear you screaming at the page. Perhaps it should be up to individuals to lead the way after all, but this may not be possible for a number of reasons:
- no time to train (everyone's busy)
- no skill in training (it doesn't matter how knowledgeable you are if you bore everyone to death)
- someone more senior than you doesn't want to hear it from an 'underling'
- it's just not a sexy and exciting topic for a lot of people!
Perhaps we need to send uninitiated developers to a 'Designing with Web Standards' boot camp (are you listening Jeffrey?) and leave them in the hands of a capable trainer who can be trusted to enthuse and inspire others to greatness. Any training course today is liable to be of the "Here's a
 tag, use it to make nice red text" variety - and that doesn't help anyone.
So what's the solution? Unfortunately, I don't come with the answer, only my very evident frustrations.
One comment I received prior to publication was that "it has to come from the top down". If management says this is how it should be done, and there are financial gains for doing so (a higher annual pay raise, for example) then you've got one big incentive right there.
The dream of writing mark-up based on standards is not a pipe dream, but it can be a nightmare getting other people to follow suit. I just hope that venting these frustrations might spark conversation among passionate people on the web about what can be done. In the meantime, if anyone can prove me wrong about the standard of training available (particularly in the UK) then I'd love to hear from you! I could fill a room with developers who are not yet up to speed on these new techniques - just don't bore them to death in the process, yeah?
The text of this article ©Copyright 2003, Ian Lloyd, all rights reserved. Everything else falls under this site's standard license.
Reader Comments
What has your own personal experience been encouraging the use of web standards in your work environment? Comments are open, feel free to share.
This is a terrific piece Ian! Wow, your experience echos mine in so many ways. The question of how to bring people up to speed with Web standards is a sticky one that I thinking about all the time.
I mean, who am I to push my passion for the Web on others? Some people like to go home and spend time with their families, or might just be do busy getting their day-to-day tasks done to pick up new skills quickly.
I'm not sure what the answers are either, but asking the questions is a big step in the right direction.
I've often noticed that quite a bit of the general "Web standard talk" goes right over many people's heads. It's nice to have an article like this to bring us back down to earth and remind us that the vast majority of those who build the Web are still, for many reasons, a few steps behind when it comes to standards.
Great work.
"What has your own personal experience been encouraging the use of web standards in your work environment?"
It's nearly impossible to break people out of the "pixel-perfect/graphic design" mindset. Sometimes I'll get a document in Word or PDF format and must manually copy it over and mark-it-up as HTML. Anyways, I often get feedback like: "that word should be at the end of the first line and not wrap to the beginning of the second as it differs from what I have on this piece of paper in front of me" and then I have to explain concepts like 'varying screen-resolutions' and that you can't control layout to such a degree that what you see on screen will exactly mirror what you have on paper or in a PDF file (nor should you control it to that degree).
So, suffice it to say, talk of "web standards" would simply elicit a blank expression and then the expected: It must appear identical in Browsers X,Y and Z. Period. No Ifs… Ands… or Buts.
"simpler methods are not properly understood by those who may need to maintain these pages."
Exactly. I'd love to strip away every freakin' font tag on the site but when you work in a group everyone has to understand the coding, and when members don't even know the most basic CSS and are unwilling to learn then you are stuck with tables and font tags.
Joining an informal web standards group (one like http://www.webstandards.to/ ) is a good way to meet like-minded people who know exactly what you're facing with regards to web standards adoptance in the workplace and you soon realize you're not the only one who "gets" it.
Well I can say I have succeeded in converting two of my friends, although they were a bit skeptical at first. But once they realized the simplicity of standards and what it is for, they were more responsive. One has started on his efforts to create a site with XHTML/CSS, and the other has promised a redesign in the future.
It is important to note that I didnt force feed the standards mantra. I showed them the possibilities, pushed them towards resources that would make the transition easier. Also they saw my site as an inspiration.
But this is on a personal level. Convincing a client who has no idea abt web design (or doesn't care enough) will not be a easy proposition at all. Your strategy has to be different with different individuals. My friends were resposnive because they 'trust' me. To them it was worth checking out. But this strategy will not work for everyone, everywhere.
This article raises many questions that management put forth to me when I try to enlighten them about the need for standards and semantic mark-up.
Why should they care about how I accomplish my task? As long as I produce a visual design that mirrors what the art design people create, their happy.
Whether you implement a tag and a tag or use style sheets, it matters little to them.
There are no code reviews by informed people so the issues are never addressed.
Worse, is that all the backend developers I work with are not aware of standards, care little for semantic mark-up and are aware that no one is going to wrap them over the knuckles for their code as it gets the job done.
It then becomes my concern to re-work their code to make it compliant and semantically correct.
They use tools like VS.NET and drag-n-drop database connections and server controls with little thought to the mark-up being produced.
One solution I have used in the past is to let my actions speak for themselves.
After some developers had created a design for a client using tables and spacer gifs and font tags I spent one day redesigning the page with semantic mark-up and style sheets.
I showed management the two pages without mentioning that the code behind the two was different.
I then did some research into the cost per megabyte that the client was currently paying for bandwidth and the number of hits the page was currently receiving per month.
I then announced to management that due to the 65% reduction in page size on the new semantic, css based design I had created I could save the client $3,500 a month on bandwidth charges. A very heavily trafficked website by the way.
Nothing speaks to management and clients more then cost savings. I find this is the most effective way to deal with clients and management alike.
Not a total solution but it works sometimes.
I can see a little bit of myself here in this great article.
It was not long ago, my employer said to me:
"No, just don't use CSS. Nobody else is able to maintain your pages, and they are a mess in Dreamweaver…."
However, fortunately I decided to remain "on track" and continued using standards.
About learning:
I can recommend the Online-Courses from IWA/HWG. I have been taking some for myself including the CSS-Workshop, and the CSS level 2 course, held by Eric Meyer (yes, that Eric Meyer). The Intermediate XHTML course there doesn't allow you table layouts and encourages you to produce valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and XHTML 1.1 documents.
Well enough of that (don't wanted to do an advertise here), it is just a recommendation.
Before I started my current job two years ago, no-one in the company had any notion of Web standards. Judging from the markup produced by my predecessor, not even he was bothered. So I blazed a trail (ahem). I've done what I can, but still encounter two issues.
First, I'm the only person who is writing valid, structural markup coupled with style sheets. My Web developer (who should know better) and IT colleagues (bless 'em) just don't get it, despite numerous attempts to explain how it works. I'm still amazed sometimes that people who can actually read screen after screen of complex programming and scripting as though it were a magazine article can't grasp why or where or how to use a paragraph tag.
Second, there's an assumption that Web standards are no more than a kind of professional approach to Web design, as though our markup wears a tie and shakes hands with a browser. Explaining the nature, deployment and benefits of using Web standards is not something that comes terribly easily to me, particularly on the business side, so I rarely attempt it. [Note to self: must try harder.]
I am making progress, however, in the area of standards and accessibility. I've begun to specialize in this field, even running Web accessibility training events in conjunction with the local RNIB office and a local higher education institute. We concentrate on the practical, HTML-intensive side and we've had positive feedback. The next event in September is all booked up, too.
Training and awareness are key, as Ian rightly points out. Perhaps more significant is education. As more and more people emerge from colleges with media design-type qualifications, the more important it is that Web standards form part of the curriculum. I fear it will always be the case that Dreamweaver will win out over HTML basics, though, let alone standards…
In my experience, it's been a lot harder convincing other designers (*cough* my boyfriend *cough*) that Standards is something worth investing into. He tries to humour me because we geekily get into arguments about it and I end up getting pissed off at him, and he is none the wiser. ;) I've talked at length about it, but he zones out, gets bored, and uses the age-old design excuse: "I'm not a coder, I'm a designer." The truth, however, is if you are designing for the WEB, it's hardly a proper excuse anymore. I pretty much forced him to borrow my copy of Zeldman's DWWS in hopes that his intelligent (and calm! lol) will be able to sway him. I think he has yet to crack open the book. But I hope… I hope…
Meanwhile, at work, my bosses pretty much agree with me or don't care so they let me do whatever. LOL. The best thing is when you point out their competition has their entire website in XHTML and is standards-compliant; it gets the business people more competitive and more willing to try it out.
Turned out well Ian, nice one mate :)
I've informally promoted coding towards web standards since 1999 and it is an uphill struggle trying to get some people to understand the concept. Though in general it has become easier over the last two years and I've lost count of the number people I've converted.
One of the best training methods I found was to talk with individuals at their own level and create working demonstrations or solutions to mark-up or style sheet issues.
In general the solutions one provides would be markedly superior in quality and easier to maintain than proprietary constructs that were already in place, thus helping dispel various myths by comparing and contrasting the final results with the previous state of affairs.
I'm reading my life, thanks for this great piece on corporate realities.
David M. > Nothing speaks to management and clients more then cost savings. I find this is the most effective way to deal with clients and management alike.
Yes. Unfortunately 12 x $3,500 may be well under the cost of a corporate redesign, and when a company is struggling with costs reduction, it rarely starts spending money unless it has an immediate or very short term benefit. Provided you even get attention from management regarding "the web" at those times.
My colleagues are catching up; a good thing, since it was already decided this will be the way to go for the company and I am not going to be there forever. I am not sure if I always did the right thing in educating/enlighting them. I have often been critisized a militant, a religious zealot.
The cooperation every of us on the Cinnamon site however, took away my doubt. This is the right way and this is my future.
It is mentioned that would we all code tables and fonts, it would be so much easier to cooperate with oldskool colleagues. I disagree though; I remember when I was in that phase, all of us still cherished our own methods and every time that updates were necessary, each would spend time on analyzing what the other had done 'this time'. At least, we recognized tables and font though, so there is a common ground.
I'm making some progress. Unfortantley, the manager of our web tea and our "lead developer" are still living in 1994, and they appear to be fairly hopeless. I have converted a couple of the other minions. I guess I'm going for an "inmates running the assylum" approach.
What do you guys do if you feel that it's a hopeless effort? I'm so fed up with situation here. I have a strong skill set in advanced web development and graphic design, but they continue to let someone with a basic grasp of HTML 3.0 and no design skills lead our team, while I'm relagated to crap work. It's very frustrated, and I'm tempted to up and quit – if they don't need me, I don't need them.
How do you guys handle the frustration of working with people who don't know, don't care, aren't willing to learn, and won't allow you to step on their toes in an way?
Spotted today on uk-usability list
- Hi folks
- I know this is not usability and is quite a different
- subject area in some respects, but I was wondering
- if anyone had some good links to accessibility
- courses available in London with a specific focus
- on the coding and implementation side of things.
And what was the response? Well, this [with my annotations in {brackets}]:
- Are you sure you really need to do a course on this?
- There's a lot of information (all you need really) on
- the www.w3c.org/wai website {Way to put off a beginner, eh?}
- and if you use a tool like Macromedia Dreamweaver MX you
- can set the code checking facility on to only allow wai
- accessible code {No, you can set it to prompt for specific
- accessibility attributes, but it doesn't guarantee it,
- and in the wrong hands, Dreamweaver can have a negative effect}.
- At the end of the day though I guess it boils down to how you
- learn something, but I know that all our producers are self
- taught {exactly - because they want to}. The RNIB
- (www.rnib.org.uk/digital) website also gives you loads
- of information and guidelines to help {if you want to design
- only for the blind audience}. The bottom line is I
- guess that if you use correctly formatted XHTML code in
- your pages you are pretty much there - not counting
- multimedia aspects.{right, so you have a valid XHTML page -
- but that does *not* stop it being inaccessible or unusable}
So, other people are asking for hands-on training and being given information like this in return. The respondent was at least trying to help, I guess
Ian- I hope you responded to the person asking the question with a much more viable answer than the ones you listed! And by the way, great article. I never read an article with the word "loo" in it before. That made my day.
Jeff- If you quit, I'll gladly take your job. I'd rather be frustrated and paid than blissfully coding personal sites and unemployeed. Web design/development jobs are few and far between in 2003 (at least over here in Jersey), and if you have one, keep it and keep mentioning standards. You'll get the cold shoulder enough times, but if you keep "being annoying" (or enlightening, depending on perspective) you'll either be told to shut up or you'll force someone to eventually read about your point so that the next time you say something, they'll not have to say "shut up"… boy that was an awfully formatted sentence… sorry.
There is definitely a 'eureka moment' when changing to xhtml/css design. It really is so much more efficient. The seperation of style and content is such a straight forward concept that I can hardly believe we are only just now realising the full potential of using the most modern mark-up. I have discovered that the best way to sell the idea of a web-standards re-design to non web savvy individuals is to say 'hey, using xhtml and css will undoubtedly improve your search listing'. People are still fixated on SEO even though it's one part educated guesswork and two parts myth.
The solution? Browser manufacturers are close to achieving a standards-compliant environment, but they need to improve their marketing to convince the public that it's worth upgrading their browser. Netscape is notorious for this; even after t he relase of Netscape 7, they still offered 4.8 as a download.
DHTML based madness - http://www.hilux.com
Ian wrote: "No-one�s told them or shown them how."
You are right. It takes time, and training to show people. They need to see it in seminars, in presentations and – perhaps most importantly – in hands-on courses.
Five years ago, you would not find mention of accessibility, or standards in the most fundamental of HTML courses. Development techniques have changed, as have best practices, but courses can't always keep up. It takes time and money to rewrite, or rework courses to teach new techniques in web development.
The change that is required in my mind mirrors the changes we've seen in development contracts etc over the past while.
BEFORE: Companies/Govt Departments etc, used to call us at the end of projects "We'd like you to come in and do some accessibility testing of the site we're going to put into production in two weeks". We'd go in, analyze, write our report (almost always recommending education be part of their long-terms solution to their problems).
NOW: more and more companies/Govt Departments are calling us at the beginning of projects, during, and at the end. They are starting to see it less as a "plug-in", and more of an integrated part of development. We do some training with their developers if needed, at the outset of a project, work with them during, and help with QA before promotion.
In my mind, TRAINING needs the same approach. A single course in Accessibility, or a single course in XHTML or CSS, or Standards-Based Web design isn't going to cut it. These ideas NEED to be integrated into ALL courses…
This is what will take time… We're trying it ( http://www.wats.ca/education/ ) and its being well received. However, old habits die hard, and it will take a lot of time before we can expect the training standards to change, just as it has to see the changes in best practices and development standards.
I'm just glad that there are more sites that are working towards standards based design – it makes it a lot easier to teach courses when you can point at big name examples that have bought into the philosophy…
One solution that may work… Personally, I've learned everything I know about web design in the past year. I haven't had to unlearn the old methods because I didn't know them to begin with. I've never gone to design school or taken any sort of class, but I've learned all I know by surfing the web and finding articles like this one.
I may not be working in a professional automosphere, but trying to explain web standards to friends of mine who doodle in web design is a real tough sell. I know they would be more interested, if I could show them that changing their way of thinking will benefit them for months / years to come.
I have been for a while in the standards world, i just keep asking me, the solution for this problem:
What should i do to a data grid with 10 lines and 10 columns, should i use a tabless design width 10 div's for eache line, or should i ignore the tabless design and use a table ?
An interesting and informed article, but while I couldn't agree more that outdated coding methods must be consigned to history in favour of forward-thinking design - how ever difficult it is to get reluctant and uninterested developers to lose their bad habits - a word of warning to all interface designers: don't forget about design itself.
It is easy to get carried away with self-righteous standards-compliance and forget that for many sites design is what sells. Cast your eyes around at the majority of current standards-compliant sites and you will see many uniform-looking, virtually text-only sites. I can't imagine anything worse than having a plethora logo/single image and all their content sitting within rectangular boxes surrounded by dashed, grey lines.
Jose: "should i ignore the tabless design and use a table"
If you are trying to present tabular data you should definitely use a table. That's what tables are for. Using tags for their intended purpose is how you go about building a structurally-sound website.
I certainly hope that people aren't getting the impression that the TABLE tag is in the same category as purley presentational tags like FONT. Tables *can* be used for presentational purposes but remember that they still have a structural purpose.
At my previous place of employement (a Web development company), the problem was exactly this: "someone more senior than you doesn�t want to hear it from an �underling.�" (Pardon my use of the American style of punctuation within quotation marks.)
At my current place of employment, a hosting company, I can generally get away with making accessible, standards-compliant sites. (It's sad that I have to use the phrase "get away with.")
Still, there are barriers. I told my boss: "When dealing with the Web, you have to accept that no page will look identical in every browser on every platform under all circumstances."
Her response: "It would if all content were within an image."
My response: "Some people browse with images turned off. And let's not forget text browsers and screen readers."
Her reponse: "Let's be realistic."
In her reality, screen readers don't exist.
My rant is related to the original post in that I have tried to implement various changes to the code but the webmaster's weakness in knowledge has been an impediment to implementing the change. He now has students redeveloping the intranet for him but, at his instructions, they are developing a complex table-based layout despite the fact that one of the students seems to be qualified to create a table-free/CSS-based layout.
End of my rant,
I read the article, and the comments beneath. I must say that the article interests me. I like designing websites. I'm still a student in college but I could see myself doing this as a job and still loving it. I haven't been doing this for a long time but I started before there were clear enough standards and even to this day I am not quite positive as to what these standards are.
I ask you though, where would be a good place to go (preferrably online) where I could look up how to begin learning this "new" method. How does this method hold up for sites with lots of graphical content, or sites where the "look" is made up not of straight boxlike divisions but of images with curves and designs and what not. How does server-side code fit in with all of this. All these are questions i have. How about cross browser compatibility? (Assuming modern browsers) I have issues getting IE and NS (and its variants) to interpret doctypes the same way.
Where do I go for answers?
Alex - you need a book. The book.
Spend the money. Trust me on this.
(To answer but one of your questions: the 'standards' everyone refers to are those recommended by the W3C - http://www.w3.org/ - and refer mostly to client-side code. HTML, XHTML, CSS, and the DOM are the most frequently references ones)
A common objection raised by the marketing-sensitive folks is the requirement for pixel perfection across all browsers. Typically my answer is:
"How many people do you know outside of the web design community who use more than one browser on their computers? How much time and money is wasted on making something look the same across every browser, when the only groups that has multiple browsers — web developers and designers — understand that it is an unacheivable goal?"
Maybe I would be not quite as confrontational depending on the audience, but the points remain:
• Only the design/development/net geek community uses more than one browser. Everyone else is blind to the differences.
• For every method a designer tries to force design control on a web site, at least one way exists — in every browser ever made — to break that method.
• Flexible designs are no more or less complex than rigid designs. They simply require an acceptance that your customer should come first. They should be able to choose how they view your site, at the screen dimensions they prefer, the font sizes they prefer, etc. I find it strange that companies feel that denying their customers' preferences is a good business strategy….
My two bits.
This is a really good article. Reading first the article and then the comments made me feel less lonely ;) I too have been fighting for standards for years. Sometimes it's a complete waste of time, but I have been able to open the eyes of several people. And it's a nice feeling when someone comes back and thanks you for pushing them towards standards.
As much as getting existing web developers/designers to convert to the 'newer', better ways of coding, we also need to try and stop new people leanring the old ways, only to then find out they got it wrong, and have to get the motivation to unlearn a lot of what they've done, to then learn divs and navigation in lists etc… all over again….
There are plenty of 'How to make your first web site' tutorials about, using that old, out dated style of font tags and tables.
If we got some new style 'newbie' tutorials, starting people off on the right foot from the word go, you bring forward a load of new people coding effectively and efficiently.
Now it maybe isn't especially quick, to start training beginners in the ways of effective coding in order to improve the situation, but if you start teaching them, they start designing better sites than some of the current 'professionals', and hopefully those uninspired designers will see that they might lose their job to someone who does it better……
I'd love to write an XHTML/CSS friendly 'introduction to web design' type tutorial, unfortunately, I don't think I could do it justice though :S I plan on giving some of it a go sometime though ;)
I don't have time to read through all of these comments but i just wanted to mention that Zeldman briefly talks about how to get clients to use standards in his book "Designing with Web Standards". Basically what it comes down to is that the client doesn't need to know the methods being used to reach all of the websites users. They just need to know that it WILL reach those users. Clients usually want security. Therefore that's what we need to give them.
Changing the office culture. I have quickly learned that making small changes in the way co-workers think and do things can have some excellent long term effects.
I recently started work on the Web of a large university. Getting the group to think about standards and semantic markup though was rather easy, as my predecessor had become something of an evangelist for accessibility. It was almost perceived as an extension to accessibility (I also created a small CMS that established the document type as XHTML, blundering special characters and forcing change). I found however that our office was suffering immensley from a poor reputation for creativity (my predecessor treated 508 as an end all, refusing to make content that could not be digested by blind person – all flash, attractive images, and much more).
My greatest battles have been with the administrators and managers of the graphic-design-philes out there. The types that are out for exact rendering as available in print. Changing the culture seems nearly impossible when you are trying to do it up the ladder.
Hello Dave,
Really interesting article. Thank you. Personally I do my reading/learning in the bath, guess I just eat too much fibre and wouldn't get the time to use your method.
But seriously, about your question re training in the UK. I have just finished the first module (TT280) in the OU's new Certificate in Web Applications Development and it might be worth checking out:
a) stresses standards compliance (continuously :))
b) stresses accessibility
With this proviso: I decided to do my final project totally in CSS (see effort it at url given), which meant I had about two weeks to teach myself everything I could to learn how (thanks AListApart and Sitepoint et al)- the course only covered it briefly but it seemed the answer to my html prayers. But when I asked on the class forum wether I would get any extra (or lose!?!) marks for using CSS I was told not to bother because of browser compliance problems. Well I ignored that advice because I thought it was out of date and contradicted the overall ethos of the course and carried on nevertheless (stressful though it was). I am so pleased that I did this, because now, with that very steep learning curve behind me, I can go forward and create the kind of code that I can be proud of.
i've also started to try to convince people at my new job of the value of standards, CSS, etc. We've just rebuilt the company's site with XHTML and CSS. It went reasonably well, with the usual few days of hair pulling and debugging, but somehow the perception was that "if we'd used tables, we could have done this faster." Also, "we had to use all these ugly hacks in CSS! I thought this was standards!"
To me, the development was acceptably fast, and I don't see the problem with using hacks in my CSS or my markup, as long as both are readable, compliant, and as tight as I can make them.
Oddly enough, I think that many developers have stopped seeing all the hacks in table based layouts. They don't see spacer.gifs as ugly, and they don't notice all the time spent examining old HTML to try to make sense out of a colspan="9" that they wrote six months ago. That stuff's just business as usual.
Luckily almost all the work we do has to be demonstrably accessible and section 508 compliant, so my argument for standards-compliance is much easier.
I think Mark Pilgrim said it best in his recent blog post, �Won�t somebody please think of the gerbils?�:
�But it sucks, because table-based layouts and FONT tags and spacer GIFs are an *ongoing* nightmare, while CSS is only an *up-front* nightmare.�
I have been slowly pushing CSS and standards on my co-workers, and they are gradually warming up to the benefits. Great sites like the Zen Garden have really opened some eyes as our workload increases, but our time to complete projects has not.
My frustration lies with the universities and colleges that claim to offer state-of-the-art education, but don't offer state-of-the-art information. One year ago, the head of the Comp Sci department at the college where I am taking classes told the class "Don't use style sheets because browsers don't support them." I nearly walked out of the class. With each of the classes I take there, I do more teaching of html and styles than the instructor.
If the schools would actually teach standards, acceptance of them would grow exponentially.
A fantastic thing has happened to me as the only web-nutter… I mean evangelist in the company.
Our *clients* are demanding accesible websites. Most are UK government orgs and they can no longer allow table layouts, their sites will not be allowed to go live if they miss the boat on standards.
So now the guys around me are going "Paul, hows that DIV thingy work again?"
A small tip I can recommend though; Show a table-jock what a table site looks like in a handheld browser or through screen-reader software. Then show them a CSS site. Even just showing them a CSS site with CSS turned off and it is all still readable is a powerful statement.
Paul: "they can no longer allow table layouts…Show a table-jock what a table site looks like in a handheld browser…"
As handhelds become more popular in the coming years we won't be able to just "shrug-off" accessible web design as "something that only benefits the disabled". In the meantime, unfortunately, the threat of lawsuits seems to be the most effective solution.
I got a co-worker interested in CSS, although it wasn't very hard because he's the type of guy who wants to learn new things. I brought in some CSS books (2 Eric Meyers books), and he read one pretty thoroughly. I think that is the best way to get people interested: bring in your own books to work and show people that you have made a commitment to learn the stuff. Anyone can talk about the glories of CSS and send some URL's in an email, but bringing in a book is a much more powerful statement.
Read the article and I must say it is right on point. I am a recent convert to Web Standard design and I can personally testify that Web Standard design ROCKS! The time saved in coding a page makes it worth it, not to mention the fact that it saves money as well. Thanks for the article. Also if anyone has some good resources for a newbie I would greatly appreciate it. I just bought Zeldman's book Designing with Web Standards and I have been checking this site out, but I would like to know about others. Thanks.


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KANSAS CITY, KS – A member of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's men's soccer team has earned post-season All-Region honors.
Junior forward Victor Ferreira (St. Michael, Portugal,/New Bedford HS) was named first team All-New England Region North by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
Ferreira, who was named first team All-Little East Conference, led the Corsairs in scoring with eight goals and eight assists for 24 points, He ranked second in the LEC in points, led the league in assists and assists per game, tied for third in goals and was third in goals per game.
"We're proud of him, as a team and as a coaching staff," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Henry Almeida. "He puts in a lot of work, both during the season and in the off-season, and he trains very hard. We're very happy for Victor, and it's great to see him recognized. It's a proud moment for the program."
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Former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright writes in Parade magazine that 20 years after the Berlin Wall, "We Must Keep Freedom Alive." A commendable sentiment, but the article is a bit confused, notably in that it seems to use "freedom" and "democracy" interchangeably. But as Fareed Zakaria and Tom Palmer, among others, have demonstrated, they're not the same thing. Freedom is the right and ability of individuals to make the important decisions about their lives. Democracy – especially constitutional democracy, with separation of powers, the rule of law, and constraints on government – can be the most effective way to protect liberty. But democracy isn't liberty, and we shouldn't confuse the relationship.
Albright writes:
democracy is a prerequisite to economic growth.
That seems clearly, spectacularly wrong. Consider some historical cases of great economic growth: Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan grew rapidly in recent decades without being democracies. (And I would say that that growth led to Taiwan's becoming a democracy.) Beyond that, look at the United States and Great Britain during the unprecedented growth of the 19th century; neither was a democracy by modern standards. And of course China has been experiencing rapid growth in the past 30 years without democracy.
But look at Albright's complete sentence:
In fact, democracy is a prerequisite to economic growth, which only flourishes when minds are encouraged to produce, invent, and explore.
That is a much stronger hypothesis. Indeed economic growth flourishes "when minds are encouraged to produce, invent, and explore." And the condition in which that happens is actually called freedom, not democracy. So perhaps the problem is just that Albright is using the terms "freedom" and "democracy" loosely. And if by democracy she means the modern Western conception of a system of individual rights, private property, and market exchange protected by a limited constitutional government featuring divided powers, an independent judiciary, and free and independent media, then it would be true that that kind of "democracy" is a solid foundation for economic growth – though not a prerequisite, as the examples above demonstrate.
The relationships between the rule of law, popular participation in government, constraints on government, protection of property, the market economy, and economic growth deserve serious study, and that study should start with conceptual clarity.


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There has been a steady increase in the number of building permits issued for single-family homes in the last eight months. The number of housing starts from January to August 2012 was 196 compared to 270 for January through August 2013. Although these numbers are not as large as the pre 2008 statistics, they serve as an encouraging sign that our area continues to experience recovery from the recent economic downturn.
These increases along with increases in other types of permit applications have made an impact on the inspector in the field whose job it is to conduct onsite construction inspections. For our builders and contractors in Bluffton, please take note and make adjustments when talking to clients about build time. It would be a great idea to call our building and codes department to confirm turn-around times for building permits.
Below is more detail on what our inspectors do:
Each new single-family permit requires about 15 types of inspections. Inspectors completed 4,200 inspections between January and August 2012, and 8,100 inspections between January and August 2013.
Many of the areas where new building is occurring are spread throughout the 54-plus square miles of area in the town of Bluffton which means it takes time to drive from one inspection to the next.
Inspectors are working additional hours to cope with the increased requests for inspections. The use of IG Inspect, an iPad application for inspections, has made the inspection process more efficient and more effective for inspectors and increased the amount of time they are able to spend in the field. Inspection results are entered in the field instead of the inspector having to spend time in the office recording results. This has allowed for a larger number of completed inspections daily.
In addition, contractors appreciate the fact that the inspection result worksheets are emailed to them from the field eliminating their need to stop at the job site to get inspection results. The building safety office endeavors to continue improving the permitting and inspection processes to meet the needs of the building community.
If you ever have questions about our wonderful town, don't hesitate to contact Town Hall at 706-4500 or email Lisa Sulka at email@example.com.


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