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A review of Smashing Magazine - An online magazine for web designers and developers.

The Good

Smashing Magazine has current and relevant articles on web design related topics. They must scan the web (blogs and twitter) to see what the hot topics are and quickly craft a story. Are they experts on the subject matter? It's hard to tell. On many articles the authors are not well known names. The author of "The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designer" describes herself as "a 20 yr. old college student" so I'm not sure how much freelance experience she has. The following article was co-written by Jeremy Keith who is clealry and expert.

Good example - Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip

Misunderstanding markup
Jeremy Keith gives a balanced view of what XHTML 2 was (not HTML 4/XHTML 1) and what HTML 5 is.

Web fonts, HTML 5 roundup
Jeff Zeldman gathers the top articles on these two highly debated topics

The following is a behind the scenes look at my process including images for my sketchbook and mockup options that were not used. The final homepage concept was completely reworked (look & feel, functionality) near the end of the project and below I explain why and show the original concept.

An interesting opportunity to learn from two experts in standards-based web design. If you live in the Boston area the added bonus is that this is in Salem, MA.

"Spend the day with authors Dan Cederholm and Ethan Marcotte in this unique, one-day workshop." See workshop details.