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Why, when and how to redesign your website (Part 2: The six legs of failure)

In the first part of this series, we’ve seen that design is about people. People come first, colors and your personal tastes may follow. A re-design becomes an insisting need when one or more of our three actors (coder, marketer and user) are not satisfied with something about the product.

In fact, the six-eyed beast have failed in his mission when one or two, or maybe all the six eyes are blind. In simpler words: it is when he misunderstand the need/abilities of the coder, or the marketer or the users that the design become irrelevant.Read More »


why, when and how to redesign your website (Part 1: The six-eyed beast)

So, hey! Here we go again! I’ve been busy during the last 3 days working on the new site’s design. I was pressed to have it done so I can do my usual coding stuff. There’s still some details to tweak, but the main idea is here. I hope you folks enjoy it, and I’d really like to have some feedback to improve it.

Well, let’s talk about design, and redesign a little bit. I’m in the mood for it :)Read More »


So what's all this fuss about markup and style?

You said "Makeup"?

Wake up! Let's speak about information. You know these things we call brain food. Or before that, lets speak about a real meal —because a man thinks first with his belly before any idea can spark from his brain :) So we have a complete meal with a soupe, salad, meat, bread, juice and all that stuff. We have a container (the plate) and a content (the food)

What's really important here is the food, right? Great! Now, wait! What if the content is all served in the same dish? what if the choclate dessert is mixed with the beaf meat, the juice, the soupe and the bread all served in a jar? Will you still eat that? No, really? you can? I, personally, won't! I'm not that snob, but God! how disguising is thee meal! Read More »