Archive for November, 2004

I wanted to write these articles for a long time now. But with the new job and everything, I don’t even have time to get my new design online. So I figured I’d start with the articles anyway and do the redesign when I have the time. The Wordpress template is a good example of using these standards so it will serve as an example and will do the job to present my story.

Before I start with a technical discussion about web standards, let’s see what you and I want from a website and how these standards can help us.

If I wanted to make a website, what do I want from it in general terms?

• (part 1) I want everybody to be able to see what I have to say or sell.
• (part 2) I want a great looking presence with lots of features and functions
• (part 3) I want it to be lean and mean when it comes to downloading and rendering on the screen.
• (part 4) I want search engines to rate my website as high as possible.
• (part 5) I don’t want to spend too much of my time maintaining my website, fixing bugs, changing the layout or adding content.

We all want that, right? And can we do it without working our fingertips to the bone and preferably without some form of carpal syndrome? Maybe not, but let’s try.

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PixelFest is a project with one rule: one pixel at a time. Everybody can start putting pixels on a canvas and everyone can ruin or enhance your ideas. It’s a group drawing.
Think you can finish your idea before someone thinks he needs your space?
It’s a bit like grafitti in cities. They don’t have enough walls to fill, so someone needs to be overwritten. If you get far enough with your picture, people will hesitate a litle bit more to overwrite it. So you have to make sure that your idea comes across before you start filling in the details.
Give the other people a reason not to screw with your pixels.