Redswish

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Are the web giants too big for standards?


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Web 2.0, accessibility, cross-browser compatibility, valid HTML, semantic mark-up and everything else that ties nicely together into a neat package called web standards are all the rage among forward-thinking web designers at the moment. And rightly so. I, as I’m sure you do, wish to be able to view a site in any browser, on a Mac, Windows or my mobile phone and not have to hunt down the content that has been pushed a mile down the page because the menu was a pixel too wide. Or struggle to access a menu because it’s hidden under the site logo. Of course I’m referring to extreme cases here, cases that we’ve all encountered and more-often-than-not excused. Not everyone can afford, or are interested in, the services of standards-driven web designer.

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The New redswish Site!


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It’s taken long enough. After finding countless excuses not to do it, I’ve finally gotten round to getting redswish up and running. Now I just have to keep up with the blogging. Let’s see what excuses I can come up with now! Over the next few months I’ve got some exciting stuff  going on- the launch of at least 1 new web-based company (hush hush- you’ll find out soon) and a big push on web standards and learning more AJAX. This blog will hopefully just be the start to a web-writing career. I should improve my spelling first. So here’s to redswish – may it live a long (for the Internet) successful life!

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