I’m of the mind that those of us who are Web professionals should be tested as part of qualifying for our jobs. Just as writers and others are.
The days are over (in truth, they never really started) when it worked to equip the inexperienced with WYSIWYG editors and turn them loose on the Web.
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Before I worked in IT, I was a writer.
Getting a writing job is not trivial. You interview. You submit a portfolio. And, you should expect take a writing test. Read the rest of this entry »
This article was originally posted at Blogs@SI on April 22, 2005.
Content management systems are the only sane way to manage Web sites. Once you’ve worked with a CMS, you will not want to go back to the bromidic and irksome labor of diddling with static Web pages. Read the rest of this entry »
This article was originally posted at Blogs@SI on April 22, 2005.
Just having served on a panel that presented to Penn State Web developers about converting to Web Standards, I’m reminded once again that the biggest challenge with talking (or writing) about this subject is figuring out what on earth can be said that already hasn’t been discussed six ways to Sunday. And not only by the Web Dev community in general, but by individuals such as Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer.
Follows is an interview by the web standards project, in september 2005: www.webstandards.org/action/edutf/interviews/pruyne/.