A few weeks ago I was asked by Luc Arnold if I was interested in answering a few questions about my experience in web design to be published on his new Blog Spicywebdesigners. The interview is published at: Interview with Spicywebdesigners

So far I am the first canadien “Spicy web designer” to be interviewed amongst American, Australien, Danish and Brittish designers. Judging from the energy Luc is putting into his Blog I am sure this list is bound to grow rapidly into a great resource.

In collaboration with the PowerWatts Team I proudly present the NEW POWERWATTS website, featuring multiple web 2.0 features such as collapsible and tabbed panels, Dom Scripting, Google Maps and a Blog.

A nice success considering that PowerWatts was indexed on Google page 1 even prior to its launch!

One of the challenges I encountered was using Adobe Spry together with JQuery. Unfortunately there is no synergy between these 2 JavaScript libraries and the call to both libraries in the header section of my HTML file created a mayor crash in Dreamweaver (running on Vista).  After spending days on Forums and Blogs I reinstalled Adobe CS3 and could isolate the one HTML file on a computer running XP Pro and an earlier version of Dreamweaver.

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Recently I stumbled upon “Bulletproof Web Design” by Dan Cederholm. Attracted by the title I set out to discover the holy grail. As I am already used to working with the standard compliant table-less, Css approach (whenever possible) I did not really need any further convincing but liked how Dan explained the float theory and the approach towards IE hacks. Great book, read it!

The second book I found interesting is “Dom Scripting” by Jeremy Keith. A nice refresher in JavaScript and how to use code in a clean, nicely degrading way. I hope this approach becomes mandatory in web design classes.