[WSG] pagesauce.com
Hi I'm just floating an idea. I was quite interested several months ago in re-doing some big non-standards sites like slate.com into standards compliance for my portfolio. I also just wanted to find out if I had the skills to meet the challenge. It was a really interesting experience when I forced myself to re-create what was once a tabled site just using CSS and XHTML. I re-markedup the home page of afl.com.au over a period of about a month. And when I told my after-work project to a few designers, they were really interested in it. So I created a website to explain what I was doing. It's at http://pagesauce.com/ Just tell me if I'm just plain nuts, ok? Or if I just the whole thing wrong. Tim * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
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Yeh, its not a bad idea... im waiting to be able to change www.southtyneside.info in to XHTML and get rid of the crappy code that there old designer did... Hardest thing is working for a company that thinks there the dog's bollox but when someone from outside there office comes in a show there mistake they dont like hearing them. Already got the basic layout ready to be implemented http://www.southtyneside.info/project_area/southtyneside/ Lot nicer to work with, alot quick, alot smaller! and Compliant :) * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
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Tim Yang wrote: Hi I'm just floating an idea. I was quite interested several months ago in re-doing some big non-standards sites like slate.com into standards compliance for my portfolio. I also just wanted to find out if I had the skills to meet the challenge. It was a really interesting experience when I forced myself to re-create what was once a tabled site just using CSS and XHTML. I re-markedup the home page of afl.com.au over a period of about a month. And when I told my after-work project to a few designers, they were really interested in it. So I created a website to explain what I was doing. It's at http://pagesauce.com/ Just tell me if I'm just plain nuts, ok? Or if I just the whole thing wrong. Tim * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help * I am also a member of W3C WAI Interest Group and the following URL was brought up in a thread once.. I think this may have some relevance to this http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,64253,00.html/wn_ascii * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
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You might also be interested in Zeldman's coverage of this concept at http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0704d.shtml - including the hassle that one UK coder experienced as a result... I'd be very careful about publishing reworked versions of other people's copyrighted materials, even if you have the best intentions. Don't get me wrong - I applaud what you're doing, but these big corporations can play a lot harder than you. Just my 2c. Nick ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ On Wednesday, Aug 4, 2004, at 18:45 Australia/Sydney, Tim Yang wrote: Hi I'm just floating an idea. I was quite interested several months ago in re-doing some big non-standards sites like slate.com into standards compliance for my portfolio. I also just wanted to find out if I had the skills to meet the challenge. It was a really interesting experience when I forced myself to re-create what was once a tabled site just using CSS and XHTML. I re-markedup the home page of afl.com.au over a period of about a month. And when I told my after-work project to a few designers, they were really interested in it. So I created a website to explain what I was doing. It's at http://pagesauce.com/ Just tell me if I'm just plain nuts, ok? Or if I just the whole thing wrong. Tim * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
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Deffo! i think the UK designer you was on about was the guy that made the hugely popular Odeon cinema site, that in the end grew more popular then the Offical one! It was ok untill people started getting confused with which site was offical and which was just a listing of show times... * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
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Tim Yang wrote: Hi I'm just floating an idea. I was quite interested several months ago in re-doing some big non-standards sites like slate.com into standards compliance for my portfolio. I also just wanted to find out if I had the skills to meet the challenge. Rather than make over a big site for your portfolio, why not offer your services to a charity or not for profit group who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford your design services. That way you'd have a real, working site to show, rather than a standards compliant clone. Andy Budd http://www.message.uk.com/ * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
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Title: RE: [WSG] pagesauce.com There are a number of great online volunteering places of which I'd worked for many. I encourage all list members to volunteer to work on sites that can really use help. http://charityfocus.org/ http://techsoup.org/ http://volunteeringonline.org/ Susan Grossman -Original Message- From: Andy Budd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 6:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] pagesauce.com Tim Yang wrote: Hi I'm just floating an idea. I was quite interested several months ago in re-doing some big non-standards sites like slate.com into standards compliance for my portfolio. I also just wanted to find out if I had the skills to meet the challenge. Rather than make over a big site for your portfolio, why not offer your services to a charity or not for profit group who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford your design services. That way you'd have a real, working site to show, rather than a standards compliant clone. Andy Budd http://www.message.uk.com/ * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *
