Here’s an interview that Mailchimp made to the folks behind A Book Apart. Their short but concise books for people who make websites are having a lot of success amongst the web community.
The interview features Mandy Brown, Jeffrey Zeldman, Erin Kissane and Jason Santa Maria. It’s worth a watch.
Since I’m both a web designer and web developer I’m right there in the middle of these two. But, FYI, I don’t bring my own keyboard to work 
Sincerely,
Web designers all over the world
I just found out about this new useful service called Launchlist.
(Thanks @PTthe13!)
This free service allows you, once you’ve finished up designing and programming a website, to generate a report about the project and send it via email to your clients, to let them know their website is online and to remind them of the features it contains at the moment.
Amongst the default features list is stuff like if your website is SEO friendly, IE6 compatible and so on. If your site contains some features that aren’t already listed on Launchlist, it allows you to insert your own custom feature to the report and disable the default ones that you don’t need.
Once all features are inserted, all that’s left to do is to insert your email and your client’s to send it to him.
Quite simple and effective really. Check it out @ http://launchlist.net
HTML5 is really going to power-up the web with the new tags and standards it brings along to the game.
The days of <div id=”header”> or extremely long DOCTYPE declarations are over. And the same goes for third-party plug-ins (like Flash), since using the <audio> and <video> tags, it’s all done natively by the browser.
It’s all nice and clean, the way the web should have always been.
Another great feature of HTML5 is its ability to create drawings using the <canvas> tag. Although it’s still not fully standardized, web developers are having a blast creating examples (some a bit weird) that exemplify its power.
Here’s a few examples I’ve picked up from Chrome Experiments:
(These are best viewed on a Webkit browser: Google Chrome or Apple Safari)
