In Graves We Trust

Jason Cranford Teague   –   jason@brighteyemedia.com   –   speaking-in-styles.com

Jason has a new book—Speaking in Styles—coming out this summer from New Riders.  “Pry-mur” is actually the stuff you put on the wall prior to painting, but “Prim-er” is a sort of tutorial.

This presentation is focused on 3 CSS myths.

1. CSS is for Web Developers, not Web Designers
   “If the developer understands it, I don’t need to.” False, just as a print designer needs to know how the printing process works, CMYK, etcCSS is a stylesheet language, not a programming language.  It just describes to computers how the document is going to appear, not how it is going to function.DesignShack.co.uk/gallery css gallery is apparently a really great resource.

   Colazioneda is a desinger who uses css with WordPress to create her works—this way her artistic abilities are not hindered by her technical abilities.

I actually just stopped writing notes here because dude is basically just reading from the 3rd chapter of his upcoming book, and the myths that designers cite as reasons for them not to learn CSS are completely inapplicable to me.  Jason’s book seems like a great intro for someone very new to CSS, which I am not.  He used to be part of the W3C, so he is probably rather qualified for this type of discussion.

By the way, the documentary “We Live in Public” looks effing awesome.