Andy Rutledge on web standards

I must say Andy sums it up really well in this article about web standards and quality. Here's an excerpt:

In spite of the widespread acceptance of Web standards by a specific segment of the design and development community, hosts of professionals – those out there right now creating the Web – are working in direct opposition to these standards. A significant reason for why this is happening and how those not working with Web standards justify their activity boils down, I believe, to something regrettably simple: nomenclature.

Read the rest of this well-written article here

Design-feed.net - A great little site for design blog enthusiasts

I have been using this site for about a month now. It pretty much stays open in my browser all day, and I refresh every now and then. Design-Feed is a RSS aggregator currently aggregating 10443 posts across 264 feeds. It reads all your favourite design blogs and does a pretty good job at it. Although it seems to broken right now, showing me the same front page since yesterday lunch time. I'm hoping to get this site on there soon and contribute to the community.



I actually been thinking of building a site like this for quite a while now, but never got round to any solid work on the thing. Though I am thinking of experimenting with building a RSS aggregator but for different topics, and something a bit simpler in terms of layout. We'll see what happens.

A great resource for corporate logo's

I stumbled upon this site which seems to have a large collection of logo's and the story behind the company/design of the logo. You can also download an EPS file of the logo's which is very handy. Generally a well designed site with lots of nice goodies. Definately worth a visit, in my humble opinion.