WOW Web Design and Project Management Conference
Posted by deirdre Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:31:40 GMT
Over the weekend, I attended the WOW design conference. My head is still threatening to explode from being overpacked with information.
When I signed up for the conference, I recognized the names, but (being somewhat bad with names) didn't realize how cool the instructors would really be. I haven't even begun to finish transcribing all my notes.
One thing I realized, I'd fallen back into a bad habit of using occasional presentational css class names. I won't do that again. Really.
I'd also had a site that vexed me, but, with a deadline, I used a single table to work around a browser rendering issue. Or, better description, what seemed at the time to be a browser rendering issue.
When I heard Andy Clarke talk about floats, I realized what I'd probably done wrong. I opened up my project, edited two files, and voila, the entire site was fixed in all the browsers I had on that machine, including the quirky old IE 5.2.3 Mac.
I'm working on some other tests before uploading the changed site, but that was a huge success.
I don't want to leave Molly or Aaron out, I'm just quite literally inarticulate right now. When I find the brain unpacking device, I'll post more. I hope.
::stumbles about::
It's around here somewhere, isn't it?
In the meantime, Craig Cook has posted a more complete review.
Deirdre,
I too wanted to write a more comprehensive review but between brain drain here and travels far and wide, it's not happened. I do want to say we had a terrific time and we're all just delighted. Thanks for your kind words and on behalf of WOW, I just want to say what a pleasure it was to meet you and be able to be part of such a fun experience.