The way the world works is ridiculously asinine.  I realize that statement doesn’t have much to do with User Centered Design, but I’m getting to that.  Let me explain a little.  It is my personal belief that being able to develop good user centered design means that you should have a very good understanding of CSS and XHTML.  And by “very good” what I really mean is that you should know CSS inside and out, possibly even better than you know HTML.  I say that only because there is a lot more to CSS than HTML… or so is my belief.

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Success Secrets of the Online Marketing Superstars by Mitch Meyerson is a compilation of information from some of the best marketers on the internet. Each chapter is completely different and separate from the rest of the book, as each chapter is written by a different marketing expert. Despite this seemingly haphazard approach to writing a book, Meyerson put it together in a way that gives the information a logical order.

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Tagitis - Divitis - Classitis - Tableitis

Have you been told your code suffers from one or more of these terms, and aren’t sure what they mean? Here’s a little FYI. Basically, these terms refer to the over-use of tags, divs, classes, and tables. I was recently accused of writing code that suffered from Divitis, so I decided to “Google it” to find out just what it is. Turns out my code didn’t quite qualify for Divitis; the person looking at it just prefers tables to divs. Because I looked it up I was able to go back to him and prove that he was full of crap. Here’s some information that might be able to help you determine if your code needs some improvements.

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Who can tell the difference between a web site created in Dreamweaver’s Design View and a site created in a text editor or source code editor? If you are saying to yourself, “There’s a difference?” or “No”, you might want to look into it. There is a difference, and unfortunately it’s the people who aren’t aware of this that are causing headaches for everyone else.

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For those of you who attend the Art Institute here in the desert wasteland of Las Vegas and have attended Frank Pinto’s Web Marketing class, feel free to pipe in with your comments at anytime. Recall the “Professional” MySpace assignment? Well, I don’t know about you all, but I personally do not think that the word “Professional” should be allowed within 1000 characters of the word MySpace.

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