The beauty of writing good XHTML is that it relieves me of my normal design duties. Design takes place in the creative side of my brain, whereas XHTML coding fully occupies the rational and logical half. After being mired in Photoshop for days and weeks on end, it’s so nice to debate if something should be an H3 or an H4 instead of manually kerning a logo for a half-hour until it’s perfect. The zen simplicity of beautiful and semantic XHTML somehow puts me into a trance-like state, clearing my mind of those dastardly misbehaving pixels who haunt my dreams at night.
And in other news …… I need to lay off the LSD!
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So that’s where the 9rules logo came from… ;-)
Hahaha, actually Andrew, the 9rules logo came about after I banged my head against my LCD screen for a week straight and that somehow jogged the Pen tool in Illustrator to draw a bunch of technicolor leaves ;)
Yeah it’s great sometimes when the creative side of your brain is asleep. You just hop into a text editor and bash out some XHTML without ever having to reach for the mouse.
That is one of those things that is so very satisfying about semantic XHTML, you really can write the content first and worry about the design later. If you’re the slightest bit uneasy then you can wrap a div or a span around it and settle it when the time is right.
I know exactly what you mean. It’s nice to focus on XHTML/CSS, and get into that sort of zen-like state where everything just flows nicely and almost builds itself.
Footnote: I also do have a life!
I get what you mean…
For me, however, as long as it’s about HTML/XHTML and semantics, everything’s just fine. Then you add CSS and see how IE mangles it in an almost always inconsistent way, and that’s definitely not a zen-like state of mind for me. :-)