Design Critiques and Markovers
December 5th, 2005 by Martin LambertJeffrey, Jason and Eric are now taking sites that have been submitted in advance and critiquing them, offering some suggestions for how to improve them in terms of design or coding. Unfortunately, this is the sort of thing that really doesn’t lend itself well to blogging; in fact, judging by the level of chatter in the room, I’m not sure they’ve been terribly useful to anyone other than the people whose sites are getting the free consults. I’d have liked to see them comb through the submitted sites more closely, in order to pull out those that can be used to illustrate general concepts that would be useful for all of us.
Update: I spoke too soon - although the design critiques seem to have been chosen basically at random, Eric did choose his markover subject because of how much he could demonstrate with it. (He’s using the EPA website, so you can see for yourself how it started out.)
Michael Hessling Says:
I was pleased to see Eric markover our site. He was very gracious when I had additional questions afterwards.
We're working on our own markover, and the comparison will be useful.
By the way, thank all of you for live-blogging the event. I was under the impression that Zeldman didn't want us to (?), but I'm happy to have another perspective.
Eric Meyer Says:
Live-blogging was fine, if a bit beside the point: we'd hope that people would be there to listen, not to blog. But the only thing we didn't want to have blogged was the page with the slides and example files. We feel those are for the attendees. Some of them may eventually get published in other places, but not in the same form and not for a few months at the least.