I forgot to post this a while back when I came across it, but other designers will get a kick out of it…

I decided to donate some of my own personal time to helping out a group of local schools and help improve their site for an event they have every year. Seemed a good cause to dedicate some time to…

The first thumb is the new idea I came up with, versus their current site.

Let me know what you guys think….

Sorry for those looking for more tidbits here… time has just flown by… I will have to come up with a new topic to write about… maybe expand on the seamless tile tutorial a bit and throw a little CSS action into the mix…

Some really interesting statistics in this report issued on “The state of Web Development”…

Check out the PDF of the report [HERE]

Thankfully, it appears that I am part of the current majority of designers, developing in PHP and pure CSS, all hand coded. (or well, at least using a text editor – Hyperedit)

I have never heard of this ‘Ruby’ though… and that seems to have a large portion of what people are using. I know I need to get into AJAX, but this ‘Ruby’ was something new to me…

Let me know your thoughts, and where you stand on these figures…