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Tech && Soccer && PHP Coding - More Bolivian than America expected.

Good to see someone is finally asking their users to upgrade to IE6. I hope more websites start ignoring support for IE6 soon, since its such a headache to cater to. Of course, each will have to make its own cost-benefit decision, but we're pretty close to the point that for most sites, supporting IE6 isn't worth the time and effort. Just let your page degrade, and provide an avenue for users to upgrade.

37signals lists 7 good reasons to avoid using Photoshop to create mockups for web sites or applications. I've found this practice utterly annoying for all the reasons that they mention but I don't see it going away soon. Sadly most "web designers", yes-that's an intentional set of quotes, are much more fluent in creating Photoshop files than they are workign in CSS and HTML.

Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?

From reading "Design doing":

Speaking personally, all of my favourite web designers have one thing in common: they know how to write HTML and CSS

I'm still surprised by how little HTML + CSS many "web" designers actually know.

Shockingly, Web Designers should know how to design for the web, not just for Photoshop.  Its a point that was driven home during my recent trip to California for Forum One's (my employer) Online Community Summit. While I may not have done a comprehensive survey, I visited another web company there, and also met a number of folks who work in Silicon Valley.

Some people like fully justified text.  I guess it brings another layer of perceived order to an otherwise chaotic universe.  If you choose to implement it on a web page, be warned that legibility suffers due to the crude justification algorithms implemented in browsers.

Sandy found this gem, which probably applies to more professions than just Web Designers.  Working with clients such as these can be really trying, but what can you do to get through it?

Roger Johansson's post from 2005 is still as true today as it was then: A web professional can never stop learning.  Here it's 2007 and we're still dealing with designs that look best in photoshop, and my personal pet peeve - images for text headers (is there anything less useful?

Dealing with Internet Explorer is an unsavory part of developing web sites. You can't ignore it, and you want your sites design to look half decent on it with about half the effort that requires. Last time I tried to install IE6 to run under WINE, I completely failed.