New Ph.D. program site at MSU College of Education

A day or so ago, Adam of Envision Internet Consulting released a new website for a graduate program in Education at Michigan State University.

The program is the Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy Ph.D. Program at the MSU College of Education.

The new site took a lot of work and I think it looks great. It also exemplifies many web standards and accessibility practices.

Congratulations to the people at the MSU College of Education and Adam!

(Now if only the main MSU College of Ed website would step up…)

Change in web design is emerging, again

There is a new kid on the block, and her name is “I’ve never designed with a table in my career.” To her, our old ways often seem strange and confining, and it is within this generation that we will most likely see more departures from what design conventions have emerged in the past decade.
Thinking Outside the Grid by Molly E. Holzschlag

I love it. I saw some of that last week with a cool way of creating box widths that varied based on the text zoom in a browser. That’s just the beginning.

Ajax is causing shifts in the model of web-based interactions, and the web design community is beginning to leave the table-mindset behind, despite the fact that many of us haven’t designed a table-based layout in years.

Empty the cup.