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Spring 2007 CSSReboot 19

Posted by andry
on Tuesday, April 24

Rather than blatantly join blind-leading-the-blind SEO sect by making more web pollutant, why don’t we take a lot more challenging “contest” such as CSSReboot.

What is CSSReboot?
The CSS Reboot is a community event for web professionals and enthusiasts. Every November 1st and May 1st at 18:00 GMT, Rebooters from all over the world launch their standards based website redesigns simultaneously; bringing traffic, interest and a little respect to their sites. There are no prizes or arbitrary winners, just great exposure and the knowledge that we all participated in something great.

All we have to do is redesign our current website into somewhat beautiful website and adhering to webstandard.

If you have no idea what the heck web standard is, let me explain it to you in SEO manner.

  • Put XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript into separate files. Not only you took advantages of browser’s cache capability (thus, load faster). Structured websites are easy to read by human. And eventually, by your beloved Google Robot.
  • Imagine your killer resume. You only have one title, that is, your name, on it. You represent several relevant context in subheading such as “Educational Background” or “Professional Experiences”. The same thing happens when we build a readable website. We use HTML tag in respective uses. We address this matter as semantic web.
  • Semantic URL a.k.a pretty permalink. Pretty permalink is a good thing because :
    • It is easy to remember by us, human beings.
    • It is the future. To RESTified your website, you need semantic URL. Imagine such snippet:
books = “http://yourbookstore.com/popular/chicklit” book.each { |book| puts book.title }

So what it’s gonna be?

I see Deny Sri, Gage Sevenova, and Arif Widi are already in. It’s clearly that I don’t make beautiful web sites as they do. But heck, I’ll overcome my fear to be a brave soul and tag along.

Here’s my design preview. It’s done from scratch in just about 4 hours using Gimp. Bear with me.

black cssreboot preview

Building website that readable, and hopefully lovable, by any human being is far more challenging rather than build a website so satisfy Google Robot.

So what are you waiting for?
Don’t be such a chicken sissy. Pick the right fight contest.

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  1. rofiq – April 24, 2007 @ 11:10 AM
    back to black huh? I would like to join too, I have planned to change my blog design. I guess this is it, the time to push it forward. What a lazy programmer :-))
  2. Andry – April 24, 2007 @ 11:29 AM
    Rofiq Well, black is the new white they say. This literally a new reboot for me. Not just for design, but also Rails plugin and liquid template and texpattern import. This is one helluva hectic week.
  3. imtheface – April 24, 2007 @ 11:49 AM
    Duhh menarik juga nih ikutan om, tapi baru aja bulan ini beres2 situs masa sih udah harus di reboot lagi. Cape juga euy :D
  4. anima – April 24, 2007 @ 12:38 PM
    what a nice way to kickstart again. i think im in.
  5. didats – April 24, 2007 @ 02:18 PM
    hei! count me in!
  6. aldi – April 24, 2007 @ 02:37 PM
    wah, momen yang tepat! ikut kali yaaa ... :D
  7. Deny Sri Supriyono – April 24, 2007 @ 11:14 PM
    kok nama elo nggak ada di cssreboot, ndry? ayo daftarin, jangan cuma pamer screenshotnya di sini aja :P tak tunggu di pengkolan cssreboot, ndry :D
  8. rtriharyana – April 25, 2007 @ 01:27 AM
    gw ikutan juga sebenernya, tp uda masuk ke Published lists. ehauhauhauhauh..
  9. Andry – April 25, 2007 @ 09:32 AM
    Deny Sri Hla, saya sudah daftar kok. Ama emang harus submit story juga disana?
  10. calupict – April 25, 2007 @ 01:17 PM
    Hmm, sayangnya saya g bisa css. HTML aja udah banyak yang lupa.
  11. isdah ahmad – April 25, 2007 @ 04:08 PM
    wiiih... mbois tenaaaaan... preview sing gedi ono ta?
  12. Amal – April 25, 2007 @ 04:53 PM
    CSS, uh! It scares me because it will consume my time more than anything-in-websphere. Clean screen, intuitive navigations, moderate visual element simply taken from CSS, are nice -- make my hearts melt...
  13. dental – April 26, 2007 @ 12:27 AM
    still a fan of "rich content footbar" ?
  14. andry – April 26, 2007 @ 09:17 AM
    Dental Yes. I'm still into "big footer" thingy. For a "one article per page" concept, Big footer helps me: 1. Uncluttered my sidebar, so reader won't be "confused" with that. 2. "Faster" load. Putting everthing in sidebar, especially script that requires external resource (sitemeter, embedded technorati, etc) are better to be placed in bottom.
  15. gleam – April 26, 2007 @ 07:18 PM
    Wah ikutan juga ya. Salam kenal
  16. Thomas Arie – April 26, 2007 @ 09:13 PM
    See you on May 1st. :)
  17. Hedi – April 28, 2007 @ 02:05 PM
    I do standing behind you if I were CSS freak. I'am end user only. After all, this one is for original design, isn't it?
  18. Yogi – April 29, 2007 @ 02:37 PM
    Count me in ;).
  19. Wibisono Sastrodiwiryo – May 07, 2007 @ 03:54 AM
    Saya agak telat sih tapi dari pada gak sama sekali mending telat dikit. Baru aja gabung di CSSReboot, storinya plain ajah tentang kisahku mengenal CSS. Ayo ayo temen temen ndaftar yuukk... bikin rame member Indonesia
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