PUBLIC MARKS from Pandora

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"Adventures of a Big White Guy living in Hong Kong" The weblog of a man in Hong Kong.

"If your company needs help with a standards-based redesign, or if you want to give your in-house web professionals a course in web standards and accessibility, I'm available for consulting. Sound interesting?" This site is responsible for informative web standards and design.

"mezzoblue is a semi–daily expository and exploratory on all things web, design, and typographic. It is also a personal portfolio site with works in any creative discipline the owner feels fit to publicize." One of the most popular webdesign blogs out there.

The weblog of the creator of FeedDemon.

"SimpleBits is a tiny web design studio that creates simple, readable, usable interfaces balanced with a standards-based methodology. Founded by web designer and author, Dan Cederholm."

"A design consultancy based in San Francisco, California, Stopdesign specializes in a simple, beautiful aesthetic, balance of form and function, and highly flexible design." Stop Design created the Blogger redesign, the respective templates, and the Adaptive Path site redesign.

"Whitespace is the design blog of Paul Scrivens (aka Scrivs). He talks about design and people like to talk back to him. Not talk back like you do with your mom and dad, but talk back in a nice way that warrants wonderful discussions. Some of the people who comment on the site are asshats, but most of the people are pretty nice and know what they are talking about. The author of this site is also an asshat. Enjoy."

"Our broad range of skills means the creative solution and message is the main consideration. Our focus is on the best solution for your business needs and our results speak for themselves. Since we were ‘born’ in 1994, we have helped our clients grow their businesses, build deeper customer relationships and have inspired them to be stronger and more successful."

"This particular label was brought into daylight in early 2004. After a successful 2003 with hit singles as 'Mike Shiver - Feelings' on Lost Language, Mike joined forces with Johan Bergström and Andreas Hjorth. Together they formed a identity now known as Captured Music."

"At Infinity Web Design, we're raising the bar. We aren't satisfied with conventional methods of web design, so we take a different approach. We hand code our sites using valid (X)HTML and CSS that complies to W3C standards. We also take into consideration accessibility guidelines such as Section 508 and WCAG. What this means to you is your site will not only be forward and backward compatible, but will load faster, have a better search engine ranking, and will be accessible regardless of the device used to access it. The benefits are immense."

"Why hire Happy Cog for your next web design or redesign project? It’s simple: designing with web standards means lower costs, reduced production time, and increased accessibility (reach more people, exclude fewer). We literally wrote the book on it."

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"Flavorpill is a publisher of filtered cultural information, distributed in a series of graphical email magazines — including "flavorpill," five weeklies which cover a handpicked selection of diverse cultural events, created locally in five cities."

"This is the personal web site of Jason Zada. I live in San Francisco with my wife Liz, my son Milo Owen and my dog Cleo. I have lived in this city for 10 years now and it feels comfortable. I am the Creative Director and co-founder of EVB, a broadband + broadcast design agency in San Francisco. I have creating interactive media since the days of CD-ROMs."

"Julia Set is an online weblog published by the Design and Technology Program at Parsons School of Design, a part of the New School University in New York City. With a focus on the arts, new technologies, and digital cultures, the mission of Julia Set is two-fold: "

"Simple-d derived from a saying in the Cantonese language, basically meaning “keep it simple.”"

"Home of Tech Guru Brian Carpenter"

"This site is an ongoing experiment in communication design. Since I began publishing online in the early 90s, my personal site has always served as a testing ground for new material. It has gone from text-only, to HTML, to Flash, and now to XHTML/PHP/MYSQL/FLASH/MT/IFR/JS/CSS. And yet, it's somehow gotten so much simpler."

"The Iconfactory was started back in April of 1996 as a hobby between its three founding members: Corey Marion, Talos Tsui and Gedeon Maheux. At the time, all three were working for a small multi-media company called Paradigm Interactive designing educational CD-ROMs for children. Icon making was part of the job description, and each of the three members started pushing pixels on their own time for fun."

by scott thigpen

"In July 2003 I began to use some of my photographs to accompany the entries in a static weblog. A little later I set up a separate photoblog using MT, which later became chromasia. Initial inspiration for this version came from two sources: pixpopuli.com and a previous incarnation of chromogenic.net."

"If..Else started out life in January 2004 as an informal way for me to collate the random bits and pieces that I find as I browse the net. For more information on the author, visit my about page."