Staydecent

I think you are right. But, I'm not sure.

Perhaps it's better to look at "destroying our planet" (or whatever) as a byproduct? Like you said, we didn't decide this in Africa, it's just a result of our drive to advance our way of life. But, now preserving our environment and adopting more sustainable practices is the next frontier in advancing our way of life.

Also, isn't the basic animal instinct to survive? Scientists claim with the 2C threshold (I think this covers it slightly, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8023072.stm) that we are at a time where without change, we may not survive (in large numbers at least, and in some years)? Maybe the instinct doesn't act on a tribal or global scale, but only personal. Like when a tiger is coming after you.

And, of course, I don't expect everyone to grow their own food. But, there are people who love farming, and if we help these young people get into it, they can provide on a smaller scale, within each community.

I suppose my point is, sure humans have the instinct to advance their way of life, but that does not necessarily go against producing ones own food, or living a quieter and simpler life.

"everyone chooses to live a more basic quieter life against our natural instincts."

Serious? That's a huge claim. yet, so many people do live this "quieter" life. I am striving to live that life. There is quite a growing community (at least in British Columbia) of people concerned with things like food security and climate change.

Ever since I was young, I was disgusted by the City. Yes, this is not a popular view, but I am in no way choosing to live "a more basic quieter life against our natural instincts." The city was never meant for me.

Though, I'm not really sure what movements you are referring to? Do they include those that suggest consuming less? Or are there some movements somewhere suggesting you start living by candle light?

Sorry, if this comment is off-topic from the article, but it seems wildly bold for you to claim that a way of life is against natural instincts. I strive to live a life combining the joy, satisfaction and security of producing my own food, and living with the land as well as benefiting and perhaps contributing to advancements (particularly with water and power management).

I agree with the post, and have come to hate PHP less. But the main reason I choose python or ruby (when I have the choice) is because of the syntax. I'm not sure the proper term, but I find you have to write more characters, as apposed to ruby or python, to say the same thing.

This template is using the <section> element incorrectly, see: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...

"The section element is not a generic container element. When an element is needed for styling purposes or as a convenience for scripting, authors are encouraged to use the div element instead. A general rule is that the section element is appropriate only if the element's contents would be listed explicitly in the document's outline."

I launched http://www.cookitlocal.com (serving Metro Vancouver only right now) Dec 21st.

I've got a couple users, but found it much easier to get people to sign up for a newsletter I ran to promote the site. The newsletter offered seasonal recipes and links to find the required ingredients locally.

You should tell viewers that. Talk about what you did for each project, your approach and the technology used; By having a portfolio consisting of just a bunch of images you run the risk of potential clients saying, "I want the VLC<or whatever> website." This has happened to me.

Also, I would do a major rework the layout of your website. Nothing lines up (use a grid). There is extra black padding below the screenshots. At no point does the content area reach the left most edge of the navigation bar; either try left-aligning some of the content or shrink the navigation bar.

And the most important: Design a home/landing page. While keeping your 3 pages(work, about, contact) create a fourth, the landing page, that sells your company like a mother fucker.

And, in my experience, the most effective way of getting clients is locally. The majority of people visiting your site will NOT be looking for your services. But, if you want ANY hope of getting clients through your website, start SELLING. A list of several websites, and 1 screenshot each is NOT selling. You need copy.

I really like the idea of using email for, well, everything. And I prefer blogging by email (like posterous) and implemented it myself for App Engine (https://gist.github.com/462907).

As for this generic crud service. I think the problem is, just as you don't know how it could be useful, neither do others. A hosted db would be useful through an API, but communicating with email programmatically is probably a larger overhead compared to a standard GET or POST request.

Thanks for spell checking! As for the errors. Oh well. The main site structure is valid and works on the 3 major browsers I tested(Chrome,FF,IE8).

The first error is too beneficial to give up, and the rest are for a shitty form code (but this keeps my hosting cost at ~0/month which allows this stupidly cheap service).

But, you are right. And, I shall no longer advertise standards compliance. =D

Good point, definitely aware. But, I have zero-overhead and am quit fast so $15/page is possible for me. And, of course it would be my intention to deliver equal quality work as those services.

Cool! I'll setup a page for the service now.

Edit: http://staydecent.ca/markup

Valid points. If there was interest in this I would offer the choice of Blueprint or 960.gs. As for HTML, I would use my starting template which resembles HTML5-Boilerplate and the choice of HTML5 elements(header, footer, article etc.) or not.

In theory, this would be a decent paying day-job. I spent the year of 2008 converting PSDs to WordPress themes for $500/theme. With that experience I can convert a PSD to markup in under an hour per page.

I was just thinking of something similar; Would everyone want HTML5 elements or rather not?

My thinking right now, is I would build an order form that has a few predefined options. I usually use my own CSS starting point but am familiar with 960.gs. Blueprint seems to be the other big one, so I could look into adding support for that.

But mostly, the markup and css would adhere to my standards. I would have to do this to make the development time minimal so charging to low price makes sense. I would of course offer example markup on the order website.

I'm wondering, as I'm not making any money (devoting time to a startup idea) right now, if anyone would be interested in a similar service for the markup?

I'm really quite good and would charge $15/page. I can offer impressive turn around times and even CMS(WordPress) integration for an additional flat-fee($250?).

lambda never mentions anything about Organic. Organic is not the same as humanely raised meat, nor hormone free. And, IMHO, Organic standards are so varied and in many cases silly that the green label isn't even a tell for a desirable product by my terms.

In my experience, texture is very noticeable when comparing "supermarket" meat vs locally raised, hormone-free meat.

As far as Veganism goes: I rather not take a vitamin supplement--it seems unnatural.

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Fontspring(http://www.fontspring.com/) is a service, very similar to Fontsquirrel(perhaps done by the same people, but can't back that claim up).

Fontspring offers @font-face licensing for professional fonts. I just used it because they have the very awesome Franklin Gothic family. It's also rather inexpensive($10-$20 avg perhaps) for unlimited domains. I prefer their model over something like TypeKit: Less restrictions and one-time-only payments.

I really think neither OS X nor Windows has the upper hand on the other, so I'll offer my top gripe for each.

OSX: Window/File Management. I've been told it's the "mac way" to open a program to create a file. I'm reliant on the OS/Finder to do this. Also, just basic window management is confusing to me. Perhaps Lion is addressing this.

Windows: No terminal.

That's no good. What browser/OS? I'm developing with Chrome/Windows7 and have tested in Firefox.

`elm.children("form").bind('submit focusout', function() {`

is the event. Thanks for trying it out!

For the web, I strongly agree. I like to site back, a few feet away from my monitor, when the font is 12pt or any less I have to lean in.

13-14pt are nice, and there a bunch of sites with body copy set in 15pt+.

It's easier to create a visual grid with smaller font blocks tho. But.. that just benefits looks.