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Web Designers are creative people. I bet there should be some creativity in a way they celebrate St. Valentine's Day. Is there?..

There are so many talented photographers out there we don't know about... And their art could make somebody's day better.

Let's share the URLs or names of the ones you admire!

I publish posts 3 times a week on my blog - Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. I used to post on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but Friday seemed to bring not much traffic, notwithstanding the post... So I switched to Tuesday and Thursday, and I've noticed that most of my traffic comes on Thursdays.

What's your situation? I wonder whether it's common to everybody or it's just me...

What are the web design networks you use to promote your websites?

One of the designers I've recently interviewed answered to my question on upcoming new technologies that personally he thinks that "Web 3.0 would be a revolution if is achieved an effective combination between the inclusion of semantic content in the Web pages and the use of artificial intelligence that takes advantage of it."

The term "Web 3.0", just as "Web 2.0", is meant to hypothesize about a future wave of Internet innovation. Yet, "Web 3.0" has been a rather controversial term itself, and many web designers/developers see little sense behind it.

So, I wounder if it is accurate to speak of another level of WWW evolution when the previous one has not really been agreed on and officially recognized?..

I wonder if you ever used web templates in your design practice? Why or why not?

Whatever we do, there are always external and internal reasons for that. I wonder why you, guys, picked web design/development as your choice.

I personally got my degree in Mass Communications and Sociology. I worked as a newspaper journalist for two years after that. Having always been interested in cyberculture and its impact on society, I switched to online journalism and has joined Design Interviews blog a few months ago. My current responsibilities include interviewing web designers and administrating the blog.

WHAT ABOUT YOURSELVES?

Would you look around?

What are things that surround you at the moment?

Which of them you can’t imagine your day without?

Why?

Whether designers, programmers or information architects, we all have people that influenced us and people we look up to because of their contribution to the industry we all involved in.

There are such Web wide known web design celebrities as Jeffrey Zeldman, Jeff Croft, Andy Clark, Mark Boulton, etc. They among others set the trends in web design industry - nobody would doubt that.

But there are many others who also contribute greatly. I don't know them all, but I'd like to. So, share your thoughts and names, please!

There's an end to any patience. I wonder where web designer's one is and what could drive it to this point...

What situations in designer-client relationsship are unacceptable for you and could make you turn the project you're working on down?..

There is a rather passionate post on Jeff Croft's website about "making things that are compliant" and "making things that are cool". Jeff sums up with "compliance is fucking boring. Let’s try something crazy once in a while."

What do you think? Is compliance along with web standards really boring?

Howdy ya'll art-house film fans! Now that the Hollywood cheesy movies dominate the film industry it's hard to find good, deep films, as well as it's hard to keep a track of what's new and interesting on independent film market today.

So, let's share our preferences and likings in art-house genre, and have some "health food" for our brains!

A lot of web designers/web design companies state on their websites that they specialize in creating "clean designs". Yet, their works differ one from another greatly in many aspects. So, it should be something beyond looks and feels... A couple of web designers I asked to define "clean design" said, "when there's a harmony"... Too general to me.

I don't have my own definition of "clean design" as well as I can't really distinguish "cleanly designed" website among other websites.

So, I was wondering what it means to you (if it does), and what stands behind the term "clean design."

What would you consider to be the top problems you have faced working in web design industry? How did you solve them (or are you still looking for a solution)?

Computing and web design have been considered male fields by many. And this is not a stereotype. According to the National Science Foundation, the gap between the number of female and male recipients of Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Computer Science has grown immensely. Of course, there are many web designers who don’t have formal education in design, but still this is an evidence of a disproportion.

I've recently interviewed Amy Greiner and she said she didn't feel female web designers were a rarity, and there are many of them, too. But I do as I haven't heard much of women being featured in web design magazines, winning prizes for web design or lecturing at web design conferences. Aren't females ambitions and creative enough? Have you ever thought of this as an issue?

Sure, the websites of today are more complex - they also do a lot more for visitors. Keeping the complexity as a functioning whole that looks fantastic is where it’s at. You know I always love to find that kind of website design. Joao Guimares, CEO and Creative Director of Triworks.net, has it in his portfolio.

Interview with Joao Guimares here

The other day I was banned from SitePoint Forums for violating there Guidelines. I didn't do it intentionally. So I e-mailed the help desk but they said that because it was moderator who banned me, they couldn't help me... What do I do now? I've learned my lesson, and I really wanna my account back as SitePoint is a great source of information.

Has anybody ever been in a situation like this? How do I get me account back?..

You've probably heard about "A Million Penguins" and "The Wicked Games" novels, which were so-called "crowdsourced" meaning that thousands of different people anonymously contributed to their story lines and actual texts.

Online publishers say this is a chance to restore good old folk culture. Moreover, as there are no rules and limitations in crowdsourcing, it gives an opportunity to use imagination to the fullest challenging tortured artists' minds.

But how valuable are such crowdsourced works? Folk culture usually refers to a certain nation, and here we've got a mixture of hundreds of cultures and traditions. I've read the first couple of paragraphs of "A Million Penguins" and it didn't make sense to me. Does it to you?

Rob Weychert is an Art Director of the Philadelphia office of Happy Cog Studios. Having received a formal design education in print media, Rob has been successfully working on adapting traditions of print media to the web. "If you think of the two media as people, print is a wise old man who is set in his ways, whereas the web is still a child, unformed and full of potential. What I like most about web design is taking the lessons I’ve learned from that old man and teaching them to the child."

Hear Rob talking about the future of web design, what it takes for a project to be successful and why CSS is becoming so popular.

Interview with Rob Weychert