Eric Meyer’s keynote at MinneWebCon last month covered the topic of craftsmanship in web design. The idea that a good web designer should be right at home using a simple text editor to make changes is one which I completely agree with. It may be down to the fact that my first web pages were built in windows notepad and tested in Mosaic that I still don’t fully trust WYSIWYG editors and always end up in the HTML view for final checking if not most of the editing. To be honest, I’m guilty of resorting to Textpad for everything from HTML to JavaScript to C#.

The reason I picked up on this presentation is on slide 28 which feature a quote taken from this very blog.

It’s nice when that someone who’s work I admire, feels that something I wrote is worth sharing with others.