Monthly Archives: March 2006
The reluctant feminist
Both online and offline I am being made aware of a concern and issue around the lack of women on the web. What it is really is not the lack of women, but more the lack of the visability of women. Molly recently posted:
“Douglas Bowman, upon hearing someone ask me who the "other 24 most influential women on the Web" were, quipped that I was, in fact, all 25 of the most influential women on the Web. Funny, perhaps, but damned sad that only I could name a handful, and most could not name two.”
For me, although I recognise and infact find the same answer myself if I think about it; this is a really sad state of affairs. Molly is indeed a great example, but surely there is more than just one? I can possibly get up to 3 and then I get stuck – hardly a good thing. Another post by Rachel Andrew focuses on “Geeks who happen to also be women”. Recently, I have come to the realisation that what I thought was maybe only a small issue is actually pretty wide spread. That being the profile and visability of women in the web.
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What is in your support network?
Whether you are freelance, full time or even just learning; a support network is essential for anyone in web. I am not talking cables and data back up here, even the phone number for apple care. What I am talking about is those people who save you when you are about to commit design suicide, or when that pixel perfect CSS right float seems so far away. A support network in this sense can be friends, colleagues and online communities.
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Confusing information
Building on from the earlier post webrevolution, I felt I needed to post the areas where currently the web world is failing people starting up in web design. It has become a real bug of mine regarding the quality of many tutorial based websites regarding web design. I do not deny that there are some great resources out there, however still there is a huge majority that come up high in search engines that really are not practicing good standards and practice in web design. A great many of these are also seriously hypocritical in the sense they preach such greatness as accessibility when make it impossible for the user to get anywhere apart from a web brick wall.
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