Third Annual Blue Beanie Day
Sheesh – I can’ believe I missed International Blue Beanie Day yet again! By only ONE DAY this time! I have my blue-beanied avatar all ready to go, and I keep missing it. Well. Every day is blue beanie day for those of us who try to design to web standards. Styling that bibliography page using an ordered list and cite tags really made me happy, and actually using a definition list for a glossary page – omg. It’s the little things, you know?
Here I am, in blue beanied glory, a day late, but not short on love for the standards:
Happy Belated Blue Beanie Day, Standardistas!
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year…
Yep – it’s time again for 24 ways, “the advent calendar for web geeks!”
That and AN EVENT APART IN SAN FRANCISCO!!!!!! Can I have a w00t from the congregation?
I can’t believe I get to meet Zeldman, “Beep” (aka Ethan Marcotte), Dave Shea, Andy Budd, Jared Spool, Eric Meyer, Jonathan Snook, Luke Wroblewski, and Jeff Veen, among others, IN PERSON! I either have books by the aforementioned web design gods, or follow them on Twitter, or regularly read their blogs, or all of the above! So exciting. And the topics look great, too!
I’ll report on An Event Apart here – it’s gonna be great. Wish you were coming, too!
About
Maggie and Cricket
Hi, I’m Maggie Wolfe Riley. This is me and my dog, Cricket, on a hike near where I live in the beautiful Eastern Sierra. My husband and I are new homeowners in Bishop, California, and we love it here.
I’ve been studying web design through Cerro Coso Online, and this semester I’m taking PHP Site Management and Theme Design with Elaine Rudis Jackson, an awesome teacher. And I’m not just saying that because this blog is part of our grade! 
This course will be an introduction to using Content Management Systems with websites, which will be very helpful for designing sites that clients can easily maintain. I’ll be posting about my learning process here.
