I am a Web Designer

So, what do: semantic naming conventions; semantic or not; what is web standards anyway?; speech impediments; accessibility and wcag 2.0; have in common? Well, they’re all half-written blog posts that haven’t made it to the shubox blog… yet. I’m sure you’ll agree that they are, for the most part, tantalisingly interesting titles – and I’m sure that they would have been (and still will be with any luck) interesting, impassioned, thought-provoking and in places misguided ramblings on contemporary web design issues. For some reason however, I find myself unable to complete some of my blog posts. Sometimes this is due to workload – other times it might be down to completely losing the plot or when that special and all too allusive moment of clarity has dissipated.

Whatever the reason, I feel that I have robbed myself, if not the world, of a few decent insights into how my mind works and how my thoughts and views relate to my contemporaries. In any field its important to contemporise ones own development and knowledge – this doesn’t mean blindly agreeing with every new trend that abounds, but understanding why you don’t agree.

A good, well researched blog post can help form ones own opinion on a particular subject more fully that reading someone else’s opinion, and can facilitate a greater clarity that ultimately breeds a genuine insight. It’s this insight that I feel that I risk losing (or not even achieving) with these half finished blog-posts and although I will strive to complete them (particularly now that I’ve highlighted their existence here – I’m now pretty much obligated to) I do wonder how many full-time small-world web designers (or anyone else for that matter) manage to create interesting and regular blog content or are they too sitting on a backlog of unfinished works of genius?.

I don’t normally post stuff like this, but I thought it was interesting and clever… so have a butchers!

Clever!