2007 Retrospective, 2008 Outlook

Jens Meiert, January 2, 2008 / February 25, 2008.

This entry is filed under Web Development, Usability, Marketing, Design.

Now that 2007 is gone it’s time for a quick personal recap and 2008 prognosis:

2007

The last year has been an interesting one that included professional change along with a relocation from Berlin to Bremen, gave birth to the Second Edition of my German CSS book, meant membership in another W3C Working Group, featured me in TV, contained a lot of (rarely documented) travel to many cities in Germany but also to almost a dozen mostly European countries, knew some political frustration, and also brought this blog.

Although I already maintain a list of the most frequented English articles there’s a certainly subjective “Top 10” of which I hope it will all the more continue to mean a useful read:

I intentionally ignore the most controversial post, an entry that apparently caused a few misunderstandings (blame my bad English, but do not “allege” me of recommending “hacks”); I may instead bring up the User Agent Style Sheets post, too, as it is probably one of the most underrated entries on this site anyway.

2008

Next year will be exciting, too, and it will mean professional change again – I’ll sign a new contract these days, there’s just one formality left to announce a new employer and the relocation to a bordering country. Apart from this challenge and the ongoing engagement for O’Reilly as well as certain organizations, there are a few fun projects I intend to launch this year, stuff that will be similar to The World’s Highest Website, an experiment that is still worthwhile.

Anyway, here’s a little outlook of some articles and posts likely to come, even though the titles may vary (feel free to leave preferences in the comments):

CS4: CSS Simply Sorted
Why “Reset” Style Sheets Are Bad
Internationalization of CSS
Hyperlinks and Hypertext
Web Design as a Process
n Web Design Techniques Dissected
Why Novice Web Developers Shouldn’t Use Frameworks

Well, that has been a short but “real” retrospective as well as an honest outlook. I hope you enjoyed the last year as much as I did, and independent of the fact that I just talked and talked about recent and future stuff I am rather looking forward to a Happy New Year for all of my readers – take care!

Enjoy the most popular posts, probably including:

Comments

On January 2, 23:25 CET, Melianor said:

I’ll be looking forward to further constructive posts from your blog, Jens.
On January 3, 2:11 CET, Michel said:

Looking forward to the new articles, too. Subjects look quite good. (Oh my english at night.)
On January 7, 16:24 CET, Cinema 4D Tutorials said:

congratulations for your new contract.

Im exited for the comming article: “Why “Reset” Style Sheets Are Bad” and will wait for this.. this looks interesting.

For: “Why Novice Web Developers Shouldn’t Use Frameworks”, I think it´s something really for novice..and article for this you find very much..but from these about 3000 vizitors a day you have, I think there are alot who didn´t now something about that.

anyway, good luck for your blog in 2008..
On January 8, 19:34 CET, Jens Meiert said:

Thank you all!
On January 14, 5:50 CET, ProxyExp said:

Well the whole CS4 idea sounds really interesting. I didn’t find the time to read through as much as I wanted to, but it definitely sounds interesting.

Jens Meiert