Archives for 2010
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Oh my goodness! I just found out that I was nominated for “Standards Champion” by the .net magazine 2010 Best of the Web Awards. What an honor! I have the honor of being grouped with the wonderful people below, almost all of whom have inspired me and my work in some way during my career [...]
I just spent an enjoyable evening laughing and having a great time with Willie Morris, Ulises Orozco of We Are Silicon Beach (with extra buddy support from Ryan Abbot for good measure). They interviewed me about my newly released book, The CSS Detective Guide, my upcoming plans for my trip to London and my excitement [...]
The campaign to get me to London so I can speak at the Future of Web Design is going really well! So far, people have donated around $750 – that’s a third of the way there in only 1 week’s time!! How cool is that? This just in: for everyone who donates $40 or more, [...]
Yesterday, I started a campaign to get support to attend The Future of Web Design next month in London so that I can do a presentation on the graceful degradation of CSS3 and launch myself onto the web conference speaking circuit. So, after only one day of tweeting and asking friends to put the word [...]
This past year has been absolutely magical with all of the wonderful professional opportunities that have appeared in my life, and things are continuing to get better and better! Here’s the latest news: I have just gotten myself scheduled to present at The Future of Web Design (FOWD) in London next month, and I am [...]
Whew! This last few months have been quite a wild ride! But the heavy lifting is over, and now I get to play at one my most favorite events in the whole wide world: South by Southwest Interactive Conference. Fortuitously, I was asked by Min Jung Kim to be on the awesome “How to Rawk [...]
Denise R. Jacobs is an Author, Speaker, Web Design Trainer, and Creativity Evangelist. Based in Miami, Florida, she is author of