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<FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>Hello WWW’s & MIT-Webpub group,<BR>
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Hope you are all having a good summer and are gearing up for the fall. We have a very exciting August ABCD-WWW meeting to announce today:<BR>
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<B>Date: </B>Wednesday, August 12th @ 3:30 – 5:00<BR>
<B>Speaker: </B>Ethan Marcotte<BR>
“Simple Standards”<BR>
<B>Location: </B>Lamont Library<BR>
<B>Abstract:<BR>
</B><I>"Simple Standards"<BR>
</I> Even the most complex user interfaces can be implemented with the <BR>
simplest foundation: good, clean semantic markup, with dashes of CSS <BR>
and JS stirred in as needed. We'll look at a couple sites that have <BR>
used this approach, briefly review what's new with CSS3/HTML5, and <BR>
discuss issues your own sites might have had when designing with web <BR>
standards.<BR>
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<B>NOTE: </B>MIT and non Harvard ID visitors must contact me at <a href="christopher_traganos@harvard.edu">christopher_traganos@harvard.edu</a> for access to the talk. The security desk must have your name on our guest list.<BR>
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<B><I>Speaker Bio:<BR>
</I></B>Ethan Marcotte is a versatile user experience designer/developer, whose work demonstrates a passion for the intersection of quality code and compelling design. Prior to joining Happy Cog, Ethan worked with such clients as New York Magazine, Harvard University, and the W3C. A former steering committee member of The Web Standards Project, his work in the standards space has been covered in several magazines and online publications.<BR>
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Ethan has acted as a contributing author to Handcrafted CSS (New Riders, 2009), Web Standards Creativity (friends of ED, 2007) and Professional CSS (Wrox, 2005). He is currently collaborating with Happy Cog founder Jeffrey Zeldman on the third edition of Designing With Web Standards (New Riders, forthcoming), the classic title that sits on every savvy designer’s bookshelf. Ethan is an experienced technical editor, having edited the first edition of Bulletproof Web Design, as well as the second edition of Designing with Web Standards.<BR>
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Ethan is a contributing author and technical editor at <I>A List Apart <<a href="http://">http://</a>www.alistapart.com/> </I>, “for people who make websites.” He is also a popular educator, and has been a featured speaker at An Event Apart, the SXSW Interactive festival, Harvard University, and AIGA’s In Control conference. He spends entirely too much time online, and would like to be an unstoppable robot ninja <<a href="http://">http://</a>unstoppablerobotninja.com/> when he grows up. Beep.<BR>
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See you there!<BR>
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-- <BR>
Chris Traganos<BR>
Web Developer<BR>
Harvard University<BR>
<a href="christopher_traganos@harvard.edu">christopher_traganos@harvard.edu</a><BR>
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