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ctrl-shift-a: I use it whenever I have a CSS issue.

For the record, we bought the Fujifilm Finepix F31fd.

Awesome camera. The low light capabilities are excellent. Being able to take a picture of our newborn in the recovery area, where cameras are prohibited here, was priceless. All due to not having to use the flash... So far, loving it.

Thanks everyone, for your help. No way I would have bought this unassuming little camera without it.

Totally not feeling any of Cornell's stuff. That said, Shaun is much more my taste in style...

Been real interesting watching the contrasting strengths of these two...

Sorry you couldn't find the right one for you.

Oh, we're still looking! We found one place that has the Fujifilm Finepix F31fd, so we'll see this week :-)

After some review, we went out to buy the Fujifilm Finepix F31fd, which, although a bit old and kinda fugly, seems to take the best pix. Nobody has it in stock.. So we're still digging thru dpreview.

The two Panasonics were in stock, and we actually brought an LX2 home with us, but I'm not even going to open it as the review mentions (I somehow missed this the first time) that its response time is slow.

I'm thinking about the G9 now, but need to find some reviews. DPreviews images from each camera are really helpful. It's quite astonishing how much better the quality is from the 6 megapixel Fujifilm Finepix F31fd over the 10-12 megapixel competitors...

shutter lag

Great advice, my last camera, which was a low end Canon, had some serious lag and that was frustrating...

Hi all, thanks a lot for the feedback. I'm into a point and shoot, I think. Price range probably somewhere below 500US...

Thanks a lot for all of those links Andrew. We'll definitely give that site a good reading before heading out tomorrow.

Keep in mind, Mary, that design patterns themselves are methods, and it is accepted that patterns that work will be used and reused by many. This includes color schemes and many other facets of design (navigation, header treatment, list items, link treatment, image treatment).

Coming back to your original issue, the trouble becomes about who to give credit for discovering these methods. The web is dynamic, one cannot simply troll thru the journals to find the history of discovery. Who really "made" Ajax? Was it Brent Ashley? Adaptive Path (JJG?). Who invented the header layout here on 9rules? Doug Bowman? Did he invent the sliding doors method for tabs? No, he named it and published it, but I can name two people who were using similar methods long before he did (but the web being what it is, that evidence may be offline today).

It's not an easy task to weed all of this out. Not having any real standards in place and the web being what it is makes it difficult to make real judgments in all but the most obvious of cases. So in the end people use these commonly accepted methods without attribution (in the 'academic' sense), and cite inspiration(s) if they have one.

Hi David,

I am not sure that this professional status could exist on the web, or that it should. If there was a way, it would have to be one that did not create barriers to entry that result from privilege or status (fwiw, many of the professions that you provided as examples can get the pro status with an undergrad degree and then professional exams. No advanced degrees necessary, however "lifelong learning" is often required).

I'm just saying that, having been a member of one at one point in my life, I can appreciate what such an entity would bring to the web. Topics such as the one brought up in this note would have a framework and peer review system to handle the issue. So would it work in web design, as you ask? I think it would, yes.

Unfortunately, imo, it would also result in creating a barrier to entry that just shouldn't exist on the interwebs.

I agree with you Rich, the industry would benefit, but the bar to the web would be raised and I guess that's what makes the web successful, it's "accessibility", so to speak. It's a pretty delicate topic, I think, but one I have thought of on a few occasions...

Mary,

I think you answered your own problem in your statement when you said "being an academic".

This isn't academics, there is no professional organization that web "professionals" have to belong to and thereby standards to live up to (as engineers do, for example).

So, at what point do the customizations, tweaks, and changes make a website something new and what makes grid-focus truly original work?

As others have mentioned, GF is an implementation of a method. If a person begins using that implementation, they would have to go a long way before they could remove attribution. How far is long? I suppose that's where you listen to that little voice in your head. Sometimes people have trouble doing that, but such is life on the web.

Kamigoroshi, great work on the new look! I like it much more then the old one :-)

Just as a note, Fiftyfoureleven is actually searching for a new design, definitely not finished.

What you see there is the third different look that's been up in the last two weeks, and there is another on the way. Kinda having fun with it all, really :-)

Also, don't forget 5ThirtyOne!

Great idea for a note, btw!

When I started with this redesign I really liked the layout. But after two weeks of tweaking, coding and an awful lot of looking at the design, I’m starting to dislike the design.

Going thru that right now. Always happens!! I was going to launch the redeisgn yesterday, but alas, a quick return to the drawing board and things have been pushed back...

Anything from the house/techno end of the rainbow.

Harder stuff when programming...

Wow, thanks for the vote, frotzed!!

I do like Rundle, though for the number of people I've recommended him to, I have yet to see him take the work :P

Loving Mike Rohde's Logo work...

Yeah, loading a bunch of smaller sheets just ups your requests; and don't get me started on sending half empty packets. Kinda picky stuff, but you'll send more full packets with one big request then a bunch of smaller requests...

Are you planning on suturing sheets back together for delivery and zipping it?

The Internet was built on the weekends. There's so much potential, that anyone who knows this cannot possibly *not* work on the weekends, I figure...

Those people across the ocean never stick in my mind

Hmm... *Mike scratches Scrivs off the X-mas card list*

I'll second Santa Maria and Khoi, and toss one up for Rundle.

Khoi , IMO, seems to be able to do what Bowman does so well, and that is use typography very well in creating the overall design...