The Fresh Styles for Web Designers Book Review has links to many of the sites for those designers in need of inspriation. Not a second too soon, I see. Who invented this style? Why is it everywhere?

My site may be craptacular, but it's original. that is until I launch the new version!

thanks to the n-gen for the design!

I just was forwarded this old post: DaveNet : Gender balance in high tech featuring this sterling quote: "Men are the artists of our species, women are the infrastructure."

I was sent it because I was complaining to some pals that web word's interviews were reaching a new level of gender imbalance this year with 0 women interviewed. Some people would look at that and assume, as Dave seems to, that women just aren't any good at these things. Not true: women are culturally trained to assume positions of deference. Self promotion tends to be our worst skill-- it's unladylike. I'm lucky to have been raised by cantankerous feminist parents; few can rival me for boisterousness.

So what do we do? How do we tip the scales? Raise consciousness? I know in the wake of the WTC this may seem to many a small issues, but honestly I want to believe I have a country worth fighting for. The taliban forbid their women education, property, to leave the house: don't we want to claim we are better than that?

I'm thinking of a kind of "surf the chicks" day... maybe we can create a list of great sites run/designed by women, and come up with female alternative web icons to zeldman and glassdog -- both of who are sweet guys and chick-friendly. I'm not slamming those guys. just looking for heroines...

thoughts?

Completely unusable, and I don't care. ORTHOGRAPHIE is art. Go when you have time to not multitask, but wander through a strange vector gallery. My fave: on/off.