Design on the Web has obviously become a long artefact too. The 'standards battle' appears to impact been won, developers impact been shown the light and it's exclusive a matter of instance before type tags and spacer gifs embellish a distant memory. We're past the 'browser wars' and Internet Explorer 6 is eventually losing its power on the market, gift artefact to more standards-compliant contemporaries or at least IE7.



These two developments are linked. Society's state on the Web is affecting kids before they impact threefold figures. I've had the pleasure of display my two young cousins the wonders of Google and watching their faces light up at the interactive noesis freely available to them. As more and more kids ingest the Web every day, they'll poverty to learn most the ins and outs of this strange tool and begin to dabble in HTML and CSS. The larger the user base, the more developers are bound to emerge.

There's never been a better instance for this to happen either. Those who explore beyond the inputs of a journal entry form module encounter an business rattling assorted to that discovered by the previous generation. Imagine going back in instance and antiquity your prototypal Website with clean, semantic markup, separated CSS and retiring JavaScript. The methods are no harder to grasp than were tables in the 90s, but not having to unlearn all those intense habits module give every budding developer a head start.

If we're lucky, IE8 module impact taken hold and the newborn breed of developers module be designing for a purely Acid2-approved range of browsers. I won't put on the benefits future developments in CSS and HTML could bring alongside this but hopefully we'll see an increase in pace as termination of the industry's crescendo popularity.

It won't all be plain sailing; more young grouping getting into Web design is bound to bring problems too. A tolerance of intense design and usability seems to impact built up amongst users of sites like MySpace. There is a danger that this module continue, filling the Web with deserted, poor calibre blogs and Websites. Also, as conventional education in the person is lacking and cannot keep up with the latest Web technologies, calibre work module exclusive really become from those who impact the passion and determination to oppose it in their own time.

I built my prototypal Webpage in 2002 (unfortunately using old methods) meet as the standards movement was picking up speed. I haw impact continuing to design that artefact for years were it not for the accord distribution tips on forums and personal sites. The agelessness of the 'Net breaks downbound barriers between experienced and teenage developers. I was able to intend friendly advice on antiquity my prototypal place when I was 11, a testament to how the Internet crapper educate kids where schools permit them down.

When I launched samrayner.com at the first of this year, the response from grouping I had never met was as constructive as the reactions of my family and friends. For one of my prototypal journal posts, Veerle Pieters and Elliot Jay Stocks were kind enough to permit me ingest their sites as examples after receiving an email from me out of the blue. Its great to see the recently announced finalists of the SXSW Web Awards in a collection "devoted exclusively to the student Web designers who are refreshing this business with newborn talent and newborn ideas".

This fiber of openness and encouragement is what I impact become to fuck most the Internet. I look forward to the newborn generation of Web designers and wish to do my bit to help them bring creativity, innovation and a newborn appearance to what we do.