April 26, 2004
Teaching Standards to Co-Workers
I've spent my entire career working inside large companies. It has afforded me some really good opportunities, but has also come with a large disadvantage—I am often the only person that I know of in the company that is as excited about web design as I am.
As a result of this, I'm currently the only person in my company aware of, and practicing, web standards. But the time has come where CSS/XHTML and semantic markup are no longer a "luxury for web-geeks". Standards-based web design has taken root firmly in the internet, and the rest of the team needs to get on board, fast.
There are so many resources on the web for standards, and a couple of great books on CSS and standards, that I was able to cull together an outline for a one-day, jump in feet first, standards class for my co-workers.
I realize that I can't be the only one facing the issue of educating co-workers who are perfectly comfortable with Dreamweaver 4, and don't feel the need to continuously learn about web design. So I decided to share my outline here with all of you. It is still a work in progress but nearly all of the points are there.
My day in the classroom will come in a couple of weeks. After which, I will publish a follow-up with any updates to the outline and add the examples I reference with the simple "Example" now.
I would love to hear any feedback people might have on the outline itself, or teaching experiences they have had.
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