For all the people out there who have ever had to design and code a website for different browsers specifically because of the fact that different browsers decided to do their own thing, Microsoft has decided that IE8 will now be fully standards compliant.

Take that in for a second.

IE8 was always the enemy. And now, I don’t have to worry about designing a site and always cross-checking against Internet Explorer? Let’s just hope that Microsoft doesn’t pull a 180 and go back on this promise. Many people feel the same way, seeing as how IE7 was supposed to have the same sentiment towards the web but was really just an extension of IE6. In this case, it seems Microsoft sounds sincere.

You can find more information on this crazyness here.

Recently I have become a NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) representative. I attended a semester long trip with NOLS in Baja, Mexico my Junior year of college. I decided to become a rep so that I could help spread the word about NOLS and let college students know there are other alternatives to the normal study abroad trips that most colleges offer.

I have been working part-time doing web design for a web-based people finder. The site has been gaining more and more prominence as people are trying to find out about others using search engines to see their ‘internet footprint.’ The concept behind creating a search like this is to take the most relevant information about a person, such as blogs, news links, or photos of that person, and accumulate all of it into one location with a bit of a social networking aspect built in as well.

This was basically a mockup of the new version of this website that I wanted to make. The site as is right now is somewhat based around this image, but with more elements still on the way.