The people have spoken Polls Rate Your CSS Skill Level CSS Skill Level 1 CSS Skill Level 2 CSS Skill Level 3 CSS Skill Level 4 CSS Skill Level 5 CSS Skill Level 6 View Results Loading ... My CSS Editor of Choice is: Text Editor (with highlighting like BBEdit, TextMate, or Crimson) Text Editor (without highlighting like TextEdit or Notepad) Dreamweaver Coda CSSEdit Eric Meyer's CSS Sculptor Xyle Scope Other View Results Loading ... Web browsing on mobile devices is huge, and it's only getting bigger. What is your opinion as to the web designers role? It is my job to make sure the website looks and functions well on mobile devices. It is the mobile devices job to make sure my website looks and functions well. View Results Loading ... What kind of CSS reset do you use? Hard Reset (* selector) Some Version of Eric Meyer's CSS Reset My Own Custom Reset What's a CSS Reset? I purposefully do not use one A Reset Part of a CSS Framework like YUI or Blueprint View Results Loading ... Is CSS coding part of your career? 0% 1-25% 25-50% 50-75% 75-100% View Results Loading ... What is your Javascript library of choice? MooTools jQuery Prototype Adobe Spry Yahoo! YUI Other (do tell!) Whichever one the cool widget I found needed. I have never used a Javascript library View Results Loading ... In these early stages, which of the next-gen web languages do you prefer? HTML 5 XHTML 2 Other Don't care - as long as there isn't a standards war. Don't care - period. What are you talking about? View Results Loading ... What is your favorite Content Management System? Textpattern ExpressionEngine WordPress CushyCMS Joomla Drupal Moveable Type Other I don't like any CMS View Results Loading ... How do you back up your websites? I don't. (you should!) I download the files locally. (and back those up) Doesn't my host do that for me? (maybe, you should check) My host does this for me. (I checked) I have some kind of automated solution. (do share!) View Results Loading ... How do you keep track of design inspiration? General Social Bookmarking (Delicious, Magnolia, etc) Image-based Social Bookmarking (ScrnShots, FFFFound, etc) Local Bookmarks I don't keep track, I just cruise the galleries when I need to (Best Web Gallery, PatternTap, etc) I have my own system I don't View Results Loading ... What is your CSS framework of choice? I don't use CSS frameworks. YAML 960 Grid System Blueprint YUI Grids Logicss ESWAT I built and use my own. Other (non-listed) framework View Results Loading ... If CSS2 and CSS3 was fully supported in all browsers tomorrow, what would you be MOST excited about? Border Radius Multiple Backgrounds Border Image @font-face Box Shadow Text Shadow RGBa Gradients Animations / Transitions Other View Results Loading ... If development tools were not a factor, what would be your web browser of choice? Firefox Safari Internet Explorer Chrome Opera Other View Results Loading ... Would you take a job for a website you thought was a stupid business idea? Yes, I'd take it. No, I'd turn it down. View Results Loading ... How do you Email? Pure Cloud (e.g. GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. used through Browser) Localized Cloud (e.g. GMail account used through Mail.app) Pure Local (e.g Your own mail server / your own domain through Mail.app) Clouded Local (e.g. Your own mail server, used through Google Apps) View Results Loading ... When you take a design job, and your quote includes a completion date, on average, when does the job actually get done? Early On Time Late Really Late Never / Abandoned View Results Loading ... How do you format your CSS? (see examples) Multi-line Format Multi-line Format with Indenting Single-line Format Single-line Format with Tabbing Single-line Format with Indenting/Tabbing Mostly Single-line Format Other View Results Loading ... Hyphens, Underscores, or camelCase? Hyphens Underscores camelCase View Results Loading ... Should tags like em and strong go <em>(outside)</em> punctuation characters, or <strong>inside them</strong>? Outside, like this: <em>(outside)</em> Inside, like this: (<em>inside</em>) View Results Loading ... What is your server-side language of choice? PHP ASP Ruby Perl Python ColdFusion Java Other View Results Loading ... How many websites do you launch per year? 0 1 2-4 5-10 10-20 20+ View Results Loading ... Let's say you were writing some text-only documentation. Which sentence is clearest? Select a user and then click the Update button. Select a user and then press the Update button. Select a user and then choose the Update button. Select a user and then click Update. Select a user and then press Update. Select a user and then choose Update. Select a user and Update. View Results Loading ... Do you ever use two JavaScript libraries on the same page? Yes, but I feel guilty about it because I technically don't need to. Yes, and I have a good reason for it. Yes, what's the big deal? No View Results Loading ... If you have a degree from college and have a job, is that degree related to your current job? Yes, directly Yes, only tangentially No View Results Loading ... Would you start a new web project today and not use HTML5? No Yes View Results Loading ... What features of HTML5 have you used on production sites? New semantic elements (e.g. <nav>) Form features Audio / Video Cross document messaging Canvas Offline Storage Drag and drop Geolocation Microdata Other View Results Loading ... Do you wish there was conditional comments for all browsers? Yes. I understand the theoretical risks but I still want them. No. That's anti-web-standards (or any other reason). Don't care. View Results Loading ... In what environment do you primarily work? In a cubicle In an open office At home In an office with a door In a co-working space At a private rental office At public places (e.g. coffee shops) I'm a student (pre-college) I'm a student (college) I'm unemployed View Results Loading ... Would you rather host a 200k file on a major CDN or a 20k file self-hosted? (explanation) 200k CDN 20k Local View Results Loading ... Of these choices, what is your favorite page title structure for blog article in a specific category? [Site Name] - [Category] - [Article Title] [Article Title] - [Category] - [Site Name] [Article Title] [Article Title] - [Site Name] [Site Name] - [Article Title] View Results Loading ... What's your favorite page title separator? - – — < > → ← | • · ‹ › : :: ~ / View Results Loading ... Let's say you have a 350k image that looks absolutely beautiful as a full page background image. 2% of your traffic is mobile traffic. Do you... Keep it. You realize the image is heavy, but beauty has costs and this one is worth it. Ditch it. It's just too heavy to be practical. View Results Loading ... What do you think is reasonable page size to try and stay under for a modern web design? 100k 200k 350k 500k 750k 1MB 1.5MB 2MB Over 2MB is OK View Results Loading ... Test your internet connection speed right now. What is your download speed? Less than 1 Mbps 1-2 Mbps 2-4 Mbps 4-8 Mbps 8-12 Mbps 12-16 Mbps 16-20 Mbps 20-30 Mbps 30-50 Mbps Over 50 Mbps View Results Loading ... In the next 10 years, will there be a serious alternative to CSS? Yep Nope View Results Loading ...