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In this interview I speak with Miro Keller. Miro is the founder of the AXR project. The AXR project is not only open source but also aims to transform the foundations of web design and development. At first glace the project seems like a long shot, but the deeper you go the more you learn.

I hope you enjoy this interview. I personally endorse the AXR project for its creativity and innovative ideas. As you will see Miro is passionate about the AXR project and very sharp when it comes to web standards. Thanks Miro!

In this interview I speak with Dan Rubin about design and ask if a web designer should code. Dan is the owner of Webgraphinc and co-author of Web Standard Creativity, Pro CSS Techniques and Cascading Style Sheets.

I hope you enjoy this interview as Dan talks about his thoughts on web design and the community at large. Dan is an excellent designer and I am honored to have the opportunity to share this interview with you today.

In this interview I speak with Saul Colt about the Freshbooks redesign, customers and start a web service. Saul has been an advocate for Freshbooks for some time. He has helped develop their brand and community over the years with great success.

I hope you enjoy this interview and gain a new prospective on working with customers, building new features and finding your passion. Saul is a great person and is super enthusiastic about Freshbooks. I use Freshbooks personally for my own invoicing and I was not paid to interview Saul.

In this interview I speak with Ari Stiles about the online conferences at Environments For Humans and how it all started. Ari has been in the web community for some time and has worked with SXSW and helped build In Control. Both Ari and Christopher Schmitt have truly uncovered something great with E4H.

Ari is a great person and friend. She is very active in the web community and continues to reach out and bring the webs best and their knowledge to everyone though the conferences. I really hope you enjoy my chat with Ari and get a closer look behind the curtain. Thanks Ari!

• It is easy to hate on people. It is harder to do your research and resolve problems quietly.
• It is easy to think you deserve respect and others time. It is harder to have humility.
• It is hard to respond to those who take the easy path. They don’t care because caring is hard.

To end today’s reflection on “it”. Crying selfishly is not very smart. Don’t cry about it, do something about it in a creative way. There is more than one way to get results.

All you have is the skin on your back. Don’t be stupid and think too much of yourself. Pride ruins everything. It is the ultimate human virus.

In this video I speak with Paul Boag about the Boagworld podcast and how it relates to his success. Paul has hosted the award winning Boagworld podcast for many year. He is an adviser, partner at Headscape, professional speaker and author of the “Website Owner Manual“.

In this interview Paul dives into his path as a professional and how he came to podcasting. I highly respect Paul. Through his podcast I found my start in web design. I hope you enjoy this interview. Thanks Paul!

Here is the list of advanced features I would put in a system. This doesn’t include the basics as it is a personal list of items for me to expand on later. You can come back for more. I do plan to make my own Open Source CMS one day but not until I have had what I deem enough experience. Three years from now maybe.

This list doesn’t include some features you would expect because some things are better kept as plugins/modules. This is not my laundry list of wants. This is a list of what a good content management system would have.

The idea was inspired by my bad experiences with WordPress. I love WordPress guys. It is great. But, sometimes we need a fresh start or simply a project to show us how wrong we are.

Features

Content Management

• Custom content types that can have other content types as children.
• Multi relational taxonomies that can be used for many content types.
• Custom fields for content types and taxonomies.
• Dynamic organization of media content.
• The ability to group many media files into many groups. Good media grouping.
• Custom and independent theme menu system

Users

• Permissions and capabilities for roles and not for users.
• Multiple roles for users.

Development

• Site backup extension.
• Site performance and caching extensions.
• Command line tool.
• Cron and admin notification system.
• Easy querying of content.
• Localization.
• Easy one click FTP updating.
• Modularized automatic updates.

Themes

• Site themes and child themes.
• No admin themes but full output filtering.

Its that time again. The advent calendar of web design is pumping out 24 more post until the day of Christmas. 24 Ways. This is one of the few blogs I look forward to each year.

24 Ways is a blog for web designers and developers published at the time of Christmas. Each day until the 25th of December an expert in the web community blogs about current and influential topics. These range from design to business development.

It has been a true pleasure to join the crew. It has already been an experience I will never forget. These guys are great.

In my first episode, 140, on the podcast we spoke about bloated webpages pages, flash and mobile, the new foursquare and so much more. You can find the episode on the SitePoint website and subscribe to the show there as well.

I owe a huge thanks to the team that makes this possible. There are so many people that make the show tick.

So, thank you. I only hope to measure up to your expectations.