While working at Clearleft, I learnt the importance of thorough planning before site development.  Planning how you are going to write the code is just as important as how you are going to design the site. It makes you really think about blocks of content as individual, reusable components and helps make your CSS more consistent and easier for someone else to understand.
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Whenever I am asked what I do by someone who doesn’t work in my industry, I find it quite hard to give them a decent response. I usually just tell them I’m a website designer, even though that’s not really accurate and I’m more confident working with code than on a design.

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I worked on the HTML and CSS for Clearleft’s dConstruct 2009 website, using microformats to mark up the schedules and locations.

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