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The Blue Beanie Day 2009 party is over, and by many reports (google shows 492,000) it was a happy and festive day in support of Web Standards — and a big success.

Partying With Web Standards - in Los Angeles

We’re still sweeping up the confetti, and emptying the ashtrays after the last visitor left the party.  We still have some awards to give out, and a few books to give away.  Meanwhile, Andy Clark says  Taylor Swift is still recovering from the after party hangover, and Max Weir is trying to figure out if the CSS Squirrel is a nut case.

Next Monday (Nov. 30, 2009) is the 3rd annual International Blue Beanie Day in support of Web Standards.

This year, I made a video to help promote it.

The third annual Blue Beanie Day will be celebrated on Monday, November 30, 2009

Thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show their support for accessible, semantic web content.

3rd Annual Blue Beanie Day

It’s easy to show your support for web design done right. Beg, borrow, or buy a Blue Beanie (or Blue Toque in Canada) and snap a photo of your mug wearing the blue. (Or get creative with Photoshop). Then on November 30, switch your profile picture in Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, (and any other social network) and post your photo to the Blue Beanie Day group at Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bluebeanieday2009/ .

It’s easy to participate:

1. Make a personal commitment to fight Web Standards apathy. Show solidarity with the Standardistas on Monday, November 30th, 2009.
2. Buy, beg, or borrow a Blue Beanie (blue hat or cap, even a black or grey one will do in a pinch.)
3. Take a photo of yourself wearing the Blue Beanie. Or take a cool group photo of you and your friends wearing Blue Beanies.
4. Post your photo, or photos to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and other social networks on Monday, November 30th, 2009. Remember to switch your Facebook profile photo that day, too!
5. Start by inviting all your friends to the Facebook Event for Blue Beanie Day 2009.
6. Promote Blue Beanie Day on your blog, wiki, facebook page, twitter tweets — telling all your friends to get ready for Blue Beanie Day. 

I’ve been studying CSS Grid Frameworks for the past couple weeks.  Here are some links to several CSS Frameworks that I found interesting, elegant, and useful:

• 960 Grid System – A mature and stable CSS Framework, that uses a fixed width page layout of 960 pixels, along with the flexibility of  12 or 16 columns.  (Created by Nathan Smith of  SonSpring)
• Blueprint – An elegant and complete CSS Framework that includes a CSS reset (similar to Eric Meyer’s Reset) that eliminates deals with the discrepancies across browsers, a solid grid that can support most complex layouts (without reverting to crazy HTML table-based design patterns), expert typographical principles, CSS form styles for great looking user interfaces, and CSS print styles for making any webpage ready for printing out on paper. (Created and maintained by Christian Montoya and the Blueprint community.)
• The Golden Grid – A simple CSS Framework for HTML web page design, by Vladimir Carrer from Italy