Standards for Life is all about living and designing according to certain standards, not arbitrarily but to better my life and the world my life collides with. Those standards, when designing, follow web standards, which means no messy markup which tries to tell a browser what the site should look like, only how it should read. It means keeping code accurate and clean so that it validates, but I’m not a web standards nazi, so if your site doesn’t validate, I won’t hunt you down. I believe in mercy for the web developer (and for the Christian).
In life, standards come from the Bible. Yes, I am one of those. Though I technically believe the same things, I tend to me more “conservatively conservative” and as I used to tell my mom, “I put the ‘fun’ in fundamentalism.” ;) For more, read my statement of faith, or browse through some posts on the topic.
About Natalie Jost
I’m a mom and wife first and in what little time I have left I design web sites. I write here when I can and I usually stick to topics that involve design and my faith as a Christian. I write what I want, when I want but I value your input. Here, let Molly say it for me:
I’m absolutely certain that I blog for myself. My blog is the all-me, all-the-time station. That’s its purpose, and if zero, ten, or ten thousand people read or stopped reading, it wouldn’t matter. I’d blog to an empty house or a full one.
Some useless facts about me
- I hate the taste of water.
- I love, love, love Mexican food… from Mexico.
- I have three kids, two of which were born four minutes apart.
- My birthday falls during summer break, which I hated growing up.
- I learned to cook at the age of 30.
- I didn’t know how to swim until I was 12.
- My favorite color is red.
- I change 150 diapers in a week.
- I can’t stand comedians who curse or talk about sex and find it sad that their humor ends there.
- Being pregnant nearly kills me every time.
- I’m taller than most everyone I know, including my groom.
- I’m adopted and found my birth mother.
- I believe in the pre-trib rapture but not because of the Left Behind books.
- I grew up in southern California and met a lot of famous people. Whoop-de-do.
- I have a weird phobia of shadeless windows at night. If it’s dark out the curtains**have* to be closed!
- I can’t stand nuts, be they macadamia, coco, wal, left-wing…
- I once smoked pot, and another time baked it and ate it.
- I once got stranded at a party where I didn’t know anyone because I drank too much and made out with my friend’s boyfriend.
- I once danced on a table in a seedy Mexican restaurant in the bad part of town - that time I wasn’t drunk.
- I once worked in a casino running chips.
- I once woke up in a bathroom stall in Tijuana.
- I later found Christ and gladly gave that all up - life is so much more fun now! :)
- I’m not a perfect Christian. “What? You’re kidding!” Nope. I still make mistakes.
