By Uco GuyThe acronym "PMP" stands for Project management professional and certification that places an emphasise in the expertise and a varied knowledge in management projects. A professional with this certification is internationally recognized and given huge respect with regards to the perception of handling large management projects with precision and a can-do attitude. The Professional

… have a good design sense and understand the fundamentals / design principals.
… know all the major design software including the entire Adobe Creative Suite.
… have some basic video editing skills.
… know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
… know enough about server-side languages (PHP, ASP, Ruby, Python, etc) to understand how they work, what they do, and the possibilities of their use.
… know about servers, hosting, domain registrants, DNS, etc. Setting it up, and fixing it when it breaks.
… know OS X really well (and enough Windows to get by) or know Windows really well (and enough OS X to get by) and know a huge variety of utility software that goes with.
… are good photographers.
… can color correct photos and work in RAW.
… can cut clipping paths or otherwise extract objects from photos.
… have a killer online portfolio.
… are a personable, nice people that are good with clients.
… can help clients with anything even vaguely computer-related.
… are quick to adapt to new software and new technologies.
… can train fellow employees.
… can train clients on the use of their websites.
… are good communicators.
… are team players.
… have good taste in art, music and movies.
… are up to date on social media.
… are good at logic and deduction.
… are good at user experience and user testing.
… are SEO experts.
… know about and how to handle web accessibility (and the laws surrounding it)
… understand copyright laws.
… do progressive enhancement and graceful degradation techniques.
… can debug cross-browser problems and older browser bugs.
… can bring your own client base.
… are healthy, well groomed, and wear fancy t-shirts.
… can be on-call at all times for emergencies.
… have college degrees in design-related fields.
… own very nice and expensive computers full of expensive software.
… can design for mobile devices.
… are good typographers.

Partly tongue-in-cheek of course… but not entirely. The list of things a modern web designer should know is long, and each skill feels like it could be a lifetime in itself. Good luck learning that in a 2 or 4 year program (not that that isn’t a good start).

This year on 24 Ways, Jeffrey Zeldman wrote an article about the rending problems of “real fonts” on the web. The one line summary: different browsers and different platforms do “hinting” differently which can be bad news. Of course, like nearly everything Mr. Zeldman says, he has a good point.

Then Jeffrey Veen chimed in:

Now it’s screen rendering. Next, it will be the performance implications of downloading fonts with international character sets. After that? Maybe inconsistent browser support of kerning metrics, ligatures, or other Open Type Metrics.

It’s going to be a long road.

Kinda puts thing in perspective doesn’t it?

In the long long ago, we used <font> tags. Then there was CSS, but we still only had the “core” web fonts. People were fed up and technologies like sIFR emerged. Now @font-face is really getting legs, but there are legal implications. So services like TypeKit emerge to help. But now font hinting creeps in and we get unhappy again. Then after that is solved, as Mr. Veen points out, there will be a long line of new things to be unhappy about. I can think of a few myself, for example, since fonts are vector, why can’t we apply strokes to them on the web?

I think we’re all going to need to be critical and help push things forward, but remain glass-half-full at the progress that has been made.

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