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‘Creative’ is the most popular adjective in the design world. Everybody wants to be a creative individual, find a creative solution, or discover a creative book. There are many synonyms for the word ‘creative’: ingenious , clever , prolific , innovative , gifted , inspired , inventive , original , stimulating . But what does this word really mean?
Before you start By reading this tutorial you will learn practical details of how to implement a semantic URI scheme, the conceptual structure of the pages of your Web site, and how to apply microformats and RDFa to your markup to add semantic value to your Web pages. The tutorial will focus on certain aspects of Apache configuration and the rendered HTML, rather than the PHP and MySQL itself, so even if you only have a superficial understanding of those two technologies, you can still follow along. About this tutorial This tutorial shows you how to use Semantic Web technologies in the context of a very simple social networking site, SemanticBook (see Prerequisites to access the site). SemanticBook represents your friends by a URI that you can use on any other site, allowing your network of friends to be embedded into a wider network across multiple sites.
With that said, I think it is important that we take all of these things in moderation and limit our consumption of design tutorials and sources of "inspiration". While all of this is a great method for keeping up with the design community and making sure you’re using the latest and greatest methods and standards, I find it a poor formula for sparking true creativity and innovation. I find an increasing discomfort with the idea of starting a project — be it a personal or professional one — by looking at what other designers have done. Looking at how your problem has been solved before in order to come up with a solution is probably a good idea, but here is the problem, though: we aren’t mathematicians, we are called upon as a source of creativity and asked to produce beautiful and unique experiences. I believe that most designers do strive to be unique individuals .