Hello everybody, welcome to the Web Designer blog!

It’s been a hectic few weeks on the title since I returned from Nevada and Microsoft’s latest developer conference. It was a great event for us to attend, with plenty of great stuff on Silverlight 2.0 and Internet Explorer 8. You’ll find a more detailed look at the show in issue 143, which hits stores on April 10th.

Steve Ballmer was there and rolled back the clock in his keynote with former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki. Tech fans will remember the outrageous ‘monkey dance’ he did at a previous Microsoft address, and he obliged this time with a spirited rallying call to “WEB developers, developers, developers…”

Anyone who hasn’t seen the original can catch it here

Expect much more MIX-related content across forthcoming issues.