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ALA 222: wraparounds and wordsmithing

Write better text. Then wrap images around it.

Save time by tricking PHP into managing your tricky text-wrap problems; use that time to fix your About page. Everybody wins in Issue 222 of A List Apart, for people who make websites:

Your About Page Is a Robot

by Erin Kissane

Everyone has one. No one likes to talk about it. No, not that. It’s your About page, and it needs a little love. ALA’s Erin Kissane guides you through a beautiful journey of self-discovery.

Sliced and Diced Sandbags

by Rob Swan

Wouldn’t it be great if there were a way to get text to flow around an irregularly shaped image? Wouldn’t it be even better if we could automate the process? Have no fear: Rob Swan is here to show us the way.

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By L. Jeffrey Zeldman

“King of Web Standards”—Businessweek. Ava’s dad. Automattician. OG blogger/web designer. Publisher, A List Apart & A Book Apart. Author, Designing with Web Standards & Taking Your Talent to the Web. Emeritus: An Event Apart, SVA MFA IXD, Happy Cog.

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