Year: 2009

  • NYC microformats workshop

    NYC microformats workshop

    Attend the first-ever microformats workshop to be held in New York City. n Event Apart fans get 40% off the advance price of $195 (regular $375) with discount code aea40 when you order by midnight…

  • Write When Inspired

    Write When Inspired

    In writing four books and an unknown quantity of articles and blog posts, I’ve discovered the simple secret to maintaining quality. I share it with you here in mnemonic nursery rhyme fashion

  • Links for a Thursday

    Links for a Thursday

    Free tool to create EOT Lite webfonts; interview with CSS web comic whiz; Apple exonerated of censoring iPhone dictionary; “a new breed of documentary photographers.”

  • Past Blast

    Past Blast

    We’ve got mail!

  • ALA 289: Redesign yourself

    ALA 289: Redesign yourself

    In Issue No. 289 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: 90% of web design is redesign. The hardest redesigns are the ones you do for yourself. In this special issue, we look…

  • Happy Cog and Airbag merge

    Happy Cog and Airbag merge

    Happy Cog™ and Airbag Industries, two leading and influential web design firms, announce that they are merging, effective today, August 3, 2009. The resulting super-agency will be called Happy Cog, and will maintain studios in…

  • The Amanda Project

    The Amanda Project

    Designed by Happy Cog and launched today, The Amanda Project is a media social network, writing project, and book series combined.

  • Editorial Intern Wanted

    Editorial Intern Wanted

    We’re looking for one good intern. Experience the publication process from first draft through galleys and launch; learn from industry and community leaders who are funny, smart, and nice.

  • Dear Daddy

    Dear Daddy

  • In-Box Twenty

    In-Box Twenty

    What’s inside.

  • Why Standards Fail

    Why Standards Fail

    An old (2000) essay by CSS co-creator Bert Bos, ostensibly written to explain the principles behind W3C standards development, actually sheds light on what separates great design from the muck we normally wade through. It…

  • ALA 288: Access & semantics

    ALA 288: Access & semantics

    In Issue No. 288 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: How to integrate accessibility with front-end development instead of treating it as an afterthought—an item on a checklist. And why not every…

  • Web fonts, HTML 5 roundup

    Web fonts, HTML 5 roundup

    Excellent, informative third-party posts on web fonts, CSS3, and HTML 5.

  • Web Fonts Now, for real

    Web Fonts Now, for real

    David Berlow of The Font Bureau has proposed a Permissions Table for OpenType that can be implemented immediately to turn raw fonts into web fonts without any wrappers or other nonsense. If adopted, it will…

  • Brighter Planet beta

    Brighter Planet beta

    The Happy Cog-designed social network for Brighter Planet is now in public beta. Come on down, kick the tires, and hang out with like-minded people.