The Daily Report

  • Better know a speaker: Dan Cederholm

    Better know a speaker: Dan Cederholm

    What’s up with Dan Cederholm these days?

  • My Ding-a-Links

    My Ding-a-Links

    Fight for your right to publish. Ponder a Google-Wikipedia mashup, recycle old ipods and cell phones, generate diagonal backgrounds (with or without gradients), study Hitchcock’s visual storytelling techniques, and more.

  • It’s a dirty job…

    It’s a dirty job…

    And we hope you’ll take it. Happy Cog Philadelphia seeks a fabulous project manager. Must communicate superbly, value great work and great client relationships, respect deadlines and the creative process, enjoy Basecamp and love Philadelphia.…

  • Let there be web divisions

    Let there be web divisions

    Almost no one who makes websites works in their company or organization’s web division—because almost no company or organization has a web division. That void on the org chart is one reason we have so…

  • WCAG Controversy and Human Design

    WCAG Controversy and Human Design

    By introducing testability and dumping accessibility criteria that are untestable, WCAG 2.0 may hurt the very people who need it most, argues former working group invited expert Gian Sampson-Wild in an important and timely ALA…

  • An Event Apart iMix

    An Event Apart iMix

    By popular demand: most of the music from between sessions at An Event Apart Seattle 2007.

  • “Maybe” is one option too many

    “Maybe” is one option too many

    “Maybe” is one option too many. As a best practice, we should dispense with it, just as we should replace five-star rating systems with four-star ones.

  • The Beatles slept here

    The Beatles slept here

    My body insists it’s 10:30 at night, but the sun tells a different story. That orb has barely begun to set over Puget Sound, whose ripples magnify and fragment its blinding whiteness. The sun and…

  • Hi, Mom!

    Hi, Mom!

    In a Special Report, Business Week focuses on designers creating innovation by crossing disciplines and combining technologies. I’m one of ten designers they profile. I kind of had to blog this.

  • bgcolor follies

    bgcolor follies

    If you forget to set your site’s background color, your visitors may do it for you. A mini-photo gallery. Collect your own!

  • When is e-mail like a bad website?

    When is e-mail like a bad website?

    Nokia sent a friend an HTML e-mail message. I’ve broken it into five screen shots, because it won’t fit on one. E-mail, as a medium, really doesn’t want to carry all this freight.

  • ALA 239: Designer frameworks and robot designers

    ALA 239: Designer frameworks and robot designers

    Take web design off the production line. Design better by offloading routine tasks.

  • Eight points for better e-mail relationships

    Eight points for better e-mail relationships

    Okay, so under the right circumstances, when people have requested it, e-mail can be a platform for design. Here are eight ways to make it work better (and avoid pissing off people who hate HTML…

  • E-mail is not a platform for design

    E-mail is not a platform for design

    ASCII means never having to say you’re sorry.

  • Daily Reports from 1997 on

    Daily Reports from 1997 on

    You don’t need the WayBack machine to go way back in zeldman.com history. Enjoy these representative Daily Report pages from 1997 on (including the famous HTML Fist).