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Big Web Show No. 66 | David Sleight on publishing, devices, and the web
IN BIG WEB SHOW Episode No. 66, Jeffrey Zeldman interviews veteran web designer and publishing creative director David Sleight about how traditional publishers can transition to creating successful digital experiences, and the (mostly conceptual) obstacles…
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Big Web Show No. 65 | Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type
IN EPISODE NO. 65 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”), I interview Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type on where we are with web fonts, real web type in real…
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Web type links from an interview with Typekit and Nice Web Type’s Tim Brown
MY BIG WEB SHOW INTERVIEW with Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type will be posted tomorrow. Meanwhile, here are some of the links our rapid-fire idea exchanged touched upon: FacitWeb on Typekit: https://typekit.com/fonts/facitweb…
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Replacing the -9999px hack (new image replacement)
IN THE BEGINNING was FIR, AKA Fahrner Image Replacement (note that one of the following links returns a 404): The Daily Report’s 2003 redesign uses (and our book explained) an image replacement technique intended to…
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A List Apart No. 345: Responsive content: thinking beyond pages; from research to content strategy to meaningful project deliverables.
IN ISSUE NO. 345 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Future-Ready Content by SARA WACHTER-BOETTCHER The future is flexible, and we’re bending with it. From responsive web design to futurefriend.ly thinking, we’re…
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The Big Web Show #64: Jenn Lukas – You Code, Girl!
IN EPISODE No. 64 of The Big Web Show, I interview front-end developer Jenn Lukas about how to tell if you’re a designer or coder; in-house versus product development versus consulting; Girl Develop It, a…
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Big Web Show Podcast #63: Michael Surtees and me on Interaction Design, Apps, and Blogging
I INTERVIEW Michael Surtees, founding partner and creative director at Gesture Theory, co-creator of Deckpub (“the future of publishing on iPad”), and author of Design notes in Episode No. 63 of The Big Web Show,…
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A List Apart No. 344: the new Webkit monoculture
ISSUE NO. 344 of A List Apart for people who make websites asks the musical question, “Webkit monoculture: threat or menace?” The Vendor Prefix Predicament: ALA’s Eric Meyer Interviews Tantek Çelik by ERIC MEYER, TANTEK…
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Kristina Halvorson – Message and Medium: Better Content by Design
IN THIS presentation, live at An Event Apart, Kristina Halvorson teaches you to identify your key business messages, understand how they inform your content strategy, and learn how they impact multi-channel content development and design.…
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Big Web Show Podcast #62: Kristofer Layon and me on Mobile Web Design
AUTHOR KRISTOFER LAYON (@klayon) joins me to discuss his book, Mobilizing Web Sites: Strategies for Mobile Web Implementation in Episode No. 62 of The Big Web Show, my weekly podcast on “everything web that matters.”…
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A better Photoshop grid for responsive web design
IN MAKING the move to responsive web design, one of the potential hurdles is the rather awkward maths for calculating the percentage-based widths necessary for fluid layouts. If, for example, you’re designing with a 960px…
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Mobile Web Resources
ONE of the most frequent questions we get asked about the mobile web is ‘Where do I go to learn about all this stuff?’ So here’s an extensive list of helpful tools and resources that…
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Notes from An Event Apart Atlanta 2012
LUKE WROBLEWSKI’S notes on most of the sessions from An Event Apart Atlanta, 2012, Feb. 6–8, 2012. Thanks, buddy! Properties of Intuitive Web Pages — February 7, 2012 An Event Apart: The Future of CSS…
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Fluid grids, orientation & resolution independence
IF YOU’VE spent any time building responsive websites with fluid grids, you will have encountered the shock of seeing your beautiful portrait layout distort when viewed in landscape mode (or vice-versa.) This happens because whilst…
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My Glamorous Life: Lucy Ricardo, C’est Moi
TRYING A NEW breakfast place. I tell the cashier, “Extra crispy bacon.” “Extra bacon,” she says. “No, not extra bacon. Extra crispy bacon,” I say. A fast-paced volley of shouted Spanish follows, between the cook,…