The Daily Report
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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,…
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A List Apart: a change is gonna come, I can feel it
TODAY, TWO invaluable contributors to A List Apart move on, and a new member joins our ranks: Aaron Gustafson (@aarongustafson), author of Adaptive Web Design (the clearest, most beautiful explanation of progressive enhancement I’ve ever…
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A List Apart: Pricing Strategy for Creatives
FREELANCERS AND STUDIO HEADS, learn what your rates say about your brand, and discover how to make more money by raising your rate strategically. A List Apart: Pricing Strategy for Creatives by JASON BLUMER. Illustration…
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A List Apart: Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need
RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGNERS, don’t miss Mat Marquis’ essential article in today’s A LIST APART, for people who make websites: Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need. Mat shows why responsive images as…
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Dyson to NY: drop dead
DYSON’S WEBSITE won’t sell me a vacuum cleaner. It claims New York, a U.S. state it provides in its own drop-down menu, is “not a valid state.” I have previously ordered Dyson products from the…
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Accident
CAR JUST HIT ME as I was crossing street. Van carrying old people. Driver didn’t see me. Van struck my head. # I punched door. Driver and passengers stared at me. Time slowed way down.…
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A List Apart Issue No. 342: A Pixel Identity Crisis; An Important Time for Design; Building Twitter Bootstrap
In a triple issue of A List Apart for people who make websites, it’s time for designers to seize the day! Transcend mobile platform differences, harness the power of an open-source front-end toolkit, and band…
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Ding dong, SOPA is dead.
DING DONG, THE WITCH IS DEAD. For now, at least, the “ill-conceived lobbyist-driven piece of legislation” known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is no more: Misguided efforts to combat online privacy have been…