The Daily Report
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CSS Best Practices – An Event Apart
LUKE WROBLEWSKI: “In her ‘Our Best Practices Are Killing Us’ presentation at An Event Apart in Minneapolis MN, Nicole Sullivan walked through common CSS best practices that have outlived their usefulness and what we can…
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10K Apart – Responsive Edition
AS THE TITLE indicates, this year’s 10K contest requires that your applications be “reasonably responsive” (yes, it’s vague by design). The Responsive Design movement Ethan pioneered is still learning how to walk in the real…
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Two Years Ago: HTML5 SuperFriends Meet in New York
IMG_4991.JPG | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
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Downtime at Disney World
DAY TWO, mid-day, taking a breather in our hotel room. Listening to my daughter play with her tiny new Disney figurines. In the distance, the gull-like shrieks of children in the hotel pool.
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My week on narcotics
THE DREAMS YOU HAVE when you’re withdrawing from narcotics make David Lynch look like an After School Special hack. How I got on narcotics was outpatient, noninvasive surgery on a double hernia. I got the…
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A Book Apart Photo Pool on Flickr
LET YOUR NERD FLAG FLY! Now there is a Flickr group for A Book Apart readers. Come one, come all. Share beauty shots of your A Book Apart collection. Share unboxing photos. Share pictures of…
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Essential iPhone Photo Apps
“EVER SINCE the iPhone 3GS, the iPhone has become my primary camera. Aside from its terrific image quality, it’s the abundance of photo apps that make it shine. I get asked a lot about what…
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How could I refuse?
Message: To Whom it may Concern, I recently discovered your “Home” page here: http://www.zeldman.com/2010/10/17/ipad-as-the-new-flash/ Would you please consider adding a link to my website called Job-Applications.com? It is a resource that provides hundreds of printable…
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Responsive Design. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
ON 25 MAY 2010, when Ethan Marcotte coined the phrase “responsive web design,” he defined it as using fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries to deliver elegant visual experiences (e.g. layouts and type treatments)…
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RFPs and Proposals, Oh, My!
ISSUE NO. 330 of A List Apart for people who make websites tackles the thorny problem of using paper or PDF to convince potential clients you’re the right team for the job. RFPs: The Least…
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Cameron Diaz and Me
THE FIRST PART has long been known: Saw Cameron Diaz on her way to the gym. I was wearing the shirt I’d slept in, walking my dog, holding a bag of shit. Now, here’s the…
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Print in Digital Clothing
The iPad was supposed to be the saviour of magazines, but so far, most magazine apps have been “same same, but digital.” Sparksheet Creative Director Charles Lim argues it’s time for designers to shed their…
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My Favorite Mac Software (on Bagcheck)
Mac Software I Can’t Live (or Work) Withoutby Jeffrey Zeldman Updated! See all 28 items
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A Design Apart: Q&A with Jeffrey Zeldman | On Redesigns and the Inseparable Link Between Design and Content
“REDESIGNS REQUIRE STRATEGY, otherwise they are merely reskinning. We don’t do reskinning. We do strategic redesigns that help the people who use your website achieve their goals. Strategic redesign starts with research. The notion that…
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This media life – and death
IN A GORGEOUSLY PACED ESSAY at n+1, “the magazine that believes history isn’t over just yet,” an amazing young (22?) writer named Alice Gregory reviews a novel by Gary Shteyngart while simultaneously describing her exhausted…