The Daily Report
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An Event Apart: What Every Web Designer Should Know
IN HIS OPENING KEYNOTE at An Event Apart in Atlanta, GA 2011 Jeffrey Zeldman talked about the skills and opportunities that should be top of mind for everyone designing on the web today. Here’s my…
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An Event Apart Atlanta 2011
YOU FIND ME ENSCONCED in the fabulous Buckhead, Atlanta Intercontinental Hotel, preparing to unleash An Event Apart Atlanta 2011, three days of design, code, and content strategy for people who make websites. Eric Meyer and…
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Jane – Kafka for Lovers
JANE IS A FAMOUS British comic begun during WWII to improve troop morale. The title character is a plucky English lady who always seems to lose her clothes at inopportune moments. This strange predeliction was…
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W3C Finalizes CSS 2.1; Meyer, Gustafson, Pope, and Malarkey weigh in.
“CASCADING STYLE SHEETS Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification (or CSS 2.1 to its friends) has become a real boy, with W3C stamping its seal of approval and making the spec a W3C Recommendation. But…
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Bye-bye, Britain
SO LONG, Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, London, and Walton-on-Thames. Your roundabouts dizzied me, your web design event inspired me, and your brilliant friendly people warmed my heart. See you soon! (Meanwhile, thanks for these memories:…
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Responsive Web Design – The Book
SOME IDEAS SEEM inevitable once they arrive. It’s impossible for me to conceive of the universe before rock and roll or to envision Christmas without Mr Dickens’s Carol, and it’s as tough for my kid…
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16 years online
ON MAY 31, 2011, this website turned sixteen years old. Thank you for indulging me. (And thanks to Sean M. Hall for reminding me.) Here is a reflection written when the site turned 13. And…
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One blog post is worth a thousand portfolio pieces.
I HIRED JASON SANTA MARIA after reading this post on his site. The year was 2004. Douglas Bowman, one of my partners on a major project, had just injured himself and was unable to work.…
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Progressive enhancement: all you need to know is here
ONE GLORIOUS AFTERNOON in March, 2006, as a friend and I hurried past Austin’s Downtown Hilton Hotel to catch the next session of the SXSW Interactive Festival, a young stranger arrested our progress. With no…
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Big Web Show No. 50: Jenville
O’REILLY AUTHOR, INTERVIEWER OF ROCK STARS, and longtime web and UX designer Jen Robbins (jenville.com, @jenville) is our guest in Episode No. 50 of The Big Web Show, to be recorded in front of a…
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Big Web Show No. 49: Popularity
“GUT-PUNCHING HONESTY.”- @Boyd Waters “One of the best BWS episodes yet.” – @Piers Rippey Dan Benjamin and I discuss the intersection of community and popularity on the web and in terms of podcasts and social…
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An interview with Jeffrey Zeldman
WALT DISNEY AND ME, a typical day, running Happy Cog, building An Event Apart, what’s next for A Book Apart, and more: DIBI, the design/build conference, presents An interview with Jeffrey Zeldman for your pleasure. (I…
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On Creative Direction
IN MY APPRENTICE DAYS, I worked for Marvin Honig, a Hall of Fame copywriter who created indelible commercials for Alka-Seltzer, Cracker Jack, and Volkswagen during the 1960s and 1970s, and who assumed creative leadership of…
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Letter of the Month
Hi Jeffrey, Back in 2004 we had been running Headscape for three years. Things were going well but personally I was a little dissatisfied with my career. I just wasn’t as excited about the web…