The Daily Report
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HTML5 and CSS3 virtual classes
IF YOU’RE BONING UP on HTML5 and CSS3, you’ll want to consider two remarkable learning experiences taking place live on the web this summer: Learn HTML5 with John Allsopp Here is a great educational opportunity…
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Episode 13: Voices That Matter
Editor Michael Nolan walks writer Aarron Walter through the fine points. Photo: Ari Stiles. All our Big Web Show interviews are personal to me and feature people who make a difference in our community, but…
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HTML5 For Web Designers Sells Out
The first printing of Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 For Web Designers has sold out. For a book about web forms, semantics, and the history of markup, it’s done pretty well: The book sold 1,000 copies during…
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Type@Cooper
Starting in the fall of 2010, the Continuing Education Department of The Cooper Union, in conjunction with the Type Directors Club, will offer a Certificate Program in Typeface Design. More information about this remarkable program is available at…
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iPad Mellotron
In Heaven, if I should get there, I will play the Mellotron. Meanwhile, I play the Mellotronics M3000 HD, a $12 Mellotron for iPad (and soon for iPhone and iPod touch as well) by Synthtopia.…
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Episode 12: Web Conferences
Thursday 15 July 2010 at 1:00 PM ET, Dan Benjamin and I will try to find out what makes web design conferences tick by interviewing the founders of two of the best. During the live…
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Happy Cog redesigns Zappos.com
Free overnight shipping; a liberal return policy; friendly service: it’s no secret that Zappos.com positions the customer as the cornerstone of their brand promise. Yet despite their success, Zappos.com was a website with a problem:…
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Nicole Sullivan on CSS
Update! Episode 11 featuring Nicole Sullivan on CSS optimization is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. If writing good CSS is tough, fixing someone else’s (or multiple someones’) bad CSS is…
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CSS3: Love vendor prefixes, resize full-screen backgrounds
Learn to love vendor prefixes and create full-screen backgrounds that resize to fit the viewport in Issue No. 309 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Prefix or Posthack by ERIC MEYER Vendor…
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An InDesign for HTML and CSS?
In “CSS is the new Photoshop” (?), Adobe’s John Nack correctly observes, as have many of us, that “Cascading Style Sheets can create a great deal of artwork now, without reliance on bitmap graphics.” Nack…
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SlideShowPro adds HTML5
Most of us web folk are hybrids of one sort or another, but Todd Dominey was one of the first web designers to combine exceptional graphic design talent with serious mastery of code. Being so…
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37signals’ Jason Fried live today on The Big Web Show
I have known 37signals CEO Jason Fried since he was a young copywriter who reminded me of me, only smarter and more confident. Like many of you, with a mixture of awe and pleasure, I…
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So you want to be an epublisher
You scream, I scream, we all scream for epubs. As with all internet bounty, it’s even more exciting to produce than to consume. So after you’ve glutted yourself on all those free Jane Austen novels…
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Episode 9: Web Standards
Today at 1:00 PM EDT, join Dan Benjamin and me live as we interview designer, developer, author, lecturer, and bon vivant Ethan Marcotte (bio | blog | Twitter) for Episode 9 of The Big Web…
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Responsive design is the new black
The blog of Mr Simon Collison, retooled as responsive web design. The wide version. The blog of Mr Simon Collison, retooled as responsive web design. The narrow version. See more versions in Mr Collison’s “Media…