the Daily Report
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ALA 275: Duty Now For The Future
What better way to begin 2009 than by looking at the future of web design? In Issue No. 275 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, we study the promise and problems of…
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An Event Apart redesigned
There’s a new aneventapart.com in town, featuring a 2009 schedule and a reformulated design. I designed the new site and Eric Meyer coded. (Validation freaks, only validator.nu is up to the task of recognizing the…
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Time Warner Cable canceling Noggin?
Although Time Warner Cable’s uncountable levels of existential suckage could induce vomiting in a giraffe, reality is never as clear-cut as a crawl on Noggin.
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Recession tips for web designers
“For web designers, there are four keys to surviving bad economic times: do good work, charge a fair price, lower your overhead, and be sure you are communicating with your client. As a reader of…
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It’s a gift! Desktop for your pleasure.
Happy holidays!
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Understanding web design, live on video
Jeffrey Zeldman: Understanding Web Design is a good quality video capture of my presentation at Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference.
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The gift of carbon neutrality
Take action on climate change by giving the gift of carbon neutrality for a day, with free offsets donated by Brighter Planet.
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Laying off George
George Oates is responsible for much of what is great about Flickr. George Oates is just about the last person any sane company would lay off. I don’t know what to think about Yahoo after…
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ALA 274: The emerging content strategist
A website without a content strategy is like a speeding vehicle without a driver. Learn why content matters and how to do it right.
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Making Modular Layout Systems
Jason Santa Maria details his approach to building a modular system for laying out pages with CSS—“a handy way to predictably tame content without becoming predictable.”
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Workers of the web!
Evolt.org, the amazing resource for web developers, turned 10 on Sunday, 14 December.
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Get The Pains
A new book from the author of Acts of the Apostles.
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“Invent something new”
“Jeffrey Zeldman: Inventing Something New on the Planet” is an interview at designinterviews.com.
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Web Design World
Boston bound.
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20 signs you don’t want that web design project
Most clients are good clients, and some clients are great clients. But some jobs are just never going to work out well. Herewith, a few indicators that a project may be headed to the toilet.