The Daily Report
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Happy Cog is hiring: designer wanted
Are you the designer we seek?
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ALA No. 276: Web design education
Web design education is stuck in the stone age. Survey higher education’s web design curriculum problem and participate in the movement to create a sustainable foundation for the future.
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MFA Interaction Design deadline
Today, January 15, marks the first application deadline for students to apply to the MFA Interaction Design program at School of Visual Arts. The school will continue to accept applications on a rolling admissions basis…
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Jeffrey Zeldman’s Web Standards Advisor
Newly launched Dreamweaver Extension validates HTML, CSS, and microformats and checks for subtleties of standards compliance in nine different areas—everything from structural use of headings to proper ID, class and <div> tag use.
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Jason Has Left the Building
Beginnings and endings.
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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.”