The Daily Report
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ALA 248: Obscure meanings and addresses
In Issue No. 248 of A List Apart: Make people read your copy! Stop robots from reading your e-mail address!
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DWWS Facebook group
A few days ago, Douglas Vos of Dearborn, Michigan, created a Designing With Web Standards group in Facebook just to see what would happen.
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Deck deal
We have a slot open for November in The Deck, our advertising network for reaching creative, web and design professionals. Give us a holler if you can pull the trigger quick and we’ll make a…
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Into the murky deep
Tucked away in a quiet corner of The New York Public Library at 42nd Street sits a small, clean, neatly appointed classroom. At 3:30, we commandeered it for an impromptu meeting with an attorney.
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Don’t sleep here
Barely noticed in the builders’ gold rush, the poorest poor, pushed off the benches of Madison Square Park, take shelter in the very construction sites that signify their doom. (Photo essay.)
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Faster, pussycat
Have you ever bought clothes while traveling, and been unable to fit everything in your suitcase when it was time to go home? That suitcase is what my days are like now.
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That’s me all over
In the coming weeks, I’ll speak at Future of Web Design (NYC), Business Week (NYC), Web Design World (Boston), and Web Directions North (Vancouver, BC).
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Findings from the Web Design Survey
In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals participated, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web…
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We live as we dream
My cold is in its second week; I slept less than four hours last night. Yesterday we decided to check out the housing market in our neighborhood and ended up making a bid. Tomorrow, if…
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Congrats, Al
One day our daughter, who is now three, will thank you. And so will her children, whose existence you will have helped make possible.
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Please and thank you
An Event Apart thanks its attendees, speakers, and sponsors for a great 2007, and announces dates and locations for 2008.
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Testing designs for color-blindness
Even experienced designers can find it hard to predict how their work willappear to people with various kinds of color-blindness. Two tools can help.
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Not at our desk
Apologies for the quiet, here. We’ve been enjoying family time in San Francisco, leading up to the final Event Apart show of the year.
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Say hello to web standards
There’s something new at Apple’s online store: web standards and accessibility.
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God Knocks
“It’s becoming a bedroom community for people who work on Wall Street,” the Wife says of our beloved NYC. Today a small one-bedroom costs over a million. But if Osama bin Laden could not chase…