The Daily Report
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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…
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The Joy of Technology
Good morning. Twitter, Facebook, iLike, and Word have imploded. M’mm, that’s good coffee!
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To be of use to others is the only true happiness. Although a 160 GB iPhone would also be nice.
iPhone and iPod classic compared.
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Just My Type of Site
i love typography cites 15 examples of typographic excellence in web design. A List Apart, ShaunInman.com, FontShop, Jesús Rodríguez Velasco, and BearskinRug Shop lead a pack of inspiring sites worth studying.
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Inappropriate “Talk Like a Pirate Day” remarks
Aaaaar! Ye have cancer, Mr Finkelstein.
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Facebook Considered Harmless
I design interfaces so I’m supposed to know about this stuff. That’s the rationale behind my spending hours of billable time adjusting my Facebook preferences. The real reason, of course, for all this stuff, is…
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First day of preschool
Nothing says Buddhism like raising a child.
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An Event Apart savings end tomorrow
$100 savings on our final Event Apart conference of the year end Saturday, September 15. If you’re planning to attend An Event Apart San Francisco, reserve your seat before the price goes up.