Category: A List Apart
From pixels to prose, coding to content.
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A List Apart 254: Design, Design
Issue No. 254 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, is all about design.
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Version targeting, take two
In Issue No. 253 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Jeremy Keith says version targeting in IE8 is all right but its default is all wrong. I argue that the default seems…
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ALA 252: New library, long hallway
Keep your markup clean with DOM scripting and learn to play nice in the long hallway.
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All Bits on Deck!
We’re as pleased as pale punch to welcome web designer, CSS whiz, microformats monger, icon designer, outstanding public speaker, and best-selling CSS-design-book author Dan Cederholm and his freshly redesigned SimpleBits site to The Deck, our…
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In defense of version targeting
We knew when we published this issue of A List Apart that it would light a match to the gaseous underbelly of standards-based web design, but we thought more than a handful of readers would…
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Not your father’s standards switch
For seven years, the DOCTYPE switch has stood designers and developers in good stead as a toggle between standards mode and quirks mode. But when IE7 “broke the web,” the quest was on to find…
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ALA 250: HTML 5, design for flow
Go with the flow and open your mind to HTML 5.
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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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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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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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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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Client input, iPhone constraints
Collaborative work sessions that actually work; designing and coding with the iPhone in mind.
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Block
The longest journey begins. Or doesn’t.
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Web type, iPhone content
In Issue 244 of A List Apart, father of CSS Håkon Lie advocates real TrueType fonts in web design, while Iconfactory’s Craig Hockenberry describes in detail how to optimize websites for iPhone.