Category: A List Apart
From pixels to prose, coding to content.
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A List Apart: a change is gonna come, I can feel it
TODAY, TWO invaluable contributors to A List Apart move on, and a new member joins our ranks: Aaron Gustafson (@aarongustafson), author of Adaptive Web Design (the clearest, most beautiful explanation of progressive enhancement I’ve ever…
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A List Apart: Pricing Strategy for Creatives
FREELANCERS AND STUDIO HEADS, learn what your rates say about your brand, and discover how to make more money by raising your rate strategically. A List Apart: Pricing Strategy for Creatives by JASON BLUMER. Illustration…
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A List Apart: Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need
RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGNERS, don’t miss Mat Marquis’ essential article in today’s A LIST APART, for people who make websites: Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need. Mat shows why responsive images as…
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A List Apart Issue No. 342: A Pixel Identity Crisis; An Important Time for Design; Building Twitter Bootstrap
In a triple issue of A List Apart for people who make websites, it’s time for designers to seize the day! Transcend mobile platform differences, harness the power of an open-source front-end toolkit, and band…
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Getting Started with Sass – A List Apart
CSS’ simplicity has always been one of its most welcome features. But as our sites and apps get bigger and become more complex, and target a wider range of devices and screen sizes, this simplicity—so…
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Survey for people who make websites
THIS WEEK some friends launched Contents Magazine. Last night other friends threw a party to announce the new (free) Readability. Every day, around the world, hundreds of thousands of web people make magic, working in…
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A List Apart 335: Banish your inner critic; tear down the wall between designer and client
BANISH THE INNER CRITIC that blocks your creativity and tear down the wall between you and your client that design buzzwords create. It’s easy with help from Issue No. 335 of A List Apart for…
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Boston Globe’s Responsive Redesign. Discuss.
AS EVERY WEB DESIGNER not living under a rock hopefully already knows, The Boston Globe has had a responsive redesign at the hands of some of today’s best designers and developers: The spare Globe website…
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A List Apart 334
IN ISSUE NO. 334 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Marry Your Clients: Learn to keep the client/agency relationship warm and passionate over time. Being Human is Good Business: Turn word of…
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ALA: A Primer on A/B Testing
DATA IS AN invaluable tool for web designers making decisions about the user experience. A/B tests, or split tests, are one of the easiest ways to measure the effect of different design, content, or functionality,…
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A List Apart: Making up Stories – Perception, Language, and the Web
WE LEARN AND RETAIN information through stories because they turn information into more than the sum of its parts. But what makes a story a story, and what does it mean for the digital world…
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Web Governance: Becoming an Agent of Change – A List Apart
SHIPPING IS EASY, making real change is hard. To do meaningful web work, we need to educate clients on how their websites influence their business and the legal, regulatory, brand, and financial risks they face…
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Designing Fun – A List Apart
HOW DO YOU DEFINE FUN on the web? Fun means different things to different people. Debra Levin Gelman says that to create fun, we need to allow users to create, play, and explore. Learn how…
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A Book Apart Photo Pool on Flickr
LET YOUR NERD FLAG FLY! Now there is a Flickr group for A Book Apart readers. Come one, come all. Share beauty shots of your A Book Apart collection. Share unboxing photos. Share pictures of…
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Responsive Design. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
ON 25 MAY 2010, when Ethan Marcotte coined the phrase “responsive web design,” he defined it as using fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries to deliver elegant visual experiences (e.g. layouts and type treatments)…