Category: A List Apart
From pixels to prose, coding to content.
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RFPs and Proposals, Oh, My!
ISSUE NO. 330 of A List Apart for people who make websites tackles the thorny problem of using paper or PDF to convince potential clients you’re the right team for the job. RFPs: The Least…
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16 years online
ON MAY 31, 2011, this website turned sixteen years old. Thank you for indulging me. (And thanks to Sean M. Hall for reminding me.) Here is a reflection written when the site turned 13. And…
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An interview with Jeffrey Zeldman
WALT DISNEY AND ME, a typical day, running Happy Cog, building An Event Apart, what’s next for A Book Apart, and more: DIBI, the design/build conference, presents An interview with Jeffrey Zeldman for your pleasure. (I…
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Carolyn Wood moves on
CAROLYN WOOD IS LEAVING A List Apart. Over three brilliant years, Carolyn created the position of acquisitions editor and made it shine, bringing the magazine and its readers such articles as Responsive Web Design by…
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Now You See Me…
SHOWING AND HIDING CONTENT using JavaScript-based page manipulations for tabbed interfaces, collapsible elements, and accordion widgets is a common development pattern. Learn how your choice of hiding mechanism can influence content accessibility in assistive technologies…
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More Meaningful Typography
TIM BROWN in A LIST APART: A MODULAR SCALE is a sequence of numbers that relate to one another in a meaningful way. Using the golden ratio, for example, we can produce values for a…
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A List Apart No. 326: Orbital content is the next big thing; empowering audiences via the backchannel
In Issue No. 326 of A List Apart for people who make websites: liberate your content to get ahead of the curve in 21st century publishing, and empower live audiences with backchannel wizardry. Orbital Content…
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Webvanta Video: Jeffrey Zeldman on the State of Web Design
From the floor of An Event Apart Seattle 2011: “Mobile is huge. The iPhone, iPad, and Android are huge. On the one hand, they are standards-facing, because they all support HTML5 and CSS3, so you…
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Big Web Show 43: Krista Stevens of Automattic & A List Apart
KRISTA STEVENS (@kristastevens) is our guest on The Big Web Show Episode 43, recording today, March 24, before a live internet audience on 5by5.tv/live at 3:00 PM Eastern. (New time!) Krista is an Automattician. A reader,…
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A List Apart No. 325
In Issue No. 325 of A List Apart for people who make websites, we present an excerpt from The Elements of Content Strategy and a primer on how to keep your layouts afloat. A Checklist…
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Sinatra Prototyping, Web App Encryption: A List Apart No. 324
In Issue No. 324 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Web Cryptography: Salted Hash and Other Tasty Dishes by LYLE MULLICAN One of the most powerful security tools available to web developers…
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Web Forms for Kids; SVG for Everybody
In Issue No. 323 of A List Apart for people who make websites, learn to love (and make cool stuff with) SVG and design web registration forms for kids. Cross Platform Scalable Vector Graphics with…
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The glory of the doodle, the grandeur of the sketch, in A List Apart No. 322.
In Issue No. 322 of A List Apart for people who make websites: respect the doodle, honor the sketch—use the power of visual thinking to create and share ideas: The Miseducation of the Doodle by…
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A List Apart No. 321: Craig Mod on Digital Books, Cassie McDaniel on Design Criticism
Craig Mod (Flipboard, Art Space Tokyo) comes to grips with the challenges of designing great digital reading experiences and presents the initial release of Bibliotype, an HTML baseline typography library for tablet reading in A…
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2010: The Year in Web Standards
WHAT A YEAR 2010 has been. It was the year HTML5 and CSS3 broke wide; the year the iPad, iPhone, and Android led designers down the contradictory paths of proprietary application design and standards-based mobile…