Category: Acclaim

  • HTML5 Pour Les Web Designers

    HTML5 Pour Les Web Designers

    Sacrebleu! The French edition of the ebook of Monsieur Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 For Web Designers is in the top five sellers in the iTunes Store Français. To answer your other questions: an eBook version in…

  • We’re speechless

    We’re speechless

    In What I learned at An Event Apart Minneapolis, Marc Drummond writes: A really good session, in my opinion, is not about the how, it’s about the why. … A really good session, through arguments…

  • SlideShowPro adds HTML5

    SlideShowPro adds HTML5

    Most of us web folk are hybrids of one sort or another, but Todd Dominey was one of the first web designers to combine exceptional graphic design talent with serious mastery of code. Being so…

  • 37signals’ Jason Fried live today on The Big Web Show

    37signals’ Jason Fried live today on The Big Web Show

    I have known 37signals CEO Jason Fried since he was a young copywriter who reminded me of me, only smarter and more confident. Like many of you, with a mixture of awe and pleasure, I…

  • Should Publishers Attend SXSW?

    Should Publishers Attend SXSW?

    In Should Publishers Attend SXSW?, Lorraine Shanley of Publishing Trends answers her own question this way: Yes, because sxsw offers a chance to see options for the future—amazing gaming, interactive software, inventive marketing, creative content development and…

  • Ed Bott’s Lament

    Ed Bott’s Lament

    In “IE9: Microsoft’s new browser gets no respect at all,” ZDNet’s Ed Bott sees seething contempt where I intended even-handed calm, and asks why my discussion yesterday of the tone of a months-old IE announcement…

  • Van Damme, that’s good design

    Van Damme, that’s good design

    Web designer Tim Van Damme, founder of Made by Elephant and blogger at Max Voltar, has skyrocketed from relative oblivion to comparative fame in little over a year. Before you succumb to jealousy, consider the…

  • A List Apart 300

    A List Apart 300

    Issue 300 of A List Apart for people who make websites solves password-related usability problems with a dash of JavaScript, and employs content strategy to help your site do the right thing at the right…

  • Laying Pipe

    Laying Pipe

    Dan Benjamin and yours truly discuss the secret history of blogging, transitioning from freelance to agency, the story behind the web standards movement, the launch of A Book Apart and its first title, HTML5 For…

  • On Self-Promotion

    On Self-Promotion

    You are a shameless self promoter!” he said. I can’t speak to the “shame” part, but for the rest: guilty as charged. Self-promotion may appear revolting, but it’s the only promotion that’s guaranteed in this…

  • Vote for best of web

    Vote for best of web

    Whereas awards for graphic design, art direction, and advertising routinely honor the finest work in their respective fields each year, awards for web work disappoint. The .net magazine awards 2009 are that rare exception, put…