Category: Best practices
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The maker makes: on design, community, and personal empowerment
THE FIRST THING I got about the web was its ability to empower the maker. The year was 1995, and I was tinkering at my first website. The medium was raw and ugly, like a…
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Pro Tip
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Veen: Building Typekit on relationships
TYPEKIT FOUNDER JEFFREY VEEN has always shared knowledge freely, whether writing great books about web design and user experience, or (in this case) happily sharing a key secret of his business’ success: raising money isn’t…
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5th annual Blue Beanie Day is November 30, 2011
New! Official Blue Beanie Day 2011 page, with banners and instructions.
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A Book Apart: Designing for Emotion & Mobile First
WE ARE THRILLED to present the two newest volumes from A Book Apart (“brief books for people who make websites”): Make your users fall in love with your site or application via the precepts packed…
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Fast Company on Adobe Muse
“DESIGN GURU Jeffrey Zeldman, says while he likes Muse for its ease of creating layouts, it still doesn’t answer his plea for a better Internet. ‘Software can’t generate HTML that is search-engine friendly, accessibility-friendly, and…
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10K Apart – Responsive Edition
AS THE TITLE indicates, this year’s 10K contest requires that your applications be “reasonably responsive” (yes, it’s vague by design). The Responsive Design movement Ethan pioneered is still learning how to walk in the real…
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How could I refuse?
Message: To Whom it may Concern, I recently discovered your “Home” page here: http://www.zeldman.com/2010/10/17/ipad-as-the-new-flash/ Would you please consider adding a link to my website called Job-Applications.com? It is a resource that provides hundreds of printable…
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An Event Apart Atlanta 2011
YOU FIND ME ENSCONCED in the fabulous Buckhead, Atlanta Intercontinental Hotel, preparing to unleash An Event Apart Atlanta 2011, three days of design, code, and content strategy for people who make websites. Eric Meyer and…
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Responsive Web Design – The Book
SOME IDEAS SEEM inevitable once they arrive. It’s impossible for me to conceive of the universe before rock and roll or to envision Christmas without Mr Dickens’s Carol, and it’s as tough for my kid…
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Progressive enhancement: all you need to know is here
ONE GLORIOUS AFTERNOON in March, 2006, as a friend and I hurried past Austin’s Downtown Hilton Hotel to catch the next session of the SXSW Interactive Festival, a young stranger arrested our progress. With no…
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On Creative Direction
IN MY APPRENTICE DAYS, I worked for Marvin Honig, a Hall of Fame copywriter who created indelible commercials for Alka-Seltzer, Cracker Jack, and Volkswagen during the 1960s and 1970s, and who assumed creative leadership of…
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How to work with a designer who is new to the web and wants to control everything
Q. Working with print designer who is just getting into web and they want to control everything. Any advice on how to deal with them? – @FossilDesigns A. I ASSUME YOU’RE CODING what your colleague…
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Complete Audio: Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel from SXSW Interactive 2011
Download the audio file. Mandy Brown, Roger Black, Daniel Mall and I discuss the state of web design and publishing at SXSW Interactive, Sunday March 13, 2011. Photos courtesy Adactio. Audio element courtesy HTML5. Sorry,…
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A Day Apart: Live Notes on Mobile Web Design with Luke Wroblewski
A FEW QUICK NOTES from the first hour of A Day Apart: Mobile Web Design, an all-day learning session led by Luke Wroblewski (aka Day III of An Event Apart Seattle), Bell Harbor Conference Center,…