Category: Best practices

  • Awesome web apps in 10k or less

    Awesome web apps in 10k or less

    The 10K Apart Challenge had a simple premise: Could you build a complete web application using less than 10 kilobytes? … A joint effort between An Event Apart and MIX Online, the 10K Apart reaped…

  • iPad as the new Flash

    iPad as the new Flash

    iPad. Never have so many embraced a great product for exactly the wrong reasons. Too many designers and publishers see the iPad as an opportunity to do all the wrong things—things they once did in…

  • Paul Ford on The Big Web Show

    Paul Ford on The Big Web Show

    Paul Ford is our guest on The Big Web Show, taped live before an internet audience at 1:00 PM ET tomorrow, 14 October 2010, on the 5by5 network at live.5by5.tv. Paul is a freelance writer…

  • The future of web standards

    The future of web standards

    “Cheap, complex devices such as the iPhone and the Droid have come along at precisely the moment when HTML5, CSS3 and web fonts are ready for action; when standards-based web development is no longer relegated…

  • HTML5 For Web Designers is a hit in the US iTunes store.

    HTML5 For Web Designers is a hit in the US iTunes store.

  • Episode 19: Beyond Usability with Aarron Walter

    Episode 19: Beyond Usability with Aarron Walter

    Designer Aarron Walter guests on Thursday’s episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped before a live internet audience. Aarron is the author of one of my favorite web design books,…

  • My other iPad is a Kindle

    My other iPad is a Kindle

    The new Kindle has a lot going for it. It’s inexpensive compared to a full-featured tablet computer like the iPad; you can slip it in your back pocket, where it’s more comfortable than an old-style…

  • Episode 18: Roger Black on web type and templates

    Episode 18: Roger Black on web type and templates

    Legendary art director Roger Black guests on tomorrow’s episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped in front of a live internet audience. Roger co-founded the following new companies: Webtype, creators…

  • 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…

  • I guest-edit .net magazine

    I guest-edit .net magazine

    A List Apart and .net magazine have long admired each other. So when .net editor Dan Oliver did me the great honor of asking if I wished to guest edit an issue, I saluted smartly.…

  • A List Apart 311: Say No to Clients and Kick Ass

    A List Apart 311: Say No to Clients and Kick Ass

    Something remarkable awaits you in Issue No. 311 of A List Apart for people who make websites. Two wonderfully readable articles tackle the thorny subject of client relationships, providing practices, insights, and tips which, when…

  • Minneapolis Remembered

    Minneapolis Remembered

    The show’s over but the photos linger on. An Event Apart Minneapolis was two days of nonstop brilliance and inspiration. In an environment more than one attendee likened to a “TED of web design,” a…

  • Nicole Sullivan on CSS

    Nicole Sullivan on CSS

    Update! Episode 11 featuring Nicole Sullivan on CSS optimization is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. If writing good CSS is tough, fixing someone else’s (or multiple someones’) bad CSS is…

  • 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…