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  • ALA No. 270: progressive enhancement 2; work at home

    ALA No. 270: progressive enhancement 2; work at home

    Progressive enhancement with CSS. Working from home: readers respond.

  • Housing Works launch

    Housing Works launch

    Sometimes we get to participate, in however small a way, in something much larger and more important than ourselves.

  • Dear AIGA, where are the web designers?

    Dear AIGA, where are the web designers?

    For all the brand directors, creative directors, Jungian analysts, and print designers, one rather significant specimen of the profession is missing.

  • ALA No. 265: better experience

    ALA No. 265: better experience

    A List Apart No. 265 is about improving user experience for the deaf and discussion for all.

  • Pick a Panel

    Pick a Panel

    The SXSW panel picker launched today. SXSW Interactive is probably the world’s biggest web shebang, and the panel picker is how the festival begins winnowing out which panels, out of hundreds submitted, will actually be…

  • The Survey for People Who Make Websites

    The Survey for People Who Make Websites

    Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of…

  • Here it comes again

    Here it comes again

    Coming Tuesday 29 July to A List Apart: the second annual survey for people who make websites.

  • Around the Word with Web Talent

    Around the Word with Web Talent

    My first book didn’t sell very well but it had an effect on people’s hearts. Web designers around the world circulated a single copy of Taking Your Talent to the Web, adding their autographs, drawings,…

  • AEA Boston 2008 session notes

    AEA Boston 2008 session notes

    Linked session notes and downloads from An Event Apart Boston 2008.

  • Fish tacos FTW nom nom nom

    Fish tacos FTW nom nom nom

    If Twitter is a medium for text-messaging, then content such as “Dude, where are you? We’re in the mezzanine” is perfectly appropriate, and “Fish tacos FTW nom nom nom” is practically overachievement. If it’s micro-blogging,…

  • Flowers in your hair

    Flowers in your hair

    An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, has posted its San Francisco 2008 schedule. Join us August 18–19, 2008 at the Palace Hotel for two jam-packed 9.5-hour-long days of learning and…

  • An Event Apart New Orleans: thank you and adieu

    An Event Apart New Orleans: thank you and adieu

    An Event Apart New Orleans is over, but the memories and photos linger on. Maybe it was the people. Maybe it was the extraordinary speakers. Or the staff, who made everything hum and shine. Or…

  • Looks good to Mies

    Looks good to Mies

    The Seed Conference, held in Crown Hall (the “Cathedral of Modernism” designed by Mies van der Rohe) is a one-day event about design, entrepreneurship, and inspiration. Speakers include Jason Fried (37signals), Jim Coudal (Coudal Partners),…

  • Version targeting, take two

    Version targeting, take two

    In Issue No. 253 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Jeremy Keith says version targeting in IE8 is all right but its default is all wrong. I argue that the default seems…

  • Facebook, Twitter, and Bird Flu

    Facebook, Twitter, and Bird Flu

    If “Our Broken Borders” should someday turn into a ratings loser for CNN’s Lou Dobbs, perhaps he can switch to “The Dwindling Productivity of the American Worker: Is Facebook Sapping Our National Vigor?”