Category: Design
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Firefox forces orange background flash
Imposing an ugly flash of orange background on all readers, using any browser, seemed to be the price necessary to work around a content bug in Firefox.
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Design management
A fine portfolio, delightful career, and the satisfaction of providing a genuine service, can be yours.
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The new old minimalists
Is minimalism in web design back, or did it just never go away?
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Sour Outlook
Participate in the Outlook’s Broken project. All it takes is a tweet.
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Beauty and Code
In Issue No. 286 of A LIST APART, for people who make websites, Patrick Lynch explains why beauty matters in design, and Mark Birbeck introduces us to RDFa (part one of a two-part primer).
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Web standards curriculum
A living, open curriculum to teach students the skills of the web professional.
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Beep
For the third edition of Designing With Web Standards, I’ve brought in a co-author: the brilliant and talented Ethan Marcotte.
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ALA 285: Database design, team building
Better user experience through database design. Better teams through gaming.
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NSFW tag in HTML 5
A “Not Safe for Work” Tag has been proposed for HTML5.
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iPhone wallpapers
For font freaks.
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Real fonts on the web, part 2
Introducing Typekit.
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“Google Bets Big on HTML 5”
Striving to avoid the mistake Microsoft made when it bet on binary applications over the web, Google is counting on HTML 5 adoption to expand the capability of web applications.
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ALA 284: scaling video, avoiding burnout
Learn how to resize video on the fly. Identify the signs of burnout and learn how to prevent it.
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Web fonts now (how we’re doing with that)
Fonts you can legally embed in your website using the CSS standard @font-face method. Why you’d want to. State of the art.
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A new answer to the IE6 question?
Andy Clarke proposes a novel approach to the problem of IE6.