Category: Design
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Jeffrey Zeldman’s Web Standards Advisor
Newly launched Dreamweaver Extension validates HTML, CSS, and microformats and checks for subtleties of standards compliance in nine different areas—everything from structural use of headings to proper ID, class and <div> tag use.
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Jason Has Left the Building
Beginnings and endings.
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ALA 275: Duty Now For The Future
What better way to begin 2009 than by looking at the future of web design? In Issue No. 275 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, we study the promise and problems of…
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An Event Apart redesigned
There’s a new aneventapart.com in town, featuring a 2009 schedule and a reformulated design. I designed the new site and Eric Meyer coded. (Validation freaks, only validator.nu is up to the task of recognizing the…
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It’s a gift! Desktop for your pleasure.
Happy holidays!
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Understanding web design, live on video
Jeffrey Zeldman: Understanding Web Design is a good quality video capture of my presentation at Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference.
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Making Modular Layout Systems
Jason Santa Maria details his approach to building a modular system for laying out pages with CSS—“a handy way to predictably tame content without becoming predictable.”
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20 signs you don’t want that web design project
Most clients are good clients, and some clients are great clients. But some jobs are just never going to work out well. Herewith, a few indicators that a project may be headed to the toilet.
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ALA No. 273: trad vs. agile
How traditional, research-based IA leads to better site design—and why many are abandoning traditional methods in favor of agile design.
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Extreme Markover
…pits the talent and expertise of standards-based web designers against the challenges faced by underfunded nonprofits.
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Blue Beanie Day is here
Today is of course Blue Beanie Day. Thank you for supporting web standards.
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ALA 272: Accessible web video, better 404
What will it take to make web video accessible by default? And can a 404 page do more than just tell users something went wrong?
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Postage stamps by type designers
Neville Brody, Wim Crouwel, Adrian Frutiger, Eric Gill, Erik Spiekermann, and Hermann Zapf are among the creators of postage stamps by type designers on display at Kat Ran Press.
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Is your (website’s) underwear showing?
It’s astounding how many web designers forget to specify a background color on their site.
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Um, don’t blog, or something
Wired, which ceased to be relevant in 1999, says you shouldn’t write a blog because, um, Calacanis and Scoble.