Category: Design
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ALA 261: CSS layout redux; in praise of prototyping
CSS layout is awesome, except when your layout calls for a header, a footer, and columns in between. “Faux Absolute Positioning” combines the strengths (and removes the weaknesses) of absolute positioning and float-based layouts. Plus:…
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Video: Got Live in New Orleans
Caught live at An Event Apart New Orleans 2008, video clips featuring Andy Clarke on web layout and yours truly on journalism and the web are now online for your viewing pleasure at An Event…
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Video: Eric Meyer on generated content
Live onstage at An Event Apart New Orleans, 2008, web design conference co-founder and CSS expert Eric Meyer explains why the W3C’s recommendation to allow browsers to insert quotation marks doesn’t actually make a whole…
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ALA 260: Bolton vs. Boulton
In Issue No. 260 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Writing an Interface Style Guide by JINA BOLTON Ever designed or developed a beautiful interface only to find your hard work ruined…
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Dear New York Times Mobile
Dear New York Times Mobile Edition: While we applaud your use of typographically correct punctuation—a cause we ourselves have long advocated—we’d appreciate it even more if you would do it like professionals. Author in Unicode,…
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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,…
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ALA 259: Career and Content
In Issue No. 259 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: The Cure for Content-Delay Syndrome by Pepi Ronalds Clients love to write copy. Well, they love to plan to write it, anyhow.…
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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…
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CSS Menu Writer debuts
Launched today, WebAssist Professional’s CSS Menu Writer™ for Dreamweaver takes the pain out of creating standards-compliant horizontal or vertical navigation menus with nested fly-outs. I got to spend an hour with the program prior to…
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Content precedes design
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.
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ALA 258: art of community, science of design
What does it take to build an online community like Flickr’s? And how can we tell if interface design conventions we take for granted actually help or hurt users? In Issue No. 258 of A…
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An e-mail from Chip Kidd
I’ll never forget the day Chip Kidd sent me an e-mail. Chip Kidd, author of The Cheese Monkeys, the book that does for design school what Nathaniel West’s Day of the Locust did for Hollywood.…
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Stick out your tongue
While employed at a famous New York advertising agency twenty years ago, a partner and I created a TV commercial touting an over-the-counter medicine client’s revolutionary new cold and flu remedy for young children. Only…
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The vanishing personal site
OUR PERSONAL SITES, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are witnessing the disappearance of the all-in-one, carefully designed personal site containing professional information, links, and…
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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…