Category: Design
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bgcolor follies
If you forget to set your site’s background color, your visitors may do it for you. A mini-photo gallery. Collect your own!
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ALA 239: Designer frameworks and robot designers
Take web design off the production line. Design better by offloading routine tasks.
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Eight points for better e-mail relationships
Okay, so under the right circumstances, when people have requested it, e-mail can be a platform for design. Here are eight ways to make it work better (and avoid pissing off people who hate HTML…
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E-mail is not a platform for design
ASCII means never having to say you’re sorry.
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Since 1995
On 31 May 2007 we celebrated another anniversary. Twelve years of juicy Web 1.0 Goodness™.
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ALA 238: copywriting 101, evangelizing 102
Convince large companies to openly support web standards; enhance site effectiveness by improving copy.
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An Event Apart Chicago 2007
Tickets are now available for An Event Apart Chicago—two days of web standards, best practices, and creative inspiration from Dan Cederholm, Louis Rosenfeld, Liz Danzico, Jeremy Keith, Jim Coudal, Luke Wroblewski, Derek Featherstone, and Jason…
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An Event Apart Seattle sells out
An Event Apart Chicago goes on sale Monday.
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Conference speaker’s pledge
I will not yodel. I will not introduce my first slide by saying, “Here is my first slide.”
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Web Design Survey closes soon
If you haven’t already taken the web design survey, speak now, or forever hold your PC.
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How now brown wow?
Windows Vista. Adobe CS3. Which are you more excited about, and why?
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ALA 237: client school
Generally, Issue 237 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, is all about education. Specifically, it’s about educating bosses and clients to approve good design and make better strategic decisions.
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The profession that dare not speak its name
No one has tried to measure web design because web design has been a hidden profession.
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The Web Design Survey
In all the years people have been creating websites, nobody has bothered to gather statistics about who does this work, using what skills, under what conditions, and for what kinds of compensation. It’s time for…
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Women in web design: just the stats
The underrepresentation of women and minorities in the information technology workforce is like the weather: everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything. We commissioned a study. Its findings are disturbing.