Category: development

Creating interactive spaces by writing code.

  • You are all in publishing!

    You are all in publishing!

    ON SUNDAY, while leading a discussion on the future of web design and publishing, I noticed a slightly confused look appearing on some faces in the audience. The discussion had been billed as “Jeffrey Zeldman’s…

  • Questions, Please: Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel today at SXSW Interactive

    Questions, Please: Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel today at SXSW Interactive

    HEY, YOU WITH THE STARS in your eyes. Yes, you, the all too necessary SXSW Interactive attendee. Got questions about the present and future of web design and publishing for me or the illustrious panelists…

  • Episode 39: Crowd Fusion’s Brian Alvey live on The Big Web Show

    Episode 39: Crowd Fusion’s Brian Alvey live on The Big Web Show

    BRIAN ALVEY (home, Twitter) is our guest on The Big Web Show Episode 39, recording live Thursday, February 16, at 12:00 PM Eastern at 5by5.tv/live. Brian is CEO of Crowd Fusion, a publishing platform that…

  • A List Apart: Smartphone Browser Landscape

    A List Apart: Smartphone Browser Landscape

    USERS EXPECT WEBSITES to work on their mobile phones. In two to three years, mobile support will become standard for any site. Web developers must add mobile web development to their skill set or risk…

  • iPad as the new Flash

    iPad as the new Flash

    iPad. Never have so many embraced a great product for exactly the wrong reasons. Too many designers and publishers see the iPad as an opportunity to do all the wrong things—things they once did in…

  • The future of web standards

    The future of web standards

    “Cheap, complex devices such as the iPhone and the Droid have come along at precisely the moment when HTML5, CSS3 and web fonts are ready for action; when standards-based web development is no longer relegated…

  • HTML5, CSS3 default templates

    HTML5, CSS3 default templates

    Free for use in all web projects, professional or personal, HTML5 Reset by Monkey Do! is a set of HTML5 and CSS templates that jumpstart web development by removing the styling native to each browser,…

  • 10K Apart – inspire the web!

    10K Apart – inspire the web!

    Just launched and just wonderful! The 10K Apart contest (“Inspire the web with just 10K”) presented by MIX Online and An Event Apart hearkens back to Stewart Butterfield’s 5k Contest of yesteryear while anticipating the…

  • An InDesign for HTML and CSS?

    An InDesign for HTML and CSS?

    In “CSS is the new Photoshop” (?), Adobe’s John Nack correctly observes, as have many of us, that “Cascading Style Sheets can create a great deal of artwork now, without reliance on bitmap graphics.” Nack…

  • SlideShowPro adds HTML5

    SlideShowPro adds HTML5

    Most of us web folk are hybrids of one sort or another, but Todd Dominey was one of the first web designers to combine exceptional graphic design talent with serious mastery of code. Being so…

  • Whitney Hess, Ethan Marcotte, and Jason Fried on The Big Web Show

    Whitney Hess, Ethan Marcotte, and Jason Fried on The Big Web Show

    Update! Episode 8, featuring Whitney Hess, is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. This Thursday 17 June at 1:00 PM EDT, join Dan Benjamin and me live on The Big Web…

  • Episode 2: HTML5 For Designers

    Episode 2: HTML5 For Designers

    Now online for your listening and viewing pleasure: in Episode 2 of The Big Web Show, Dan and I chat with Jeremy Keith—designer, developer, content creator, agency co-founder, speaker extraordinaire, and author of HTML5 for…

  • AEA Minneapolis

    AEA Minneapolis

    An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, has posted its Minneapolis 2010 schedule. Join Eric Meyer and me and ten amazing guest speakers on July 26-27, 2010 for two great days…

  • HTML5 For Web Designers

    HTML5 For Web Designers

    WHEN MANDY BROWN, Jason Santa Maria and I formed A Book Apart, one topic burned uppermost in our minds, and there was only one author forthe job. Nothing else, not even “real fonts” or CSS3,…

  • Big Web Show No. 1 up!

    Big Web Show No. 1 up!

    FOR YOUR viewing and listening pleasure, The Big Web Show’s Episode 1: Web Fonts is now online. Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin grill Ethan Dunham of Fontspring and Font Squirrel and Jeffrey Veen of Typekit…