Category: development
Creating interactive spaces by writing code.
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ALA No. 277: design, debug, details
Advanced Debugging with JavaScript. The Details That Matter.
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ALA No. 276: Web design education
Web design education is stuck in the stone age. Survey higher education’s web design curriculum problem and participate in the movement to create a sustainable foundation for the future.
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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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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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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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Workers of the web!
Evolt.org, the amazing resource for web developers, turned 10 on Sunday, 14 December.
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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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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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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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ALA 271: words and scripts that work
The fundamental things apply.
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ALA No. 270: progressive enhancement 2; work at home
Progressive enhancement with CSS. Working from home: readers respond.
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An Event Apart Chicago sells out
An Event Apart Chicago, the final AEA event of 2008, has sold out.
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ALA 268: rethinking standards
Fine-tuning the mechanics of progressive enhancement, and rethinking the assumptions of standards-based design.
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A List Apart is changing
A List Apart, for people who make websites, is slowly changing course.