Category: editorial

  • An Event Apart Atlanta 2011

    An Event Apart Atlanta 2011

    YOU FIND ME ENSCONCED in the fabulous Buckhead, Atlanta Intercontinental Hotel, preparing to unleash An Event Apart Atlanta 2011, three days of design, code, and content strategy for people who make websites. Eric Meyer and…

  • Progressive enhancement: all you need to know is here

    Progressive enhancement: all you need to know is here

    ONE GLORIOUS AFTERNOON in March, 2006, as a friend and I hurried past Austin’s Downtown Hilton Hotel to catch the next session of the SXSW Interactive Festival, a young stranger arrested our progress. With no…

  • Carolyn Wood moves on

    Carolyn Wood moves on

    CAROLYN WOOD IS LEAVING A List Apart. Over three brilliant years, Carolyn created the position of acquisitions editor and made it shine, bringing the magazine and its readers such articles as Responsive Web Design by…

  • Big Web Show 43: Krista Stevens of Automattic & A List Apart

    Big Web Show 43: Krista Stevens of Automattic & A List Apart

    KRISTA STEVENS (@kristastevens) is our guest on The Big Web Show Episode 43, recording today, March 24, before a live internet audience on 5by5.tv/live at 3:00 PM Eastern. (New time!) Krista is an Automattician. A reader,…

  • 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…

  • Migrating from a conventional Facebook account to a public figure (“fan”) page – a report from the trenches

    Migrating from a conventional Facebook account to a public figure (“fan”) page – a report from the trenches

    BECAUSE FACEBOOK LIMITS USERS to 5,000 contacts, I had to migrate from a conventional user account to what used to be called a “fan” page and is now called an “Artist, Band or Public Figure”…

  • Big Web Show Episode 34: Craig Mod on the Form of the Book

    Big Web Show Episode 34: Craig Mod on the Form of the Book

    CRAIG MOD is our guest today January 13, 2011 in Episode No. 34 of The Big Web Show (“Everything Web That Matters”), co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and recorded at 12:00 PM Eastern (new time!) before…

  • 2010: The Year in Web Standards

    2010: The Year in Web Standards

    WHAT A YEAR 2010 has been. It was the year HTML5 and CSS3 broke wide; the year the iPad, iPhone, and Android led designers down the contradictory paths of proprietary application design and standards-based mobile…

  • Top Web Books of 2010

    Top Web Books of 2010

    “It’s been a great year for web design books; the best we can remember for a while, in fact!” So begins Goburo’s review of the Top Web Books of 2010. The list is extremely selective,…

  • Blue Beanie Day Haiku Contest – Win Prizes from Peachpit and A Book Apart

    Blue Beanie Day Haiku Contest – Win Prizes from Peachpit and A Book Apart

    ATTENTION, web design geeks, contest fans, standards freaks, HTML5ophiles, CSSistas, grammarians, bookworms, UXers, designers, developers, and budding Haikuists. Can you do this? Do not tell me I Am source of your browser woes. Template validates.…

  • 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…

  • It’s a wonderful life

    It’s a wonderful life

    When you write “This post has earned one meager response,” meager describes the quality of the response received when, I think, your intent is to describe quantity of responses received. Recast? Thomas Osborne

  • HTML5 For Web Designers: The eBook

    HTML5 For Web Designers: The eBook

    Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 for Web Designers is now available as an epub at books.alistapart.com. If you bought the paperback, watch your inbox for a special discount on the ebook. (To take advantage of this offer,…