Category: Education
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HTML5, CSS3, UX, Design: Links from An Event Apart Boston 2011
Meeting of the Minds: Ethan Marcotte and AEA attendee discuss the wonders of CSS3. Photo by the incomparable Jim Heid. THE SHOW IS OVER, but the memories, write-ups, demos, and links remain. Enjoy! An Event…
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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,…
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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…
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From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Meow Mix
I’VE TRAINED my cats to think they’re in charge, and to think they exact a tribute of two breakfasts from me each morning. Initially I feed them each half a small can of salmon. The…
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HTML5 vs. HTML
THANKS TO THE WORK of the WHAT WG, the orations of Steve, the acclaim of developers, and a dash of tasteful pamphleteering, the W3C finally has a hit technology on its hands. Indeed, it has…
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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…
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I guest-edit .net magazine
A List Apart and .net magazine have long admired each other. So when .net editor Dan Oliver did me the great honor of asking if I wished to guest edit an issue, I saluted smartly.…
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Type@Cooper
Starting in the fall of 2010, the Continuing Education Department of The Cooper Union, in conjunction with the Type Directors Club, will offer a Certificate Program in Typeface Design. More information about this remarkable program is available at…
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Web Education on Big Web Show
Update! Final audio and video are now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. Liz Danzico (@bobulate), author of Bobulate, and chairperson of the MFA in Interaction Design program at New York’s School…
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A Feed Apart 2.0
As promised, a super-hot update to A Feed Apart, the official feed aggregator for An Event Apart, is up and running for your web design conference pleasure. You can now tweet from inside the application,…
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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,…
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Crowdsourcing Dickens
As an experiment in new new media thinking, I recently crowdsourced a new new literature version of Charles Dickens’s musty old old old lit chestnut, Great Expectations—the familiar tale of Pip, Ms Havisham, the convict…
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Blue Beanie Day 2009
Bonne journée du chapeau bleu! Now you know how to say “Happy Blue Beanie Day” in French. Monday 30 November is International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards. Get your toque on, post…
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Chicago Deep Dish
AEA Chicago, wrapped.
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HTML5 Redefines Footer
In response to the Super Friends’ request, the HTML5 working groups have redefined footer. This is a wonderful usability improvement to the spec.