Category: Ideas
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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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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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UK Judge: Search is Theft
paidContent UK’s NLA Ruling Summary: How PRs Break Copyright Law Online offers the highlights of a 148-paragraph ruling by the British High Court “that PRs who subscribe to paid news monitors are breaking UK law…
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Awesome web apps in 10k or less
The 10K Apart Challenge had a simple premise: Could you build a complete web application using less than 10 kilobytes? … A joint effort between An Event Apart and MIX Online, the 10K Apart reaped…
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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.…
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Cognition: Behind the Music
Happy Cog president Greg Storey describes the thinking behind our latest little experiment in online publishing and community: Last week we launched Cognition, a studio blog, that replaced the traditional open-mic text area commenting system…
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ALA 313: CS, CMS, H&J, OK!
In Issue No. 313 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Better content management systems start with content strategy; typographically beauteous web pages may benefit from hyphenation and justification. Strategic Content Management by…
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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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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,…
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Color logos
Gosh knows how they reproduce in newspaper or how effectively they can be translated into favicons, but there’s no denying that there are some lovely works in Wsblogz.com’s gallery of color logos.
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Minneapolis Remembered
The show’s over but the photos linger on. An Event Apart Minneapolis was two days of nonstop brilliance and inspiration. In an environment more than one attendee likened to a “TED of web design,” a…
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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…
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37signals’ Jason Fried live today on The Big Web Show
I have known 37signals CEO Jason Fried since he was a young copywriter who reminded me of me, only smarter and more confident. Like many of you, with a mixture of awe and pleasure, I…
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Responsive design is the new black
The blog of Mr Simon Collison, retooled as responsive web design. The wide version. The blog of Mr Simon Collison, retooled as responsive web design. The narrow version. See more versions in Mr Collison’s “Media…
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Boston Bound
Morning finds me bound by train for Boston, capital of Massachusetts, land of Puritans, patriots, and host of the original Tea Party. Center of high technology and higher education. Where the John Hancock Tower signs…