Category: industry
This web business: culture and concepts.
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The King of Web Standards
A new article in Business Week might help designers who aren’t named Jeffrey Zeldman sell web standards to their bosses or clients.
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InterNetwork
Social Network Portability means never having to re-invite your friends.
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Better know a speaker: Dan Cederholm
What’s up with Dan Cederholm these days?
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Let there be web divisions
Almost no one who makes websites works in their company or organization’s web division—because almost no company or organization has a web division. That void on the org chart is one reason we have so…
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Hi, Mom!
In a Special Report, Business Week focuses on designers creating innovation by crossing disciplines and combining technologies. I’m one of ten designers they profile. I kind of had to blog this.
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When is e-mail like a bad website?
Nokia sent a friend an HTML e-mail message. I’ve broken it into five screen shots, because it won’t fit on one. E-mail, as a medium, really doesn’t want to carry all this freight.
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Eight points for better e-mail relationships
Okay, so under the right circumstances, when people have requested it, e-mail can be a platform for design. Here are eight ways to make it work better (and avoid pissing off people who hate HTML…
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E-mail is not a platform for design
ASCII means never having to say you’re sorry.
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Daily Reports from 1997 on
You don’t need the WayBack machine to go way back in zeldman.com history. Enjoy these representative Daily Report pages from 1997 on (including the famous HTML Fist).
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iTunes, iLike, and iWish
At long last, the latest iTunes upgrade lets you replace DRM versions of music bought at the iTunes store with higher-quality, non-DRM-protected versions. But after purchase, you may not be able to download them. In…
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ALA 238: copywriting 101, evangelizing 102
Convince large companies to openly support web standards; enhance site effectiveness by improving copy.
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Conference speaker’s pledge
I will not yodel. I will not introduce my first slide by saying, “Here is my first slide.”
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Web Design Survey closes soon
If you haven’t already taken the web design survey, speak now, or forever hold your PC.
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How now brown wow?
Windows Vista. Adobe CS3. Which are you more excited about, and why?
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The heartbreak of technology
Why this tech support call took an hour is a mystery. Why it is called “support” is a more profound one.