Category: Layout

  • HTML5, CSS3, UX, Design: Links from An Event Apart Boston 2011

    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…

  • More Meaningful Typography

    More Meaningful Typography

    TIM BROWN in A LIST APART: A MODULAR SCALE is a sequence of numbers that relate to one another in a meaningful way. Using the golden ratio, for example, we can produce values for a…

  • 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”…

  • Finally, cross-browser visual control over forms.

    Finally, cross-browser visual control over forms.

    Now we have something else to be thankful for. Nathan Smith of Sonspring has created a library that gives designers and developers “some measure of control over form elements, without changing them so drastically as…

  • Weirdest Type Design Ever?

    Weirdest Type Design Ever?

    Movie poster captured by Heather Shaw. There are several variations, all equally baffling. I’m hoping there’s a concept behind it—that it’s bad design to make a point.

  • My other iPad is a Kindle

    My other iPad is a Kindle

    The new Kindle has a lot going for it. It’s inexpensive compared to a full-featured tablet computer like the iPad; you can slip it in your back pocket, where it’s more comfortable than an old-style…

  • I guest-edit .net magazine

    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.…

  • Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks

    Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks

    Above, page one of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” the first story in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, as seen in Stanza, a free reader for iPad and iPhone. Stanza has a simple…

  • More Mod on the Digital Book

    More Mod on the Digital Book

    A Reading Heatmap: Key passages illuminated by layering all readers’ highlights for the same text. LAST MONTH, he wowed us with Books in the Age of the iPad, a call to make digital books as…

  • Opera loves my web font

    Opera loves my web font

    And so do my iPhone and your iPad. All it took was a bit o’ the old Richard Fink syntax and a quick drive through the Font Squirrel @Font-Face Kit Generator (featuring Base 64 encoding…

  • ALA 284: scaling video, avoiding burnout

    ALA 284: scaling video, avoiding burnout

    Learn how to resize video on the fly. Identify the signs of burnout and learn how to prevent it.

  • A new answer to the IE6 question?

    A new answer to the IE6 question?

    Andy Clarke proposes a novel approach to the problem of IE6.

  • Redesign in progress

    Redesign in progress

    The body and bottom of the next zeldman.com design are now finished. Tomorrow I start working on the top.

  • ALA 282: Life After Georgia

    ALA 282: Life After Georgia

    Can we finally get real type on the web? Zeldman interviews The Font Bureau’s David Berlow. Plus Stephen P. Anderson shows how the value of beauty in design transcends aesthetic pleasure.

  • “Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book

    “Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book

    “Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book from zeldman.com.