Category: Publications

  • Test Print

    Test Print

    Coming soon to a web store near you.

  • Content wants to be paid for

    Content wants to be paid for

    Content wants to be free like communism works, like sex is just for fun, like a few days of snow disprove global warming. That the web’s existence makes all content free is a Brooklyn Bridge…

  • A List Apart: Just the Stats

    A List Apart: Just the Stats

    Continuing with our “data, and what we can learn from it” theme, here are A List Apart‘s four most popular individual pages this week (excluding the home page, with 178,270 page views). Pay particular attention…

  • Crowdsourcing Dickens

    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…

  • Book By Its Cover

    Book By Its Cover

    Book By Its Cover is a glorious new blog devoted to the beauty of books.

  • Future of Online News

    Future of Online News

    Many website designers run their own niche blog, and if the content is unique enough, a designer might be able to sell subscriptions to it. The content has to be very high quality, though, and…

  • Zeldman on Publishing

    Zeldman on Publishing

    P Is for Publishing. And publishing, as you’ve heard, is dying. … But “the printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone,” Zeldman says, “either because books don’t require…

  • Digital books: the medium changes the message

    Digital books: the medium changes the message

    “Content with form—Definite Content—is almost totally the opposite of Formless Content. Most texts composed with images, charts, graphs or poetry fall under this umbrella. It may be reflowable, but depending on how it’s reflowed, inherent…

  • Tumblr v. Posterous

    Tumblr v. Posterous

    Business Insider: Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous’s Ass Posted via web from Does This Zeldman Make My Posterous Look Fat?

  • Books Not Dead

    Books Not Dead

    Headed to SXSW Interactive? Concerned about the future of books, magazines, and websites? Attend “New Publishing and Web Content,” a panel I’m hosting on the creative, strategic, and marketing challenges of traditional and new (internet…

  • Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture

    Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture

    THE DEATHS of Leslie Harpold and Brad Graham, in addition to being tragic and horrible and sad, have highlighted the questionable long-term viability of blogs, personal sites, and web magazines as legitimate artistic and literary…

  • A List Apart Arabic

    A List Apart Arabic

    Since 1998, A List Apart has sought to serve the international web design and development community with educational, insightful, and sometimes visionary articles on web standards, emerging ideas and technologies, and best practices in content,…

  • Mission of Promo

    Mission of Promo

    The third edition of Designing With Web Standards has hit the shelves; excerpts and interviews are hitting digital airwaves everywhere. Among the latest: Creative Expert interviews Zeldman and Marcotte about DWWS3e, live, with call-in questions.…

  • Am I Blue

    Am I Blue

    The classic Zeldman orange avatar has gone blue to celebrate the release of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition.

  • Search Party

    Search Party

    Triple Issue No. 292 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, is all about search.