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  • 2010: The Year in Web Standards

    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…

  • Episode 32: Mandy Brown on publishing, Typekit, and more

    Episode 32: Mandy Brown on publishing, Typekit, and more

    MANDY BROWN (@aworkinglibrary) is our guest today, Thursday December 23, 2010 in Episode No. 32 of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and recorded at 1:00 PM Eastern before a live internet audience.…

  • UK Judge: Search is Theft

    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…

  • A Book Apart No. 2: CSS3 For Web Designers, by Dan Cederholm

    A Book Apart No. 2: CSS3 For Web Designers, by Dan Cederholm

    DAN CEDERHOLM IS THE FIRST front-end developer I’ve ever worked with who got everything right. Typically when one person is designing in Photoshop and another is converting that design to code, the coder makes at…

  • Gary Vaynerchuk on The Big Web Show Episode 26

    Gary Vaynerchuk on The Big Web Show Episode 26

    GARY VAYNERCHUK is our guest on Episode #26 of The Big Web Show, taped live before an internet audience at 1:00 PM ET Thursday 4 November at live.5by5.tv. Gary is the creator of Wine Library…

  • iPad as the new Flash

    iPad as the new Flash

    iPad. Never have so many embraced a great product for exactly the wrong reasons. Too many designers and publishers see the iPad as an opportunity to do all the wrong things—things they once did in…

  • HTML5 For Web Designers en Français

    HTML5 For Web Designers en Français

    A Book Apart is pleased to present HTML5 Pour Les Web Designers. It is of course the French translation of our best-selling first book, Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 For Web Designers, courtesy of French publisher Eyrolles.…

  • Paul Ford on The Big Web Show

    Paul Ford on The Big Web Show

    Paul Ford is our guest on The Big Web Show, taped live before an internet audience at 1:00 PM ET tomorrow, 14 October 2010, on the 5by5 network at live.5by5.tv. Paul is a freelance writer…

  • The future of web standards

    The future of web standards

    “Cheap, complex devices such as the iPhone and the Droid have come along at precisely the moment when HTML5, CSS3 and web fonts are ready for action; when standards-based web development is no longer relegated…

  • The Self-Published Author

    The Self-Published Author

    I didn’t have much of a marketing plan other than e-mailing my friends and writing to people who had book-review sites and asking them if they would like a free copy. But the word got…

  • Pages now exports to ePub

    Pages now exports to ePub

    Listen up, desktop ePublishers! Apple’s iWork 9.0.4 update gives Pages the ability to export to ePub format, for use in Stanza, iBooks, or any standard ePub reader. The update is free.

  • HTML5 Pour Les Web Designers

    HTML5 Pour Les Web Designers

    Sacrebleu! The French edition of the ebook of Monsieur Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 For Web Designers is in the top five sellers in the iTunes Store Français. To answer your other questions: an eBook version in…

  • 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.…

  • Return to Sender

    Return to Sender

    About 40 copies of HTML5 For Web Designers out of the first 10,000 sold have been returned to us because the recipients moved, or there was an error in their address. Returns come from every…

  • A List Apart 311: Say No to Clients and Kick Ass

    A List Apart 311: Say No to Clients and Kick Ass

    Something remarkable awaits you in Issue No. 311 of A List Apart for people who make websites. Two wonderfully readable articles tackle the thorny subject of client relationships, providing practices, insights, and tips which, when…