Category: Web Design

  • Web Standards, 1452–2011

    Web Standards, 1452–2011

    And I’m off on a mini road trip to Penn State and its annual web conference, where I’ll be honored to deliver the opening keynote on standards-based web design, from 1452 to the present. The…

  • Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks

    Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks

    Thanks, Mr Sippey!

  • Episode 6: Mobile First

    Episode 6: Mobile First

    Update! Final audio and video are now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. This Thursday, June 3, 2010, at 1:00 PM EDT, join Dan Benjamin and me for the taping of The…

  • Web Education on Big Web Show

    Web Education on Big Web Show

    Update! Final audio and video are now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. Liz Danzico (@bobulate), author of Bobulate, and chairperson of the MFA in Interaction Design program at New York’s School…

  • A Feed Apart 2.0

    A Feed Apart 2.0

    As promised, a super-hot update to A Feed Apart, the official feed aggregator for An Event Apart, is up and running for your web design conference pleasure. You can now tweet from inside the application,…

  • Boston Bound

    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…

  • And now, Google

    And now, Google

    THE long-planned inevitable has now been announced. With open-source-licensed web fonts, web font hosting, and add-a-line-to-your-header ease of configuration, Google has joined Typekit, Font Squirrel, Ascender, Font Bureau and others in forever changing the meaning…

  • TypeFaces

    TypeFaces

    TypeFaces web designer playing cards are the shiz! I want!

  • AEA Minneapolis

    AEA Minneapolis

    An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, has posted its Minneapolis 2010 schedule. Join Eric Meyer and me and ten amazing guest speakers on July 26-27, 2010 for two great days…

  • HTML5 For Web Designers

    HTML5 For Web Designers

    WHEN MANDY BROWN, Jason Santa Maria and I formed A Book Apart, one topic burned uppermost in our minds, and there was only one author forthe job. Nothing else, not even “real fonts” or CSS3,…

  • A Feed Apart preview

    A Feed Apart preview

    Ali Ali describes the design process behind the forthcoming revision to A Feed Apart, the official Twitter aggregator for An Event Apart. Read about it now, experience it very, very soon.

  • Big Web Show No. 1 up!

    Big Web Show No. 1 up!

    FOR YOUR viewing and listening pleasure, The Big Web Show’s Episode 1: Web Fonts is now online. Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin grill Ethan Dunham of Fontspring and Font Squirrel and Jeffrey Veen of Typekit…

  • Steve Jobs and Me on Flash

    Steve Jobs and Me on Flash

    Assume I retweeted Steve Jobs’s thoughts on Flash. Note Steve’s concluding paragraph: New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus…

  • Live Today: Web Fonts Dialog

    Live Today: Web Fonts Dialog

    Update! Final audio and video are now available for your listening and viewing pleasure. Live today, Dan Benjamin and I grill Ethan Dunham of Fontspring and Font Squirrel and Jeffrey Veen of Typekit and numerous…

  • Like Buttons Falling From the Sky

    Like Buttons Falling From the Sky

    CNN announces what you should know about Facebook’s changes: Buttons with the word “like” and a thumbs-up icon on them are going to start popping up all over the Internet [web]. By clicking one, you…