Category: Web Standards

  • A Book Apart Photo Pool on Flickr

    A Book Apart Photo Pool on Flickr

    LET YOUR NERD FLAG FLY! Now there is a Flickr group for A Book Apart readers. Come one, come all. Share beauty shots of your A Book Apart collection. Share unboxing photos. Share pictures of…

  • An Event Apart: On Web Typography

    An Event Apart: On Web Typography

    IN HIS TALK at An Event Apart in Atlanta, GA 2011, Jason Santa Maria outlined the current state of web fonts and how to approach typography online. Here’s my notes from his talk: LukeW | An…

  • “Digital Design Forum a Real Hit”

    “Digital Design Forum a Real Hit”

    DIBI Conference in the press via Gavin Elliot on Flickr. And a good time was had.

  • An Event Apart Atlanta 2011

    An Event Apart Atlanta 2011

    YOU FIND ME ENSCONCED in the fabulous Buckhead, Atlanta Intercontinental Hotel, preparing to unleash An Event Apart Atlanta 2011, three days of design, code, and content strategy for people who make websites. Eric Meyer and…

  • Responsive Web Design – The Book

    Responsive Web Design – The Book

    SOME IDEAS SEEM inevitable once they arrive. It’s impossible for me to conceive of the universe before rock and roll or to envision Christmas without Mr Dickens’s Carol, and it’s as tough for my kid…

  • 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…

  • Nominations open for the 2011 .net Awards

    Nominations open for the 2011 .net Awards

    SUGGEST YOUR FAVORITE sites, apps and people and celebrate the best of the web. Nominations for the 13th .net Awards are now open at http://www.thenetawards.com. We want you to help us find 2011’s best of…

  • “Mobile” versus “Small Screen”

    “Mobile” versus “Small Screen”

    As we try to become more responsive with our designs, a lot of attention has been focused on providing “mobile” styles. We’ve all been adding viewport meta tags to our templates and @media screen and…

  • Adactio: Journal—Content First

    Adactio: Journal—Content First

    There’s a general agreement that the “mobile” user is not to be trifled with; give them the content they want as quickly as possible ‘cause they’re in a hurry. But the corollary does not hold…

  • The Big Web Show No. 46: Get Your Web Type on with FontDeck co-founder Richard Rutter

    The Big Web Show No. 46: Get Your Web Type on with FontDeck co-founder Richard Rutter

    RICHARD RUTTER, designer, technologist, information architect, writer, and co-founder of Fontdeck and Clearleft, joins Dan Benjamin and me to discuss the technical, aesthetic, and business aspects of putting real type on the web in Big…

  • 320 and up—a device agnostic stylesheet for responsible responsive design

    320 and up—a device agnostic stylesheet for responsible responsive design

    “320 and Up prevents mobile devices from downloading desktop assets by using a tiny screen’s stylesheet as its starting point. … Inspired by Using Media Queries in the Real World by Peter Gasston, ‘320 and…

  • Webvanta Video: Jeffrey Zeldman on the State of Web Design

    Webvanta Video: Jeffrey Zeldman on the State of Web Design

    From the floor of An Event Apart Seattle 2011: “Mobile is huge. The iPhone, iPad, and Android are huge. On the one hand, they are standards-facing, because they all support HTML5 and CSS3, so you…

  • An Event Apart Seattle 2011

    An Event Apart Seattle 2011

    I’m enjoying An Event Apart Seattle 2011 and you’re not. Despair not, help is available: For real-time Twitter aggragation, watch afeedapart.com. Enjoy AEA Seattle photos in our Flickr group. Watch Luke Wroblewski dance. Watch An…

  • Adactio on Responsive Design as a “Sea Change”

    Adactio on Responsive Design as a “Sea Change”

    I WISH I had written Adactio: Journal—Sea change. I advise every web designer who hasn’t yet done so to read it.

  • Questions, Please: Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel today at SXSW Interactive

    Questions, Please: Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel today at SXSW Interactive

    HEY, YOU WITH THE STARS in your eyes. Yes, you, the all too necessary SXSW Interactive attendee. Got questions about the present and future of web design and publishing for me or the illustrious panelists…