Category: writing
The art of the well-chosen syllable.
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ALA No. 262: Binding & Subversion
In Issue No. 262 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Ryan Irelan invites us to collaborate and connect with Subversion, and Christophe Porteneuve explains how to get out of binding situations in…
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Where do you begin?
Q. I’m searching for your archive. Whenever I find a really good blog, I like to start at the beginning so I can understand better some of what you’re talking about. And I can’t find…
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ALA 260: Bolton vs. Boulton
In Issue No. 260 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Writing an Interface Style Guide by JINA BOLTON Ever designed or developed a beautiful interface only to find your hard work ruined…
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Fish tacos FTW nom nom nom
If Twitter is a medium for text-messaging, then content such as “Dude, where are you? We’re in the mezzanine” is perfectly appropriate, and “Fish tacos FTW nom nom nom” is practically overachievement. If it’s micro-blogging,…
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ALA 259: Career and Content
In Issue No. 259 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: The Cure for Content-Delay Syndrome by Pepi Ronalds Clients love to write copy. Well, they love to plan to write it, anyhow.…
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An e-mail from Chip Kidd
I’ll never forget the day Chip Kidd sent me an e-mail. Chip Kidd, author of The Cheese Monkeys, the book that does for design school what Nathaniel West’s Day of the Locust did for Hollywood.…
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The vanishing personal site
OUR PERSONAL SITES, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are witnessing the disappearance of the all-in-one, carefully designed personal site containing professional information, links, and…
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Zeldman on Talk Radio Today
Live today from 3:00 to 4:00 pm Eastern Time, I’m this week’s guest on “Design Matters with Debbie Millman,” the leading internet talk radio show on the “challenging and compelling canvas of today’s design world.”
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A List Apart 254: Design, Design
Issue No. 254 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, is all about design.
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Monday links
Chopsticks by Segura. A greener LA via Boston. Stealing patterns, making models. Samurai errata and SXSW bowling.
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Dear anonymous
Nicest fuck-you ever.
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Self-publishing is the new blogging
When you’ve flown this far from Gutenberg, the only place to travel is back.
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ALA 248: Obscure meanings and addresses
In Issue No. 248 of A List Apart: Make people read your copy! Stop robots from reading your e-mail address!
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Proposed Catch-Phrases for the Next Bruce Willis Film
Hi-ho, the motherfuckin’ dairy-o, motherfucker! etc.
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Words, words, words
Writing has always been the beating heart of online user experience. It is also the part that designers and developers are least likely to study, discuss, or consider. The exceptions to this rule are almost…