13 month ago
Greg Storey : "Web design is not book design, it is not poster design, it is not illustration, and the highest achievements of those disciplines are not what web design aims for." - Must read for today. All hands.
philgyford : A List Apart: Articles: Understanding Web Design - Zeldman on how too few people understand what web design is. Hence dumb flashy sites winning web design awards. (via Infovore)
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31 month ago
François Nonnenmacher : The Four-Day Week Challenge
Philippe Janvier : The Four-Day Week Challenge - Working less and Getting the Things Done : "It's harder than we thought". On est quand même bien placé pour le savoir :) [via] #
philgyford : A List Apart: Articles: The Four-Day Week Challenge - Excellent article on restricting the hours you work. "And then it hit me: there will always be more to do." Realising this is a big step.
Paul Hammond : A List Apart: Articles: The Four-Day Week Challenge - A lot of the constraints and barriers we place on ourselves are completely unnecessary and even worse, keep us from being happy
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33 month ago
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: Getting Started with Ajax - A List Apart is pleased to present the following excerpt from Chapter 27 of Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
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33 month ago
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: Flywheels, Kinetic Energy, and Friction - Put simply, when you write about the reasons why a reader should fill out that application for a grant, you are transferring kinetic energy. So long as what you offer is what they really want, you need to clearly and simply build up their enthusiasm and e
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35 month ago
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: Home Page Goals - ...home pages are anxiety-inducing for companies. The home page is your first impression. And like the old saying goes, you only get one chance. So home pages themselves have a unique set of design goals.
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35 month ago
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: In Search of the Holy Grail - Three columns. Many articles have been written about the grail, and several good templates exist. However, all the existing solutions involve sacrifices: proper source order, full-width footers, and lean markup are often compromised in the pursuit of this
Philippe Janvier : In Search of the Holy Grail - "...deploy the Holy Grail layout without compromising your code or your flexibility." [via] #
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35 month ago
Cameron Moll : ALA: Web 3.0 - A List Apart: "Web 3.0". Jeffrey speaks from the heart. At least that's how I read it. I found this to be highly motivational, surprisingly. "These problems and others will be solved, most likely by someone reading this page," says Zeldman. "One points to
Rod Begbie : A List Apart: Articles: Web 3.0 - I ♥ Zeldman. [via] #
Eric Meyer : A List Apart: Articles: Web 3.0 - Preach on, brutha.
jimray : A List Apart: Articles: Web 3.0 - "My discomfort with the hype surrounding an emerging genre of web development turned into a full-blown hate-on." Zeldman debunks all the Web2.0 inanity.
Simon Willison : Web 3.0 - A Zeldman classic.
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: Web 3.0 - "We have been down this road before"
Jeremy Zawodny : Web 3.0 - Web 3.0: "But ours is a medium in which, more often than not, big teams have slowly and expensively labored to produce overly complex web applications whose usability was near nil on behalf of clients with at best vague goals."
WillPate : Web 3.0 - "To you who feel like failures because you spent last year honing your web skills and serving clients, or running a business, or perhaps publishing content, you are special and lovely, so hold that pretty head high, and never let them see the tears."
François Nonnenmacher : Web 3.0 - Jeffrey Zeldman cuts to the chase
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35 month ago
Philippe Janvier : The Accessibility Hat Trick : Getting Abbreviations Right - "By taking the time to pull off the accessibility hat trick, to make our content standards compliant, backwards compatible, and fully accessible, we allow all users to approach our content as equals. That's what AAA-level conformance is about." [via] #
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: The Accessibility Hat Trick: Getting Abbreviations Right - "...abbreviations and acronyms stand out as one of the trickiest areas of AAA to implement well. In order to meet our three-part goal of standards compliance, backwards compatibility, and full accessibility, we need to give this aspect of our content a bi
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36 month ago
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist - "...we can make our users' lives easier by thinking about the way people interact with our websites, providing clear direction, and then putting the burden of sorting out the details in the hands of the computers - not the users."
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36 month ago
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: Thinking Outside the Grid - "There is a new kid on the block, and her name is 'I've never designed with a table in my career.'"
Paul Hammond : A List Apart: Articles: Thinking Outside the Grid - There is a new kid on the block, and her name is “I’ve never designed with a table in my career.â€
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Power to the People - We should be providing solutions that work for people, not the other way around.
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Printing a Book with CSS: Boom! - HTML is the dominant document format on the web and CSS is used to style most HTML pages. But, are they suitable for off-screen use? Can CSS be used for serious print jobs?
deusx : A List Apart: Articles: Printing a Book with CSS: Boom! - It's like Microformats meets DocBook! Or something.
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Ambient Findability: Findability Hacks - Findability Precedes Usability ... In the Alphabet and on the Web ... You Can’t Use What You Can’t Find
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia (or Build a Website for No Reason) - The formation of strategy isn't one of the most popular aspects of web development, but it should be. Strategy narrows the focus and purpose of a project to make it as effective as possible
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39 month ago
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: Introducing the CSS3 Multi-Column Module - The module's intent is to allow content to flow into multiple columns inside an element. It offers new CSS properties that let the designers specify in how many columns an element should be rendered.
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39 month ago
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: CSS Swag: Multi-Column Lists - If you want to present a list in multiple columns you’ll need to compromise. Choose your poison…
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39 month ago
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: High-Resolution Image Printing - High-Resolution Image Printing
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39 month ago
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: JavaScript Logging - If you spend much time working with JavaScript, there will eventually come a day when you need to know the value of a variable (or an object's field) as the execution of the script progresses, or why a script terminates unexpectedly
deusx : A List Apart: Articles: JavaScript Logging - "fvlogger borrows concepts from Log4J and its cousins, but eschews their complexity by providing a simple API and offloading the heavy lifting onto the DOM."
Paul Hammond : A List Apart: Articles: JavaScript Logging - how logging provides an easy way to create transparent code
Nelson Minar : JavaScript debug logs - log4j like thing for JS (via Hot Links)
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40 month ago
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: Facts and Opinions About PDF Accessibility - PDF accessibility is not as straightforward as HTML accessibility. But we need to stand up to the untruths that are spoken about PDF, especially since many of those untruths come from authorities with the power to find authors guilty of discrimination
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56 month ago
Richard MacManus : Adam Greenfield on distinction between style and design - Classic ALA article. Design is "utility, simplicity, and clarity". (via Dave Shea)
philgyford : A List Apart: Articles: The Bathing Ape Has No Clothes (and other notes on the distinction between style and design) - I'm sure I'll need this again at some point. On why so many "designers" are actually "stylists".
plasticbag : "The Bathing Ape Has No Clothes" - a piece on design and style by Adam Greenfield from 2001 - I read this at the time, but was sent it this morning by a friend and re-read it. I'd be interested to know what he thinks of the current state of the design industries - certainly it's got a bit more function focused, at least on the web...
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