Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 100
May 22, 2010
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 its name in the clouds, and the sky-scraping Prudential Tower adds a whole new meaning to the term, "high finance." Beantown. Cradle of liberty, Athens of America, the walking city, and five-time host to An Event Apart, which may be America's leading web design...
May 21, 2010
Win A Book Apart
Now through May 27, when you use Gowalla on your iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre, or iPad to discover and share places with your friends, you might win a copy of Jeremy Keith's HTML5 for Web Designers.
How it works couldn't be simpler. If you aren't already a player, download Gowalla. Then, when using Gowalla to check into a location, if you find the HTML5 for Web Designers book item, just add it to your collection. On Thursday, May 27, ten random people who picked up...
May 20, 2010
BWS4: Content Strategy
The final cut of The Big Web Show "Episode 4: Content Strategy," recorded in front of a live internet audience earlier today, is now online for your viewing pleasure.
Hosted, as always, by Dan Benjamin and me, this episode features Kristina Halvorson, CEO, Brain Traffic and author, Content Strategy for the Web (New Riders, 2010); and Erin Kissane, content strategist, Happy Cog, and author, Incisive.nu. It's 60 minutes of insights to die for! Brainpower like you've never! Don't...
May 19, 2010
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 of the phrase, "typography on the web."
The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open...
May 18, 2010
Episode 3 forever
The Big Web Show Episode 3, featuring the delightful Melissa Pierce on using the internet to reinvent yourself, is now available for your viewing and listening pleasure.
May 17, 2010
Web Design and Fitness
Three times a week I work out hard with a trainer at a gym. It's like sex. I don't mean it feels good. On the contrary, it hurts. And I don't mean there's cuddling after. What makes my hard workouts like sex is that they're followed by a spacey bliss in which there is no atom of desire. When I'm lying on that post-workout stretching table, gazing vaguely at the ceiling, Christina Hendricks could sashay by wearing a G-string made of thousand dollar bills and carrying a plate...
Squat Thrusts
Three times a week I work out hard with a trainer at a gym. It's like sex. I don't mean it feels good. On the contrary, it hurts. And I don't mean there's cuddling after. What makes my hard workouts like sex is that they're followed by a spacey bliss in which there is no atom of desire. When I'm lying on that post-workout stretching table, gazing vaguely at the ceiling, Christina Hendricks could sashay by wearing a G-string made of thousand dollar bills and carrying a plate...
