Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 103
April 30, 2010
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!
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 (and other sites, too numerous to name) about one of your favorite subjects, "real fonts on your website" in this, our inaugural episode.
Enjoy!
April 29, 2010
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 more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
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Live Today: Web Fonts Dialog
Live today, Dan Benjamin and I grill Ethan Dunham of Fontspring and Font Squirrel and Jeffrey Veen of Typekit and numerous other good things on the web about one of your favorite subjects, "real fonts on your website."
Be part of this dialog that takes place via streaming video feed with live call-in.
Don't miss the inaugural live broadcast of The Big Web Show today at 1:00 PM Eastern.
(And get the podcast next week by following 5by5 on iTunes.)
April 26, 2010
State of Web Development 2010
The report from Web Directions' second "State of Web Development" survey covers "technologies, techniques, philosophies and practices" employed by today's web professionals. Download the complete (anonymized) set of responses in CSV format, gaze fondly at a PDF infographic overview, or read a detailed analysis online.
The State of Web Development 2010
More Mod on the Digital Book
A Reading Heatmap: Key passages illuminated by layering all readers' highlights for the same text.
LAST MONTH, he wowed us with Books in the Age of the iPad, a call to make digital books as beautiful as printed ones. This month, Craig Mod is back with Embracing the Digital Book, an article (or blog post if you must) that begins as a critique of iBooks and Kindle and moves on to discuss the e-reader of our dreams, complete with reasoned social features:
I'm excited about digital...
Roll your own iBooks with ePub
In A novel concept: Roll your own iBooks with ePub, Macworld's Dan Moren tells how to create your own e-books as easily as you export a PDF or GIF from an authoring program like Office or Photoshop:
Earlier this week, Storyist Software released an update to its eponymous writing software that supports export directly to the ePub format, including the ability to add cover art, tweak formatting, and more. Likewise, the forthcoming 2.0 version of popular writing tool Scrivener is...
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 indicate that you find the content interesting, relevant or helpful. Basically, you would recommend it to a friend.
Before Wednesday, "like" buttons only were on Facebook. Now, they'll be all over the place… When you click one, you post the item — whether it's a blog post, photo or...
April 24, 2010
Even Money
When a designer has no client, (s)he can sometimes do the best work. MONOmoda reviews a US money redesign by Michael Tyznik. The use of the Amendments to the Constitution is quite striking and smart. Compare and contrast. Hat tip: Mau.
