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Pages now exports to ePub

Listen up, desktop ePublishers! Apple's iWork 9.0.4 update gives Pages the ability to export to ePub format, for use in Stanza, iBooks, or any standard ePub reader. The update is free.

Episode 19: Beyond Usability with Aarron Walter

Designer Aarron Walter guests on tomorrow's episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped before a live internet audience.

Aarron is the author of one of my favorite web design books, Building Findable Websites: Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond (New Riders, 2008). It's the book that explains the connection between "search engine optimization" and good, accessible, semantic markup. (Buy your clients a copy.) He works as the lead user experience designer for

ALA 313: CS, CMS, H&J, OK!

In Issue No. 313 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Better content management systems start with content strategy; typographically beauteous web pages may benefit from hyphenation and justification.

Strategic Content Management

by JONATHAN KAHN

Any web project more complex than a blog requires custom CMS design work. It's tempting to use familiar tools and try to shoehorn content in—but we can't select the appropriate tool until we've figured out the project's...

My other iPad is a Kindle

The new Kindle has a lot going for it. It's inexpensive compared to a full-featured tablet computer like the iPad; you can slip it in your back pocket, where it's more comfortable than an old-style paperback; and it includes a Webkit browser. This last point is where folks like us start to give a hoot, whether we're fans of epub reading or not.

The flavor of Kindle's browser concerns us because it affords us the ability to optimize the mobile viewing experience with a single ...

Episode 18: Roger Black on web type and templates

Legendary art director Roger Black guests on tomorrow's episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped in front of a live internet audience.

Roger co-founded the following new companies: Webtype, creators of high-end fonts for online typography; Treesaver, a platform that uses CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and the principles of responsive design to publish beautifully formatted content on any device with a web browser; Ready-Media, which designs templates for...

HTML5 For Web Designers: The eBook

Jeremy Keith's HTML5 for Web Designers is now available as an epub at books.alistapart.com.

If you bought the paperback, watch your inbox for a special discount on the ebook. (To take advantage of this offer, enter the discount code in page 2 of the shopping cart's checkout process, after you put in your billing information.)

Also, be on the lookout for our second book, CSS3 For Web Designers by Dan Cederholm, forthcoming this Fall. Upcoming A Book Apart topics include...

Announcing Lanyrd

No, it isn't a Happy Cog project (it's by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe) but we couldn't love Lanyrd, the social conference directory any more if we'd created it ourselves.

Lanyrd uses Twitter to tell you which conferences, workshops and such your friends are attending or speaking at. You can add and track events, and soon you'll be able to export your events as iCal or into your Google calendar (the site is powered by microformats). Soon, too, you'll be able to add...

HTML5 Pour Les Web Designers

Sacrebleu! The French edition of the ebook of Monsieur Jeremy Keith's HTML5 For Web Designers is in the top five sellers in the iTunes Store Français.

To answer your other questions: an eBook version in English is coming to books.alistapart.com next week, will soon thereafter also be sold via the iTunes Store, and will be followed by a PDF version. Get those downloading fingers in shape now!

Episode 17: Web Meritocracy

Bay area designer Tracy Osborn (@limedaring) is our guest on Thursday's episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped in front of a live internet audience.

Tracy is the kind of young entrepreneur who bears watching, and an exemplar of the empowering energy of the web. In virtually every other sphere of industry, even can't-miss notions demand tremendous financial backing to attain the merest chance of success. But on the web, quite often, all you need is a...

A most unfortunate company name