Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 93
August 21, 2010
Pick a Peck of Panels
Voting is underway for next year's SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX, and members of Happy Cog have proposed eighteen panel ideas shown here. Follow the links to vote for your favorites, increasing the likelihood you'll see them on the schedule in March 2011. Voting ends 11:59 PM CDT on Friday, August 27, 2010.
Project Management Project Management for Humans (No Robots Allowed)Panelists:
Brett Harned — Happy Cog Senior Project ManagerDave DeRuchie — Happy Cog Project...
August 17, 2010
Help content, iPad apps
In Issue No. 312 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Twitterific's Craig Hockenberry compares web apps to iPhone apps,and tells iPhone app developers what they need to know to succeed, in Apps vs. the Web. And Lyle Mullican shows how to convert frustrated users into loyal customers by strategizing, writing, and maintaining better help copy in Good Help is Hard to Find. (Plus: possibly the best Kevin Cornell ALA illustrations yet.)
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August 16, 2010
iPad Fonts Petition
Dear Apple: It is a triumph of engineering and marketing and general cause for joy that Apple provides highly functional iPad versions of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers for a mere $9.99 apiece. Alas, the iPad versions' inability to import or transfer fonts somewhat diminishes the apps' value and utility.
You, Apple, have done much to foster today's design culture, so it is no surprise to you that we designers are particular about the fonts we use. One font is not the same as...
August 13, 2010
How to use TextMate
For nearly 13 years, I created websites with PageSpinner, a charmingly old-fashioned HTML coding environment from the days of Netscape 1.0. But two years ago, seeking updated web page encoding and other modern conveniences, I switched to TextMate, "the missing editor for MacOS X."
PageSpinner greatly helps coders (but offends the aesthete's eye) with Microsoft-Word-like menu bars containing buttons that let you instantly create paragraphs, list items, and so on. In contrast...
Like a prayer
Social Network Creep
If you're intrigued, as I am, by the trailer for David Fincher's upcoming The Social Network, and if part of what compels you about the trailer is the musical score—a choral version of Radiohead's "Creep"—you'll be happy to know you can purchase said song via emusic.com: On The Rocks is the album, "Creep" is the track, and Scala, a Belgian all-teenage-girl choir, are the artists. Highly recommended.
P.S. If emusic.com had an affiliate program, I'd have free music for life.
We're speechless
In What I learned at An Event Apart Minneapolis, Marc Drummond writes:
A really good session, in my opinion, is not about the how, it's about the why. … A really good session, through arguments and examples, stories and slides, humor and deep thoughts, compels you to try something new. A great session exposes you to something you haven't done before and inspires you to take action, change the way you do things.Based on my experience, I plan to focus even more on understanding...
August 12, 2010
I guest-edit .net magazine
A List Apart and .net magazine have long admired each other. So when .net editor Dan Oliver did me the great honor of asking if I wished to guest edit an issue, I saluted smartly. The result is now arriving in subscriber post boxes and will soon flood Her Majesty's newsstands.
In .net magazine Issue No. 206, on sale 17th August in UK (and next month in the US), we examine how new standards like CSS3 and HTML5, new devices like iPhone and Droid, and maturing UX disciplines like ...
August 11, 2010
HTML5, CSS3 default templates
Free for use in all web projects, professional or personal, HTML5 Reset by Monkey Do! is a set of HTML5 and CSS templates that jumpstart web development by removing the styling native to each browser, establishing basic HTML structures (title, header, footer, etc.), clearing floats, correcting for IE problems, and more.
Most of us who design websites begin every project with bits and pieces of this kind of code, but developer Tim Murtaugh, who created these files and who...
