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September 1, 2010
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...
August 31, 2010
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...
August 26, 2010
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!
August 24, 2010
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...
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...
