Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 96
July 24, 2010
UI Design Framework for Web Designers
Vincent (no last name given) has designed a beautiful, extremely useful, feature-rich interface design framework for web designers who create their initial design mock-ups in Adobe Illustrator. And it's free for personal or commercial use (credit link required).
The set includes:
GUI library – Hundreds of vector elements for interface design
Minimal UI icons set – 260 vector icons for Illustrator
Styles library – 200 styles to apply in Illustrator
I'd pay cash money for the...
July 22, 2010
Thursday Links
HTML5 audio and video WordPress plugin lets you embed media for native playback in supported browsers; content degrades gracefully in unsupported browsers.10 Tips for Designing Mobile Websites. Great stuff.The downside of free fonts.Flipboard, superhot new "social iPad magazine," will be powered by semantic data.Nick Usborne: "Why I don't much like the phrase, 'content marketing.'"JK Rowling may allow digital Harry Potter books.We all have movie star issues now. Reputation...
HTML5 and CSS3 virtual classes
IF YOU'RE BONING UP on HTML5 and CSS3, you'll want to consider two remarkable learning experiences taking place live on the web this summer:
Learn HTML5 with John AllsoppHere is a great educational opportunity that's also an amazing value. Experience eight structured sessions, two live Q&A sessions, private discussion forum, practical exercises and more, from one of the world's best and most experienced teachers of standards-based design. All for just US $9.95. That is not a...
July 19, 2010
Episode 13: Voices That Matter
Editor Michael Nolan walks writer Aarron Walter through the fine points. Photo: Ari Stiles.
All our Big Web Show interviews are personal to me and feature people who make a difference in our community, but this week's guest is especially special. Michael J. Nolan (@mikaln) is the acquisitions editor who "discovered" me, and who has brought to light (or should I say brought to print) more web leaders with distinctive voices and visions than just about anyone out there.
Michael w...
July 15, 2010
HTML5 For Web Designers Sells Out
The first printing of Jeremy Keith's HTML5 For Web Designers has sold out.
For a book about web forms, semantics, and the history of markup, it's done pretty well:
The book sold 1,000 copies during the first hour of pre-sales.
It sold 5,000 copies during the first 24 hours of pre-sales.
The first printing sold out within two months.
Haven't ordered yours yet, and now they're sold out? Not to worry: a second printing is in the works; orders will ship the week of July 26.
So...Type@Cooper
Starting in the fall of 2010, the Continuing Education Department of The Cooper Union, in conjunction with the Type Directors Club, will offer a Certificate Program in Typeface Design.
More information about this remarkable program is available at coopertype.org.
The gorgeous typefaces used on the Coopertype website are FB Franklin Web (Benton Sans) and Farnham, both by Nick Sherman of Brooklyn and Font Bureau.
iPad Mellotron
In Heaven, if I should get there, I will play the Mellotron. Meanwhile, I play the Mellotronics M3000 HD, a $12 Mellotron for iPad (and soon for iPhone and iPod touch as well) by Synthtopia.
From the manufacturers:
The M3000 is an uncannily accurate, beautiful-sounding and immensely playable instrument, packed with 13 huge, authentic voices from the Mellotronics tape vault. These are the same production tapes that featured on Strawberry Fields Forever, Nights in White Satin...
July 14, 2010
Episode 12: Web Conferences
Thursday 15 July 2010 at 1:00 PM ET, Dan Benjamin and I will try to find out what makes web design conferences tick by interviewing the founders of two of the best. During the live taping of Episode 12 of The Big Web Show, the weekly podcast on everything web that matters, our guests will be Andy McMillan, founder of Build, an annual "hand-crafted web design conference" located in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and CSS godfather Eric Meyer, co-founder of An Event Apart, the...
Happy Cog redesigns Zappos.com
Free overnight shipping; a liberal return policy; friendly service: it's no secret that Zappos.com positions the customer as the cornerstone of their brand promise. Yet despite their success, Zappos.com was a website with a problem: their business growth had outpaced the slowly-evolving aesthetic of their website. While the site enabled customers to make their purchases quickly, it didn't capture and embrace the hallmarks of the Zappos.com culture. Enter Happy Cog. (Read...
July 8, 2010
Nicole Sullivan on CSS
If writing good CSS is tough, fixing someone else's (or multiple someones') bad CSS is a rarified art calling for the skill of a surgeon, the sensitivity of a Stradivarius, the patience of a saint, and the diplomacy of a Zheng He. Nicole Sullivan is one of the best and...
