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July 6, 2010
CSS3: Love vendor prefixes, resize full-screen backgrounds
Learn to love vendor prefixes and create full-screen backgrounds that resize to fit the viewport in Issue No. 309 of A List Apart for people who make websites:
Prefix or Posthackby ERIC MEYER
Vendor prefixes: Threat or menace? As browser support (including in IE9) encourages more of us to dive into CSS3, vendor prefixes such as -moz-border-radius and -webkit-animation may challenge our consciences, along with our patience. But while nobody particularly enjoys writing the same...
July 5, 2010
An InDesign for HTML and CSS?
In "CSS is the new Photoshop" (?), Adobe's John Nack correctly observes, as have many of us, that "Cascading Style Sheets can create a great deal of artwork now, without reliance on bitmap graphics." Nack quotes Shawn Blanc, one of several concurrent authors of the phrase "CSS is the new Photoshop," who cites as evidence Louis Harboe's iOS icons and Jeff Batterton's iPhone, both designed entirely in CSS and both only viewable in the latest Webkit browsers, Safari 5 and Google ...
July 3, 2010
SlideShowPro adds HTML5
Most of us web folk are hybrids of one sort or another, but Todd Dominey was one of the first web designers to combine exceptional graphic design talent with serious mastery of code.
Being so good at both design and development that you could easily earn a fine living doing just one of them is still rare, although it looks like the future of our profession. One of the first serious designers to embrace web standards, Todd was also one of the few who did so while continuing to a...
July 1, 2010
37signals' Jason Fried live today on The Big Web Show
I have known 37signals CEO Jason Fried since he was a young copywriter who reminded me of me, only smarter and more confident. Like many of you, with a mixture of awe and pleasure, I have watched him change our industry, along with book publishing and business generally. Dan Benjamin and I are delighted to announce the mercurial Mr Fried as our guest on The Big Web Show. Join us today, 1 July 2010, for the live taping at 1:00 PM ET.
Jason's official bio is brief, but he can...
June 28, 2010
So you want to be an epublisher
You scream, I scream, we all scream for epubs. As with all internet bounty, it's even more exciting to produce than to consume. So after you've glutted yourself on all those free Jane Austen novels and children's books, and gone into hock re-creating your library on iPad, why not give something back by doing a little writing yourself?
What to write about, how to ensure quality, and how to identify and market to an audience are beyond the scope of this little post, but we can
June 24, 2010
Episode 9: Web Standards
Today at 1:00 PM EDT, join Dan Benjamin and me live as we interview designer, developer, author, lecturer, and bon vivant Ethan Marcotte (bio | blog | Twitter) for Episode 9 of The Big Web Show.
Ethan is the author of an upcoming A Book Apart treatise on responsive web design; my co-author on Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition; and the co-author with Dan Cederholm of Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design.
Join us for a lively discussion as we talk about designing a...
June 23, 2010
Responsive design is the new black
The blog of Mr Simon Collison, retooled as responsive web design. The wide version.
The blog of Mr Simon Collison, retooled as responsive web design. The narrow version.
Read the article that started it all. Coming soon as a book by Mr Ethan Marcotte from A Book Apart. (The current A Book Apart book, Mr Jeremy Keith's HTML5 For Web Designers, ships Friday. Mr Ethan Marcotte will be our guest this Thursday, June 24, on The Big Web Show. Synchronicity. It's not just an LP by The P...
June 22, 2010
Real Publishers Ship
Yippee! Jeremy Keith's HTML5 For Web Designers (A Book Apart, 2010) ships Friday.
In this brilliant and entertaining user's guide, Jeremy Keith tells web designers what they need to know about the web's new markup language—and the first version of HTML designed for a web of applications, not just documents.
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June 21, 2010
Big Web Show Roundup
The Big Web Show is a weekly video podcast on Everything Web That Matters, co-hosted by 5×5 network founder Dan Benjamin and yours truly. Here's a roundup of recent shows:
In Episode 2: HTML5, Dan and I talk with Jeremy Keith, designer, writer, featured An Event Apart speaker, and author of HTML5 for Web Designers. We discuss the goals and inspiration behind the book, as well as what HTML5 means for both web creators and those who consume the web, covering topics that range...June 18, 2010
Respect
I will never forget my father's words.
There's this thing that men and women can do, that apparently a lot of men think about, that most women don't want to do.
If I were a woman, I wouldn't want to do it.
I was fourteen and just learning about these things, so I asked my dad about it.
He told me he wasn't interested, because:
"I have too much respect for a lady's vagina."
It's the comic pathos of that abstracted possessive that has always haunted me.
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