Catalogablog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Good idea from Dean Frickey writing in A List Apart (the other ALA), A More Useful 404 . Encountering 404 errors is not new. Often, developers provide custom 404 pages to make the experience a little less frustrating. However, for a custom 404 page to be truly useful, it should not only provide relevant information to the user, but should also provide immediate feedback to the developer so that, when...
456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Jeffrey Zeldman recently posted Is your (website’s) underwear showing? , which is a reminder about one of my pet peeves – websites that don’t specify a background colour but have a design that relies on all browsers having a white background. When the browser background is set to something other than white, some sites look really… interesting :-). This has been happening since forever. Back in the...
Gilbert "Gilbitron" Pellegrom (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
A List Apart have just finished writing a series of articles on Progressive Enhancement. If you’ve never heard of progressive enhancement before the wikipedia definition says: “Progressive enhancement is a strategy for web design that emphasizes accessibility, semantic markup, and external stylesheet and scripting technologies. Progressive enhancement uses web technologies in a layered fashion that...
A List Apart (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
Our introductory series on progressive enhancement and the ways it can be implemented concludes with a look at the mindset needed to implement PE in JavaScript, and a survey of best practices for doing so.
The Letter (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
Some interesting articles on small business: Seth Godin explains that if you act like a small business you're not likely to fail Ben Rometsch shares some great insights into reducing your business costs A List Apart readers explain how they manage when Working From Home
design.Principles (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
A List Apart has just published issue #270. The first article, “Progressive Enhancement with CSS” is the second in a series from Aaron Gustafson. “Working From Home: The Readers Respond“, the second piece is a summary of results targeting those of you lucky enough to work from home. Aaron Gustafson’s second piece in his series expands [...]
A List Apart (Free subscription) | 10/18/2008
We asked. Our gentle readers answered. In A List Apart No. 263 we inquired how you walk the blurry line when you work from home. Here are your secrets—how to balance work and family, maintain energy and focus, get things done, and above all, how to remember the love.
Man with no blog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Last month Molly Holzschlag lead an interesting discussion on the divided state of the web standards community on A List Apart. Now we all know this has been happening for a while, this fragmentation of the web standards community. Molly is prompting people to get involve with their web standards group of their choice, in an [...]
Stellify (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
http://stellify.netTo all the Filipino people who make websites, we would greatly appreciate it if you could answer our survey. (With apologies to A List Apart. Will report the progress of the web design conference we’re planning—soon.) Related posts We want a Philippine web design conference. So we’re planning one. (19) Project Grow (4) What, No Holiday Post? (7) Visit the [...]
Legends of the Sun Pig (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
"If you don’t like the music on the radio, start a band. If you don’t like the way existing publications are defining your profession, start a magazine."...
Wisdump (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Despite the the dot-com bubble bursting at the turn of the new millennium, the Web has become more intelligent, successful, and profitable in the past ten years. We have a ton of people to thank for that, but let’s focus on two groups that are celebrating their 10th anniversaries this 2008. Google Google is one of the [...]
SimpleBits (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Why a magazine? Because we didn’t hear the music we wanted on the radio. #
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
A List Apart has a timely article titled Understanding Progressive Enhancement discussing the perceptual differences between graceful degradation and progressive enhancement. I enjoyed seeing Steve Champeon's idea given new light. Additionally, now is as good a time as any to have a go at these topics, with the many new enhancements being added to today's browsers, while antiques still cutter cyberspace....
design.Principles (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Issue #269 of A List Apart has been published. Aaron Gustafson starts off a new series on progressive enhancement with a nice refresher and primer. In this issue’s second article, Jeffrey Zeldman looks back on the first 10 years of A List Apart.
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
In Issue No. 269, master the basics of progressive enhancement and look back in orange at the first ten years of A List Apart.
