24 ways
Drew McLellan’s annual advent calendar for web geeks kicks off yet again. This year’s articles will also be printed by Five Simple Steps , with proceeds going to UNICEF . … Read the rest here
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The 24 Ways Annual 2010
The 24 Ways Annual 2010 : From the folks at Five Simple Steps: This year
Smashing CSS
Well, I done did it again: I wrote a book. This time, it’s Smashing CSS: Professional Techniques for Modern Layout , published by Wiley and Sons and available as of some time last week. (Just in time for the holiday gift-giving season! Buy one for everybody in the family! Don’t delay—act now!) What’s different about this book as compared to others I’ve written is that this is a collection of short tips, tricks, and techniques for using CSS in everyday work. Many of them involve making changes and seeing the results, similar to my New Riders books, but where those books had chapter-long projects these are usually only a page or three in length. Well, okay, a few get up towards ten pages, but only on occasion. Another difference is that Smashing CSS spans the spectrum from basic tools and browser features that can speed your development and debugging to some cutting-edge ideas and a taste of the latest CSS3 hotness… Read the rest here
Book Review: CSS3 for Web Designers
CSS3 for Web Designers is the latest release from A Book Apart which also recently released HTML5 for Web Designers . Having received a copy of this lightweight book in electronic format, I promptly loaded it onto my iPad in preparation for a flight. The book proved to be so brief and easy-to-read, in fact, that I was through its 130 pages before I even boarded my plane. Therefore, I took some time on my flight to write up my thoughts on said book. … Read the rest here
The Candy Parenthesis
Jason Santa Maria Go to the source
by Robin Sloan I don’t like candy. Sure, I had my Halloween hoard like any kid, and I’ve snagged a Snickers in line at the supermarket plenty of times. But really, I don’t like this stuff. It brings me no joy—and in fact, I think it symbolizes a lot of the problems with our food system today. Luckily, I think candy is a historical accident, not a food group. And I think its days are numbered. … Read the rest here
All For Me
Jason Santa Maria Go to the source
by Erin Kissane W hen I was five, my grandfather kept a stash of 3 Musketeers bars on top of his fridge. Not just a handful, but an actual display box like the ones in the check-out aisle at the grocery. He bought them because they were my favorites; they lived on the fridge because they were contraband. I wasn’t supposed to have sugar. Honey and blackstrap molasses from a co-op grocery that smelled like carob-flavored mummy, sure, but not the refined stuff then subject to a hippie-driven moral panic. … Read the rest here
Pixy Stix
Jason Santa Maria Go to the source
Our house edged a woods. We said the lady who lived there was a witch. by Jeffrey Zeldman A path cut through the woods, from our dead-end suburban circle to a main street on which stood Anastasia’s, a 5&10 that sold Spider-man comics and Pixy Stix. We’re not talking Fruit Roll-ups. This was pure dyed sugar in a straw. You lay on the ground, bit open the bottom of the straw, and red or purple or green sugar poured into your mouth. … Read the rest here
W3C:
My iPad Experience with a Bluetooth keyboard
On an impulse, I decided to buy the Bluetoothed Apple Wireless keyboard for use with the iPad. I felt there were times where I would want to create content without wanting to pull out my laptop and still have the flexibility of putting the keyboard away to enjoy the usual benefits of the iPad. I’m sitting in the middle seat of a six-hour flight home and thought, "this would be a good time to give this a try"— especially with blog post ideas popping to mind. As it turns out, the experience is quite nice. … Read the rest here
Ten years of
If you’re looking for something to give you inspiration, not just visually, but on a business level too, this is the book you need to buy: It’s not often I get so excited about a book (the last one was Jon Burgermans Pens are my friends ) but “I’m all over this” as the young people like to say. Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community could’ve just been a published collection of illustrations from Threadless shirts, and still would’ve been a must-buy. The variety and quality of Threadless designs are stunning, and I’ve always touted them as an inspiration source in talks like “How to be a Creative Sponge”. It goes much further than that though. … Read the rest here
$0.99 Today Only: Mobile Web Design (2007)
$0.99 Today Only: Mobile Web Design (2007) : Grab a PDF copy of my book, Mobile Web Design , for just $0.99. Offer expires at the end of today (Aug 30). View a preview on Lulu or on your iPad in the iBookstore (iBooks app), and read the reviews on Amazon . … Read the rest here
Ten Years
Why Free Plans Don
Why Free Plans Don
Subtlety, Deconstructed
Subtlety, Deconstructed : The ever-sagacious Seth Godin: Subtle design and messaging challenge the user to make her own connections instead of spelling out every detail. Connections we make are more powerful than connections made for us. If Amazon and Zappos had been called
Eight Principles of Information Architecture (PDF)
Eight Principles of Information Architecture (PDF) : Not that Dan Brown , but this Dan Brown : Information architecture, a field in relative infancy and constantly rediscovering itself, does not yet have a well-established theory that drives the design of structures for websites. You can pick up two books on graphic design and see the same topics covered in each. Why is there no such agreement for books on information architecture? Indeed, information architecture has yet to normalize, and the constant new demands on our work make progress toward that goal challenging. While the industry has yet to settle on a standard theory, there are a handful of principles I keep coming back to
HTML5 Live with John Allsopp
HTML5 Live with John Allsopp : Just purchased my subscription. Though I
Q & A with Jason Munn of the Small Stakes
Q & A with Jason Munn of the Small Stakes : Grain Edit interviews the prolific music poster designer. Have long been a fan, and now purchasing the book , which collects over 150 of Munn
A hard copy of Jeremy Keith
A hard copy of Jeremy Keith
Tapworthy Book: Designing Great iPhone Apps
Tapworthy Book: Designing Great iPhone Apps : Josh Clark