A List Apart Archives
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A List Apart 301
February 23, 2010
In Issue No. 301 of A LIST APART, for people who make websites: Speaking in public? Be afraid. Be very afraid. (It’s actually good for you.) Plus: How to write web software that is not just “internationalized” but truly multilingual.
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A List Apart 300
February 9, 2010
In Issue No. 300 of A List Apart for people who make websites, influence user decisions by teaching your site to do the right thing at the right time (content strategy, writing). And solve the vexations of password masking without losing user trust (browsers, scripting, UX, usability, JavaScript).
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SVG Reconsidered
January 26, 2010
In Issue No. 299 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Shelley Powers takes a second look at SVG and likes what she sees.
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On Message
November 7, 2009
In Issue No. 295 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: David Sherwin explains how to stop bewildering them with babble, and learn to communicate the business value of UX research to clients. And Amber Simmons takes you beyond keywords and killer headlines. Discover how to make your rich content sites learner-friendly.
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ALA No. 294 – Hell, No!
October 20, 2009
In Issue No. 294 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Happy Cog’s Greg Hoy shares the five signs of a bad client/agency relationship and how to avoid them; and Robert Hoekman, Jr. punches holes in usability’s balloon.
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Let the Users Do It
October 6, 2009
In Issue No. 293 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Wouldn’t it be magical if, when you signed up for a new site, it said something like, “We notice you have a profile photo on Flickr and Twitter, would you like to use one of those or upload a new one?” Glenn Jones created a JavaScript library to help you do just that. Plus: The value in usability testing comes from the magic of observing and listening as people use a design. Dana Chisnell shows you how.
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Search Analytics Triple Issue
September 22, 2009
In Issue No. 292 of A List Apart, “for people who make websites,” we present Avinash Kaushik on internal site search analysis; Lou Rosenfeld on site search analytics from the bottom up; and John Ferrara on new tools to test search for relevancy and precision. Join the search party!
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ALA 291: HTML5, working with web forms
September 1, 2009
In Issue No. 291 of A List Apart, for people who make websites — Ready or not, here it comes. Despite the confusion surrounding its evolution, real-world HTML 5 is right around the corner. Longtime ALA contributor J. David Eisenberg returns to get us all up to speed on the markup we’re about to be writing. Plus: Web forms don’t have to be irritating, and your inline validation choices don’t have to be based on wild guesses. In his examination of inline form validation options, Luke Wroblewski offers that rarest of beasts: actual data about which things make people smile and which make them want to stab your website with a fork.
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Motown and JavaScript
August 24, 2009
In Issue No. 290 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Jonathan Snook tells how to use MVC (Model-View-Controller) thinking to create ever more modular JavaScript in your web applications, and Margot Bloomstein makes the case for content strategy—Motown style.
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ALA 289: redesigns
August 4, 2009
In Issue No. 289 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: 90% of web design is redesign. The hardest redesigns are the ones you do for yourself. In this special issue, we look at how two of the great ones handled the challenge of redesigning their own sites.