Standards Archives
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Blue Beanie Day III
November 12, 2009
Monday, November 30th, 2009 marks the third annual International Blue Beanie Day in Support of Web Standards. Don a blue toque to show your support for web standards, grab a photo of yourself sporting said headgear, and upload it to the Blue Beanie Day 2009 photo pool on Flickr. (Read more.)
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Pre-order DWWS 3e
August 24, 2009
The 3rd Edition of Designing With Web Standards, founder Jeffrey Zeldman’s magnum opus and the foundational web standards text, is now available for pre-order at savings of 37% off. Written with Ethan Marcotte, this major revision to the book that changed how websites get designed and developed captures the explosion of new ideas and technologies that are shaking up standards-based design. From HTML 5 to web fonts, CSS3 to WCAG2, Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition captures this moment, makes sense of it, and keeps readers smartly ahead of the pack. Zeldman’s blog describes what’s new in this edition. There is also the first page of a new book mini-site, which makes interesting use of embedded web type that works in all browsers.
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ALA 282: Real Type on the Web
April 21, 2009
In Issue No. 282 of Happy Cog’s A List Apart, For People Who Make Websites: We discuss the licensing and technical hurdles of bringing real type to the web with The Font Bureau’s David Berlow, and explore the usability benefits of beauty in design with Stephen P. Anderson.
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ALA 273: Agile vs. IA
December 2, 2008
Issue No. 273 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, looks at web design from both sides now. Learn how traditional, research-based IA leads to better site design—and why many are abandoning traditional methods in favor of agile design.
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ALA 268: whither standards?
September 23, 2008
Issue No. 268 of A List Apart fine-tunes the mechanics of progressive enhancement and rethinks the assumptions of standards-based design.
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ALA 265: listen!
August 12, 2008
In Issue No. 256 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: The web is a conversation, but not always a productive one. In “Putting Our Hot Heads Together,” Carolyn Wood shares ways to transform discussion forums and comment sections from shooting ranges into arenas of collaboration. Plus: Because of limited awareness around Deafness and accessibility in the web community, it seems plausible to many of us that good captioning will fix it all. It won’t. In “Deafness and the User Experience,” Lisa Herrod explains how to enhance the user experience for all deaf people.
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The Survey, 2008
July 29, 2008
It’s back, it’s improved, and it’s hungry for your data. Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide. Please take the survey and encourage your friends and colleagues who make websites to do likewise. The world is watching.
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Pixel8 Podcast
March 19, 2008
More about version targeting: Craig Shoemaker interviews Jeffrey Zeldman for Pixel8. The interview was conducted in February 2008, after Microsoft had announced version targeting in its IE8 browser, but before the company, bowing to public opinion, changed version targeting so that advanced standards would be supported by default.
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A List Apart 254: Design Double
March 4, 2008
In Issue No. 254 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, creative director Andy Rutledge explains why designers should shake off the mantle of “creativity” before it comes back to bite them, and rising supernova designer Naz Hamid explores the rewards of obsession.
In other A List Apart-related news, Microsoft has reversed the version targeting default in upcoming IE8, supporting advanced web standards by default. Details and linkage at zeldman.com.
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ALA 253: Two on target
February 20, 2008
In Issue No. 253 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Jeremy Keith argues that version targeting in IE8 is all right, but its default is all wrong, while Happy Cog founder (and ALA publisher) Jeffrey Zeldman insists that the default seems wrong, but is actually right.