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A List Apart 301

happycog — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:40:26 +0000

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.

Accent Folding for Auto-Complete

by CARLOS BUENO

Another generation of technology has passed and Unicode support is almost everywhere. The next step is to write software that is not just “internationalized” but truly multilingual. In this article we will skip through a bit of history and theory, then illustrate a neat hack called accent-folding. Accent-folding has its limitations but it can help make some important yet overlooked user interactions work better.

Training the Butterflies: Interview with Scott Berkun

by LIZ DANZICO, SCOTT BERKUN

Whether it’s in front of a huge audience or a handful of executives, smooth public speaking is essential to a successful web design career. Yet most of us are more afraid of speaking in public than we are of death. In a lively give-and-take, Liz Danzico interviews Scott Berkun, author of Confessions of a Public Speaker, for tips on how to prepare for public speaking, how to perfect your timing, and what to do when bad things happen.

A List Apart explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices. Explore our articles or find out more about us.

A List Apart 300

happycog — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:13:17 +0000

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).

Two Guys, One Mic

happycog — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:33:05 +0000

Dan Benjamin and Happy Cog founder Jeffrey Zeldman discuss the secret history of blogging, transitioning from freelance to agency, the story behind the web standards movement, the launch of A Book Apart and its first title, HTML5 For Web Designers by Jeremy Keith, managing the growth of a design business, and more in the inaugural episode of the Pipeline.

SVG Reconsidered

happycog — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:16:29 +0000

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.

Seattle conference schedule

happycog — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:59:31 +0000

An Event Apart, Happy Cog’s conference “for people who make websites,” proudly presents three days in April—including a special, one-day workshop on HTML5 and CSS3, led by Jeremy Keith and Dan Cederholm. The complete schedule is now available for your perusal.

Take the survey

happycog — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:59:57 +0000

Each year since 2007, we’ve asked you, the members of the web design community, a few dozen questions about your professional life, and compared your answers to those of your colleagues. The data that you provide and we analyze is the only significant information about our profession as a profession to be published anywhere, by anyone. And so, once again, we ask you to take a few minutes to tell us about your professional skills, educational background, career prospects, job benefits, and more. Please take the survey for people who make websites. The job you save could be your own.

We left our data in San Francisco

happycog — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:06:19 +0000

An Event Apart San Francisco is over, but the memories linger on.

Enjoy the live feed, designed and coded by Nick Sergeant and Pete Karl.
Machine-tagged photos from An Event Apart San Francisco 2009, ranked by “interestingness.” By Kris Krug, Pete Karl II, Jeffrey Zeldman, and others. Featuring Nicole Sullivan, Andy Budd, and many more.
An Event Apart San Francisco Flickr pool, featuring the photography of Kris Krug plus the attendees of AEA.
An Event Apart Caption Contest
They’re Letting Designers Code Now? — ZDNet live-blogs Dave Shea’s An Event Apart presentation
Seducing Your Users With Web Design — ZDNet live-blogs Andy Budd’s An Event Apart presentation
Upcoming listing, AEA San Francisco

Web Fonts!

happycog — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:10:24 +0000

Web fonts are here. Now what? In Issue No. 296 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Tim Brown debuts Web Font Specimen, a handy, free resource that shows how typefaces really look on the web; and Jason Santa Maria tells how to avoid using fonts that don’t work on the web, and achieve graceful pairings of fonts that do.

Blue Beanie Day III

happycog — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:42:01 +0000

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.

Got an illustrated Twitter/Flickr avatar? Give it a blue beanie designed by Kevin Cornell. (Download the Cornell PSD at zeldman.com.)

On Message

happycog — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:21:12 +0000

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.