by Erin Kissane
“You’ve seen them around the web, these zombie sentences. They’re not hard to recognize: syntax slack and drooling, clauses empty of everything but a terrible hunger for human brains.” Here’s how to fight back.
(More Kissane articles are available at A List Apart.)
by Dan Mall
Love it or hate it, Flash has become a fixture of modern web design. Cut through the misconceptions and learn how Flash can be used to enhance standards-based web designs. (“Shiny floor” standards-friendly Flash project included.)
by Jeffrey Zeldman
We’ll have better web design when we stop asking it to be something it’s not, and start appreciating it for what it is. It’s not print, not video, not a poster—and that’s not a problem. Find out why cultural and business leaders misunderstand web design, and learn which other forms it most usefully resembles.
by Jeffrey Zeldman
Version targeting shakes our browser-agnostic faith. Its default behavior runs counter to our expectations, and seems wrong. Yet to offer true DOM support without bringing JScript-authored sites to their knees, version targeting must work the way Microsoft proposes, argues Jeffrey Zeldman.
by Jeffrey Zeldman
“‘Web 2.0’ was not only bigger than the Apocalypse but also more profitable. Profitable, that is, for investors like the speaker. Yet the new gold rush must not be confused with the dot-com bubble of the 1990s....”
(More Zeldman is available at A List Apart.)