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Deafness and the User Experience

A List Apart - August 7, 2008 - 8:44pm

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. Before we can enhance the user experience for all deaf people, we must understand that the needs of deaf, hard of hearing, and big-D Deaf users are often very different.

 

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Putting Our Hot Heads Together

A List Apart - August 7, 2008 - 8:39pm

The web is a conversation, but not always a productive one. Web discussions too often degenerate into whines, jabs, sour grapes, and one-upmanship. How can we transform discussion forums and comment sections from shooting ranges into arenas of collaboration?

 

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The Survey, 2008

A List Apart - July 26, 2008 - 6:53am
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.

 

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How Do You Walk the Line Between Work and Home? Share Your Best Practices With ALA

A List Apart - July 10, 2008 - 7:08pm
Tell us how you overcome isolation, distractions, and temptation. How you deal with kids and deadlines. How you walk the blurry line between work and home. Share your best practices on working from home so we can present them in an upcoming issue of A List Apart.

 

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Walking the Line When You Work from Home

A List Apart - July 10, 2008 - 3:06pm
Working from home as a freelance contractor or remote employee can be a great thing, particularly if you live alone. But what if you have a spouse and/or children at home with you while you work? Every work environment offers distractions, but those who work from home with their families face a unique set of issues—and need equally unique ways of dealing with them.

 

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Getting Out of Binding Situations in JavaScript

A List Apart - June 26, 2008 - 4:40am
Every wonder who you really are? Congratulations! You have a lot in common with JavaScript. Learn once and for all how to train your JavaScript to remember who it is and what it's doing.

 

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Collaborate and Connect with Subversion

A List Apart - June 26, 2008 - 4:29am
Managing subcontractors and distributed projects is easy and fun. No wait, that's a lie. Luckily, a good version control may be just what you need to keep your projects on track.

 

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Sketching in Code: the Magic of Prototyping

A List Apart - June 13, 2008 - 2:11pm
The rise of Ajax and rich internet applications has thrown the limitations of traditional wireframing into painful relief. When you leave the world of page-based interactions, how do you document all but the simplest interactions? Flowcharts and diagrams don’t work. Prototyping saves the day by focusing on the application and conveying its "magic." Prototypes can help you sell a decision that is fundamentally or radically different from the client’s current solution or application. Sit a stakeholder down in front of a working prototype and show him or her why your approach is compelling.

 

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Faux Absolute Positioning

A List Apart - June 11, 2008 - 11:12pm
CSS layout is awesome, except when your layout calls for a header, a footer, and columns in between. Use float, and content changes can cause columns to wrap. Use absolute positioning, and your footer can crash into your columns. Add the complexity of drag-and-drop layouts, and a new technique is needed. Enter "faux absolute positioning." Align every item to a predefined position on the grid (as with absolute positioning), but objects will still affect the normal flow (as with float).

 

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Saving the Spark: Developing Creative Ideas

A List Apart - May 30, 2008 - 2:28pm
Ideas are at the heart of every creative process. However, coming up with them can be hard work. Mark Boulton arms us with tools to meet this challenge.

 

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Writing an Interface Style Guide

A List Apart - May 29, 2008 - 1:39pm
Ever designed or developed a beautiful interface only to find your hard work ruined months later by gaudy graphics or invalid markup? With proper documentation you'll have a better chance at seeing your interface stay beautiful. Jina Bolton guides us through the process of developing an interface style guide.

 

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Why Did You Hire Me?

A List Apart - May 16, 2008 - 11:10pm
Landing a new job or client is difficult in this economic climate. Undelivered contractual promises and work environment shortcomings can transform that challenge into a long-term nightmare. Keith LaFerriere shows how to get paid what you're worth; how to fight for control of your projects using management tools corporate cultures respect (even if they don't understand your work); and how to tell when it's time to jump ship.

 

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The Cure for Content-Delay Syndrome

A List Apart - May 16, 2008 - 4:30pm
Clients love to write copy. Well, they love to plan to write it, anyhow. On most web design projects, content is the last thing to be considered (and almost always the last thing to be delivered). We’ll spend hours, weeks, even months, doing user scenarios, site maps, wireframes, designs, schemas, and specifications—but content? It’s a disrespected line item in a schedule: “final content delivered.” Pepi Ronalds proposes a solution to this constant cause of project delays.

 

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Digital Web + Voices That Matter Contest - Winner!

Digital Web Magazine - October 8, 2007 - 7:20pm

We’re pleased to announce that we have a winner in the Voices That Matter: Web Design contest.
Congratulations to Krista Kostuch! She’s scored a free pass to the conference, which takes place in San Francisco later this month. Check out her winning entry here. Thanks so much to everyone who sent in an essay – it was tough deciding which one to choose!

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MSNBC.com Acquires Newsvine

Digital Web Magazine - October 7, 2007 - 4:19pm

So just last night I was sitting at a bar with Mike Davidson of Newsvine and a bunch of crew from MSNBC.com including Digital Web Magazine’s own talented Production Manager, Tiff Fehr. Unbeknownst to me but a deal was being made (the news was under embargo so go figure). Today the news went public, MSNBC.com Acquires Newsvine. You can read all about it on NewsVine and I am sure everyone and their mother’s dog is going to be blogging this one. So, lets take a moment and step outside of the deal itself. What does this mean to the news media industry as a whole and how will inpact the way we think of news? In short, dramatic change of pace.

For those who never have used Newsvine the short skinny is that it provides both community contributed news as well as wire news, rates it, and the good ripe stuff comes to the surface. This all good and the way news should have always been, brought to you according to what people believe is important.. people in your community. I know that others such as Dan Gillmore have explored and put great effort into the idea of citizen media. Today’s acquisition is the first is what I believe will be a long line of events surrounding the news media world in it’s transition to where we are today, to being truly news by the people for the people.

That said, congratulations to Mike Davidson and the entire Newsvine team. Also big congrats to MSNBC.com for making the first big step in the right direction.

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New Issue: Load Balancing & Scalability Magic

Digital Web Magazine - October 1, 2007 - 10:00pm

This week Digital Web is proud to feature an excellent lesson on client-side load balancing by our newest contributor, Lei Zhu. Lei offers inventive tips to make sure your next awesome web application scales effectively. So take a moment to learn more about load balancing, app scalability and intelligent DNS management.

In addition, the clock is ticking down to the final moments of our contest for a free pass to Voices That Matter: Web Design. If you have a free moment between now and midnight tonight (PDT), give our contest a shot by answering

In your opinion, what voice will matter to the world of web design in the near future?

Hurry! Time is running out! Judging begins tomorrow, and the winner will be announced shortly!

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Ext JS reaches 2.0

Digital Web Magazine - October 1, 2007 - 6:28am

The UI JavaScript library, Ext JS, has revealed their milestone 2.0 release, together with revised API documentation and a clean new design for their website. From its humble beginnings as a set of UI components built on top of Yahoo!‘s code, Ext has grown into a powerhouse of a library, with comprehensive documentation, a large user community, and (since v1.1) a native adapter on top of the original YUI/Prototype/jQuery flavors. If you haven’t already, check it out.

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Contest Deadline is Approaching!

Digital Web Magazine - September 30, 2007 - 6:27pm

Anyone wanting to score a free pass to Voices That Matter: Web Design had better get cracking: the contest deadline is October 1st, 2007 at midnight (PDT). That’s tomorrow!

Check out the contest page for the details, and start writing. The person with the best essay wins! It’s like grade school, only with better prizes. And no dodgeball.

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Reminder: Digital Web + Voices that Matter Contest!

Digital Web Magazine - September 27, 2007 - 1:55pm

We’d like to remind you the deadline is near for Digital Web’s contest for a free spot at Voices That Matter: Web Design. The contest deadline is October 1st, 2007 at midnight (PDT). To enter, just answer our question:

In your opinion, what voice will matter to the world of web design in the near future?

Contest rules apply, and get your answers in soon! Your chances of scoring a free pass are good, so get writing.

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Voices That Matter - Web Design Contest!

Digital Web Magazine - September 24, 2007 - 11:30pm

Want to get into Voices That Matter: Web Design for free? Who doesn’t, right? Voices That Matter: Web Design is one of the premiere web design conferences of the year, and it’s coming up October 22-25, 2007 at the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco. Digital Web and Voices That Matter want to see you there! We’re giving away one free pass to the best response to the following question:

In your opinion, what voice will matter to the world of web design in the near future?

To enter, just send your response to the question (observing the rules) to digweb.contest~at~gmail.com. The contest starts tonight at Midnight (Pacific Daylight Time), and runs one full week, until midnight (PDT), October 1st. Check out the official details and get writing!

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