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A List Apart: A List Apart

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:37:25 GMT

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A List Apart: Articles: Progressive Enhancement with JavaScript

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:41:40 GMT

Submited by mdrechsler 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Writing Content that Works for a Living

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:41:39 GMT

Submited by mdrechsler 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Test-Driven Progressive Enhancement

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:06:42 GMT

Submited by mdrechsler 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: The Survey, 2008

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:33:12 GMT

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.
Submited by lhalff 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: CSS Sprites2 - It's JavaScript Time

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:29:10 GMT

A sense of movement is often the differentiator between Flash-heavy web sites and standards-based sites. Flash interfaces have always seemed more alive—responding to the user's interactions in a dynamic way that standards-based web sites haven't been able to replicate. Lately that's been changing, of course, with a resurgence in dynamic interface effects, helped along by JavaScript libraries that make it easy—libraries such as Prototype, Scriptaculous, Moo, YUI, MochiKit (and I could go on). It's high time to revisit the CSS Sprites technique from four years ago, and see if we can't interject a little bit of movement of our own.
Submited by Lisa 21, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Collaborate and Connect with Subversion

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:29:09 GMT

Consider this: You own a small web design and development shop. Maybe it’s just you and a couple of other people. Because of your size, you rely heavily on outside subcontractors. Subcontractors allow you to take on more projects, make more money, and s
Submited by Lisa 21, November 2008

A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:01:54 GMT

Submited by deusdiabolus 21, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: CSS @ Ten: The Next Big Thing

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:12:53 GMT

Submited by 4braham 21, November 2008

A List Apart: Topics: Design: Graphic Design

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:45:13 GMT

Submited by Camxso 20, November 2008

Saving the Spark: Developing Creative Ideas

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:06:34 GMT

Ideas. They’re at the heart of every creative process. However, almost no really good ideas are flashes of inspiration. They may start that way—a single glimmer of something special—but in order to work, they need to be honed. Like a really good cheese, they need to mature. Indeed, the “flash of inspiration” idea—the Eureka moment—is only part of a longer process that, if ignored, will see most ideas simply fizzle out. So, how do you “have” ideas? Sit about and wait for them to pop into your head? If only most of us had the luxury to do so. No, for most of us, ideas have to be squeezed out of us every day. To stand up to this challenge, you need to arm yourself with some good tools.
Submited by thejeshgn 21, November 2008

Invasion of the Body Switchers: A List Apart

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:03:00 GMT

style sheet switcher
Submited by millette 20, November 2008

Elastic Design: A List Apart

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:02:53 GMT

It can be difficult to move from a static, pixel-based design approach to an elastic, relative method. Properly implemented, however, elastic design can be a viable option that enhances usability and accessibility without mandating design s [...]
Submited by millette 20, November 2008

Usability experts are from Mars, graphic designers are from Venus: A List Apart

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:02:53 GMT

There is an unarticulated war currently raging among those who make web sites. Like the war between dark- and light-skinned blacks in Spike Lee?s School Daze, this conflict is one that only its participants recognize. The war is not between [...]
Submited by millette 20, November 2008

URLS! URLS! URLS!: A List Apart

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:02:53 GMT

Rewriting the URL in Apache
Submited by millette 20, November 2008

Suckerfish Dropdowns: A List Apart

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:02:50 GMT

?DHTML? dropdown menus have notoriously involved nasty big chunks of JavaScript with numerous browser-specific hacks that render any otherwise neat, semantic HTML quite inaccessible. Oh, the dream of a lightweight, accessible, standards-com [...]
Submited by millette 20, November 2008

JavaScript Triggers: A List Apart

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:02:37 GMT

he behavior layer should function in exactly the same way. We should separate behavior and structure by discarding inline event handlers like onmouseover="switchImages('fearful',6,false)". Instead, as with CSS, we should use triggers to tel [...]
Submited by millette 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: The Accessibility Hat Trick: Getting Abbreviations Right

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:02:01 GMT

Submited by millette 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Greatest Copy Shot Ever Written

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:58:40 GMT

Submited by millette 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Multi-Column Layouts Climb Out of the Box

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:57:30 GMT

Submited by nascent26 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: The Accessibility Hat Trick: Getting Abbreviations Right

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:38:00 GMT

"The acronym element is missing in XHTML 2.0. Internet Explorer 6 ignores the abbr element. JAWS doesn’t like dfn. AAA-level compliance requires you to find a solution. Make it work." The solution to making the abbr design pattern accessible might be in there. (via uf-discuss)
Submited by andr3 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Behavioral Separation

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:52:22 GMT

Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

ALA: Keeping Your Elements' Kids in Line with Offspring

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:31 GMT

Alex Bischoff introduces Offspring, a JavaScript library bringing the power of advanced CSS selectors to browsers that can’t quite handle the real thing.
Submited by meryn 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:48:08 GMT

As usual ALA comes up with the goods, quality over quantity as ever.
Submited by PK 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Sliding Doors of CSS

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:47:19 GMT

Submited by hotfigs 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Style Guide

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:31:03 GMT

Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Take Control of Your Maps

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:52:53 GMT

Stop using Google maps. Roll your own map server
Submited by gahlord 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Findings From the Web Design Survey

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:37:55 GMT

In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted the first survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.
Submited by andr3 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Understanding Web Design

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:37:54 GMT

"Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity." -- Zeldman
Submited by andr3 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Issue 251

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:37:52 GMT

Quite frankly, the most disturbing article ever to be featured on A List Apart. I, for one, refuse it with all my heart. I could be proven wrong though, but those articles haven't done the trick. (rated 5* for its relevance to the industry...)
Submited by andr3 20, November 2008

How to Size Text in CSS

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:34:07 GMT

Submited by Rob 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Creating Liquid Layouts with Negative Margins

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:28:47 GMT

margin-right: -200px;
Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Getting Started with Ajax

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:28:47 GMT

Getting Started with Ajax by Aaron Gustafson
Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

Current state of the art typography example HTML

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:52:46 GMT

Submited by gahlord 20, November 2008

Current state of the art typography example CSS

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:52:46 GMT

Submited by gahlord 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Understanding Web Design

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:52:46 GMT

It's not print, not film, not a poster. Why do so many people misunderstand web design? And just what is web design, anyway?
Submited by gahlord 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Sign Up Forms Must Die

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:29:00 GMT

I’ll just come out and say this: sign-up forms must die. In the introduction to this book I described the process of stumbling upon or being recommended to a web service. You arrive eager to dive in and start engaging and what’s the first thing that g
Submited by Lisa 21, November 2008

Findability, Orphan of the Web Design Industry

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:29:00 GMT

Everyone seemed to have their place in the project life-cycle at the web design agency; everyone but little Findability. Occasionally someone would notice his value to a project, but instead of giving him the care he deserved, they’d just fork over copi
Submited by Lisa 21, November 2008

Design is in the Details

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:08:26 GMT

"Stop worrying about how good a designer you are, and start worrying about the myriad tiny details that can elevate your work from passable to near-perfect."
Submited by BaldTechnologist 21, November 2008

On Creativity

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:08:26 GMT

"As designers, we’re wrongly perceived as custodians and exponents of creativity. This matters because business currently overvalues creativity. To avoid the inevitable backlash, we must lead our clients’ perceptions."
Submited by BaldTechnologist 21, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Printing a Book with CSS: Boom!

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:11:25 GMT

Submited by bguijt 20, November 2008

Text-Resize Detection in JavaScript and HTML

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:10:49 GMT

Submited by bguijt 20, November 2008

Text-Resize Detection

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:30:58 GMT

Use JavaScript to detect your visitor’s initial font size setting and find out whenever your visitor increases or decrease
Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

Onion Skinned Drop Shadows

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:30:58 GMT

Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

Flash Satay: Embedding Flash While Supporting Standards

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:10:27 GMT

Flash Satay: Embedding Flash While Supporting Standards by Drew McLellan November 09, 2002
Submited by stinie 18, March 2008

Flash Embedding Cage Match

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:30:44 GMT

Flash Embedding Cage Match
Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: CSS Design: Taming Lists

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:10:23 GMT

Submited by stinie 18, March 2008

Improving Link Display for Print

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:30:42 GMT

Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Exploring Footers

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:30:41 GMT

Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Faux Columns

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:30:38 GMT

Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:30:26 GMT

Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: To Hell with WCAG 2

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:09:10 GMT

Submited by stinie 18, March 2008

A List Apart: Topics: Code: Flash

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:30:07 GMT

Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Flash Satay: Embedding Flash While Supporting Standards

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:30:04 GMT

Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Bye Bye Embed

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:30:04 GMT

Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners & Borders

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:29:46 GMT

Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Mountaintop Corners

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:29:46 GMT

Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE!

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:29:45 GMT

Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Whitespace

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:10:08 GMT

Whitespace by Mark Boulton
Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Version Targeting: Threat or Menace?

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:10:05 GMT

Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:10:05 GMT

Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Issue 251

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:10:05 GMT

Submited by stinie 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: CSS Design: Taming Lists

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:30:43 GMT

Submited by nbr 20, November 2008

A Better Image Rotator: A List Apart

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:59:53 GMT

Rotating plus links and captions; can use for Northern Voice sponsor display
Submited by bmann 20, November 2008

Cross-Column Pull-Outs: A List Apart

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:59:51 GMT

Still too hard to do manually, but would be interesting to implement as a module
Submited by bmann 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: To Hell with WCAG 2

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:48:52 GMT

Submited by skoch 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: In Search of the Holy Grail

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:05:24 GMT

3 column standards compliant css layout
Submited by skoch 22, January 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Sliding Doors of CSS

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:48:52 GMT

Cool menues
Submited by skoch 20, November 2008

Sliding Doors of CSS, Part II: A List Apart

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:55:58 GMT

Submited by nbr 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Web 3.0

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:45:30 GMT

Submited by yatot 20, November 2008

Flexible Layouts with CSS

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:28:58 GMT

Submited by Lisa 21, November 2008

CSS Layout - In Search of the Holy Grail

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:28:46 GMT

Three columns. One fixed-width sidebar for your navigation, another for, say, your Google Ads or your Flickr photos—and, as in a fancy truffle, a liquid center for the real substance.
Submited by Lisa 21, November 2008

Hybrid CSS Dropdowns: A List Apart

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:28:18 GMT

clean, well-structured menu which would combine the dynamism and code-ease of dropdown menus and do away with their main problems (not to mention degrade beautifully)?
Submited by Lisa 21, November 2008

CSS Sprites: Image Slicings Kiss of Death: A List Apart

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:28:18 GMT

store all buttons/navigation items/whatever we wish in a single master image file, along with the associated %u201Cbefore%u201D and %u201Cafter%u201D link state
Submited by Lisa 21, November 2008

Accessible Pop-up Links: A List Apart

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:28:13 GMT

Submited by Lisa 21, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Thinking Outside the Grid

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:27:59 GMT

the challenge lies in the way we bring ourselves to “lose small mind” and think outside the grid.
Submited by Lisa 21, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Super-Easy Blendy Backgrounds

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:27:56 GMT

Almost all the gradients in the design given to me were blended to white, so I figured that if I created a PNG that was blended from transparent to white, I could use the PNG as a background image and rely on the background-color style to provide the othe
Submited by Lisa 21, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:27:48 GMT

CSS-based liquid layout has proven successful during the reign of 800-pixel to 1024-pixel screens, but as we use a wider range of devices to access the web, we need more powerful and flexible ways of managing layout. If we want to serve devices whose view
Submited by Lisa 21, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Printing a Book with CSS: Boom!

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:27:49 GMT

To find out, we decided to take the ultimate challenge: to produce the next edition of our book directly from HTML and CSS files. In this article we sketch our solution and quote from the style sheet used. Towards the end we describe the book microformat
Submited by Lisa 21, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Educate Your Stakeholders!

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:27:40 GMT

the important decisions of website development are not made by design professionals. They’re made by the business owners and middle managers who hire us. It is they who hold the purse strings, so it’s only fair that they set the online priorities.
Submited by Lisa 21, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Prettier Accessible Forms

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:49:42 GMT

Submited by DiabolicDevilX 21, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: CSS and Email, Kissing in a Tree

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:34:17 GMT

Learn how to use CSS and valid HTML to style emails that work with a range of email clients.
Submited by Rob 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:34:13 GMT

A good baseline grid makes all your type happy
Submited by Rob 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Frameworks for Designers

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:34:12 GMT

Submited by Rob 20, November 2008

A List Apart: Issue 227

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:33:26 GMT

The list is getting more apart. It used to be a something to look forward toward.
Submited by veeliam 12, November 2008

A List Apart Topics Code CSS

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:27:19 GMT

Submited by haighis 20, November 2007

Conflicting Absolute Positions

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:45:15 GMT

All right, class. Using CSS, kindly produce a liquid layout that contains a fixed-width, scrolling side panel and a flexible, scrolling main panel. Okay, now do it without JavaScript.
Submited by BaldTechnologist 17, November 2007

Reviving Anorexic Web Writing

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:45:14 GMT

"...[W]eâ€™ve gone astray as an industry, and weâ€™ve starved all the life out of web writing. The kind of writing we encourage is lifeless, insipid, and calorie-free. If we want to get back on trackâ€”to allow writers to write wonderful user experiencesâ€”we have to change our expectations and our rules."
Submited by BaldTechnologist 17, November 2007

Better Writing Through Design

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:45:14 GMT

"You do research. You devise tack-sharp strategy. You sweat the details. All to create a design that truly speaks to your user. Does your copy do the same? Apply a design process to your words as well as your images and you just may find your voice."
Submited by BaldTechnologist 17, November 2007

Staying Motivated

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:08:43 GMT

"Been stuck in a creative rut so long so you’ve started to decorate it? A List Apart’s Kevin Cornell drops his crayons to share tips on developing and maintaining a productive creative routine."
Submited by BaldTechnologist 21, November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: Validating a Custom DTD

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:37:07 GMT

Submited by aaronbassett 25, October 2007

A List Apart: Articles: Sliced and Diced Sandbags

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:37:03 GMT

Submited by aaronbassett 25, October 2007

A List Apart: Articles: How to Save Web Accessibility from Itself

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:37:01 GMT

Submited by aaronbassett 25, October 2007

A List Apart: Articles: The Trouble With EM â€™n EN (and Other Shady Characters)

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:37:00 GMT

Submited by aaronbassett 25, October 2007

A List Apart: Articles: CSS Drop Shadows II: Fuzzy Shadows

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:36:58 GMT

Submited by aaronbassett 25, October 2007

A List Apart: Articles: Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:36:58 GMT

Submited by aaronbassett 25, October 2007

A List Apart: Articles: A Standardista's Alphabet

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:36:58 GMT

Submited by aaronbassett 25, October 2007

A List Apart: Articles: The ALA Primer: A Guide for New Readers

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:36:58 GMT

Submited by aaronbassett 25, October 2007

A List Apart: Articles: Long Live the Q Tag

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:36:56 GMT

Submited by aaronbassett 25, October 2007

A List Apart: Articles: 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:36:56 GMT

I feel no ph3ar!!! ;)
Submited by aaronbassett 25, October 2007

A List Apart: Articles: The ALA Primer Part Two: Resources For Beginners

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:36:52 GMT

Submited by aaronbassett 25, October 2007

A List Apart: Articles: Working with Others: Accessibility and User Research

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:36:52 GMT

Submited by aaronbassett 25, October 2007