Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
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The feed is gone
For a busy blogger, some content creation shortcuts work, and others don't. -
A show about nothing, part 11
Adjusting position of dirty glasses and plates in dishwasher. "Geometry or physics?" I asked. "Generalized anxiety disorder," she replied. -
Looks good to Mies
The Seed Conference, held in Crown Hall (the "Cathedral of Modernism" designed by Mies van der Rohe) is a one-day event about design, entrepreneurship, and inspiration. Speakers include Jason Fried (37signals), Jim Coudal (Coudal Partners), Carlos Segura (T26), Jake and Jeffrey (Threadless), Edward Lifson (NPR, Harvard), and Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library TV). -
ALA 256: map rolling&data viz
In Issue No. 256 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Wilson Miner shares three techniques for incorporating data visualization into standards-based web navigation patterns, and Paul Smith shows how to replicate Google Maps' functionality with open source software to produce high-quality mapping applications tailored to your design goals. -
The John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project
The John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project matches accessibility experts with companies that would like a brief review of their site for accessibility. In return, the site owner is asked to contribute a minimum of $500 to The John Slatin Fund. -
WordPress 2.5 unleashed
WordPress 2.5, designed by Happy Cog and built by Automattic, is now available for your downloading pleasure. -
Books of Luke and Aarron
In Issue No. 255 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Sign Up Forms Must Die ? Luke Wroblewski, Senior Principal of Product Ideation and Design at Yahoo! and author of Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks (Rosenfeld Media, 2008), calls for the abolition of sign-up forms where web services are concerned. Via "gradual engagement," says Luke, we can get people using and caring about our web services instead of frustrating them with forms. And in Findability, Orphan of the Web Design Industry, Aarron Walter, author of Building Findable Websites: Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond (New Riders, 2008), provides an overview of this essential web discipline, explains how it is like SEO but different, and tells how every member of your team can contribute to your site's content's findability. You can see Luke and Aarron live at upcoming An Event Apart design conferences in Boston and New Orleans. Plus: they're changing guards at Buckingham Palace (and staff at ALA). I'm verklempt! -
WordPress 2.5 Preview
Yesterday, Matt Mullenweg opened the kimono on WordPress 2.5, built by Automattic and designed by Happy Cog:“For the past few months, we?ve been working with our friends at Happy Cog?Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Liz Danzico?to redesign WordPress from the ground-up. The result is a new way of interacting with WordPress that will remain [...] -
SXSW Parents Cooperatives
Attending a two-day educational conference without your kids is not a huge deal, but SXSW lasts a week. The choices are not good: See the whole show but miss your kids for a week? Bring your kids and miss practically the whole show? Attend for only a couple of days, missing your kids and most of the show? On the third day I found myself in a costly hotel room across from the conference center, skipping a keynote to play with Barbie dolls, it occurred to me that groups of parents could band together to create a more optimal experience. Here's how SXSW Parents Cooperatives could work. -
Zeldman on Talk Radio Today
Live today from 3:00 to 4:00 pm Eastern Time, I'm this week's guest on "Design Matters with Debbie Millman," the leading internet talk radio show on the "challenging and compelling canvas of today?s design world." -
Podcast news
The first video podcasts from SXSW. -
Designers wanted
Happy Cog, Apple, Amazon, Flickr, Woot and more are looking to hire great designers. -
Lost, Ffffound, and Clusterflocked
The Deck welcomes Ffffound.com and Clusterflock. -
Microsoft reverses version targeting default
IE8's version targeting will now work the same way other browsers work, i.e. advanced standards support will be on by default. Some people will say Microsoft caved; others, that they listened to public opinion; some may even buy the company's own explanation, which is that, given a company-wide reorientation away from proprietary winner-take-all competitiveness and toward interoperability, "web standards by default" takes precedence over "supporting all those badly made websites that were created specifically to work in IE." -
A List Apart 254: Design, Design
Issue No. 254 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, is all about design.
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