Industry News
Blue Beanie Day II
Kyle reminded me the other day that I should promote Blue Beanie Day here. The concept is simple, but a little obscure, so I’ll summarize:
One of the most profound and ground breaking books about web standards was Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards. The book advocated the use of accessible, semantic web content at a [...]
David Airey on The Contract
Contracts are one of the most important things in any designer or developer’s repitoire, yet it is one of the least talked about items. Thankfully, David Airey has taken some time and gathered a few resources about contracts that we can all delight in. You should also subscribe to his blog as he comes out [...]
Industry Survey
The annual A List Apart Survey is out again. They ask questions related to working conditions, compensation, benefits and competency in order to show trends in the web industry. The survey is slanted slightly towards designers but there is still a benefit for those of us in development. Head over to their website to help [...]
Web design, blogs and statistics
This is a great rundown of statistics on design decisions for the top 50 blogs. It takes into account typography & layout and provides statistics such as placement of the content rail, number of characters displayed per line, and lots of other fine-grained detail.
While the data involved may be a bit too fine-grained, it [...]
15 mistakes made by designers
A really interesting article by Jeff Finley from gomediazine that, though written for designers working in the music apparel industry, makes points that impact the larger design community. Interesting tidbits include: valuing your work (and why you maybe should be charging more) , why you should really care about typography, and other info-taining stuff. (part [...]
