February 2007
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An Event Apart Boston sells out
February 28, 2007
Nearly a month in advance, An Event Apart Boston has sold out. Over 500 designers and developers have signed up for two days of design and code in Boston’s beautiful Back bay. For those who missed the cut-off, tickets for An Event Apart Seattle will be available starting March 15th.
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SWF Image Replacement
February 27, 2007
Happy Cog’s Jon Aldinger, Mark Huot, and Dan Mall today published an image replacement method to solve some of the limitations of the standard HTML image and its widely-accepted associated CSS values, while still supporting standards-based design. swfIR (swf Image Replacement) lets designers include quality, scalable artwork in user-resizable web layouts, and even add styles to the images.
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A List Apart 233
February 27, 2007
In Issue 233 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, the love that dare not speak its name gets its due as Happy Cog’s Daniel Mall launches a series on Semantic Flash. And Boston’s favorite son Ethan Marcotte explains “Where Our Standards Went Wrong.”
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Comhaltas relaunches
February 20, 2007
With 35,000 members across 400 branches in thirteen countries on five continents, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann is the largest promoter and preserver of traditional Irish music, dance, and culture. They chose Happy Cog to design a site conveying the richness, accessibility, and communal nature of traditional Irish music. The new Comhaltas site puts the organization within reach of a global audience for the first time.
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An Event Apart Seattle 2007
February 20, 2007
Announcing An Event Apart Seattle 2007, June 21st–22nd, at Bell Harbor International Conference Center. The speakers: Tim Bray, father of XML; Google’s Jeff Veen; Andy Budd of Clearleft; Khoi Vinh, design director at NYTimes.com; Mint creator Shaun Inman; Newsvine CEO/ESPN redesigner Mike Davidson; and messieurs Jason Santa Maria, Eric Meyer, and Zeldman. Tickets for the two-day event, including meals, goodies, and a party, are $795 (until May 21st). Seating is limited, first-come, first-served; registration opens March 15th. More info at aneventapart.com.
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Happy Cog relaunches
February 7, 2007
To celebrate our new Philadelphia office and to better convey how our business has diversified, Happy Cog today unveils its new design. Everything has changed: new structure, new look, new words, and new semantics. On their personal sites, the principals behind the redesign share their individual perspectives. Visit the homes of designer Santa Maria, developer Mall, and creative director Zeldman for details.
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A List Apart No. 232
February 6, 2007
In Issue No. 232 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Bobby van der Sluis’s Flash Embedding Cage Match asks the musical question, “How can you best embed Flash content?” And in Multi-Column Layouts Climb Out of the Box, Alan Pearce, building on prior solutions, shows how to create elastic and liquid three-column layouts with fixed-width sidebars and equal height columns.
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AEA Boston: going, going…
February 5, 2007
Seats for An Event Apart Boston are vanishing faster than donuts in a firehouse. We expect to sell out even before the $100-off discount rate expires on February 26th. With tickets selling this briskly, the specially negotiated room rate we secured with the hotel is going fast as well. If you plan to attend this show, book your room and register while you can.
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We Get Around
February 2, 2007
Planning, producing, and speaking at An Event Apart keeps us pretty busy—but not so busy we can’t show up at other conferences and events, be they hither or yon. From March 9–13, ‘most all of us will be at SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas, for eye-opening discussions on and offstage. And on June 7th, Jason Santa Maria hits London, where he will present Diabolical Design: The Devil is in the Details.