August 2007
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Next CSS, iPhone design
August 28, 2007
In Issue No. 244 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, father of CSS Håkon Wium Lie advocates real TrueType fonts in web design, while Iconfactory’s Craig Hockenberry (developer of Twitterific) describes in detail how to optimize websites for iPhone.
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Danzico on Danzico
August 22, 2007
Editor of Boxes & Arrows, director of experience for AIGA, architect at Barnes & Noble and Razorfish: Happy Cog’s Liz Danzico has done all that and more. At next week’s An Event Apart Chicago, she’ll give an address on “the Seven Lies of Information Architecture.” To get a handle on what we can expect from that talk (and for the sheer pleasure of spending time with her) we ask questions and she answers them in Better Know a Speaker: Liz Danzico, now at aneventapart.com.
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Metaphors and Motivation
August 14, 2007
In Issue No. 243 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: ALA illustrator Kevin Cornell shares tips on Staying Motivated, and Jack Zeal explores the pleasures and perils of Design by Metaphor.
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How Not to Get Noticed
August 9, 2007
We all have ideas about the design and usability of WordPress, but what happens when actual testing gets applied to the problem? Liz Danzico’s presentation from WordCamp 2007 shows Happy Cog’s work on the information architecture and usability for WordPress.
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An Event Apart San Francisco
August 8, 2007
Join Eric Meyer, Jeffrey Zeldman and special guests in San Francisco for two days of best practices and new directions in web design. The final Event Apart of 2007 features Jared Spool, Joe Clark, Aaron Gustafson, Kimberly Blessing, Jina Bolton, Douglas Bowman, Erin Kissane, and Jason Santa Maria.
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BusinessWeek love
August 7, 2007
Although it is entitled “Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards” Jessie Scanlon’s new article in BusinessWeek might help designers and developers who aren’t named Jeffrey Zeldman sell web standards to their bosses or clients.
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New Cog in town
August 6, 2007
Jenn Lukas loves coffee, kittens, and structural semantic markup. We love Jenn Lukas, and we welcome her and her skills to Cogsville.
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Coudal tells all
August 6, 2007
Better Know a Speaker: Jim Coudal. The renaissance person, raconteur, and speaker at An Event Apart Chicago talks about what’s holding his attention of late.