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2008

A List Apart: Issue 256. The EveryBlock issue. Paul Smith on EveryBlock’s tasty custom maps, and Wilson Miner on EveryBlock’s tasty accessible data charts.

# 9th April 2008, 12:21 pm / a-list-apart, everyblock, maps, paul-smith, wilson-miner

2007

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.

Jeffrey Zeldman

# 20th November 2007, 11:44 pm / a-list-apart, design, jeffrey-zeldman, webdesign

Findings From the Web Design Survey (via) 32,831 people responded to A List Apart’s survey, and the conclusions have been packaged up in an elegant PDF. You can also download the (anonymized) raw data and run your own analysis.

# 17th October 2007, 4:02 pm / a-list-apart, eric-meyer, graphs, surveys

Conflicting Absolute Positions. Neat technique, although it uses CSS expressions for IE compatibility so it may break down in IE 5 and 6 when JavaScript is disabled.

# 17th July 2007, 10:44 pm / a-list-apart, css, ie, javascript, rob-swan

Never use a warning when you mean undo. The abundance of “undo” is one of my favourite things about Gmail. I wonder if there’s anything Django could do to make implementing undo functionality easier...

# 17th July 2007, 11 am / a-list-apart, django, gmail, undo, usability, warning

The Web Design Survey, 2007. A List Apart is trying to learn more about our community.

# 25th April 2007, 1:47 am / a-list-apart, surveys

Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid. Wilson Miner introduces a smart, methodical approach to well proportioned Web typography.

# 11th April 2007, 12:08 am / a-list-apart, css, typography, wilson-miner

2002

Fixing IE6

Jeffrey Zeldman on fixing A List Apart for IE6:

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