Seven JavaScript Techniques You Should Be Using Today

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Seven JavaScript Techniques You Should Be Using Today Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Dustin Diaz Published on April 23, 2007 Whether or not your JavaScript is maintainable often seems to be relative to the task you’re trying to accomplish. You can follow best … Read more

The Seven Deadly Sins of Email Marketing Management

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Email Marketing Management Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Véro S. Pepperrell Published on March 27, 2007 It’s a common belief that email marketing is dead, and that we’ve now entered a Web 2.0 era of blogs, buzzing social … Read more

Shirley Kaiser Interview

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Shirley Kaiser Interview Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Meryl K. Evans Published on October 23, 2006 Current State of Web Design and Working on a Project Digital Web: Last time we interviewed you was four years ago. What’s your opinion on the current … Read more

Simon Collison Interview

Simon Collison Interview Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Carolyn Wood Published on December 4, 2006 Digital Web: Your book, Beginning CSS Web Development, was published a few months ago. It strikes me as being a bit more personal than the usual textbook, and … Read more

Simplicity: The Cobbles of the Designer’s Path

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Simplicity: The Cobbles of the Designer’s Path Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > DigiSect By Stephen Van Doren Published on June 14, 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Out of clutter, find simplicity. … Read more

Simplicity vs. Innovation

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Simplicity vs. Innovation Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Keep It Simple By Peter-Paul Koch Published on November 25, 2002 Last month’s column focused on the general concept of user-centered design. This month presents a look at the more limited field of usability and … Read more

SlideShowPro

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SlideShowPro Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Ken Westin Published on May 11, 2005 SlideShowPro is a component for Flash MX 2004 that creates XML-based customizable image galleries. It has lots of features, and it’s a steal at $20—especially considering the … Read more

Site Planning, the Red-Headed Stepchild of the Web

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Site Planning, the Red-Headed Stepchild of the Web Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Ben Henick Published on June 20, 2001 The Audience Is the End… What About the Beginning? This month’s issue of Digital Web drives home two points: Keep it simple, stupid. … Read more

Smarter Content Publishing

Smarter Content Publishing Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Victor Lombardi Published on August 6, 2002 Do you remember the days before WYSIWYG word processors when you had to markup the text, much like we markup web documents using HTML? I don’t. I started … Read more

Smart CSS Ain’t Always Sexy CSS

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Smart CSS Ain’t Always Sexy CSS Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Martin Ringlein Published on July 15, 2008 There is an emerging desire to want to be sexy. When it comes to our CSS, we all agree that being bloated, slow, and messy … Read more

Integrating Social Media into a Web Content Strategy

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Integrating Social Media into a Web Content Strategy Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Britt Parrott Published on June 24, 2008 Whether you’re an employee or a consultant, it sometimes falls to you to drag an organization into the 21st century—and that often means … Read more

Soft Skills for Information Architecture

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Soft Skills for Information Architecture Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > IAnything Goes By Jeff Lash Published on September 24, 2003 While much of one’s success or failure depends on the skills specific to information architecture—like diagramming, documenting, organizing—an even greater indicator is soft … Read more

Special Edition: Using HTML and XHTML

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Special Edition: Using HTML and XHTML Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By James McNally Published on October 3, 2002 Overview What? Another HTML book? Why would I want to read another one of those? That’s a good question, and I have … Read more

Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization

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Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By Jennifer Alvin Published on August 15, 2003 Staying competitive, and more importantly, keeping the client competitive,is an ongoing challenge. Many people and businesses have jumped on the high-bandwidth … Read more

Standards for distributed information architecture

Standards for distributed information architecture Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > IAnything Goes By Jeff Lash Published on October 2, 2002 The articles in this month’s iteration of Digital Web Magazine all focus on standards, and their importance to the present and future of … Read more

Steven Champeon and Shirley Kaiser

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Steven Champeon and Shirley Kaiser Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Meryl K. Evans Published on September 4, 2002 Current Climate Get Real with Standards Compliance Current Climate Digital Web: Just prior to ending Phase I, the WaSP announced that the browser makers were … Read more

Stonebriar Community Church Redesign

Stonebriar Community Church Redesign Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > The Working Designer By Chris Merritt Published on July 23, 2007 My day starts like that of most working professionals. I wake up at a specific time, take my dog out, say “Good morning!” … Read more

Stuff and Nonsense: Strategies for CSS Switching

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Stuff and Nonsense: Strategies for CSS Switching Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Christopher Schmitt, Mark Trammell, Ethan Marcotte, Todd Dominey, Dunstan Orchard Published on July 18, 2005 We wish we had some kung fu–esque robes handy. This is the chapter where we tell … Read more

Survey Monkey

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Survey Monkey Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Ken Westin Published on August 22, 2005 Don’t let the odd name fool you—this is one monkey you could use on your back. Survey Monkey has been around for quite a while, but … Read more

Suspended Disbelief

Suspended Disbelief Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Pro Dot Con By Peter Fielding Published on April 25, 2002 I used to be a scaffolder. I used to while away my days tens and hundreds of feet in the air, dangling from two-inch diameter … Read more

SVG: The New Flash

SVG: The New Flash Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Eric Vitiello Published on April 17, 2002 Macromedia has been the dominant force behind vector-based graphics and animation on the web for nearly the past 10 years. Times change, and new methods are always … Read more

SxSWi: Ride It Till The Wheels Come Off (Again!)

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SxSWi: Ride It Till The Wheels Come Off (Again!) Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By James McNally Published on April 6, 2005 It’s hard to believe, but this year was my fifth attending the South by Southwest Interactive (SxSWi) festival in Austin, Texas. “Ride … Read more

SXSW and Between

SXSW and Between Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Thomas Vander Wal Published on February 5, 2002 I had not been to a Web conference session for years. Instead of listening to some VP of Marketing pitching product, I’d just go hit the exhibit … Read more

South By South West Sketchnotes

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South By South West Sketchnotes Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Mike Rohde Published on March 18, 2008 For the last few years, Milwaukee-based designer Mike Rohde has been diligently taking notes at the various conference sessions he attends. But Rohde’s notes are slightly … Read more

10 Reasons Clients Don’t Care About Accessibility

10 Reasons Clients Don’t Care About Accessibility Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Christian Heilmann Published on September 12, 2005 Working as an accessibility consultant in an IT company is a very frustrating job right now. Highly publicized lawsuits and deep-rooted accessibility myths leave … Read more