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Community Responsibility Tiff Fehr March 27, 2007 at 11:00 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Recently, the web-professional community has been sobered by stark reminders of the unsavory side of the web, such as website piracy, logo piracy, and even hateful public comments about professionals in our industry. The outpouring of support … Read more

News : March 2007 Creating Adaptive Interfaces Stephen Anderson recently presented on Creating Adaptive Interfaces at the 2007 IA Summit. He goes into detail discussing the possibility of creating interfaces that intelligently adapt for different users. Think of it as a mix of preferences and artificial intelligence. Having worked with Stephen in the past, this … Read more

News : May 2007 Semantic analysis: Making sense of the chaos of free text I’ve been waiting for Matt Hodgson to post a summary of a presentation he did for our local IA group recently. This is a truly awesome piece of IA work – he analysed a large volume of unstructured text and designed … Read more

News : June 2007 Write an article for jQuery magazine The jQuery team are taking submissions for the second issue of Visual jQuery Magazine, so if you’ve got something worth saying about that particular JavaScript library that you’d like to see published, get in touch with them—look out for an introduction to jQuery right here … Read more

News : July 2007 New Tools! XRAY from WestCiv Web-standards geeks have been passing around a cool new tool lately—XRAY, from WestCiv. XRAY is a bookmarklet/favlet that opens a floating element inspector, exposing CSS, markup, dimensions and a more handy information for markup experts. Utilizing some magic around the “canvas” element, XRAY works for Mozilla- … Read more

News : August 2007 Magento Preview released – open-source e-commerce They promised an August release, and in the dying seconds of the month Varien’s eagerly awaited open-source e-commerce platform, Magento, is finally available to download. Version 0.6 is an early beta release and not recommended for use in production environments, but I’m sure there will … Read more

d.Construct 2007 Live: Leisa Reichelt – Waterfall Bad, Washing Machine Good Matthew Pennell September 7, 2007 at 5:41 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Eschewing Keynote, or even PowerPoint, Leisa Reichelt‘s slides are simple photos of Post-It notes, and this lo-fi approach carries through into the meat of her talk on project … Read more

News : September 2007 Contest Deadline is Approaching! Anyone wanting to score a free pass to Voices That Matter: Web Design had better get cracking: the contest deadline is October 1st, 2007 at midnight (PDT). That’s tomorrow! Check out the contest page for the details, and start writing. The person with the best essay wins! … Read more

MSNBC.com Acquires Newsvine Nick Finck October 7, 2007 at 4:19 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! So just last night I was sitting at a bar with Mike Davidson of Newsvine and a bunch of crew from MSNBC.com including Digital Web Magazine’s own talented Production Manager, Tiff Fehr. Unbeknownst to me but … Read more

News : October 2007 Moving On: Thanks to Everyone I recently informed Nick Finck, Digital Web’s publisher, that I plan to move on in a couple of weeks. Working as editor in chief of Digital Web has been a great adventure, and I’m grateful for this incredible opportunity. Through my work here, I’ve met many … Read more

MSNBC Redesign Tiff Fehr November 12, 2007 at 6:54 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! While it certainly smacks of a bit of bragging, I’d like to mention that msnbc.com launched a new design over the weekend. Full disclosure: I work for msnbc.com and had the honor of playing a supporting role … Read more

News : November 2007 SXSW Web Awards Call For Entries Are you creating the best and most innovative online experiences? Is your website reshaping the look and feel of the Internet? Did you design and launch a website within the last year? Then make sure to enter your most recent online work in the 11th … Read more

Digital Web Magazine’s new Editor in Chief, Matthew Pennell Nick Finck December 17, 2007 at 12:03 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! I am happy to announce that Matthew Pennell, one of Digital Web Magazine’s unsung heroes, has accepted the position of Editor in Chief. For those who don’t know, Matthew has … Read more

IE8 To Put A Smile On Your Face Matthew Pennell December 19, 2007 at 2:01 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Via Molly comes word of one particular milestone that has previously eluded the Internet Explorer team — they have finally passed the Web Standards Project’s Acid2 test! Hopefully someone will be … Read more

News : December 2007 All About JavaScript Design Patterns Digital Web has a full serving this week, centered around the newly published Pro JavaScript Design Patterns by Dustin Diaz and Ross Harmes. We’re privileged to have an excerpt from the book—Chapter 11: The Adapter Pattern—as well as a review of the book by me, Tiff … Read more

Talking Point: EM-based grids and max-width Matthew Pennell February 1, 2008 at 2:11 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Dan “Bulletproof” Cederholm launched a re-align of his blog and portfolio site, SimpleBits, this week — you can read his write-up here. It’s an elastic layout, meaning that the dimensions of the columns … Read more

News : February 2008 New Issue: Google’s Social Graph API The emergence of the social web in the last few years has been nothing short of spectacular. Who on the web has actually been able to resist joining a network in one site or another? No doubt the the social web will be a notable … Read more

Talking Point: Should we stop using ajax? Tiff Fehr April 27, 2008 at 12:53 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! James ‘Brothercake’ Edwards opened up a controversial can of geekiness with his recent Dev.Opera post, Stop using Ajax!. Brothercake argues that we are far more inclined to chase the latest-greatest technology than … Read more

News : April 2008 The Potential of LinkedIn Groups LinkedIn debuted a Groups feature a while back. Being the habitual UX explorer that I am, I set up a few groups, including one for Digital Web readers. While LinkedIn has been slow to open up the directory to display all the new groups, external networks … Read more