digiwebs News : May 2008 IETester – the answer to our prayers? Via Ajaxian comes word of a new way to test in different versions of Internet Explorer. IETester is a separate browser that allows you to select the rendering engine to use with each tab you open. My quick and dirty testing seems to indicate … Read more
Web standards designers heading toward academia? Tiff Fehr June 12, 2008 at 4:28 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Is web design and web standard thinking—formerly a self-teaching badge of honor—heading into academia? Today NYC’s School of Visual Arts announced a new MFA program in Interaction Design, to launch “fall of 2009”. … Read more
News : June 2008 SummerMash coming to Seattle on Saturday, July 12th! Mashable’s traveling U.S. tour is coming to Seattle, the first city of their seven-city tour! Join the Mashable crew (including Pete Cashmore) and other Seattle geeks for an evening of “drinks, food and connecting at SummerMash”, coming up quickly on Saturday, July 12 … Read more
Web Directions South Surfboard design contest! (Contest now closed) Tiff Fehr July 13, 2008 at 11:42 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Regular Digital Web readers might have hazarded an educated guess about our contest topic for Web Directions South. Such that it is, Digital Web is proud to partner with Web … Read more
News : July 2008 New Issue: Get a Customer Relationship Reality Check Costa Rican entrepreneur Tej Kohli joins us this week with his customer-focused advice in eCRM: A Virtual Reality Check For Your Business. 2008 has been rife with examples of new levels in customer relationships, with a series of news stories about company-to-customer failures … Read more
Live: InfoCamp 2008 – Keynote: Jacob O. Wobbrock Nick Finck September 27, 2008 at /files/includes/10.css:00 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Rachel Elkington is giving the introduction for Jacob Wobbrock. Jacob is going to be talking on Flipping the Burden: Marking computer accessible with everyday input devices. Jacob takes the stage, after … Read more
Live: InfoCamp 2008 – Plenary: Tamara Adlin Nick Finck September 28, 2008 at 9:30 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Day two kicks off with Aaron giving thanks to sponsors. Aaron then asks the audience about the sessions that occurred yesterday and what they found interesting and if there could be sessions … Read more
Live: InfoCamp 2008 – Unconference: Using openspace for collaboration Nick Finck September 27, 2008 at 4:00 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Bryce Johnson is giving a talk about unconferences, what they are, how they came to being. He starts off his talk about barcamp and how that spurred the first generation … Read more
News : September 2008 New Issue: Tools for Concept Designing Victor Lombardi returns to Digital Web this week with a particularly compelling contribution, Concept Design Tools. Fresh off his presentation at Euro Information Architecture Summit, Victor brings practical tools for setting the foundation for forward-thinking concepts and set aside technical or situational constraints. From the … Read more
Your views on politics and web design Matthew Pennell November 4, 2008 at 8:24 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Last week we asked you how politics affects the jobbing web designer, and many of you responded with your thoughts. It was gratifying to see that, in the main, our readers are … Read more
Thanksgiving Giveaway: Free hosting and domain for a year Nick Finck November 27, 2008 at /files/includes/10.css:31 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! We at Digital Web Magazine want to say thanks to our readers and authors for their dedicated patronage. As some of you may know, today in the U.S. is Thanksgiving … Read more
News : November 2008 Thanksgiving Giveaway: Free hosting and domain for a year We at Digital Web Magazine want to say thanks to our readers and authors for their dedicated patronage. As some of you may know, today in the U.S. is Thanksgiving day. To celebrate and say thank you to our readers and contributors … Read more
Matthew steps down as Editor-in-Chief Matthew Pennell December 5, 2008 at 7:38 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! After a great two years with the magazine, I’m afraid the time has come for me to step down as Editor-in-Chief here at Digital Web. It has been great fun and very rewarding, and … Read more
Digital Web Magazine closes its doors Nick Finck March 9, 2009 at 12:00 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! As some of our regular readers have guessed, yes it is true. Digital Web Magazine has ceased publication. For the reasons cited in Time To Change, it was clear to us that what … Read more
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It Takes All Types Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Pro Dot Con By Peter Fielding Published on July /files/includes/10.css, 2001 I had a month off, and I spent it bitching and whining. It was splendid, wasn’t it? Well, now we’re right back in … Read more
User Experience Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Pro Dot Con By Peter Fielding Published on September 24, 2001 In a downward spiral from last month’s discussion of community, I lost a bet with Digisect columnist Stephen Van Doren, and agreed to do a … Read more
Contributors (AWS), Amazon Web Services Contributing Writer(s) Adanc, Mac Cover Artist Alcantara, Lea Contributing Writer Alexander, Keith Contributing Writer Allen, Dean Contributing Writer Allsopp, John Former Columnist Almond, Michael Contributing Writer Almqvist, Pär Contributing Writer Alvin, Jennifer Former Assistant Book Review Writer Amos, Jim Contributing Writer Andersson, David “liorean” Andersson Contributing Writer Andrew, Rachel Contributing … Read more
Back to the User: Creating User-Focused Web Sites Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By James McNally Published on May 1, 2002 Web designers can be guilty of designing for themselves alone. We like to think of ourselves as purveyors of good … Read more
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Second Edition Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By James McNally Published on August 24, 2002 Since the dawn of the World Wide Web, more than a billion web pages have been written. The corporate … Read more
Computers: An Illustrated History Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By James McNally Published on August 24, 2002 Taschen have turned their considerable talents for producing stunning art books to the computer, producing this lavish volume full of photographs of long-forgotten machines … Read more
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
Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By James McNally Published on November 29, 2002 As Molly Holzschlag points out in the introduction, “This book exists to help web professionals gain perspective, not from the usability pundits … Read more
Computer-Based Music Production on a Budget Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on April 21, 2004 As Web and multimedia firms broaden their service repertoires to stay competitive in today’s tight market, many of them are bringing music … Read more
Macromedia Studio MX 2004 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on April 14, 2004 Although the name is ridiculously convoluted, Macromedia’s flagship suite of software has really matured into the most formidable Web design package out there. Considering … Read more