The Elements of Design

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The Elements of Design Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Design in Theory and Practice By Joshua David McClurg-Genevese Published on August 15, 2005 The Design in Theory and Practice column is dedicated to helping the reader gain a better understanding of Web design. … Read more

Free Your Embedded Data With SearchMonkey

Free Your Embedded Data With SearchMonkey Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Christian Heilmann Published on June 3, 2008 Arguing for web standards and semantically clean and rich websites is an uphill battle. For years we had to deal with browsers that needed us … Read more

Empty Storefronts

Empty Storefronts Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > DigiSect By Stephen Van Doren Published on January 3, 2002 I took a bit of a field trip recently to a town in Colorado called Leadville. Founded in the mid-19th Century, it was a booming mining … Read more

The End of Usability Culture

The End of Usability Culture Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Innovating the Web Experience By Dirk Knemeyer Published on November 10, 2004 Strike a match. Close your eyes. Hold the light high up in the air. Sway back and forth. C’mon, pay a … Read more

The End of Usability Culture, Redux

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By Dirk Knemeyer Published on November 17, 2004 Like any tribute that hearkens the end of one trend and the beginning of another, my article, The End of Usability Culture, received quite a bit of both support and dissent. The dialogue surrounding it revealed gaps in the article, gaps in how different people perceived and … Read more

How Environments, Real And Virtual, Influence Us

How Environments, Real And Virtual, Influence Us Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Kyle Mueller Published on August 5, 2008 I get anxious in certain environments. The reasons for this can vary from general disorganization to bad lighting or clashing colors, but the biggest … Read more

How Environments, Real And Virtual, Influence Us

How Environments, Real And Virtual, Influence Us Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Kyle Mueller Published on August 5, 2008 I get anxious in certain environments. The reasons for this can vary from general disorganization to bad lighting or clashing colors, but the biggest … Read more

Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Meryl K. Evans Published on June 11, 2002 CSS Standards CSS Positioning and Flexibility Netscape and Radio CSS Standards Digital Web: In English for those of us who don’t like to read W3 specs, what is … Read more

e-Tailer or e-Failure

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e-Tailer or e-Failure Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Nick Finck Published on December 27, 2001 I am personally calling this the year of the e-Tailer. I have seen more hype in e-commerce this year than in any other holiday season in the past … Read more

Ethan Marcotte

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Ethan Marcotte Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Carolyn Wood Published on July 25, 2005 Digital Web Magazine: We are finally seeing CSS come of age, with the publication of books that move beyond basics and evangelism to an integration of high-quality graphic design … Read more

Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong

Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Rachel Andrew Published on October 21, 2008 When released, Internet Explorer 8 will support many new values for the CSS display property, including the table-related values: table, table-row, and table-cell—and it’s … Read more

Excerpt: Pro JavaScript Design Patterns

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Excerpt: Pro JavaScript Design Patterns Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Ross Harmes By Dustin Diaz Published on January 14, 2008 The Adapter Pattern The adapter pattern allows you to adapt existing interfaces to classes that would otherwise be incompatible. Objects that use this … Read more

Experience

Experience Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > DigiSect By Stephen Van Doren Published on September 24, 2001 Basking in the reverence of last month and Digital Web’s tribute to communities online, it is with a joyous heart that this month I can talk about … Read more

Extended ASCII Characters for HTML

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Extended ASCII Characters for HTML Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Nick Finck Published on August 29, 1999 HTML Symbol (Description) � –  (Unused) 	 (Horizontal tab) 
 (Line feed)  –  (Unused) 
 (Carriage Return)  –  (Unused)   (Space) … Read more

Extensis Portfolio 6

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Extensis Portfolio 6 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on October 8, 2003 Creative people are notoriously disorganized, which can be a problem when they need to run a streamlined business. Those same people suffer most when it … Read more

Extract: Know Your Site

Extract: Know Your Site Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Paul Boag Published on November 4, 2008 This article is based on chapter 2 from Website Owner’s Manual by Paul Boag. A good starting point for planning the future of your website is to … Read more

Finding The Sweet Spot

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Finding The Sweet Spot Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By D. Keith Robinson Published on December 1, 2004 The Web is slowly but surely growing up. For Web professionals it’s becoming more and more important to understand not only how various disciplines interact with … Read more

Mozilla Firefox 0.9

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Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Will Chatham Published on June 30, 2004 The folks at Mozilla recently released the free Firefox 0.9 for public review, and as it nears its first full 1.0 release, the features, tools, … Read more

Firing Atilla the Hun

Firing Atilla the Hun Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Wanda Cummings Published on October 15, 2000 Enter, Atilla the Hun. That client who is never satisfied, no matter how well we perform. It’s difficult not to view this client as a witless, thankless, … Read more

First Time Caller

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First Time Caller Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Wide Open By David Wertheimer Published on June 18, 2002 Hello, Digital Web Magazine? Hi, yeah, long time listener, first time caller here. Yes! What can we do for you. I see you have an … Read more

Flash Usability

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Flash Usability Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Meryl K. Evans Published on January 22, 2002 Before you roll your eyes at the thought of reading about Flash, think about the possibilities of it putting money into your bank account. Let’s put our negative … Read more

Fluid Thinking

Fluid Thinking 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 October 2, 2002 Times have changed for the better since the advent of Web standards. We can write a script or a CSS declaration, confident that Mozilla, Explorer … Read more

Forms, usability, and the W3C DOM

Forms, usability, and the W3C DOM Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Peter-Paul Koch Published on May 30, 2003 Despite the specification having been around for nearly five years and a workable level of browser support for about three, the average Web developer doesn’t … Read more

Form vs. Function: Finding the Balance

Form vs. Function: Finding the Balance Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Nick Finck Published on October 29, 2001 Back to the basics In 1896, architect Louis Henri Sullivan said, “Form ever follows function.” His quote implies not so much the importance of function … Read more

Forum Setup for Designers: Putting Vanilla to the Test

Forum Setup for Designers: Putting Vanilla to the Test Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Jessica Neuman Beck Published on August 20, 2007 Ever since the Romans built their famous meeting place, people have used forums to disseminate information. The internet is no exception. … Read more