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
Opera declares war on Microsoft! Matthew Pennell December 13, 2007 at 8:01 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Alright, not exactly war, but Opera announced today that they have filed an antitrust complaint with the EU against the Redmond colossus, asking the Commission to “…compel Microsoft to give consumers a real choice … 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
Talking Point: Mysterious web app sign-up pages Matthew Pennell February 14, 2008 at 7:40 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! The folks over at Clearleft have just put up a holding/sign-up page for their upcoming Silverback app — and it’s a beautiful thing, with a gorgeous Jon Hicks-designed gorilla and an absolutely … Read more
TwitterThreads, need I say more? Nick Finck February 13, 2008 at 12:15 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Every once in a while you see someone create something whose concept is so simple you ask yourself “why didn’t i think of that?” Well today was no different, and the great news is … 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
Talking Point: Matthew asks, ‘Is it time to re-introduce sound to the web?’ Tiff Fehr April 29, 2008 at 1:38 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Digital Web’s Editor in Chief, Matthew Pennell, today asked an intriguing question on his personal blog, “Is it time to re-introduce sound to the web?” Web … Read more
The Potential of LinkedIn Groups Tiff Fehr April 30, 2008 at 9:11 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! 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 … 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
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