Yahoo! with Style Nick Finck September 28, 2004 at 9:04 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! It seems that Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle, or better known as Yahoo! is hitting the CSS books hard. Both Yahoo.com and My.Yahoo.com have re-launched with full Layered Semantic Markup support. Nice work! Yahoo.com even has … Read more
Jeffrey and Carrie’s new pride and joy Nick Finck September 29, 2004 at 7:36 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Congratulations to Jeffrey Zeldman and Carrie Bickner on their new baby girl, Ava Marie Zeldman. She came in to this world last night at about 11:30 weighing about seven pounds. Knowing her … Read more
Design Theft Nick Finck September 7, 2004 at 9:53 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! One would generally think that maybe no one ever read Inspiration vs. Theft or that no one ever cared about where the fine line is drawn or if they crossed it… much less understand simple copyright laws … Read more
Community Insight Nick Finck September 7, 2004 at 8:31 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Derek Featherstone has published another great piece of insight entitled Three Things I’ve Learned About Blogging. I can say for certain most of his assumptions are accurate… there is a sort of pulse to the blogging community … Read more
News : August 2004 Mozilla.org redesigns So the new design for mozilla.org has launched. Much to my chagrin most of my suggestions were not implemented… but then again, they were only posted a few hours before the design was set to launch. Anyway, good job on the redesign, it’s a huge improvement over the last … Read more
Switch Nick Finck August 20, 2004 at /files/includes/10.css:51 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Ok, no, we are not talking Apple here… We are talking browsers. Browse Happy is the latest project to launch from the Web Standards Project. My hats off to the team at WaSP for making this happen. [from … Read more
Giving Credit Nick Finck August 25, 2004 at 11:08 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! There is something to be said about the lack of credit blogs and community news sites give to their sources. Make no mistake, Digital Web Magazine is a firm believer in the code of Weblog Ethics and … Read more
News : July 2004 The ROI of Web Standards Following Doug Bowman’s post on Throwing Tables Out the Window Richard Rutter has taken to task Real life savings through Web standards. This is very reminiscent of Keith Robinson’s post on Web Standards ROI this last June. Shirley Kaiser also voiced in with her comments recently. … Read more
What is Interaction Design? Nick Finck July 22, 2004 at 6:51 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Dan Saffer has posted a pretty good Definition of Interaction Design. For the first time he calls out the critical issues that surround the Interaction Design practice. Namely, interaction design is “not about the interaction … Read more
The ROI of Web Standards Nick Finck July 31, 2004 at 11:03 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Following Doug Bowman’s post on Throwing Tables Out the Window Richard Rutter has taken to task Real life savings through Web standards. This is very reminiscent of Keith Robinson’s post on Web Standards ROI … Read more
Comments on the Technorati redesign Nick Finck July 26, 2004 at 6:32 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! So the latest buzz about redesigns is the Technorati redesign. Adaptive Path worked with Tim Gasparak to develop the initial CSS/XHTML standardized look and feel, then Tantek Çelik took templates and code and reworked … Read more
News : June 2004 New Issue of Digital Web Magazine This issue of Digital Web Magazine is a special double issue which includes a great product review and an excellent interview. For the product review Will Chatham joins us to give some insight into the extensibility of Mozilla’s Firefox 0.9 browser. For the interview Craig … Read more
The lost portfolio Nick Finck June 18, 2004 at 12:55 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Here is a list of portfolios I know. These are people I either know personally or know through the web community. We cut the list down to individual portfolios that focused on web design. Please use … Read more
Speak up about Web Standards Nick Finck June 11, 2004 at 2:52 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! For those of you confused my Burnt Out on Web Standards post the other day. Let me clarify some of the confusion in the most simplest terms I can: we need to stop advocating … Read more
Got Gmail? Nick Finck June 15, 2004 at 12:/files/includes/10.css PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! I am sure you have seen the Gmail invites going around (If not, check out whitespace, dezwozhere, jluster, minjungkim, widgetopia, wholelottanothing, and about /files/includes/10.css0 other sites). Well, just because it’s the trendy thing to do these days: … Read more
Burnt Out on Web Standards Nick Finck June /files/includes/10.css, 2004 at 2:22 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Keith writes a well articulated post about why he is Sick of Web Standards. And you know, after reading the post all the way through, I have to agree and I don’t think I … Read more
News : May 2004 Kold Kut redesign My good friend JAZ of Kold Kut Productions tells me that they have launched the redesign of koldkut.com. The new design is XHTML 1.0 Transitional with CSS for layout. Pretty well done for a music site. Also, be sure to sample some of their phat tracks. May 31, … Read more
Effective Web Style Guides Nick Finck May 17, 2004 at 8:51 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Rarely do I link to some of the great articles Gerry McGovern has authored. It’s not because I have a personal bias against his work, it’s often because the articles are so short that they … Read more
Patterns in Design Nick Finck May 21, 2004 at /files/includes/10.css:41 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! So there has been talk about quiet trends within the design community such as the use of shadows or the choice of commonly used colors, yours truly even wrote about the need for white padding around … Read more
Dr. Web Weblog redesign comments Nick Finck May 24, 2004 at 11:/files/includes/10.css AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! There is a great thread that has been going for a while on the Dr. Web Weblog about the Digital Web Magazine redesign. It’s in German so I have provided a English translation courtesy … Read more
New Issue of Digital Web Magazine (redesign) Nick Finck May 13, 2004 at 1:30 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Ok, things this week are going to be a little bit different for everyone including you, our readers. First, yes we have a new issue out entitled The Transformation of an Industry, … Read more
Design Eye: It’s not quite that simple Nick Finck May 19, 2004 at 11:27 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Here is a rather comical post from Design by Fire entitled Design Eye for the Usability Guy. The post makes light of the whole design vs. usability issue. I wish it was … Read more
Comments Now Open Krista Stevens May 14, 2004 at 8:22 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! The look is not the only thing that’s new—comment functionality has been added so that readers can post thoughts on articles we publish and items posted in our What’s New blog. The web has been built … Read more
Blogging for business Nick Finck May 19, 2004 at 2:30 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! PhotoMatt points out yet another presentation on the subject of business blogging: Blogging For Fun & Profit. It’s kind of interesting to see how other presenters cover same basic topics. For example, here is my original … Read more
News : April 2004 New issue of A List Apart Issue 176 of A List Apart is out. In this issue you will find two great articles, the first is What Is Web Accessibility? by Trenton Moss. As you can guess by the title, the article April 30, 2004 at 5:15 PM Nick Finck A … Read more