New Issue of Digital Web Magazine Nick Finck April 28, 2004 at 4:34 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! In this week’s issue of Digital Web Magazine Richard MacManus explores how corporate web sites have evolved over the past ten years, putting some of the current and future trends in web design … Read more
News : March 2004 New Issue of Digital Web Magazine In this issue of Digital Web Magazine we are happy to bring you a great article by Matt Mullenweg that examines the art of PHP for Designers. It used to be that there were coders and then there were creative types, and never the two … Read more
People we met at SXSW 2004 Nick Finck March 18, 2004 at 2:49 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Ok, rather than just posting a standard list of names and links to people I have met, I have decided to give everyone a title of sorts. The titles were developed and given … Read more
News : February 2004 Metadata: Seven Tips for Writing Better Keywords It’s not often that I link to articles Gerry McGovern publishes. It is not because he doesn’t write great articles, it is because once he has published an article, it is linked everywhere already… kind of like Nielsen or Zeldman. Well, here is a … Read more
News : January 2004 Call for Articles Digital Web Magazine is now accepting proposals for articles covering web design, web development, information architecture and the web industry in general. If you have an idea for an article and would like to write for us please contact the Editor. Be sure to include a short summary … Read more
News : December 2003 New Issue of Digital Web Magazine December 31, 2003 at 6:52 PM Nick Finck Happy New Year everyone! December 31, 2003 at 4:49 PM D. Keith Robinson Blogging for Business December 31, 2003 at 3:36 PM Nick Finck Andy Arikawa, of The Daily Flight, has put together a Year End PDF … Read more
News : November 2003 Today is Thanksgiving Day. I really don’t celebrate Thanksgiving for the turkey or even the U.S. and Native American history behind the holiday. I celebrate today in honor of all those who have given so much time, energy and overall commitment to this magazine. As you may or may not know, … Read more
News : October 2003 Good news for Linux users: There’s a great read on how to install Microsoft’s TrueType fonts on Linux October 31, 2003 at 9:31 PM Brandon Olejniczak I was going to mention this last night, but Blogger was having a severe issue: My good buddy and distant, long-lost relative of some form … Read more
News : September 2003 Toward a Weblogging Empire: Jason Calcanis is back – and what’s he doing now? Pushing Weblogs for Business, through his company WeblogsInc. It will be interesting to see where this little venture takes off – considering many have scoffed at the idea of making a big buck off a blog. September … Read more
News : August 2003 Mark Pilgrim offers a great definition of the difference between using HTML to style a document versus using CSS: “…because table-based layouts and FONT tags and spacer GIFs are an ongoing nightmare, while CSS is only an up-front nightmare.” August 29, 2003 at 11:06 AM Britt Parrott A huge thumbs up … Read more
News : July 2003 It’s the last week of July and we are experiencing record highs but that doesn’t mean work grinds to a halt. This week on Digital Web Magazine product review editor, Jesse Nieminen, returns with a great review Extensis Mask Pro 3, a powerful masking plug-in for Photoshop. Also, don’t forget about … Read more
News : June 2003 Great minds think alike. Peter J. Bogaards (yes, that Peter) has decided to launch his own business, BogieLand which will focus on Information Design and Information Architecture. As for myself? I will neither confirm or deny any entrepreneurial endeavors during this harsh economy. June 30, 2003 at 6:/files/includes/10.css PM Nick Finck … Read more
News : May 2003 “Oranges? Oranges? Oranges and Graphic Design!”… It appears that The Chopping Block has redesigned their site. Despite laying off a lot of their talent in hard times, it appears they still have some design skills up their sleeves. (also see an old Digital Web Magazine interview with the team) [from Asterisk] … Read more
News : April 2003 Pixy makes some good points in his post on Web Graphics called “…to make real WYSIWYG editor.” One thing that should be pointed out was the TBL’s first web browser engine, Enquire (which will later evolve into the first web browser named “WWW“, note the “Edit” option in the menu) actually … Read more
News : March 2003 Fast Company has unveiled an elegant new design that uses valid XHTML and CSS, as well as accessibility conventions like access keys, abbr, and links. [from stopdesign] March 31, 2003 at 8:09 PM Craig Saila Jeremy Allaire shares his Conversation with Tim Berners Lee. [from TopStyle Blog] March 27, 2003 at … Read more
Nick Finck March 13, 2003 at /files/includes/10.css:53 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Every year I post an entry containing links to people I was able to meet at SXSW, this year is no exception… I think I kept better track, but some names may have been missed (let me know if … Read more
News : February 2003 Another issue of Digital Web Magazine is now online for your reading pleasure. In this issue Jesse Nieminen takes up the challenge of pitting Adobe’s GoLive 6 against Macromedia’s Dreamweaver MX is what is perhaps the most aggressive side-by-side comparison reviews of WYSIWYG editors on the Web. It’s a close match, … Read more
News : January 2003 From guuui.com’s Business-Centred Design article, “In traditional user-centred design, focus is on users January 31, 2003 at 8:02 AM Meryl K. Evans On Boxes and Arrows this week, David Heller explains why he believes HTML’s Time is Over. Let’s Move On. Now before you get ready to fire off some scathing … Read more
News : December 2002 Andy Cameron brings up some very good points in a small article entitled “Lay off the layout” that I think every Web Designer should read… especially if you have a formal design background or hail from the /files/includes/print.css side of graphic design. Wondering what “form vs. function” is all about? This … Read more
News : November 2002 Jim Byrne writes an excellent and well-stated introductory article about Understanding web typography. All the key points are here including the whole serif vs. sans serif debate, cross-platform issues with fonts, font size and even image headers vs. text headers. This is a good read and well-worth a bookmark. [from LucDesk] … Read more
News : October 2002 Wrapping up this month’s theme of User-Centered Design, we are happy to publish a review of Jesse James Garrett’s book, The Elements of the User Experience. Elisa K. Miller steps in as reviewer this month while James McNally returns from his honeymoon. Congrats James and thank you Elisa! See you next … Read more
News : September 2002 Luke Massman-Johnson tells me that he has redesigned his portfolio site. Luke came to me a while ago and told me he was inspired my my portfolio site‘s simple design and asked if he could make an interpretation of it. I decided to let him have the full design if he … Read more
News : August 2002 SCENE 360 (an online magazine for film, art, music and literature) relaunches. The relaunch is packed with an exciting competition to win autographed CDs and posters of the alternative blues trio, Willderry Berry Band. You’ll also find film and art articles, Flash pieces, an online game, a new t-shirt design, and … Read more
News : June 2002 Eddie Traversa tells us that he is sponsoring the Life is But A Dream Contest, a Web site building contest ($/files/includes/10.css00 US first prize) based on XHTML standards. All entries must conform to either a XHTML 1.0 strict DTD, XHTML 1.1 DTD or alternatively can use an XML Schema. Check it … Read more
News : May 2002 Jeffrey Zeldman Presents turns 7 years old today. Congrats my good friend, mentor, and a man who just happens to be one of the Web’s greatest authors. May 31, 2002 at 12:32 PM Nick Finck Alan Herrell tells us that Matt Haughey, the creator of MetaFilter, has been profiled by PixelView. … Read more