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

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 : 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

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 : June 2007 Write an article for jQuery magazine The jQuery team are taking submissions for the second issue of Visual jQuery Magazine, so if you’ve got something worth saying about that particular JavaScript library that you’d like to see published, get in touch with them—look out for an introduction to jQuery right here … Read more

News : May 2007 Semantic analysis: Making sense of the chaos of free text I’ve been waiting for Matt Hodgson to post a summary of a presentation he did for our local IA group recently. This is a truly awesome piece of IA work – he analysed a large volume of unstructured text and designed … Read more

News : March 2007 Creating Adaptive Interfaces Stephen Anderson recently presented on Creating Adaptive Interfaces at the 2007 IA Summit. He goes into detail discussing the possibility of creating interfaces that intelligently adapt for different users. Think of it as a mix of preferences and artificial intelligence. Having worked with Stephen in the past, this … Read more

Community Responsibility Tiff Fehr March 27, 2007 at 11:00 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Recently, the web-professional community has been sobered by stark reminders of the unsavory side of the web, such as website piracy, logo piracy, and even hateful public comments about professionals in our industry. The outpouring of support … Read more

Top Five Articles for Presenters Nick Finck February 17, 2007 at 12:00 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! As someone who helps co-organize WebVisions every year and with my experience in speaking at conferences (not that I am an expert at it) I am often asked for advice on presenting at conferences. … Read more

News : January 2007 Scalable or usable taxonomies Joshua Porter has an interesting blog post titled “Is there an Example of a Scalable Taxonomy?”. What I found interesting is that the title is about scalability, and he links to some interesting articles about scalability (comparing taxonomies with folksonomies in the main), but his examples are … Read more

Mind your dates Nick Finck January 4, 2007 at 7:35 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Just a quick reminder for everyone: update your site’s copyright statment date in your footer. This doesn’t have to be a manual task each year, you can automate it by including one of the following statments … Read more

Jambor-ee! Matthew Pennell January 2, 2007 at 9:05 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Recent Digital Web interviewee Colly directs our attention to the newly launched Jambor-ee, a tutorial/blog/showcase site dedicated to the increasingly popular Expression Engine publishing platform. Along with Django, EE was a blogosphere favorite in 2006, with several high-profile … Read more

News : December 2006 Web Directions North discount deadline Maxine Sherrin just informed me that the special discount pricing for Web Directions North has been extended. The deadline may seem like a little ways off (January 14th Pacific time) but due to the holidays and everyone being busy with family and such I thought I … Read more

News : October 2006 Taking A Break This Week A lot has been happening around here, between illness, moving, new jobs, vacations, heavy work loads, and the usual unusual events. So, we’ve decided the wisest course of action for everyone, including our readers, is to take a break from publication this week. We’ll be back … Read more

News : September 2006 Article: Push my button The button element has been misused, maligned, and neglected over the years. In this week’s edition, Aaron Gustafson opens our eyes to what we can achieve with some nice, clean markup, a bit of creativity, and the simple, yet versatile, button. Read more… September 25, 2006 at … Read more

News : August 2006 Promotions and Thanks As my last duty at DWM, it is my pleasure to announce that Carolyn Wood assumes the role of Editor in Chief of Digital Web Magazine effective today. In addition, Mike West assumes the role of Managing Editor, also effective today. Special thanks to the authors I’ve worked … Read more

News : June 2006 Article: Watch Your COGS You‘re a designer, not an accountant, right? Unfortunately, running your own business involves dealing with finances as well as fonts. This week, Business End Columnist Nick Gould offers a crash course on making COGS (cost of goods sold) part of your financial toolkit. Read more… June 26, … Read more

Meryl.Net Redesign Nick Finck June 17, 2006 at 9:16 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Digital Web Magazine contributing editor, Meryl Evans, tells me that she’s launched the new design of her site Meryl.Net. The design, templates and information architecture was created by us at Blue Flavor. There may be a few … Read more

News : May 2006 Online Diagramming with Gliffy Ross Olson just told me about Gliffy. Gliffy is a Flash based website that bascially is the equivelent of OmniGraffle or Visio for the web… though probably not as robust. A handy little tool that you can create wireframes, network diagrams, floorplans, and the like for free. … Read more

Digital Web Magazine’s /files/includes/10.css Year Anniversary Nick Finck May 13, 2006 at /files/includes/10.css:07 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Today is a very special day for Digital Web Magazine. It was exactly /files/includes/10.css years ago that we registered the domain digital-web.com and started on a long journey that eventually lead us to … Read more

News : April 2006 Wanted: Managing Editor Digital Web Magazine seeks a volunteer with mighty fortitude, a fearless heart and a sense of humor to take on the role of Managing Editor. Developing and executing a content strategy for DWM is central to the role. If you’ve got a love for the Web, a visionary … Read more