Freelancers and hot-shot web agencies are only one side of the web development party. Behind the scenes of every company website, you’re likely to find a frustrated in-house developer or two, wondering why exactly they bought all those shiny books when web standards seems to be a bad word in the weekly marketing meeting. If this sounds very much like your daily grind, new author Scott Gledhill has some advice on how to approach introducing standards in a corporate world. Read more
Do you think Flash video and accessibility can’t peacefully coexist? Think again. Flash video expert Tom Green is back with the second installment of his popular captioning how-to. In “Captions for Video with Flash CS3 (Part One)”, we learned how to caption using the Timed-Text XML standard. This week’s follow-up brings an even easier method: embedding the XML right in the Flash video file. Read more
We have many systems at hand for designing, developing, and managing site content—an almost overwhelming list of choices. The past few years have seen the rise of a several that are particularly well-suited to companies and designers who don’t require or want a powerhouse platform with a learning curve as steep as Mount Everest. One of these is Textpattern. We asked Andrea Arbogast, an experienced Textpattern enthusiast, to interview the authors of the comprehensive new book from Friends of Ed, Textpattern Solutions, and give us an in-depth answer to the question, Why Textpattern? Read more
Design principles and goals for web ads and print ads are similar—but the constraints seem starkly different. We can only benefit from standing back and taking a fresh look at our approach to these areas of web pages that need to pack a lot of punch within their tiny dimensions. We’d recently seen Alexander W. White’s gorgeous new book, Advertising Design and Typography, so we thought he’d be just the right person to explore this advertising niche for us. Read more
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