All Entries Tagged “webgeekery”
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The Markup Releases Blacklight
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Redesigning Stuntbox, COVID-19 Edition
Reconfiguring 15 years of old-school blogging.
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How to Group Posts by Year With Jekyll Archives
A quick walkthrough, with a tip for dealing with Jekyll post properties.
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Hacking Design Language With Funsize and ProPublica
Last summer, the team at Funsize invited ProPublica down to Austin for a studio tradition they call Method Week.
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U.S. Ranks 40th in Mobile Download Speed
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Setting Fire to All the Ladders
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Insufferable CAPTCHAs Will Keep Being Insufferable
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The Unfinished Business Podcast: Art Directing for the Web
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What Happens to Feeds as They Scale
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Twitter API Changes Likely to Hobble Third-Party Apps
Several app makers have banded together to protest the shutdown of Twitter’s streaming APIs.
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The Big Web Show: Design That’s Fast and Design That’s Slow
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Meet Column Setter
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A List Apart Revamps, Moves to Patronage Model
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“I Already Had a Stomachache and Then You Mentioned Google AMP”
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Google Now Demoting Mobile Sites With Obtrusive Interstitials
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Flash is Done and Dusted
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Recommended Web Geek Reading: ABA’s “Practical SVG”
The latest installment in the A Book Apart series if a great way to get up to speed on SVG.
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U.S. Web Design Style Guide by 18F
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Dropbox’s Exodus From (And To) the Cloud
Interesting piece from Wired about Dropbox’s shift away from Amazon’s cloud and onto one of their own devising.
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Fifteen Years of Dao
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Don’t Bury the URL
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You Had Me at Version 3.2
CSS maestro Dan Cederholm returns to the A Book Apart series with the release of Sass for Web Designers.
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Third-Party Tracking and the Cookie Clearinghouse
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Chrome’s Lax Password Storage
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Making Inline SVG Play Nice in Legacy IE
Last week I was tearing my hair out trying to track down why the latest version of this site was rendering so badly in legacy versions of Internet Explorer. Here’s what I found.
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Easier Fluid Layouts Using Justified Alignment
A great fluid layout technique that doesn’t require hard-coding horizontal margins.
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State of Transition
Yesterday was my birthday, so I gave myself the gift of a redesign.
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The New Yorker Launches Strongbox
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The End of the Blink Tag
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Go Indy
Video of my talk about digital publishing at the re:build conference in Indianapolis.
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Let Them Eat Main Elements
So it looks like we’ll be getting a
main
element in HTML5 after all. Good news. But Jeremy Keith poses a question I’ve been wondering about too. -
On the Big Web Show
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Taking It to Eleven
A fully fluid redesign.
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Responsive Navigation Patterns Roundup
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Stop SOPA From Destroying the Internet
To repurpose a line a U.S. president: I’m not opposed to laws, I’m opposed to dumb laws. And SOPA is a dangerously dumb law.
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Quote of the Day: Mobile-First Edition
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Constricting the Tubes
A handy tool for simulating limited bandwidth.
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Responsive Web Design From A Book Apart
Every so often something rolls around that makes the field feel new, and for me, this is most definitely it.
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A Syntax Riddle Wrapped in a Parsing Enigma
Puzzling out issues with HTML5 and wrapping block-level content.
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Say Hello to Gridulator
Introducing a new tool for calculating layout grids.
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The Long Form
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Adapting Designs as Content Evolves
How your designs scale with use is one of those things you need to diligently revisit and tweak as products mature.
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BusinessLinked
If you’ve been to BusinessWeek.com lately, you may have noticed our article pages sporting some nifty new functionality.
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Tell ’Em, Z
Jeffrey Zeldman stopped by the office to talk web standards with BusinessWeek’s “Innovation of the Week” podcast.
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Elevating “Time Spent” Over Pageviews
Nielsen has announced it will begin focusing on “time spent” instead of pageviews as the key measure of website user engagement.
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The Devil You Must Live With
Dealing with reality of ads.
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The BW Design Update Rolls On
Rolling out the next phase of a redesign.
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Better Than the SQL
If you’ve set up WordPress in a localhost testing environment you may already be familiar with the vagaries of
site_url
andhome
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Who Moved My Socket?
With the release of OS X 10.4.4, the default socket location for PHP and MySQL has been moved.
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Squashing Borders on Dynamic iframes
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iframe
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The New Look at BusinessWeek.com
Redesigning BusinessWeek’s website.
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Test Movie and AS2 Garbage Collection Hilarity
Want to scramble the Flash 8 compiler’s brain? (Or more likely your own?)
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Mac IE: The End Has Come
Tomorrow, Internet Explorer for Mac will shuffle off this mortal coil.
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Tab Delimited
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The Hidden Depths
Like lots of Flash folk, I’ve got a real love/hate relationship going with the V2 components.
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Look Ma! I’m on Steve’s Giant Screen!
Holy cow! Steve Jobs featured the BusinessWeek News Widget in his WWDC keynote today.
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The Acid2 Browser Test
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WordPress Permalinks and the OS X Apache Install
If you’ve installed WordPress on an OS X system and can’t figure out why your permalinks won’t function, this may help.
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How to Manhandle a Disk Image
Got an OS X disk image that flat-out refuses to eject? Here’s how to fix it.