#13583
Time Management: The Pickle Jar Theory
Time management theories come and go, and we’re glad when most of them leave. But this one caught our fancy.
Wright, Jeremy. List Apart, A (2002). Careers>Management
#25510
The electronic privacy invasion points to the failure of site designers to provide compelling content, clear navigation, and a user experience memorable enough to entice repeat visits. Click-thru is more important than Content. We have opted to become Electronic Rapists.
Herrell, Alan. List Apart, A (2000). Design>Web Design>Ethics
#20218
Why does ALA look like @#$ in your 4.0 browser? Read this now.
Zeldman, Jeffrey. List Apart, A (2001). Design>Web Design>CSS>Web Browsers
#27674
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 were published in 1999 and quickly grew out of date. The proposed new WCAG 2.0 is the result of five long years’ work by a Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) committee that never quite got its act together. In an effort to be all things to all web content, the fundamentals of WCAG 2 are nearly impossible for a working standards-compliant developer to understand. WCAG 2 backtracks on basics of responsible web development that are well accepted by standardistas. WCAG 2 is not enough of an improvement and was not worth the wait.
Clark, Joe. List Apart, A (2006). Design>Web Design>Accessibility>Standards
#13221
Transformers: Using XSLT to Transform XML
XSLT, the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation, can convert your XML data to HTML and other friendly formats. Introduce yourself to this snazzy technology.
Eisenberg, J. David. List Apart, A (2001). Articles>Web Design>XML
#20230
More than you ever wanted to know about dashes, spaces, curly quotes, and other vagaries of online typography. HTML specs, grammatical rules, browser bugs and character encoding—it’s all here.
Sheering, Peter K. List Apart, A (2001). Design>Web Design>CSS>Typography
#28239
Twelve Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards
if you're starting to work with CSS, everything you've learned to this point probably feels useless, or worse than useless.
Henick, Ben. List Apart, A (2006). Design>Web Design>CSS>Standards
#20231
It's a style thing. It's a usability thing. It's a tricky thing for large content sites and a step up for independents. It's typographically correct punctuation on the web, and ALA's associate editor makes the case for it.
Kissane, Erin. List Apart, A (2001). Design>Typography>CSS>Web Design
#25519
Database-driven content management systems are everywhere. And with them come URLs only a robot could love. Bill Humphries shows how to transform CGI-generated URLs into meaningful user interfaces through the power of URL mapping.
Humphries, Bill. List Apart, A (2000). Design>Web Design>Usability
#20262
Database-driven content management systems are everywhere. And with them come URLs only a robot could love. Bill Humphries shows how to transform CGI-generated URLs into meaningful user interfaces through the power of URL mapping.
Humphries, Bill. List Apart, A (2000). Design>Web Design>Usability
#20258
Usability Experts are From Mars, Graphic Designers are From Venus
Usability mavens like Jakob Nielsen think the web is an ill-used database. Graphic designers like Kioken think it is a fledgling multimedia platform. Could both groups be right?
Cloninger, Curt. List Apart, A (2000). Design>Web Design>Usability
#25257
Use Cases Part II: Taming Scope
The use-case model can be a powerful tool for controlling scope throughout a project's life cycle. Because a simplified use-case model can be understood by all project participants, it can also serve as a framework for ongoing collaboration and a visual map of all agreed-upon functionality. Use it to plan, to negotiate, and to prevent scope creep.
Carr, Norm and Tim Meehan. List Apart, A (2005). Articles>Web Design>Project Management
#28321
When good AJAX web apps go bad, these guidelines and techniques can help you and your users stay informed and productive.
Quinsey, Peter. List Apart, A (2006). Design>Web Design>Usability>Ajax
#19632
Using XHTML/CSS for an Effective Search Engine Optimization Campaign
We’re going to be focusing entirely on the benefits of using XHTML and CSS to show you how to improve the readability of your code for search engine spiders, maintain a good content-to-code ratio without going beyond file-size and word-count limits, and how to use CSS to mimic common image effects.
Olejniczak, Brandon. List Apart, A (2003). Design>Web Design>Standards>XHTML
#25525
Using XHTML/CSS for an Effective SEO Campaign
Improve your search engine ranking by harnessing the benefits of well-authored XHTML and using CSS to boost your code-to-content ratio.
Olejniczak, Brandon. List Apart, A (2003). Articles>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
#13586
XML is not just a pretty face, living in isolation from the rest of the computing world. XML is more than a rulebook for generating custom markup languages. It is part of a family of technologies, which, working together, make your XML-based documents very useful indeed.
Eisenberg, J. David. List Apart, A (2002). Design>Information Design>Web Design>XML
#26773
We aren't yet on web 2.0, or internet 2.0, or computing 2.0. This is a dynamic change that will continue to happen whether or not we apply version numbers. The mass of netizens has triggered the implementation of web based applications, not a developer meeting that decided on the version change.
List Apart, A (2006). Design>Web Design>Assessment
#26774
What I love about the Web is everything: the good, the bad and the ugly.
List Apart, A (2006). Design>Web Design>Assessment
#25260
This article will show you how to create a custom DTD that will add custom attributes, and will also show you how to validate documents that use those new attributes.
Eisenberg, J. David. List Apart, A (2005). Articles>Information Design>Standards>XML
#20253
Validating XML: A Pretty Complete Primer
XML does not come with a spell checker, and will not work if written improperly. Eisenberg teaches you two nifty ways to validate your XML.
Eisenberg, J. David. List Apart, A (2000). Design>Web Design>XML
#30885
Version Targeting: Threat or Menace?
Real DOM support is a game changer. Enabled by default, it would bring many sites to their knees. That would break the web, and not in quotes. Providing IE8's greater compliance on an opt-in basis is the only way to get everyone over the scripting hump.
Zeldman, Jeffrey. List Apart, A (2008). Articles>Web Design>Standards>Web Browsers
#25509
Walking Backwards: Supporting Non-Western Languages on the Web
IBM apparently be building Hebrew support in the Mozilla project, but AOL/Netscape has of yet not said a word about their plans, if any, for including the BiDi support code in the upcoming Netscape 6.
Forbes, Shoshannah L. List Apart, A (2000). Design>Web Design>Localization>Unicode
#31824
Walking the Line When You Work from Home
Working from home, whether as a freelance contractor or remote employee, can be a great thing, particularly if you live alone. But what if you have a spouse and/or children at home with you while you work? Every work environment offers distractions, but those who work from home with their families face a unique set of issues—and need equally unique ways of dealing with them.
Jost, Natalie. List Apart, A (2008). Careers>Advice>Telecommuting
#26674
To you who are toiling over an AJAX- and Ruby-powered social software product, good luck, God bless, and have fun. Remember that 20 other people are working on the same idea.
Zeldman, Jeffrey. List Apart, A (2006). Design>Web Design>Interaction Design>Ajax
#25502
Web Accessibility and UK Law: Telling It Like It Is
Debunks four myths about web accessibility and the law for those involved in the design and development of UK-based websites.
Moss, Trenton. List Apart, A (2004). Design>Web Design>Accessibility>United Kingdom
