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The Case for Content Strategy—Motown Style

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:00:50 +0000

Over the past year, the content strategy chatter has been building. Jeffrey MacIntyre gave us its raison d’être.

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JavaScript MVC

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:00:38 +0000

As JavaScript takes center stage in our web applications, we need to produce ever more modular code. MVC (Model-View-Controller) may hold the key

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Redesigning Your Own Site

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:00:28 +0000

Redesigning your freelance website is an exercise in masochism. There are no colleagues to share the pain: It’s just you. As the designer who wrote The Art of Self-Branding, freelancer Lea Alcantara knew her site had to be just right.

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Erskine Design Redesign

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:00:05 +0000

In a mere two years, Erskine Design grew from two people working at home into a full-fledged agency of eight, working with major clients.

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Unwebbable

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:00:29 +0000

It’s time we came to grips with the fact that not every “document” can be a semantic “web page.” Some forms of writing just cannot be expressed in HTML—or they need to be bent and distorted to do so.

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The Inclusion Principle

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:00:26 +0000

To make accessible design an organic element of front-end development, we must free our thinking from the constraints we associate with accessible design and embrace the inclusion principle. Margit Link-Rodrigue tells us how.

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Content Templates to the Rescue

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:00:50 +0000

As an industry, we’ve learned to plan our sites to achieve business goals and meet human needs while shipping on time and delivering compelling user experiences. Alas, despite all the sweat we pour into strategy sessions and GANTT charts, we still have to coax content out of our subject matter experts and get it onto every page of the site. This is where the strongest hearts grow frail, and even seasoned developers reach for Advil or something stronger

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Introduction to RDFa II

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:00:10 +0000

In part I of this series, we looked at how semantic features normally confined to the head of an HTML document can be used to add semantic richness to the elements of the body. Along the way, we defined six rules of RDFa. In part II, we’ll learn how to add properties to an image, and how to add metadata to any item—and we’ll add a few more rules to that list.

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Visual Decision Making

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:00:46 +0000

If it takes only 50 milliseconds for users to form an aesthetic opinion of your site’s credibility and trustworthiness, are designers who create visually compelling sites simply wasting time and treasure on graphic indulgences? Patrick Lynch doesn’t think so.

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Introduction to RDFa

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:00:14 +0000

In part one of a two-part primer on RDFa, learn how semantic features normally confined to the head of an HTML document can be used to add semantic richness to the elements of the body. Mark Birbeck shows us how.

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Introduction to RDFa