Small Initiatives

Launched today, WebAssist Professional’s CSS Menu Writer™ for Dreamweaver takes the pain out of creating standards-compliant horizontal or vertical navigation menus with nested fly-outs. I...

Due to an almost magical series of administrative, record-keeping, and usability errors, the domain registration for A List Apart momentarily lapsed this morning. It was like a disturbance in the...

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

What does it take to build an online community like Flickr’s? And how can we tell if interface design conventions we take for granted actually help or hurt users? In Issue No. 258 of A List Apart,...

I’ll never forget the day Chip Kidd sent me an e-mail. Chip Kidd, author of The Cheese Monkeys, the book that does for design school what Nathaniel West’s Day of the Locust did for...

While employed at a famous New York advertising agency twenty years ago, a partner and I created a TV commercial touting an over-the-counter medicine client’s revolutionary new cold and flu...

Our personal sites, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are witnessing the disappearance of the all-in-one, carefully designed...

An Event Apart New Orleans is over, but the memories and photos linger on. Maybe it was the people. Maybe it was the extraordinary speakers. Or the staff, who made everything hum and shine. Or the...

Issue No. 257 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, is about the why and how of Ruby on Rails. Learn how to get started with Dan Benjamin, and find out from Michael Slater if your web app...

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—the Freedom Riders—entered Southern bus and train stations to challenge their segregated waiting rooms, lunch counters, and bathrooms.

For a busy blogger, some content creation shortcuts work, and others don't.

Adjusting position of dirty glasses and plates in dishwasher. "Geometry or physics?" I asked. "Generalized anxiety disorder," she replied.

The Seed Conference, held in Crown Hall (the "Cathedral of Modernism" designed by Mies van der Rohe) is a one-day event about design, entrepreneurship, and inspiration. Speakers include Jason Fried...

In Issue No. 256 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Wilson Miner shares three techniques for incorporating data visualization into standards-based web navigation patterns, and Paul Smith...

The John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project matches accessibility experts with companies that would like a brief review of their site for accessibility. In return, the site owner is asked to...

WordPress 2.5, designed by Happy Cog and built by Automattic, is now available for your downloading pleasure.

In Issue No. 255 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Sign Up Forms Must Die – Luke Wroblewski, Senior Principal of Product Ideation and Design at Yahoo! and author of Web Form Design:...

Yesterday, Matt Mullenweg opened the kimono on WordPress 2.5, built by Automattic and designed by Happy Cog: “For the past few months, we’ve been working with our friends at Happy...

Attending a two-day educational conference without your kids is not a huge deal, but SXSW lasts a week. The choices are not good: See the whole show but miss your kids for a week? Bring your kids and...

Live today from 3:00 to 4:00 pm Eastern Time, I'm this week's guest on "Design Matters with Debbie Millman," the leading internet talk radio show on the "challenging and compelling canvas of...