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Meet Newfangled: Lisa DiIorio Smith

an Article published on February 3, 2015

...somebody to hold your hand. If you have an inclination to improve something on the web, do it. Put up a web page, start writing a blog, set up a Tumblr account and throw pictures at it. Just figure out...

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A Recent Project Success: SwissArmyKnife.com

an Article published on September 3, 2008

...it floats above the page and offers 8 different categorical approaches to searching. The below example shows the options for searching within the watches category. Overall, this project went through without a hitch, which was a major relief given the...

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Digital Intimacy

an Article published on September 8, 2008

...stop to open and assess. It’s personal; someone is asking for 100 percent of your attention. In contrast, ambient updates are all visible on one single page in a big row, and they’re not really directed at you. This makes...

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I know we cant. But I wish we could.

an Article published on September 2, 2008

Chris Coyier at CSS-tricks.com has built a j-query plugin to block Internet Explorer 6 with a nice little error message rather than doing nothing but dropping support and letting IE 6 screw up your page....

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Self-Editing for the Nonprofessional Writer

an Article published on December 4, 2009

...any reading path other than the natural start-to-finish one should help with this. General tips and tools Print it out. It’s worth repeating, because it’s surprising how much that simple change can make an error jump off the page. Look...

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My Love-Hate Relationship with Email

an Article published on December 10, 2009

...I can answer and get on with my day. The frustratingly best emails are the ones that feel like I opened up a James Joyce novel to a random page and started reading. I’m sure this email has some context...

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Creativity and Efficiency in Web Writing

an Article published on January 19, 2010

...not easily controlled. It triggers reactions that depend on the reader’s own feelings and experiences, rather than just the facts on the page; it asks to be unpacked in ways that can send the reader’s thinking off in other directions....

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Quality Assurance For Developers

an Article written by Dave Mello on February 15, 2010

...render correctly with no blatant braking/alignment issues. If an image is going to be a banner graphic at the top of the page, make it work that way. Holding text can be made contextual by simply adding the description of...

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The Art of Letterpress

an Article published on February 18, 2010

...letterforms to create a printed page.  There are still a few letterpress-age terms that survive today such as kerning, leading, uppercase and lowercase. While I appreciate the convenience and speed of digital typesetting, I think it’s important to appreciate the...

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Twitter: Changing How We Read & Write Online

an Article published on May 8, 2009

...attention spans. Having everything broken down into convenient little 140-character bites will surely change the way we consume information online. I, for one, admit that it’s much more difficult to digest a multi-page news story now that I’ve grown accustomed...

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