Philadelphia Standards Organization

Eric is talking about the recently published One True Layout. We just spent quite a while on the first part - any-order columns. It basically involves floating your columns and using negative margins to lay them out in whichever order you want. See the article for details.
Where this technique gets really interesting is with columns […]

Try this sometime: build a webpage, specifying all lengths in ems. All of them.
Getting the math right might take some work. But once you have the kinks worked out at the default font size, you’ll get to perform a fun party trick: when you zoom your text size up or down, the entire page will […]

In his speech, Making Accessibility Accessible, Jeffrey Zeldman ran through myths and misconceptions on accessibility. He broke the topic down into 4 separate principles.

Content must be perceivable to each user.
User interface components in the content must be operable by each user.
Content and controls must be understandable to each user.
Content must be robust enough to […]

I thought I’d take a couple of minutes during lunch to talk about the venue and other details of the event.
We’re on the 5th floor of the Franklin Institute. While this is a very cool idea, in practice we are in a conference room exactly like you’d find in any hotel. That isn’t a complaint, […]

Eric Meyer quoting Molly Holzschlag: “Web design is perfect for people who are Zen control freaks; you have to obsess over every detail, and then just let it go.”

Jason gave us a look at his sketchbook, shared some early comps, and detailed some of the back-and-forth that led to the final design. The wider-than-ordinary fixed width was a reflection of ALA’s user base - web professionals who almost always have better than average computers and large screens. He also joked a bit about […]

Eric Meyer is currently breaking down how to break apart a site design. He is using the AEA site and showing us his thought process. First he outlines all the main elements. Masthead, columns, headers and footers are some of the breakdowns he was talking about. By outlining the areas, you can get a […]

Every now and then Zeldman’s laptop will call out his name in a digital exclamation. “Jeffery!” That’s a man that has a very personal relationship with his laptop.

This talk has only just begun, but I wanted to note something that I found quite interesting: he started thinking about the favicon very early in the process, while still hashing out ideas for the logo itself.
It’s a tiny detail, but in the right environment (i.e. my Bookmarks menu) it’s their sole brand presence. I’ve […]