Jeff, Tim, Martin, and Michael - great job liveblogging. Since my rickety iBook didn’t do so well in the competition for wi-fi earlier today, I thought I’d post a few general thoughts about the event.
Highlights
All of Zeldman’s talks. Seriously, he is an excellent speaker. He knew what he was going to say, how to […]
Things are winding down now and it was a very informative day. A lot of things were common knowledge if you keep up with A List Apart articles and all the various blogs. There were definitely some good tips on CSS from Eric Meyer and tips on Accessibility from Jeffrey Zeldman.
Currently, Eric Meyer […]
Jeffrey, Jason and Eric are now taking sites that have been submitted in advance and critiquing them, offering some suggestions for how to improve them in terms of design or coding. Unfortunately, this is the sort of thing that really doesn’t lend itself well to blogging; in fact, judging by the level of chatter in […]
Seems that if you could take one thing away from An Event Apart, its to pay attention to the details. Zeldman and Jason did site critiques and over and over they banged the sites for neglecting the details.
When Jason talked about the redesign of A List Apart, he focus in on the fact […]
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.”