Required reading for web developers
I keep a binder at work of articles that I reference frequently. It's called "Everything I Need to Know about Web Design I Learned on the Internet" (I know, it's a stupid title).I have a markedly different approach to web development from that of my colleagues, and a lot of that comes from the articles in that binder, and their cousins that I haven't printed out.
And a lot of those articles come from A List Apart.
Although the articles presented in their ALA Primer will be slightly beyond most of my intended audience, they represent some of the best thinking around in standards-based web design and development. Many of the ones they mention are the ones in my binder.
So, if you're at all interested in learning web design and/or development, take a look through the primer. Make being able to understand and evaluate the articles presented there your first goal.
As a bonus, they're going to soon publish a part 2 of the list focusing on resources for beginners.
Some favorite articles highlighted in the primer:
- "Usability Experts are from Mars, Graphic Designers are from Venus" – a discussion of the then-growing and currently ongoing philosophical war between designers and usability experts
- "CSS Design: Taming Lists" – lists are one of the most useful elements in (X)HTML and, until this article, one of the least utilized (see also "Suckerfish Dropdowns" for lists relating to navigation)
- "CSS Design: Going To Print" – still one of the least utilized aspects of CSS, and the reason I cringe every time I see a "printable version" button
- "Faux Columns" – answers one of the most frequently asked questions about CSS design: making multiple columns of the same length
- "Sliding Doors of CSS Part I and Part II" – one of the tricks that enabled me to convince my boss that CSS had value
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