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Another excellent piece by Andy Rutledge, an admonition/checklist for being a professional designer/developer.
Both the BBC and Fox news web sites have recently been redesigned, with the BBC losing its looks and Fox getting neat and serious.
jQuery diagramming with jsPlumb — cool.
Another wonderful blog post by Walter Russell Mead, this time hoping that the blogosphere find a not-so-distant mirror in 18th-century London.
Google argues that its mobile YouTube site is better than its YouTube iPhone app.
Jakob Nielsen tests reading usability on the iPad and Kindle and reports that they’re almost as good as reading on paper. People didn’t like reading on PCs — it reminded them of work.
Falling out of love with the iPad. None of this surprises me.
Wow, icons made entirely in CSS3 (currently Safari, Chrome only).
f there be classics of web design then Subtraction.com is surely among them. The personal site of Khoi Vinh, now Design Director of nytimes.com, its design is so obvious and authoritative that it almost should be ubiquitous, and yet of course it’s unique. It has few rivals in the art of employing spacing to augment reading.
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How Subtraction.com was converted to EE
Subtraction.com homepage
In January 2008 Khoi announced that he was switching the site’s publishing system from MovableType to ExpressionEngine. I offered to help out and he took me up on it. So I’ve written up a detailed explanation of the ExpressionEngine templates that now serve up Subtraction.com as of v7.1. See “How Subtraction.com was converted to EE”.
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