An Event Apart

• October 4–5, 2007
• The Palace Hotel
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Featured Speakers for An Event Apart San Francisco

• Joe Clark Building Accessible Websites
• Jared Spool User Interface Engineering
• Aaron Gustafson Advanced DOM Scripting, A List Apart
• Kimberly Blessing PayPal, The Web Standards Project
  
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Web 2.0 How-To Design Guide...And How Not To

In this tutorial, Ben Hunt, describes various common graphic design elements in modern web ("2.0") design style.

He then attempt to explain why they work (i.e. why they have become common), as well as how, when and where you might use each element in your designs.

It follows on from his Current Style article, and analyses in greater depth the design features of the current "Web 2.0" design style.

Read Ben's design guide here.

A Design Process Revealed

For individuals who are neither designers nor artists, it may seem like those who are, use a lot of smoke and mirrors, magically whipping up each stunning creation. Artistic talent and creativity can certainly aid and enhance the final result, but design, in particular, generally follows a process.

What a designer has to do when looking for a job

"If I take a trip down memory lane to the time that I was looking for a job, I immediately remember very vividly how hard it was to get noticed or heard. I’m talking pre-internet days so things were handled via snail mail." Read more about Veerle's trip down memory lane on getting noticed as a graphic/web designer.

CSS @ Ten: The Next Big Thing

CSS is ten years old this year. Such an anniversary is an opportunity to revisit the past and chart the future. CSS has fundamentally changed web design by separating style from structure.

Inspirational Web Designs

Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where you'll find a collection of wide range quality design websites (Flash & CSS). What is quality design? Quality design = visual + technical + creativity.

Web Site of the Month

Web Designer Wall is designed and maintained by Nick La, who also runs N.Design Studio and Best Web Gallery. He's been designing for several years and his works have been published on numbers of magazines. Nick loves to share ideas and design techniques. WDW serves as his public blog where he posts his design ideas, tutorials, and talks about modern web design trends.

Simplicity: The Hardest but Most Important Part of Web Design

This article is by the most veteran blogger Down Under, who has who has a beautifully simple blog design - well worth checking out his examples, tips and recommendations.

Website of the Week

The website speaks for itself.

Designer Source

Designer Source is an online showcase of selected web designs. This website is good for web and logo design inspiration.

Blasting the Myth of the Fold

We are all well aware that web design is not an easy task. There are many variables to consider, some of them technical, some of them human. The technical considerations of designing for the web can (and do) change quite regularly, but the human variables change at a slower rate. Sometimes the human variables change at such a slow rate that we have a hard time believing that it happens.

Why Aren't Alt Search Engines Crawling Websites?

Richard MacManus why are only a few of the hundreds of alternative search engines crawling.

50 Best Websites 2007

Time magazine shares it's poll identifying the best 50 web sites [audio and video, social networks, etc.].

Time also shares it's opinion on the 5 worst websites.

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to ask

Evaluating web pages skillfully requires you to do two things at once:

1. Train your eye and your fingers to employ a series of techniques that help you quickly find what you need to know about web pages;
2. Train your mind to think critically, even suspiciously, by asking a series of questions that will help you decide how much a web page is to be trusted.
   
   Read the rest here.