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- Responsive Web Design
- This book could very well change the way you make and think about creating websites.
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- The Elements of Content Strategy
- We’re back at it with a brand new A Book Apart from the ever brilliant, Erin Kissane: The Elements of Content Strategy.
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- CSS3 for Web Designers
- We’re back at it with a brand new A Book Apart from web design mastermind, Dan Cederholm: CSS3 for Web Designers.
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- All For Me
- When I was five, my grandfather kept a stash of 3 Musketeers bars on top of his fridge. Not just a handful, but an actual display box like the ones in the check-out aisle at the grocery. by Erin Kissane
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- Sugar/Smack
- I’m one of those people who really don’t have many childhood memories to speak of. The years just blur together, bound by images, places, feelings. But the memories I do have—the clear ones—are about candy. by Kristina Halvorson
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- Pixy Stix
- Our house edged a woods. We said the lady who lived there was a witch by Jeffrey Zeldman
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- FullCodePress 2010
- I’m fresh back from New Zealand where I took part in Full Code Press, a knock down, drag out, web design competition to make a website for a charity in 24 hours
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- Announcing A Book Apart
- I’m very pleased to present A Book Apart, a new publisher of brief books for people who make websites, founded by Jeffrey Zeldman, Mandy Brown, and myself.
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- On the Subject of Design 2
- Once again I’m adding to my list of recommended books with some good reads I’ve come across in the past few years.
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- Botan Rice Candy
- There’s a communal dimension to the candy that you eat as a kid. By Khoi Vinh
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- Mathematics of the Tootsie Pop
- Nothing was more contested in our neighborhood than how many licks it took to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. By Liz Danzico
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- Brain Food
- No, there will be no crying over spilt Nerds here. My choice, instead, is the thinking man’s candy, the brain food packed in an orderly tube of tablets known in the U.S. as Smarties. By Rob Giampietro
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- Jackpot
- In the small town neighborhood where I grew up, the Stenavage family’s house stood above all others each Halloween. By John Gruber
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- Royal
- I enjoy slowing things down and reflecting on past methods of creation and how they’ve brought about our modern means.
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- The Death Throes of Print?
- With print publications ailing, is this finally the time mainstream publishing to take the web seriously?
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- Haunted
- Happy Halloween!
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- Meat & Cheese Combo Proves Edible
- On September 27th, a group of intrepid explorers sought one goal on the streets of New York City, to find a decent cheesesteak. This is their story.
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- Hello, My Name Is
- Badges are often a decidedly unfun and necessary evil of attending conferences. I have a pile of the things, some too big or too small, and others so garish they feel like a punishment. I can deal with an ugly badge, but I hate an unusable one.
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- Oh, Snap
- Shortly before writing my Polaroid post, I got the itch to buy one of the original cameras. Thanks to the modern convenience of eBay, I quickly found a great deal on a near mint condition Polaroid SX-70.
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On the Subject of Me
Jason Santa Maria is a graphic designer living and working in sunny Brooklyn, NY. More »
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