Topic: Industry
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The ALA Primer Part Two: Resources For Beginners
In part one of this series, Erin Lynch suggested a few good starting points for those new to ALA. In part two, Erin and the rest of the ALA crew suggest resources for those new to the whole industry.
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When You Are Your Own Client, Who Are You Going To Make Fun Of At The Bar?
Should your blog have a business? Jim Coudal shares insights into the adventure of transitioning from client services to product creation.
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Valentine’s Day Massacre
From buzzword-happy marketers to snobby standards gurus, from AJAX to Zope, ALA's gentle readers tell us what they bloody well hate about the web.
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Web 3.0
Web 2.0 is a fresh-faced starlet on the intertwingled longtail to the disruptive experience of tomorrow. Web 3.0 thinks you are so 2005.
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Everyware: Always Crashing in the Same Car
Ubiquitous computing is coming, in some ways, it's already here. Shouldn't we think about what we want it to be? In our last issue, we published the introduction of Adam Greenfield's Everyware. In this issue, we're running the book's conclusion.
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Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Ubiquitous computing is no longer a mirage. The time to consider its implications is now, while we still have the opportunity to decide how it should be integrated into our lives. We're proud to offer a taste of Adam Greenfield's new book, Everyware.
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A Case for Web Storytelling
In our attention to style and technology, we often overlook a vital element in the web design mix: narrative voice.
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Web Designer and Proud of It
Professional web designers do not “do” web page design, we practice it. Web design is not a merit badge to be added to your uniform in scouts (but the way things are going it is probably not far off), it is a career choice that demands continual growth and serious dedication. We continually work at improving our skills and techniques, learning how to use new tools and mastering the old ones. To elevate our profession from the perception it has now to the esteem that it deserves, the gap between the professional and the amateur should be evident to the casual viewer.
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Cheaper Over Better: Why Web Clients Settle for Less
Schumacher investigates why clients hire bad web designers — and what good web designers can do about it.
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Valentines to the Web
You love it! You really love it. ALA's readers tell us who gets their candy hearts this year.
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Everything I Need To Know About Web Design I Learned Watching Oz
Making it as a web designer is like staying alive in the slammer. So before you sharpen your Photoshop skills or crack open that new book on crafting more effective customer experiences, you’d be well advised to catch a few reruns of HBO’s Oz. ALA system designer Brian Alvey points out the parallels between a successful career in web design and the popular prison drama.
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The Web is Like Canada
Those who "get" the web create it. Those who do not get the web are put in charge. Joe Clark presents a vision for defending our web against their worst ideas.
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How to Save Web Accessibility from Itself
An upcoming revision to the Web Accessibility Guidelines is in danger of becoming unrealistically divorced from real-world web development, yielding guidelines that are at once too vague and too specific. Your expertise and input can help create realistic guidelines that work.
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Accessibility, Web Standards, and Authoring Tools
With the advent of more compliant web browsers, the quest for standards shifts to the tools pros use to build sites. Christopher Schmitt spoke with Adobe and Macromedia for the low-down on web standards, accessibility, and authoring tools.
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Information vs. Experience
The conflict between presentation and structure reveals two views of the web. Which one’s winning?
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Global Treaty Could Transform the Web
Mahoney is boiling mad over a proposed global treaty that would turn our worldwide web into a mishmash of regional Intranets, each attending to whatever local regulation allows.
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Down By Law
A U.S. law scheduled to take effect on the 20th of this month will force libraries and schools to censor Internet access or lose their funding. If enacted, the law will restrict free speech and punish the poorest of the poor. Librarian and web developer Carrie Bickner explores the politics of censorship and the digital divide.
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Patents, Royalties, and Web Standards
This week there is only one web story that matters. The W3C has written a patent policy that opens the door to royalty payments on web standards.
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Rolling the Start-up Dice (A Survival Guide)
So you want to work for an Internet start-up company. Bruce and Moyer show you the ropes.
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“Forgiving” Browsers Considered Harmful
By hiding the need for structure that the web will require as it moves toward XHTML and XML, “forgiving” web browsers have helped breed a world of structural markup illiterates. Eisenberg examines the damage done.
