The Curious Engineer

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents

2005–2007

254 posts

2008–2026 →

2007 130

December 2007

  1. Let me hear your standards body talk
  2. Re: CSS Unworking Group
  3. Adios, Technorati?
  4. Quentin Tarantino has a lot to answer for
  5. Homeownership is a privilege, not a right
  6. Stealing design
  7. ALA 250: HTML 5, design for flow
  8. No heat at $5,000/month

November 2007

  1. A date with Sandra Bernhard
  2. Facebook and your privacy
  3. Give HTML e-mail a chance
  4. Guestbook spam gambit of the week
  5. Appreciating web design; setting type
  6. Blue Beanie Day
  7. Messed update
  8. iPhone “disappearing photos” bug
  9. Facts and Opinions about Zeldman
  10. ALA 248: Obscure meanings and addresses
  11. DWWS Facebook group

October 2007

  1. Deck deal
  2. Into the murky deep
  3. Don’t sleep here
  4. Faster, pussycat
  5. That’s me all over
  6. Findings from the Web Design Survey
  7. We live as we dream
  8. Congrats, Al
  9. Please and thank you
  10. Testing designs for color-blindness
  11. Not at our desk

September 2007

  1. Say hello to web standards
  2. God Knocks
  3. The Joy of Technology
  4. To be of use to others is the only true happiness. Although a 160 GB iPhone would also be nice.
  5. Just My Type of Site
  6. Inappropriate “Talk Like a Pirate Day” remarks
  7. Facebook Considered Harmless
  8. First day of preschool
  9. An Event Apart savings end tomorrow
  10. Proposed Catch-Phrases for the Next Bruce Willis Film
  11. September 12
  12. Client input, iPhone constraints
  13. How to make love to a ghost
  14. I’ll show you mine
  15. Block
  16. The Deck turns 21

August 2007

  1. Event Apart Chicago wrap-up
  2. Web type, iPhone content
  3. Hog butcher
  4. Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor
  5. San Francisco, here you come
  6. What is Art Direction (No. 9)
  7. 10 Things the Next iPhone Will Do
  8. What crisis?
  9. Don’t design on spec
  10. Staying creative
  11. A Sale of Two Cities
  12. The King of Web Standards
  13. No end in sight
  14. InterNetwork

July 2007

  1. Words, words, words
  2. For web developers and iPhone users
  3. Event Apart Savings End Friday
  4. What Apple copied from Microsoft
  5. Better Know a Speaker: Jeremy Keith
  6. Bang
  7. Link ‘n Park
  8. That Busted GIF Feeling
  9. ALA 241: better UI, scriptless trick ponies, and the deathly hallows
  10. Better know a speaker: Dan Cederholm
  11. My Ding-a-Links
  12. It’s a dirty job…
  13. Let there be web divisions

June 2007

  1. WCAG Controversy and Human Design
  2. An Event Apart iMix
  3. “Maybe” is one option too many
  4. The Beatles slept here
  5. Hi, Mom!
  6. bgcolor follies
  7. When is e-mail like a bad website?
  8. ALA 239: Designer frameworks and robot designers
  9. Eight points for better e-mail relationships
  10. E-mail is not a platform for design
  11. Daily Reports from 1997 on
  12. Since 1995
  13. iTunes, iLike, and iWish

May 2007

  1. ALA 238: copywriting 101, evangelizing 102
  2. An Event Apart Chicago 2007
  3. An Event Apart Seattle sells out
  4. Conference speaker’s pledge
  5. Web Design Survey closes soon
  6. How now brown wow?
  7. ALA 237: client school

April 2007

  1. The heartbreak of technology
  2. The profession that dare not speak its name
  3. The Web Design Survey
  4. Noware
  5. Women in web design: just the stats
  6. Where are the Women? Where are the Links?
  7. Comments are the lifeblood of the blogosphere
  8. ALA 235: vertical grids, accessible web apps
  9. Ambient Informatics at Cooper Union
  10. Quit Your Day Job
  11. From Bulgaria With Love

March 2007

  1. ALA 234 triple-header
  2. Eric Meyer, 1:00 a.m.
  3. Web 2.0 Buyouts: Butchers vs. Farmers
  4. Happy Cog Philadelphia is Hiring
  5. Tickets now available for AEA Seattle 2007
  6. Independent content is the new web app
  7. A List Apart dinner at SXSW
  8. Austin Power
  9. Happy Cog redesigns AIGA

February 2007

  1. An Event Apart Boston sells out
  2. swfIR (swf Image Replacement)
  3. ALA 233: Semantic Flash, Valid Arguments
  4. Gender and ethnic imbalance in web design
  5. An Event Apart Seattle 2007
  6. Happy Cog redesigns, 2/7/2007
  7. ALA 232: Flash cage match, multi-column CSS
  8. An Event Apart Boston selling fast

January 2007

  1. StarTAC Memories
  2. Cold
  3. Near-death, non-birth
  4. Praise the Lord and Pass the Pliers
  5. Register for An Event Apart Boston
  6. Design Relief: Katrina Corps
  7. ALA 230: Make the logo smaller
  8. Gas
  9. Tanks

2006 112

December 2006

  1. Our Year in Review
  2. Adaptive Layouts, Accessible Forms
  3. Goodbye
  4. Moustaches, goatees, and beards
  5. Inflamed linkazoidal tissues
  6. ALA 228: Take the Edge Off

November 2006

  1. Safari better than Firefox?
  2. Better Know a Speaker: Steve Krug
  3. Enable caching to upload files
  4. Return of the Son of XHTML Fist
  5. Pardon Mon Oncle
  6. Patronizing Joe Clark
  7. Shiny happy people
  8. The Polling Place Photo Project
  9. An Event Apart Austin: Details, Details

October 2006

  1. Monday breakfast links
  2. IE7 CSS tweak show and tell
  3. IE7 Bugs and Fixes, Part I
  4. Better community through printing
  5. Web 2.0 Thinking Game
  6. A Jewish King
  7. Birth Announcement
  8. Crash Boom Bop
  9. ALA 225: tested premises, proven resources
  10. Black box
  11. Happy Cog Philadelphia

September 2006

  1. Blahg
  2. ALA 224: Krista, Q tags & trench wisdom
  3. Show Pix, Seattle stylie
  4. Cruising Seattle with Eric Meyer
  5. Kiss the sky
  6. Black and Brown and 960 all over
  7. ALA 223: tricks, guides, and giggles
  8. Five years
  9. An Event Apart Austin

August 2006

  1. ALA 222: wraparounds and wordsmithing
  2. Photos from Paradise
  3. Time off for good behavior
  4. Get your kicks on Pier 66
  5. Inspiration and perspiration
  6. Get a job, fill a job
  7. Thursday links
  8. ALA 221: Navigation and writing basics

July 2006

  1. Is this thing on?
  2. Amazonked! (or, the 2nd Edition Dilemma)
  3. ALA 220: Problems and Solutions
  4. An Event Apart Seattle
  5. Applications on parade
  6. An angry fix
  7. And boy are my arms tired
  8. ALA 219: Automatic layouts and goodbye to <embed>
  9. We hold most of these truths

June 2006

  1. The Power of Positive Whining
  2. My friend Flickr
  3. Flick’d Away
  4. A Fine Day to Quit Sniffing Glue
  5. An Event Apart NYC Schedule
  6. ALA 218: Beauty, behavior, and power
  7. DWWS 2e Cover Preview
  8. Friends in Need
  9. An Event Apart Seattle
  10. Silent phone, secret phone
  11. A List Apart intern
  12. My Count of Monte Cristo
  13. zefrank or zebeans
  14. Baggage
  15. Wrapping Chicago
  16. In Chicago

May 2006

  1. A List Apart adds Job Board
  2. Your commercial website
  3. All in
  4. WCAG 2: the clock is ticking
  5. Through a glass, lightly
  6. Of writing and rosters
  7. She Blinded Me With Christian Science
  8. May Day, May Day

April 2006

  1. An Event Apart New York City
  2. Hi, Mom!
  3. A List Apart 215: triple issue
  4. Kottke Joins The Deck
  5. Happy Cog redesigns Advertising Age
  6. ALA 214: today’s talk, tomorrow’s interface

March 2006

  1. Everyware
  2. Heartwarming
  3. An Event Apart Chicago
  4. It’s a new morning in adland
  5. Unmixed
  6. Fine Corinthian Leather
  7. SXSW III: Things That Were Said
  8. SXSW II
  9. SXSW I
  10. Zeldman.com Reloaded
  11. ALA 213
  12. Fr.oz.en en.tre.es
  13. Panelicious

February 2006

  1. Selling AJAX by the pound
  2. Six minutes of pleasure
  3. Fresh outta beta
  4. My friends all drive Porsches
  5. A List Apart 212: Love and Hate
  6. Beneath the law, beyond the validator
  7. Don’t be a beta hater
  8. Read these now
  9. Dominey, Santa Maria, join Event Apart roster

January 2006

  1. A List Apart 211
  2. Event Apart registration begins
  3. An Event Apart Atlanta
  4. Four things
  5. Bookmarks for a rainy Monday
  6. iPhoto , iTunes, iForgotToTest
  7. A film apart
  8. Web 3.0 and other delights

2005 12

December 2005

  1. Year-end blowout
  2. A List Apart 209
  3. Style vs. Design
  4. Roadside link jamboree
  5. An Event Apart Philadelphia Postpartum

November 2005

  1. ALA 208, AIGA podcasts
  2. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
  3. To Spain! To Spain!
  4. AIGA/AEA Podcast II: a Man called Meyer
  5. I feel pretty
  6. Talk is free, fonts are cheap
  7. Kashmir, Kashmir

2008–2026 →