Category Archives: Web Design/Development

How Top Bloggers Earn Money

By Eric Peacock | Published: July 17, 2007

Good profile of the top professional bloggers that actually make a living at it (Businessweek)

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Web Teams

By Eric Peacock | Published: July 11, 2007

Jeffrey Zeldman reveals the first constant from the Web Designers Survey – little did I know that it was regarding web workers not actually working in a web division. I wish every manager I had would read this and understand what it means for them. Let There Be Web Divisions

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Silly Season

By Eric Peacock | Published: May 2, 2007

Dive Into Mark on the new web media technologies Abobe Apollo & Microsoft Silverlight: Silly Season I have to say this little bit made me snicker a tiny bit: And Microsoft “rebooted the web.” I guess that’s all you can do after freezing up for five years. Via Daring Fireball.

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A List Apart 2007 Web Design Survey

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 24, 2007

The huge black hole that surrounds the facts about web professionals has led A List Apart to conduct a survey. If you do professional web work you should take it.

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Panic Releases Coda

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 23, 2007

Coda, new from Macintosh-only shareware guys Panic, looks like a great tool for combined web site development and management. I’m going to give this a serious look. Already I can say that the presentation is fantastic, especially compared to Adobe’s Dreamweaver CS3. One of Panic’s main developers, Steven Frank, has more information on his blog. [...]

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Weber Marketing Group Web Site

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 23, 2007

Last Thursday I launched the fourth revision I’ve worked on for where I work, Weber Marketing Group. It’s as standards-friendly as I could make it under the restrictions. It’s also packed with more Flash, scripts and CSS rules than previous versions. It’s a bit complicated really. We’re still working on major content additions over the [...]

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Zeldman on Designing Web Sites

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 18, 2007

Jeffrey Zeldman lays it down: Information architecture. Usability. Accessibility. Web standards. If you don’t know about these things, stop designing websites until you have learned. Competence in graphic design is merely a baseline; it does not qualify you to create user experiences for the web. Read his whole post. Simply put and true. I’m sure [...]

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How Illustrator Gets Its Features

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 16, 2007

Good background on the business of enhancing a popular graphics application by Mordy Goldy, former Project Manager for Adobe Illustrator. How Illustrator Gets Its Features Mordy’s post is bolstered by John Nack, currently the Adobe Photoshop Product Manager. If you’re wondering why they can’t do X or Y because you need it and think it’s [...]

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