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Zoe Mickley Gillenwater — Effective and efficient design with CSS3

CSS3 is changing how we design and develop web sites, allowing us to quickly and easily create and maintain highly efficient and adaptable sites that are a pleasure to use. You’ll learn practical yet progressive examples of the most beneficial ... Read more »

Jason Cranford Teague — 2010: The Year of Web Typography

Web typography expert Jason Cranford Teague shows you how to apply the principles of fluid typography, to choose, find and use Webfonts and create your unique typographic voice. Come and find out why 2010 is going to be the year ... Read more »

State of Web Development 2010 Results

Looking for just the results to each of the questions in this year's State of Web Development survey You've come to the right place. Or, if you're looking for the full details, head over to our in-depth report.Table of ContentsAbout the Survey The Audience Operating Systems and Browser... Read more »

The Wrap

About the Survey The Audience Operating Systems and Browsers Markup CSS and Presentation JavaScript and the DOM Rich Media Server technologies The Cloud Conclusions and predictionsIn last year's report we concludedOpen Source solutions dominate, or play a very significant role in most areas other than client operating systems. Respondents saw ... Read more »

CSS and Presentation

About the Survey The Audience Operating Systems and Browsers Markup CSS and Presentation JavaScript and the DOM Rich Media Server technologies The Cloud Conclusions and predictionsConsistency across browsers Development strategies for multiple browsers CSS Specifics Other browser based graphics Devices other than PCsThe challenge of convincing web designers ... Read more »

The State of Web Development 2010

Welcome to this detailed report from our second "State of Web Development" survey of professional web designers and developers. It includes details and analysis of all the responses to over 50 questions covering technologies, techniques, philosophies and practices that today's web professionals employ.You can download the complete ... Read more »

Typedia

With the coming of embedded fonts, Web developers and designers are going to have to become increasingly knowledgeable about type. The just launched Typedia from wonderful designers like Jason Santa Maria, Liz Danzico, Aaron Gustafson and many other looks like a great resource to learn about and explore typefaces.You ... Read more »

The dawning of real fonts on the web?

Regular readers will know of my near fixation with embeddable/downloadable fonts on the web, as now supported in Safari, Firefox 3.5 and Opera 10, and long supported (in a somewhat incompatible way with these other browsers) in Internet Explorer.But the technology has never taken off. Foundries and many type ... Read more »

Fonts on the Web

Regular readers will know the issue of embeddable/linkable fonts for the web is more than a passing interest here at Web Directions.Today, font designer Tal Leming talks about the issues from the perspective of folks who design typefaces, while Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Type designer David Berlow from ... Read more »

CSS and other Presentation technologies

Consistency across browsers Development strategies for multiple browsers Quirksmode CSS Specifics Other browser based graphics Devices other than PCsThere's little doubt that CSS has become the favored way by which the significant majority of sites are styled (Opera's MAMA project found over 80% of sites searched used CSS). ... Read more »

State of the Web — just the results

Here's the tabular results for all the questions for which this makes sense. You can also download the full dataset in CSV format (120KB compressed). Which size organization do you work for? Answer Count Percentage I'm a student 68 5.51% I'm a hobbyist 21 1.70% I'm a freelancer 225 18.23% Small Company (up to 10) 235 19.04% Medium Company (up to 50) 244 19.77% Large Company (up to ... Read more »

The Questions

Here's a complete list of the questions for the survey.About the respondentWhat country do you live in? How would you describe yourself? If "other", how would you describe your role (in a word or two)? Which sector do you work in Which size organization do you work for?Operating systems and browsers Which OS do you ... Read more »

Bert Bos summarizes the issues around Webfonts

Bert Bos, co-inventor of CSS, has a detailed summary of the issues around font embedding and standardization from a couple of months back.Why so much on this of late here? We feel at web directions that this is a development ultimately as significant as the rise of CSS for ... Read more »

Webfonts — an excellent article by Jon Tan

If you want to get up to speed with the who, what, where how and when of Web fonts, this recent article by Jon Tan is the place to start.

Web fonts — great news with Opera 10 Alpha

Opera had just announced an Alpha of Opera 10, with some excellent support for new and emerging standards, including one of my favorites, font linking.Currently, Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox 3.1, and now Opera 10 support font linking via the @font-face mechanism. Internet Explorer has in fact supported this feature ... Read more »

Ubiquitous web font embedding just got a step closer

[Update 1] A couple of months back, I surveyed the scene regarding a long cherished dream of web designers and developers - font linking and embedding.[Update 2] Opera 10, and Firefox 3.1 now support linking to TrueType and OpenType (but not EOT) in currently shipping alphas or betas.A short ... Read more »

The return of font embedding to the web?

Sadly, quite a bit of what I wrote in this article is based on out of date information, and on my own testing that had a fatal flaw. I've left the article as it is, and added corrections inlineMost web designers and developers will be familiar with Image Replacement techniques, ... Read more »

Cameron Adams — The Man in Blue

He's presented to rooms packed with some of the toughest audiences in the business at 66% of Web Directions Conferences, and survived the horrors of building a site with me as the client.Cameron: Why have you used an anchor element with no content here when you could have added the ... Read more »