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Designing Great Information Graphics

The first great mainstream information graphic I remember seeing was of a New York Times article showing the casualties of war in Iraq around 2003/2004. The graphics were of bathroom-style stick figure men representing actual lives lost. What made it special was that it dramatically changed some boring statistics that you would normally ignore into mind-blowing facts.

Designing Great Information Graphics
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The New York Times still prints great information graphics but for online, they have stepped up their game to do some of the best interactive graphics in journalism today. You can read this profile article for more on this aspect of information graphics.

The focus of this article will be less on interactivity and more on the simpler, static information graphics.

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7 Critical Features to Look for in Your Next Digital SLR Camera

Digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras are distinguished from their ‘point-and-shoot’ digital camera counterparts by a removable lens and reflex mirror. This reflex mirror enables the photographer to see exactly what will be captured in the image.

DSLR Buying Guide
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DSLR cameras generally have a higher image quality than point-and-shoot cameras, and for sometime were the preserve of the professional. Increasingly, the price of DSLR cameras is dropping, and manufacturers are extending their ranges to accommodate amateur photographers and those on tighter budgets. Camera specifications can seem confusing at first glance, but there are several key features, options and extras you should bear in mind when selecting your next DSLR.

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Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS): The Lowdown

So I recently came across the idea of Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS) at An Event Apart San Francisco this year. The speaker was Nicole Sullivan, who is the leader in evangelizing and developing Object Oriented CSS. She makes a solid argument that best practice CSS techniques should be used and that we can build on those techniques to create even more efficient CSS for everyone involved.

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The Case Against Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash is no longer the go-to platform to develop rich interaction content as it once was. Developers are more enthusiastic about using alternatives like jQuery rather than turning to Flash. While I still think Flash has its place, I’m not promoting it or recommending its usage to my clients if other more straight-forward and functional options exist.

The Case Against Adobe Flash Illustration
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Practical Tips From An Event Apart SF 2008

An Event Apart is from our smart friends at A List Apart. Popular web designer/developers such as Eric Meyer, Jeffrey Zeldman, Dan Cederholm, Jason Keith, Jason Santa Maria and others were on hand last year to unleash a can of knowledge whoopass on us eager attendees last year. Now that a year has passed and I’m preparing for this year’s version, I’ve decided to reflect and share on some of the practical tips I learned from last.

An Event Apart San Francisco 2008
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Six Years of Suckerfish Dropdown Menus

If you’ve ever done the “dropdown dance” while developing your websites and avoided clunky code while still attempting to be standards compliant, accessible and semantic — then you know about the Suckerfish menus made popular on A List Apart. That article was published on November 7th, 2003, so that means we will be celebrating the sixth year anniversary of our favorite friendly neighborhood dropdown.

Celebrating 6 Years of Suckerfish Menus

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CSS Selectors – A Guide To The Common & The Rare

Most of you will be surprised by some of the CSS selectors that I’m writing about today. For instance, did you know can select a element based on a ending substring such as “.pdf”? BAM, add that selector to your a element and you can make all PDFs on your website italic and purple without any addition HTML! You xan do that with other substrings too!

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We’re also going to go over some of the differences between more common selectors just so you know you’re efficiently implementing your code.

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5 Innovative CSS Techniques You Should Know About

We all love CSS but keeping up with the latest techniques can be quite difficult at times. So for your convenience, I’ve compiled five tutorials that showcase useful and innovative techniques that you should know about.



[Just to be clear, I know some form of probably all these techniques may have existed for awhile but I feel these five choices can still be used/improved upon by us developers and/or not fully adapted yet even though they are known by many to be productive. A bump and a nod, if you will.]
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20 Amazing Inscriptional Fonts To Spice Up Your Designs

Often referred to as Roman type or architectural lettering, the history of Inscriptional typefaces goes all the way back to the Greek and Roman empires (and surely prior to those periods). Historically speaking, those fonts used to be hand carved in stone and light and context was very important.

Amazing Inscriptional Fonts

Today, since we all use computers, those fonts are often digitized reproductions of the original faces used in monumental Greek and Roman carvings and can now be used for headings and script-looking documents and designs. More often than not, these typefaces come in all caps and small caps.

Here are 20 great examples of Inscriptional fonts. We hope you enjoy it!

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