CS6 has just shipped & just like we did in 2010 we'll take a closer look at the design goals of this Creative Suite release. An inside look at how it is to do design work for a big company like Adobe. Each Creative Suite release starts with a list of technical requirements and design goals. Our host is Shawn Cheris, he will guide us through the process just as he did with the CS5 branding.Goals & RequirementsBelow you'll find what Adobe wanted to accomplish from an experience standpoint:Expressive. The product splash screens for CS3 and CS4 were basically extensions of the product icons. This helped establish the powerful color system that we now rely on for our brand. Having done...

Here is a web designer's site using HTML5 and an interesting navigation style. All of the content is on this one page, and navigation snaps you to the section you want. It doesn't work as well in large browsers, but for smaller screens, it works perfectly. Her HTML is excelent, using a combination of DIV and sectioning elements to create a design that works effectively in most browsers.Have you built an HTML5 site? Or do you know of one that does a great job with HTML5? Submit HTML5 site designs to be featured on this site.

One of the frustrations of typography on the web is the lack of decent hyphenation control. CSS3 introduces the hyphens property to help you control the hyphens on your web pages. Learn how hyphenation works on the web and how you can control it more effectively.Read the full article: Hyphenation in CSS3Get Better Typography on Your PagesTest Hyphenation in Your BrowserWhat is Typography?Web Typography Pet Peeves - Annoyances in Web TypographyTypography on the Web is About the Little Details

The internet is disrupting many content-focused industries, and the publishing landscape is beginning its own transformation in response. Tools haven't yet been developed to properly, semantically export long-form writing. Most books are encumbered by Digital Rights Management (DRM), a piracy-encouraging practice long since abandoned by the music industry. In the second article of a two-part series in this issue, Nick Disabato discusses the ramifications of these practices for various publishers and proposes a way forward, so we can all continue sharing information openly, in a way that benefits publishers, writers, and readers alike.

ebooks are a new frontier, but they look a lot like the old web frontier, with HTML, CSS, and XML underpinning the main ebook standard, ePub. Yet there are key distinctions between ebook publishing's current problems and what the web standards movement faced. The web was founded without an intent to disrupt any particular industry; it had no precedent, no analogy. E-reading antagonizes a large, powerful industry that's scared of what this new way of reading brings--and they're either actively fighting open standards or simply ignoring them. In part one of a two-part series in this issue, Nick Disabato examines the explosion in reading, explores how content is freeing itself from context, ...

Testing your web pages in multiple browsers is critical to ensure that your pages work for as many people as possible. Alexander Peev provides us with information on how to test, what to do when problems crop up during testing, and even how to deal with changes to the site after testing is complete. This is part two of the article Cross Browser Testing.Read the full article: How to Test Web Page DesignsWhat Browsers Do You Use?Cross Browser TestingTesting Your Web PagesGraceful Degradation - Make Your Pages Work Even in Older Browsers

Are you looking for technical writing experience on HTML, web design, or XML? I am looking for one to three interns for the second half of 2012. Interns for this site will write one article (650-800 words) per month, July through December, on topics related to HTML, web design, web editors, and XML.This internship is unpaid, but you can work from anywhere in the world and all your articles will appear with your byline along with an author profile describing you and your expertise.This internship is open to any current graduate or undergraduate students studying web design, computer science or a related discipline. Recent graduates are also invited to apply. You must know HTML and be able ...

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