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Are you a member of all the latest and greatest social networking sites? Tired of re-entering your personal details? Need to keep your information up-to-date across a myriad of accounts, and enable your user base to do the same? You need the foundations of the social web, brought to you by Ben Ward.
Had enough of the South By South West coverage yet? Yes? Tough luck—we’ve got one more SXSW goodie for you (but we promise this is the last one). Designer Mike Rohde took time out to talk to Digital Web about the motivation and process behind his popular “sketchnotes” technique, and we’re pleased to present some of the highlights from his Austin trip here.
If you’re anything like me, your hard drive is probably littered with unfinished redesigns of your personal portfolio site. As professional designers, we can often be our own worst client—which is why I’m very pleased to welcome FreelanceSwitch’s Collis Ta’eed to set out some sensible ground rules to consider when approaching that portfolio project.
We have many systems at hand for designing, developing, and managing site content—an almost overwhelming list of choices. The past few years have seen the rise of a several that are particularly well-suited to companies and designers who don’t require or want a powerhouse platform with a learning curve as steep as Mount Everest. One of these is Textpattern. We asked Andrea Arbogast, an experienced Textpattern enthusiast, to interview the authors of the comprehensive new book from Friends of Ed, Textpattern Solutions, and give us an in-depth answer to the question, Why Textpattern?
Every year, some of the greatest designers, writers and thinkers in the world descend upon Austin for South by Southwest Interactive. James McNally rode it till the wheels came off for the fifth year in a row, and reports back on the high points.
A few originally open-source applications have switched to a paid model, but not WordPress. Matt Mullenweg, its creator, is passionate about open source and it shows in his work and words.
Accurate search engines and other up-to-the-minute content aggregators are drastically changing the game of Web design. The information architecture that is becoming most important isn’t the one that’s on your Web site, but the one on everyone else’s.
Mena Trott shares the latest developments at Six Apart, including the growing team, sticking to their roots, the future of TypePad and Movable Type 3.1’s hot new features.
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