Comments on: Appreciating web design; setting type

By: Entendendo Web Design - por Jeffrey Zeldman | Design Coletivo

Entendendo Web Design - por Jeffrey Zeldman | Design Coletivo — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:12:21 +0000

[...] texto é a tradução de um trecho do artigo original Understanding Web Design, de Jeffrey Zeldman, na revista A List Apart. Translated with the permission of A List Apart Magazine and the author. [...]

By: Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:11:45 +0000

Comprendiendo el diseño web is an authorized Spanish translation of Understanding Web Design.

By: Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:07:43 +0000

@Camilo, It would be an honor and a pleasure. Please go ahead. Kindly note the requirements for translations and be sure to follow them. Thanks!

By: Camilo Oliveira

Camilo Oliveira — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:23:58 +0000

Zeldman, I am a brazilian design student and want to reproduce a excerpt of your amazing article called “Understanding Web Design” (A List Apart) in our blog. The intention is spread the content and translate it, specially to brazilian (or latin) designers who don´t speak english.

Our blog is the result of a group colleagues who have common interests and the intention to discuss the design and if possible improve it to can we. Written our own articles, based on our experience and daily life as professional designers.

Regards from Brazil.
Camilo Oliveira

By: Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:54:46 +0000

The man deserves a medal; in fact I’m going to start writing a piece on him. Let’s hope he becomes an ALA regular.

Hear, hear! On both counts. Richard is brilliant and his contributions are under-appreciated.

By: johno

johno — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:55:00 +0000

Richard Rutter hits another bullseye with his Sizing Text article. I don’t think enough people are aware of just how much–and just how important–his contributions to web typography are. The man deserves a medal; in fact I’m going to start writing a piece on him. Let’s hope he becomes an ALA regular.

By: Don Ulrich

Don Ulrich — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:37:47 +0000

Well put Jeffrey. Just getting started in the business of this in a small market. This article will come in handy. We are surveying the landscape and attempting to apply this line of thought to secondary market middle America. Education is different here though. No matter
what they seem to read they have a serialized idea of what should happen. I postulate that if web design was influenced by middle America it would look all together different. However, we push on, hoping to to break or understand the serialization that is middle America. For here it is a flat world.

By: thacker

thacker — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:42:15 +0000

Everything that I have read of late that pertains to Internet communication points me to one thing: standalone RIAs.

By: Ryan Hayes

Ryan Hayes — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:22:20 +0000

It’s amazing nobody has cited Donald Knuth’s epic work on “TeX” from years ago; he basically created digital typesetting. It’s all about glue and boxes. :)

By: SWW

SWW — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:38:09 +0000

Great piece, Jeffrey, and thank you for it. Relative to the recent discussion of landmark web designs, etc., this article is likely the response that thousands had in mind but only you could express (and that's meant as no disrespect to the other voices). But it's more than that - it's a well-considered look at what it is we do, backed up by years of experience - delivered at exactly the right time. It feels sort of like your focus is shifting some from web standards to helping people inside and outside the web design community get a grip on just what the hell it is we're doing. I think that's a good thing, as it could be a significant step toward realizing the potential of the web to make life better for more people, rather than just a superfancy way to waste time and electricity. I don't know. Whatever your intent was I think you wrote a landmark article. Thanks for taking the time to do it.

By: tanner

tanner — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:31:05 +0000

If only there was a way to kern…

By: Brian Artka

Brian Artka — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:19:49 +0000

Excellent article. Well thought out, great points, never a dull moment while reading it. Lets hope this helps define our industry a little more.

By: Dustin Brewer

Dustin Brewer — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:14:04 +0000

Awesome work, I appreciate the great article and loved Richard’s article about using fonts.

By: Josh Stodola

Josh Stodola — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:42:23 +0000

That was a fantastic article, Jeffrey. I even printed it.

By: David Sleight

David Sleight — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:03:35 +0000

Thank you for writing that piece. I’ve been feeling a long-building frustration with the there-are-no-great-lasting-works-of-Design-in-Web-Design set for some time now. Your article is a well-considered, forceful response to the fallacies underlying that attitude.