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W3C's WOFF: Creating More Font Choices for Web Designers
What does Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) have in common with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)? TypeCon. This week at SOTA’s annual conference, W3C plans on initiating discussion around the new open format for enabling high-quality typography for the Web.
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WoodWing Updates Digital Magazine Tools for iPad
When Woodwing Software first created their digital magazine tools for the iPad, they had no way of foreseeing how the iPad would capture the hearts and minds of the world. Digital Magazine Tools 1.4 As it turned out, the iPad has been successful in helping magazines claim space in the digital world. As user become
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Top 3 Usability Tips for Building Better Blogs, Maximizing Engagement
In 2005, Jakob Nielsen shared what he considered to be the top 10 design mistakes of what was once called the ‘weblog.’ Strikingly, five years later, most (if not all) of them still remain true in the world of the engaged web.
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W3C Illuminates Differences, Rationale Behind HTML5
HTML5 defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the Web. In a recently published work the W3C details the differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5 and provides insight into the thinking behind the changes.
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Government Proposes Accessiblity Rule Changes for US Websites
Both public and private websites face major content challenges over the next two years after the US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that it aims to change the rules that govern the application of the 20-year-old Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to websites and website content. The recently published Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking looks
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Twitter Begins Testing Inline Photos and Videos
Last night Twitter (news, site ) attempted to stealthily test a new inline photos and videos feature, but the good ol' Internet picked up on it rather quickly.
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Squarespace Thinks Big With $38.5 Million in Funding
Squarespace (news, site) offers a slick, well-drilled Web publishing and blogging experience. What can it achieve with a bundle of investment in the bank? Note: See our Squarespace CMS Review for product details. Investing In Space Accel Partners has had a busy week, not only has it poured funds
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CMS Review: Squarespace - SaaS Web Publishing, Blogging Platform
In the hyper-competitive market of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) web content management, vendors are desperate to stand out. Squarespace (news, site ) differentiates its offering through in-line editing capabilities, an extensive embeddable widgets library, strong iPhone support and dynamic scalability behind the scenes.
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LOUD3R Updates its Publishing Platform, Content Streams Stand Out
As long as the state of online news publishing still flickers and fades, there will be companies who aim to capture as much of its light as they can. Recently, LOUD3R, launched a newly redesigned version of its real-time content discovery, curation and publishing platform.
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Web Publishing Roll-up: Shirky v. Murdoch in Pay Wall Smackdown
This week, pay walls are both a complete success and a total failure. Pay Wall Smack Down [Fake announcer voice] In a world where newspapers battle to stay alive, only the most dedicated will prevail. Tired, broken and sick of being taken for granted, newspapers want revenge and WILL MAKE YOU PAY! In the battle to determine the viability of newspaper pay walls, two leading authorities challenge each other to a smack down of words and well, more words.
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AOP 2010 Digital Publishing Awards, Guardian Dominates
Recently, the Association of Online Publishers (AOP), an organization based in the UK that represents digital publishing companies that create original, branded, quality content, announced the recipients of its Digital Publishing Awards for 2010. Digital Publishing Recognized The AOP (not to be confused with the Online Publishing Association (OPA), a
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WordPress Offers Content Encouragement with Plinky
In an effort to relieve writer's block woes, Automattic (news, site), the company behind WordPress, has acquired a content encouragement service called Plinky. Inspirational Questions Essentially, Pinky provides writers with prompts aimed at inspiring content, like this: The solution was kicked out last year by Thing Labs
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Web Publishing Roll-up: Digital Newsroom Goes Mobile, MSNBC Ditches Pageviews
This week, online newspapers focuses on mobile, Amazon enriches the Kindle, and MSNBC.com ditches pageviews in a new redesign. Adding Mobile to the Digital Newsroom It wasn't too long ago that the newspaper industry filled our heads with visions of an all-digital newsroom. In that time since, we’ve covered
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Web Publishing Roll-up: WordPress 3.0, e-Readers Wage a Price War
This week in web publishing, e-Reader prices get lowered, the Economist examines the viability of mobile news apps and WordPress launches version 3.0. WordPress 3.0 Last week WordPress, the well-known and widely used web publishing and blogging platform, released WordPress version 3.0. The latest version features more customization options
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