Web Design Survey by A List Apart
By Mims Wright | on April 26, 2007
In Business, News, Serious Stuff, Site-seeing, XHTML / CSS / JS | No Comments
A List Apart, your favorite source for web standards advocacy and CSS minutiae, is conducting their own survey of web designers similar to the ones created by Aquent or AIGA. I can’t think of a good reason for you to not take it so you might as well stop trying to weasel your way out of it.
Adobe CS3 Launch
By Mims Wright | on March 27, 2007
In Business, Flash, News, Rants, Serious Stuff | 1 Comment
I’m at the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Launch Event in NYC. Click below for the live blogcast. Hit refresh cause i’m uploading every 5 mins or so.
Tech Writing Tips
By Mims Wright | on March 21, 2007
In Authors, Business, Hacks, Life, Serious Stuff, Tutorial | No Comments
As you may know, Roger and I are working on the next version of the ActionScript Bible published by Wiley (the Amazon page is full of errors, don’t worry, it’s not even out yet). I wanted to share a few tips that I use as notes to myself for when I’m stuck with writing.
- Write headlines and use the outline view to order the big picture
- Simplify
- Base information around a task that the reader might want to do
- Write or flow without being concerned about the form then go back and edit it later
- Ask “Do I really need this?”
- Read other similar books
- Say it out loud then write down what you say
- Work on something that you know you can finish then go back to where you were stuck
- Forget about style and focus on the facts
- Take breaks and do something different like drawing a diagram or writing a code sample