Tips for Public Speaking – speaking.io
July 26, 2014
presentations / public-speaking
Thoughts on public speaking from Zach Holman.
Because “imagine everyone’s naked” is terrible advice
Items of Interest
Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
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GOV.UK – GDS design principles
July 25, 2014
The UK government does a great job sharing its design principless and how it interprets them, and showing examples of what they mean.
A Compendium of SVG Information | CSS-Tricks
July 24, 2014
A library on how to use SVG, when to use it, what to use it for, and so on.
Kids Make the Road by Walking, Too: On Progressive Christian Families and the Bible
July 24, 2014
bible / brian mclaren / children / parenting
We gained our childhood training in Scripture through a well-ordered curriculum of Bible stories, charts, and memory verses. Not our kids. We don’t have a pre-packaged boxed set of doctrines to give them in the safety and comfort of a Sunday School room. What we have is a library of ancient texts which are complicated and bewildering. Just like the real world. The texts are peopled by violent, greedy, horny apes who are relentlessly loved by God. Just like us.
Ten CSS One-Liners to Replace Native Apps · An A List Apart Blog Post
July 23, 2014
a list apart / css / design
Paged designs, floating figures, and multi-column layout are widely used on mobile devices today. For some examples, see Flipboard, the Our Choice ebook, or Facebook Paper. These are all native apps. If we want the web to win on these devices (we do), it’s vital that designers can build these kinds of presentations using web standards. If web standards cannot express this, authors will be justified in making native apps.
Lean Content
July 22, 2014
content strategy / design / user experience
So, lean content is all about writing in smarter ways — by testing messages to find what makes people click.
Krista Dalton | Resources for Reading the Bible and Rabbis
July 20, 2014
bible / judaism / old testament
To help, I’ve compiled a list of introductory sources and entry-points to Jewish material that might be useful to Christians hoping to learn a little about Jewish interpretations and uses of the Hebrew Bible, as well as rabbinic literature as a whole and its historical context.
Butterick’s Practical Typography
July 14, 2014
This book is based on three principles.
- Good typography is part of good writing.
- As a professional writer, you should hold your documents to the same standards as professionally published material. Why? Because your documents are professionally published material.
Moreover, much of what writers consider proper typography is an accumulation of bad habits and urban legends. These will be set aside in favor of professional typographic habits.
- Any writer can master the essentials of good typography.
Responsive Deliverables – daverupert.com
July 13, 2014
design / responsive design / style-guides
Responsive deliverables should look a lot like fully-functioning Twitter Bootstrap-style systems custom tailored for your clients’ needs. These living code samples are self-documenting style guides that extend to accommodate a client’s needs as well as the needs of the ever-evolving multi-device web.
Advanced web typography: Kerning
July 12, 2014
So, for your benefit and for mine, I’m going to attempt a quick round-up on kerning for the web.