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The podcast of the web book by Jeremy Keith.

Resilient Web Design Jeremy Keith

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The podcast of the web book by Jeremy Keith.

    Chapter 7: Challenges

    Chapter 7: Challenges

    The fourth annual conference on hypertext took place in San Antonio, Texas in December 1991. Tim Berners‐Lee’s World Wide Web project was starting to take shape then. Thinking the conference organisers and attendees would appreciate the project, he submitted a proposal to Hypertext ’91. The proposal was rejected.

    • 14 min
    Chapter 6: Steps

    Chapter 6: Steps

    “Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context”, said the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. “A chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”

    • 17 min
    Chapter 5: Layers

    Chapter 5: Layers

    In his classic book How Buildings Learn Stewart Brand highlights an idea by the British architect Frank Duffy: “A building properly conceived is several layers of longevity.”

    • 12 min
    Chapter 4: Languages

    Chapter 4: Languages

    Jon Postel was one of the engineers working on the ARPANET, the precursor to the internet. He wanted to make sure that the packets—or “datagrams”—being shuttled around the network were delivered in the most efficient way. He came to realise that a lax approach to errors was crucial to effective packet switching.

    • 19 min
    Chapter 3: Visions

    Chapter 3: Visions

    Design adds clarity. Using colour, typography, hierarchy, contrast, and all the other tools at their disposal, designers can take an unordered jumble of information and turn it into something that’s easy to use and pleasurable to behold. Like life itself, design can win a small victory against the entropy of the universe, creating pockets of order from the raw materials of chaos.

    • 25 min
    Chapter 2: Materials

    Chapter 2: Materials

    At the risk of teaching grandmother to suck eggs, I’d like you to think about what happens when a browser parses an HTML element. Take, for example, a paragraph element with some text inside it. There’s an opening P tag, a closing P tag, and between those tags, there’s the text.

    • 14 min

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