The Web Ahead
By 5by5
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Description
Conversations with world experts on changing technologies and future of the web. The Web Ahead is your shortcut to keeping up. Hosted by Jen Simmons.
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Clean117: Transforming the Shapes with Eva Ferreira | Web pages are visually and technically a pile of boxes. By default, all those boxes are rectangles and squares. But they don't have to be any longer. With CSS we can now transform those rectangles into parallelograms, rhombuses, skewed boxes, circles, a | 6/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean116: Preserving the Architecture of the Web with Stefan Tilkov | There’s a lot of pressure these days to use a JavaScript framework to create every website. “Which one is best?” people ask, “Which one should I use?” Stefan Tilkov joins Jen Simmons to talk about the architectural style of the web, and how to | 5/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean115: Predicting the future with Rachel Andrew, Eric Meyer, and Jeffrey Zeldman | The landscape of what's possible in web page layout is changing. Jen has a theory that this change will be a big one — perhaps the biggest change to graphic design on the web in over 15 years. | 4/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean114: Laying Out the Future with Rachel Andrew | Everything about web page layout is changing. New CSS specifications will make it possible to do designs we've never seen before. | 4/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean113: Standing on Turtles with Husani Oakley | Our technology has gotten really complicated. Sometimes we get so deep into our work, we lose sight of what matters. We have hundreds of choices to make — how do we ever decide? Husani Oakley joins Jen Simmons to debate. | 2/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean112: Imagining the Web of Things with Stephanie Rieger and Jonas Sicking | Talking about the Internet of Things is all the rage these days. What is it about, and why is there so much hype? Will an ecosystem of internet-connected “devices” take over our lives? What role does the web play in all this? | 2/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean111: Going Responsive with Karen McGrane | It’s clear. Responsive is the way to go. One website for all screen sizes, for all devices. But what does it take for a company with an pre-existing site or pre-existing way of working together to make the needed changes to go responsive? | 12/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean110: Understanding the Web with Jeremy Keith | The web is being compared to "native" a lot these days, with some even declaring the web dead. But what are the strengths web? What does it do that native can't touch? What is it we are making when we are creating something of the web? | 11/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean109: Designing Products with Dustin Senos | Designing a successful product takes more than attention to the look & feel, or the interface architecture. Great product design happens earlier in the process, when the product itself is defined and understood. | 11/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean108: Improving Humanity with Pamela Pavliscak | We often focus on improving user experience — making it easier for people to use the sites and products we create. But when do we get to focus on a bigger picture? Are we making true improvements to people's lives? Are they happier? | 10/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean107: Being Tracked with Brett Gaylor | We've all known for many years that the websites we use keep track of who we are and what we are doing. Lately though, it seems like things have gotten out of control. Is this a problem? How bad is it? What can we do? | 10/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean106: Focusing on Customer Top Tasks with Gerry McGovern | As soon as you have many people chiming in on the direction of a website, you get disagreements, conflicting idea, and turf wars. What actually matters is what the site's customers want. | 9/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean105: Progressive Enhancement with Aaron Gustafson | Progressive Enhancement is a core principle of the web. But these days it seems a lot of folks don't quite understand what it's about. Aaron Gustafson joins Jen Simmons to break it down, and explain why and how your website should be built using the pri | 8/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean104: Remembering the Everyday Developer with Rachel Andrew | An inordinate amount of attention is being paid these days to complex tools chains, JavaScript frameworks, and the assumption that the web is an application platform. Has the web actually been taken over by this one flavor of site? | 8/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean103: Animating the Web with Rachel Nabors | How can we use animation on the web to provide information and improve the user experience? What uses should we avoid? How should we think about animation, including built-in animation experiences that are so common we don't see them anymore? | 7/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean102: Understanding Apple Watch with Josh Clark | Apple's Watch is almost here. What does it mean to design for this space? Josh Clark joins Jen Simmons to dig in. | 4/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean101: Structuring Content with Eileen Webb | For years, we've put content on websites by dumping text, images and video onto a page like it's one big blob. In the age of mobile, it's become painfully clear that really doesn't work anymore. Planning a content system of types and fields yields much | 4/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean100: Designing the Web with Jeffrey Zeldman | For episode 100 of The Web Ahead, we have Jeffrey Zeldman, the Godfather of Web Standards, to talk about the past, present and future of making things for the web. We debate the pros and cons of everything from parallax scrolling to data mining. | 3/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean99: Implementing Responsive Images with Jason Grigsby | It's time to start using responsive images on our websites. You specify multiple files in your image HTML. Browsers download the best one for a user's screen size or context. Improve image quality. Save bandwidth. Make sites load faster. | 3/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean98: Handling Advertising with Mark Boulton | Advertising is a major business model for the web. Yet most ads arrive from a parallel universe, an industry of CPMs, ad units, and inflexible demands. As designers and developers, how can we best work with ads on the web? | 3/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean97: Archiving The Internet with Jason Scott | The Internet Archive is a treasure trove of digitized culture — films, software, audio, websites and more. How it it being collected, and how might the Internet Archive be our best hope for preserving the history of this era, as we invent the web? | 2/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean96: Reinventing the Web in Virtual Reality with Josh Carpenter and Vladimir Vukicevic | Virtual reality technology is starting to take off. VR hardware has been steadily improving. VR films are getting a lot of attention. VR games are leveling up. What could a cross-platform web of Virtual Reality look like? | 2/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean95: The New Web Ahead Website with Jen Simmons | After months of work, I've launched a new website for The Web Ahead, at thewebahead.net. Hear the how, why and what — and a lot of geeking out about tech and design. Jeff Eaton switches seats and interviews me, Jen | 2/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean94: Rethinking Microsoft's Browser with Rey Bango | Microsoft announced that they will be introducing a new browser, codenamed Project Spartan. Windows 10 will ship with both IE and Project Spartan, but Spartan is the future. What is happening? Rey Bango explains. | 1/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean93: Parsing Design with Andy Budd | The practice of web design has evolved tremendously over the last two decades — so much so it's almost hard to understand where we are at. Andy Budd joins Jen Simmons to articulate his vision of the current state. | 1/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean92: Making Sense of A Mess with Abby Covert | Sadly, a lot of websites are a mess. They're rife with inconsistencies, broken links, mangled meaning, confusion and frustration. How does this happen? How do we get out of these messes? | 1/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean91: Designing for Crisis with Eric Meyer | Too often, websites are designed with only the ideal user in mind — a typical person, in great health and sound mind. In reality we humans exist in a variety of states. How could our sites be better, considering the needs of people in crisis? | 1/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean90: Engineering the Front with Claudina Sarahe | Front-end development has changed a lot. What used to be simple text in files is now a deep stack of robust engineering tools. Is this a good change? What advantages do the power tools provide, and what might we be giving up in exchange? | 12/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean89: Responding Responsibly with Scott Jehl | It's clear that responsive web design is the way to build a website in today's crazy world of mobile devices, but what's the best way to do so? How can you create a responsive site that's fast and snappy? | 12/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean88: Staying Sane with Peter Ferko | This week has been declared "Geek Mental Health Week" by Andy Clark. He asked us at The Web Ahead to participate, so I invited yogi Peter Ferko to talk about ways to find contentment, balance, and sanity in a world that can be painful or overwhelming. | 10/29/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean87: Delivering Typography with Jason Pamental | Using real typefaces on the web creates amazing design opportunities. But how do you deliver web fonts while not messing up the rest of the experience? Jason Pamental joins Jen Simmons to talk about tips and tricks for optimizing web font performance. | 10/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean86: Componentizing the Web with Rob Dodson | Web Components are all the rage these days — a way to create the web using chunks of code that are reusable across projects. Polymer is a polyfill for using Web Components today. Rob Dodson explains the current landscape. | 10/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean85: Relaunching The Early Web with Dan Noyes | The web was invented at CERN 25 years ago. To mark the anniversary, the web team at CERN has been working on a number of projects, restoring the original website, recreating the first two browsers, and documenting the history of the early web. | 10/1/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean84: Transforming the People Problem with Paul Boag | We are currently experiencing a revolution brought by digital technology, one that impacts every sector of the economy. Paul Boag gives practical advice on how help organizations make the needed transformation. | 9/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean83: Wrangling Typefaces with Jason Santa Maria | Typography is a powerful way to immediately communicate the tone & voice of a site. But how exactly do you create great typography? Jason Santa Maria joins Jen Simmons to talk about his approaches to designing with type. | 9/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean82: Paying on the Web with Manu Sporny | This week, Apple announced Apple Pay — a new system for making payments using iOS devices. What about the web? What work is being done to make sending payments across the web much easier? Manu Sporny joins Jen Simmons to explain. | 9/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean81: Changing the Shapes with Sara Soueidan | So far, page layout on the web has consisted of a lot of boxes stacked on top of boxes. That's about to change. New specifications, including CSS Shapes and CSS Exclusions, are about to the change the shape of page. Sara Soueidan explains. | 9/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean80: The Complexity and the Humanity with Trent Walton | Trent Walton joins Jen Simmons to tell tales of working on the microsoft.com homepage and other big projects — sharing what can go right and what can go wrong. | 8/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean79: Advanced Git with Tobias Günther | Git is a powerful tool for helping developers collaborate, organize, and code their best. Learn about branching, team workflows, remote servers, submodules, GUI tools, and more. | 8/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean78: Offline with John Allsopp | App cache, web storage, Index db, and others are powerful new technologies that change the nature of the web. These technologies are mature and ready-to-use, but so far, we aren't seeing them be used very much. Why? What is possible? What could change? | 7/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean77: Advanced Accessibility with Derek Featherstone | What are some of the biggest challenges when it comes to making a website fully accessible? Keyboard access and form design can make some of the biggest differences, and present some of the biggest challenges. Derek Featherstone joins Jen Simmons to exp | 7/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean76: Videoblogging with Jay Dedman, Ryanne Hodson and Michael Verdi | Ten years ago, a small group started an email list to figure out how to put video on the web. They started a movement, posting videos, breaking through technical barriers, and inventing a new medium. | 7/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean75: Creative Direction with Andy Clarke | Has how we approach web design become too formulaic and rote? Are we missing the opportunity to truly communicate a site's purpose and meaning? What about web design have we lost, or maybe haven't yet found? How can we understand our work as designers w | 6/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean74: HTML Semantics with Bruce Lawson | HTML5 brought more semantic elements to HTML. How's that going? Why should developers use semantic HTML? Accessibility, ARIA roles, microformats, microdata, RDFa, web components and more. | 6/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean73: DRM with Jeremy Keith and Doug Schepers | DRM has been long touted as the solution to piracy. Recently, a few browser makers and big media companies have pushed DRM technology into the web browser — while open web advocates have fought to prevent DRM on the web. | 6/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean72: Style Guides with Anna Debenham | Style guides, once the exclusive domain of print designers, are finding their way onto the web. Built out of HTML and CSS, such style guides are handy tools for the design process, for maintaining sites, and for improving collaboration. | 6/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean71: Web Design Education with Leslie Jensen-Inman | What is the state of formal education for web design, and what might be coming in the future? Dr. Leslie Jensen-Inman joins Jen Simmons to talk about her research, what's she's found, and the school she's starting with Jared Spool. | 5/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean70: Data Visualization with Scott Murray | We are collecting more data now than ever, and freely sharing some datasets on the open web. Web technology has the power for us to present complex data interactively. How should you go about a data visualization project? | 5/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean69: WCAG and Accessibility with Luke McGrath | Walk through the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 with Luke McGrath and Jen Simmons. | 5/1/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean68: Customer Experience with Michael Verdi | A revamped version of Firefox is coming, with a tour of what's new. Created by Michael Verdi & team, this tour is a case study in customer experience. What is Customer Experience design and how can it help your projects? | 4/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean67: SVG with Doug Schepers | SVG is one of several image formats for the web — one that has superpowers that the others don't. When would you want to use SVG & what can you do with it? Doug Schepers joins Jen Simmons to tell all. | 4/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean66: Web Components with Peter Gasston | Web Components seem to be taking the JavaScript community by storm. The three parts of this technology give developers a chance to define their own HTML elements, adjust the defaults, and share with others. Learn about it all from Peter Gasston. | 4/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean65: The Future of the Web Stack with Simon St. Laurent | Is there a new anti-web trend of engineers who are relieved to finally get to use modern techniques when program for the web, tossing out "that icky stuff" and with it, actually trashing years of known best practices? Simon St. Laurent joins Jen Simmons | 4/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean64: Accessibility with Dale Cruse | What's the deal with accessibility and why should we care? How do we make our websites accessible? Dale Cruse joins Jen Simmons to discuss what it takes to make a website for everyone. | 3/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean63: The Latest in CSS with Chris Coyier | What's new in CSS? Chris Coyier joins Jen Simmons to talk about flexbox, grids, regions, shapes, and the future of layout on the web. | 3/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean62: Waterfall vs Agile with Kristin Ellington | Is the web industry moving away from waterfall projects and towards an agile-ish approach? Funny Garbage COO Kristin Ellington joins Jen Simmons to discuss how she structures client projects these days, and why waterfall isn't working anymore. | 3/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean61: Making Your Stuff Make Sense with Jeff Eaton | Architecting how content is structured, collected, and presented are three distinct aspects of designing a web project. Jeff Eaton joins Jen Simmons to talk about how to think through it all. | 3/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean60: Web Annotations with Doug Schepers | There's a movement to create an annotation system for the web, one that might end up as a new web standard & feature in every browser. Learn what annotations on the web would mean with guest Doug Schepers. | 2/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean59: Web RTC with Henrik Joreteg | Web RTC brings real-time communication to the web — peer-to-peer connections that can transfer data, video and audio between web users almost instantaneously. Henrik Joreteg joins Jen Simmons to explain how it works and what it means. | 11/1/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean58: CSS Innovation with Lea Verou | Lea Verou joins Jen Simmons to talk about CSS, and tell us all about things we can do with CSS today that you might not know about already. | 10/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean57: Content Structure with Steve Fisher | Web designer Steve Fisher joins Jen Simmons to talk about designing content structure, and his process for working with clients to best define the essence of a site's message. | 10/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean56: The Nature of the Web with Jeremy Keith | Wonder-developer Jeremy Keith joins Jen Simmons to talk about comments on websites, the birth of the web, progressive enhancement, control and much more. | 9/16/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean55: Design Research with Erika Hall | What is design research, why is it valuable, and how can you work research into the planning of your project? Erika Hall, author of the new book Just Enough Research, joins Jen Simmons to explain. | 9/4/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean54: Jekyll and CMS-less websites with Young Hahn and Dave Cole | After many years of using Content Management Systems that store content in a database, there's a movement to store content in files instead. Jekyll and other tools, including github, are springing up to create a new ecosystem of file-based tools. Young | 6/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean53: CSS Animations with Val Head | CSS has three powerful specifications that can be used to animate things on the page: CSS Transitions, Transforms, and Animations. Designer and author Val Head joins Jen Simmons to explain how they work. | 6/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean52: eBooks with NellieMcKesson | Electronic book formats are changing. EPUB3 and HTML5 are providing tools to create new forms of books, with richer experiences. Nellie McKesson joins Jen Simmons to explain where digital books have been, and where they are going. | 4/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean51: Rendering Engines, Vendor Prefixes & Chrome Blink | Chrome recently announced they will replacing the webkit rendering engine with a new one, named Blink. What's up with that? To find out, Chris Wilson and Paul Irish join Jen Simmons to explain rendering engines and vendor prefixes. | 4/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean50: Web Platform Docs | After years of many independent sites documenting and teaching web development, the W3C and a consortium of browser makers and companies have come together to create a central resource for information about web technologies — Web Platform Docs. Peter | 3/6/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean49: CSS Layouts with Rachel Andrew | Page layout on the web has been constrained for many years by the available technologies. But new technologies that are coming in CSS3 — flexbox, grid layout, regions, & more — promise for an interesting future. Rachel Andrew joins Jen Simmons to e | 2/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean48: Danny Sullivan | Danny Sullivan joins Eric Meyer to reminisce about the early days of web search, directories versus crawlers, the panoply of search engines in the mid-1990s, page counts as serious bragging rights, the brief period when there were search engines that on | 2/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean47: Jen Robbins | Jen Robbins talks about the very early days of web design, O'Reilly, GNN, wrestling with the technology and more. | 1/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean46: Tantek Çelik | Tantek Çelik talks about creating Internet Explorer 5 for Mac, doctype switching, a bit about semantic data formats, and much more. | 12/20/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean45: Web Design with Andy Clarke | Designer, speaker and author Andy Clarke joins Jen Simmons to talk about the process of web design. Andy starts with a rant about online criticism, and goes on to talk about techniques, tools and more. | 12/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean44: Tom Bruce | Tom Bruce talks about the very earliest days of the web, writing the first Windows web browser, inventing 'marquee', and taking a road trip to NCSA with Tim Berners-Lee. | 11/28/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean43: Chris Wilson | Chris Wilson joins Eric Meyer and Jen Simmons to talk about the origins of the Mosaic Browser and his work on Internet Explorer 3 and 4. | 11/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean42: Internet Explorer 10 with Rey Bango | Internet Explorer 10 is out. What's new with one of the most popular browsers? How is the support for HTML5, CSS3, and new Javascript APIs? | 11/8/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean41: Molly Holzschlag | Molly Holzschlag discusses the early days of BBSes, Gopher, and the text-only web. Accessibility, the blink tags, the Web Standard Project, how Microsoft started embracing web standards and much more. | 11/2/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean40: Git with John Albin Wilkins | What is Git? How does it work? How do you use it? John Albin Wilkins joins Jen Simmons to explain the incredibly popular version control system. | 10/26/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean39: Dave Shea | Dave Shea, creator of The CSS Zen Garden, talks about web design ten years ago, the move to CSS-based layouts and more. | 10/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean38: Game Console Browsers with Anna Debenham | Web browsers on game consoles are starting to gain traction. How might you want to adjust your website to work on these devices? | 10/9/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean37: Steven Champeon | Steven Champeon talks about predecessors to HTML, the webdesign-L online community, the birth of the web standards project, and how he coined the term "progressive enhancement". | 10/4/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean36: Sass with Scott Kellum | Sass and Compass, two tools for writing CSS more easily, are fast becoming very popular. Scott Kellum joins Jen Simmons to talk what they offer and how to get started. | 9/26/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean35: John Allsopp | John Allsopp joins Eric Meyer and Jen Simmons for this first episode in our “web behind” series — a look back at where the web came from and the people who created it. | 9/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean34: The Web Behind | A special announcement from Jen Simmons and Eric Meyer. | 9/11/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean33: Back to Basics with Jen Robbins | The web at its basics is HTML and CSS. If you want to learn these fundamentals, where do you start? Jen Robbins joins Jen Simmons to lay out a road map. | 9/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean32: Web Audio with Chris Wilson | Chris Wilson explains the complex power of the Web Audio API. | 8/28/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean31: Canvas with Rob Hawkes | The Canvas element in HTML5 opens up a whole new world of opportunity. Rob Hawkes explains. | 8/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean30: Typography with Richard Rutter | Web typography has taken off in the last few years. What is possible now? How do we create beautiful and functional type on the web? Richard Rutter joins Jen Simmons to explain. | 8/14/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean29: Smart Responsive Web Design Implementation with Scott Jehl | How should we best implement complex responsive web designs to load quickly and meet the needs of a wide range of devices? Scott Jehl talks about Filament Group's discoveries of best practices. | 8/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean28: Design process with Samantha Warren | Creator of Style Tiles, Samantha Warren, joins Jen Simmons to talk about workflows, design processes, and how ideas about our tools can help us all design websites for the modern age. | 8/3/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean27: Content with Kristina Halvorson | How do we get good content on the web? Kristina Halvorson joins Jen Simmons to talk about the discipline of content strategy, where it came from and where it's going. | 7/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean26: Servers with Josh Koenig | Servers — what is going on with the infrastructure that runs the web? Server stacks have changed a lot in the past 20 years. Josh Keonig explains what's up. | 7/20/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean25: Responsive Images with Mat Marquis | What's the best way to handle responsive images? Mat Marquis joins Jen Simmons to sort it all out. | 7/4/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean24: Jobs the Web Does with Horace Dediu | How can we understand the business of the web? Horace Dediu joins Jen to talk about the web through the lens of disruption theory, discussing innovation and jobs to be done. | 6/26/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean23: Maps with Alex Barth | Alex Barth joins to talk all about maps — open maps, open data, Apple maps, new tools and the future of mapping on the web. | 6/22/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean22: Apples and TVs with Jason Grigsby | How did Apple's announcements this week impact web design & development? And what's coming with TVs? Jason Grigsby joins to share his in-depth research on web-enabled TVs. | 6/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean21: Process & Tools with Paul Irish | Paul Irish joins Jen Simmons to discuss work process, tools and best-practices. | 3/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean20: Content Everywhere with Lyza Gardner | Lyza Danger Gardner talk about how CMSes provide — or fail to provide — a platform for publishing content everywhere. How can we design & build a website that will publish everywhere and last long term? | 3/16/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean19: Internet in Your Pocket with Luke Wroblewski | Luke Wroblewski joins Jen Simmons to talk about mobile, mobile first, mobile web — but what is mobile really anyway? How is it that these devices are changing our lives? | 3/8/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean18: CSS with Eric Meyer | CSS is central to the web. What happening with it these days? Author and expert Eric Meyer joins Jen Simmons to talk about the past, present and future of Cascading Style Sheets. | 3/2/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean17: Mobile Devices with Peter-Paul Koch | Mobile device researcher and expert PPK joins Jen Simmons to explain the mobile device landscape. What will we do trying to make websites for all these phones? | 2/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean16: Mobile Capabilities with Jason Grigsby | Mobile web strategist and author Jason Grigsby joins to discuss mobile phones on the web, old design patterns, new possibilities and more, including site performance and web television. | 2/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean15: Browser Support and Polyfills with Divya Manian | When is it safe to implement all this cool new technology on your web project? Divya Manian joins to talk about progressive enhancement, polyfills, collaboration, tools for developers, and the evolution of web browsers. | 2/1/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean14: File API with Arun Ranganathan | File API spec maintainer Arun Ranganthan joins to explain what new file handling capabilities will be coming to browsers soon. They also talk about the drag & drop API, open standards, and how the sausage gets made. | 1/18/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean13: Education with Dan Benjamin | Dan Benjamin joins Jen Simmons to talk about how to keep up with the changing technologies of the web. Where do we learn? | 1/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean12: Michael Verdi on Video | An all-you-can eat historical and technical look at web video. What's up with HTML5 and these competing codecs? How can you use video today? Where are things going in the future? | 12/20/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean11: Josh Clark on Touch | How best to design for a touch screen? How are interfaces changing with the multitude of devices at our touch? Author, speaker, consultant and expert Josh Clark explains his insights into touch design. | 12/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean10: Aarron Walter on Human Connection | How can you design something meaningful? Something that provides delight and connects people? Designer Aarron Walter joins Jen to talk about designing for emotion, what makes a great team, what it's like to get constant critical feedback, and more. | 12/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean9: Mark Boulton on Grids | All about grid systems for the web — why and how. What makes a grid great? How do you create your own? What about responsive web design? Expert Mark Boulton explains. | 11/30/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean8: Sarah Parmenter on iOS Design | Sarah Parmenter joins to talk about iOS design, web design, tools for design and more. | 11/23/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean7: Jonathan Stark on Mobile | Jonathan Stark joins Jen Simmons to talk about web apps vs. native apps, when to use which mobile technology, how to plan a good mobile experience, touch events, and more. | 11/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean6: Karen McGrane on Web Strategy | Karen McGrane talks about planning systems of flexible web content that can be used in a variety of places. And about the need for better content entry workflows. | 10/19/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean5: Peter Lubbers on Web Socket | Peter joins Jen again to talk about the magic of Web Socket, and about SPDY & the Amazon Kindle Fire. | 10/12/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean4: Pat Aufderheide on Fair Use & Copyright | Fair Use expert Pat Aufderheide joins Jen Simmons to explain when you can use other people's copyrighted material in your work. | 10/7/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean3: Jeremy Keith on Everything Web | Jeremy Keith joins Jen to talk about Mobilewood, future-friendlying websites, responsive design techniques, digital preservation, html5 semantics, Firefox 7, and much more. | 9/28/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean2: Ethan Marcotte on Responsive Web | Ethan Marcotte joins Jen Simmons for a conversation about responsive web design, tools, the process of designing a web site, mobile first, what the future may hold and more. | 9/19/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean1: Peter Lubbers on HTML5 | HTML5 expert Peter Lubbers joins Jen Simmons on the inaugural episode of The Web Ahead to talk about what the heck HTML5, web apps, local storage, offline caching, and web databases are. | 9/12/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
One of the best web design podcasts out there.
Jen is a fantastic interviewer, you can tell she has really done her homework before the show. She asks questions that lead her guests into what they enjoy talking about. The end result is a conversation that is very natural and digs really deep into the show's topic.
Returning 5by5 To Its Roots
The range, depth, and quality of the whole 5by5 arsenal is impressive. My only one yearning as 5by5 exploded in popularity and offerings is that it no longer really had a podcast that focussed on the roots of what got it started - Web Development. Enter "The Web Ahead".
When you can list guests like Ethan Marcotte and Jeremy Keith in your first 3 shows you know the show's content is high quality. Its host, Jen Simmons, is respected, knowledgeable and just downright good company to sit (drive,walk, whatever) and listen to the stuff that web developers love.
My new favorite informative podcast
I haven't heard Jen's other podcasts, but this one is off to a terrific start! I found the first episode so interesting that I ordered the guest's html5 book right away.
Jen seems to be a genius at asking great questions and illustrating them with real world down to earth examples. She really helped me understand what the problems are, and how these new tools can address them. I've been working at a pretty basic level building websites and web apps. I'm optimistic that Jen and her guests can help me get to the next level.
It also doesn't hurt that Jen sounds like a great person. I enjoyed her "company" via the podcast!
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