A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 216

May 09, 2006

In this issue, we take a few steps back and reconsider a few common assumptions about the way we work.

The Four-Day Week Challenge

Constantly stressed out? Not enough hours in the day to get things done? Ryan Carson has a theory: your problem is too much work time, not too little.

Calling All Designers: Learn to Write!

You know all that copy that goes around your forms and in your confirmation e-mails? Who’s writing it? Derek Powazek explains why it’s important for user-interface designers to sharpen up their writing skills.

In our last issue, we promised to publish the second half of Niklas Bivald’s two-part series, Community Creators, Secure Your Code in issue 216. We were then eaten by bears. Our apologies for the delay; the second half of the article will be published in issue 217 instead.

Editor’s Choice

originally ran: July 15, 2001

Cheaper Over Better: Why Web Clients Settle for Less

Adam Schumacher investigates why clients hire bad web designers—and what good web designers can do about it.