A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

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Authors: A: John Allsopp

John Allsopp

John Allsopp is lead developer of CSS Editor Style Master, co-founder of the Web Essentials conference series, WaSP CSS Samurai, and an old school curmudgeon. Sort of.

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A Dao of Web Design

Issue 58April 07, 2000

Web designers often bemoan the malleable nature of the web, which seems to defy our efforts at strict control over layout and typography. But maybe the problem is not the web. Maybe the problem is us. John Allsopp looks at web design through the prism of the Tao Te Ching, and decides that designers should let the web be the web.