11 Line of best fit

Where is the focus? The here and now reality of what we should aim to achieve… wipe the slate clean and in simple terms map out the techniques, the version numbers and best practice policies for intermediate enthusiasts to follow. And let us not pander to the pretensions of the orbiting geeks; a straight line guide, plumb for best result not purity nor political correctness.

posted at 05:37 pm on September 19, 2006 by mike shopping

12 I'm a recently aquired reader

To all at ALA, thank you for providing such good information regarding all aspects of the web. I enjoy your articles because they are fun, they are well written and I always learn something.
It’s amazing how we’ve all progressed in the last few years :-)

posted at 03:50 pm on September 22, 2006 by Andrew Chilton

13 Excellent Summary

Working on the design of my new website, this bunch of articles gave me great ideas to start making the site theme.

Like others said, please make a book.

Thanks

posted at 08:40 pm on September 22, 2006 by Andres Ramirez

14 Great Work

As always ALA again puts out great free information worth reading I am so glad that you have this blog up and running and do not charge for reading the posts.Can not wait to put this article to work!

posted at 01:51 pm on September 25, 2006 by Jessica Landy

15 Link Hub

Great compilation of the ALA greats. Many bloggers are doing this also. Well, either that or they create a book (Seth Godin, 37Signals, Joel Spolsky)

posted at 06:34 am on October 1, 2006 by Student Organization Guy

16 quick typo

In the page layout and design section the last line reads “For those of us who err on the side of obsessive compulsive, is was a good thing.”

I think you meant to say “..this was a good thing.”

posted at 09:12 am on October 8, 2006 by Nathan Friedly

17 Exactly what I needed

I am a graphic designer that has been trying to break into web. When I do something I like to do it the “right” way so consequently before I wanted to delve too deeply into designing websites I wanted to do some serious reading to make sure I am in the right place. I have read various articles on ALA and been to a few conferences picking up bits and pieces here and there. But this article is exactly what I was looking for. I considered started with the ALA archives and reading from oldest to newest but I wasn’t sure what information would be outdated by now.

As far as everyone’s request to make it into a book, I agree. But I am not very patient so I printed it myself. I printed the initial article along with all of the recommended reading – its comes to 148 pages if anyone is curious. So looks like I have got a lot of reading to do.

Thank you.

posted at 12:43 am on October 13, 2006 by Elysa Rice

18 sophisticated compilation

A very good and sophisticated compilation. I absolutely with agree you, the design working of my new website. Thank you!

posted at 08:42 am on December 26, 2006 by Alan Buses