A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 220

July 25, 2006

Never lose work again. Stay focused and inspired when trouble strikes. This issue is all about problems: avoiding the avoidable and coping with the rest.

I Wonder What This Button Does

We've all lost work to file overwrites and other minor disasters. There are remedies -- and as Mike West explains, you don't have to have awe-inspiring technical skills to take advantage of them.

Designing Through the Storm

As designers, we all face the inevitable slump. That point where our creativity stagnates and we find ourselves at a dead end. Walter Stevenson offers suggestions on staying productive and creative.

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Editor’s Choice

originally ran: November 23, 2001

Reading Design

With so many specialists working so hard at their craft, why are so many pages so hard to read? Unabashed text enthusiast Dean Allen thinks designers would benefit from approaching their work as being written rather than assembled.