Ask a Question, Win a Book!

Posted on July 21st, 2009 by jason

Over at Peachpit.com, my second blog entry is up, and it’s a good one:

Q: If I ask ten different web designers what pixel dimensions to use for web pages and whether to make them fixed-width or “stretchy,” I get ten different answers. What’s your answer, and why?

I’ll be answering one question a week as part of my new “Ask The Web Designer” series, which includes blog and (soon) video podcasts.

Want to win a copy of {sis}? Then Ask a Question.

Speaking in Styles

We are also going to be giving away copies of my new book, Speaking In Styles, every week to the person whose Question I answer (congrats to this week winner, Ed). All you have to do to enter is ask me a (good) Web design question. If yours is the one I pick to answer that week, then I’ll contact you to get your shipping info and sis-bam-boom book.

As The Smiths sang, “Ask me, ask me, ask me…” What should you ask me about? Let’s see. Here are a few thing I’m ready to talk about (in no particular order)…

Visual Design
Visual Communication
User Interaction Design
User Experience
Design Culture
Online Culture
Social Networking
CSS
HTML/XHTML
JavaScript
DHTML
Ajax
Web 2.0
Web 3.0 (Yes Virginia, It’s coming)
Search Engine Optimization
Typography
Information Architecture
Visual Aesthetics
Digital Strategy
Documentation
iPhone/Mobile
Web Standards
Information Presentation
Advertising/Marketing
Technologies
“Wish I had done that”
Photoshop/Illustrator and anything Adobe
Alternatives to Adobe
Color Theory
Special Effects
Project Management

… and any other Webby buzzwords you can think of!

I also plan to do a monthly “How the hell did they do that?” column. If you come across a particular technique while you surf hither and yon around this Web thingy and you don’t know “how the hell they did that,” send me the link and a description of the cool thing you are looking at (specifically). That way I don’t think you are looking at some other cool thing that you are not.

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