If an App Is Your Content Strategy, You Are Doomed

Bloomberg takes a look at newspapers and magazines that considered the iPad their savior.

Storyboarding iPad Transitions

Greg Nudelman walks through the amazing detail of iPad (and iPhone) animations and shares his thoughts on how to document their design for developers.

How To Build A Mobile Website

This deep dive from Smashing Magazine includes a lot of often-overlooked details of implementing a mobile website.

Progressive Signup: A Better User Signup Process

QuietWrite segments their users by step of the sign-up process to provide a low-effort account creation flow.

This Shell by the Gamits

Similar to what the Arcade Fire did a while back with incorporating video and HTML5, this hit the webs recently. It was created by some very cool folks at Legwork Studios as well as the Denver band, The Gamits.

Controlling text size in Safari for iOS without disabling user zoom

456 Berea Street takes a look at the intricacies of text scaling and orientation changes on iOS.

iOS Icons Made in Pure CSS

A stunning collection of iOS icon replications made purely with CSS. Be sure to use a webkit browser to check these out.

Learn HTML5, JavaScript and CSS With Mozilla’s Free “School of Webcraft”

Mashable runs down Mozilla’s expansion of their School of Webcraft to 30 classes.

Five UX antipatterns to avoid when designing Log-in & Registration areas

Harry Brignull uses real-world examples to remind us what NOT to do when designing log-in and registration flows.

Apple engineer re-creates ancient computer with Legos

I remember using a computer to control Lego models back in school. Now the computer itself is made of Legos!

Mies van der Rohe Society

An appropriately stunning website for one of history’s greatest designers.

Telescopic Text

A new take on “progressive reveal”.

iPhone and iPad now support TrueType font embedding. This is huge.

Jeffery Zeldman offers a quick run-down on TrueType support in iOS 4.2.

Elsewhere in the iOS Fonts world…

iOS Fonts tries to maintain a list of the fonts supported on the iPhone and iPad.

Google and Microsoft cheat on Slow-Start. Should you?

Ben Strong provides some interesting investigation on how Microsoft, Google and others violate RFC-3390 to decrease page load time.

Editorial SEO: Get an introduction and best practices.

An overview of SEO tactics for writers and editors by Rob Flaherty.

Farbzauber

Fun JavaScript technique for creating coloring book versions of your image.

Why professional logo design does not cost $5.

Jacob Cass explores what kind of logo you can get at what cost.

Design for content management systems.

Smashing Magazine offers some tips on optimizing your website design for a content management system.

Find your way with static maps.

Guidance from 24 Ways on implementing static maps using the same techniques you use for dynamic maps (and why you might want to do such a thing).

University websites do it all.

Based on our experience in the higher-education space, XKCD hit close to home.

Review the history of CSS Resets.

It doesn’t seem like CSS Resets have been around that long, but Michael Tuck starts a three-part series on them with a great history.

Ben the Bodyguard brings news.

Awesome site introducing a forthcoming app for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Chrome 7 overtakes IE7 to become the world’s third most-used browser.

Sitepoint’s latest data shows that Chrome is rapidly gaining usage.

Firefox Live streams warm fuzzies.

Finishing up with the cutest additions to the Web community this week, courtesy of the Mozilla Foundation.

HTML5-compatible video on the Web, October 2010: http://blog.mefeedia.com/html5-oct-2010

Preview of Adobe’s Edge prototype tool for HTML5: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/preview-of-the-edge-prototype-tool-for-html5-/

Need a lot of GUIDs fast? Online GUID Generator: http://www.guidgenerator.com/online-guid-generator.aspx

Smashing Magazine’s Review of popular Web font embedding services: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/20/review-of-popular-web-font-embedding-services/

High-level overview of JavaScript frameworks from Luke W: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1220

Replicating iOS pagination with JavaScript for iPad: http://insideria.com/2010/10/replicate-the-ios-pagination-w.html

UX Matters’ take on Designing for Different Screen Sizes: http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2010/10/going-mobile-designing-for-different-screen-sizes-promoting-your-mobile-app.php

iScroll – provide content scrolling inside a fixed-size element in iOS: http://cubiq.org/iscroll

Detailed, step-by-step write-up on developing for Android: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/25/get-started-developing-for-android-with-eclipse/

For nearly a decade, Flash grew on the web to a point of near pervasiveness. It offered itself as a plug-in for every major browser and every major platform. It even came pre-installed in a lot of situations. Flash came as close to a “standard” as any proprietary technology on the web ever had. Then came the iPhone and the first hints that there was another (better?) way. More…