Writing titles for articles that are all at once pithy, witty, informative, and memorable, is pretty difficult, to the point of bordering on the impossible, but it’s something that well known and established writers also stuggle with.
I’ve seen some jaw-droppingly awful titles, often from very gifted writers. And I’m not just talking about my [...]

Do newspaper feature articles lose focus as a result being in-depth? While online reporting tends to be to the point and reasonably succinct, are the traditionally longer newspaper articles turning off readers?
One reason seekers of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s that newspaper articles [...]

The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia… I’m not sure exactly how their “interesting-ness” level was ascertained (number of reads?), but there are some… interesting titles.
Also 50 more of Wikipedia’s most interesting articles.

Former newspaper journalist Cathy Curtis explains how the web turned her into a better writer. If you can write in a way that draws the attention of a website reader then that is certain to make you a better writer overall.
Web users tend to scan information rather than reading it closely. One reason is physiological. [...]

This is sad news, Digital Web Magazine has decided to cease publishing.
It doesn’t make sense to take what we have here and try to change it into something it is not. It makes more sense to simply start something else that is new. For this reason I feel that Digital Web Magazine will always be [...]

For all your design needs: The Grid System.
Made popular by the International Typographic Style movement and pioneered by legends like Josef Müller-Brockmann and Wim Crouwel, the grid is the foundation of any solid design. The Grid System is an ever-growing resource where graphic designers can learn about grid systems, the golden ratio and baseline grids.

Now in its fourth year, 24 ways, an online “advent calendar” returns for 2008, and will gift to you 24 articles and tutorials, written by web professionals and geeks, each day until Christmas Eve.
24 ways is the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and [...]

Webmonkey is back!
This used to be one of my first reference points when I was learning about web design back in the day. It was here I learnt about using CSS for layout (in 1998), and a bunch of what were then very cool Dynamic HTML (DHTML) gimmicks.
Webmonkey has been around the houses a little [...]

Happy 12th birthday digital-web.com!
Digital Web Magazine marks 12 years online today, and has been on my bookmark list since I discovered it sometime in the late 1990s.
Many happy returns to Nick Finck and the Digital Web Magazine crew. :)
Way back in 1996 we registered the domain and over the years it took shape to [...]

Getting Started with Ruby on Rails, by Dan Benjamin of Hivelogic.
To me the term “Ruby on Rails” so far has just been a… term. I totally suck at programming, but this article makes the prospect of learning Ruby on Rails look somewhat possible :)
I hope that this gentle introduction to Rails answers a few [...]