Principal - Easy! Designs, LLC
After getting hooked on the web in 1996 and spending several years pushing pixels and bits for the likes of IBM and Konica Minolta, AARON GUSTAFSON founded Easy! Designs, LLC, a boutique web consultancy. Aaron is a member of The Web Standards Project (WaSP), serves as Technical Editor for A List Apart, is a contributing writer for Digital Web Magazine and MSDN, and has amassed a library of writing and editing credits in the print world, including AdvancED DOM Scripting (Friends of Ed, 2007) and Web Design in a Nutshell (3rd Edition, O'Reilly). In addition toappearing at Rich Web Experience, Aaron is a regular on the web conference circuit and is frequently called upon to provide web standards and JavaScript training in both the public and private sector. He blogs at easy-reader.net.
Photo by Cindy Li.
Presentations by Aaron Gustafson
Ruining the User Experience
When JavaScript and Ajax go bad, your users aren't the only ones who lose out... Every descision we make in the process of building our websites, applications, and interfaces contributes to the overall experience a user has. Sometimes, in our rush to ride the latest wave in interaction design, we miss the mark and end up doing more harm than good.Learning to Love Forms
In this session, we will explore forms from top to bottom, examining how they work and how their components can be incorporated with other elements to maximize accessibility, improve semantics, and allow for more flexible styling.Books by Aaron Gustafson
by Jeffrey Sambells, Aaron Gustafson
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As a web designer or developer, you know how powerful DOM scripting is for enhancing web pages and applications, adding dynamic functionality and improving the user experience. You've got a reasonable understanding of JavaScript and the DOM, but now you want to take your skills further. This book is all you need to do soit shows you how to add essential functionality to your web pages, such as on the fly layout and style changes, interface personalization, maps and search using APIs, visual effects using JavaScript libraries, and much more.
- Includes a quick recap of the basics, for reference purposes.
- Packed with real world JavaScript solutions from beginning to end
- Written by "Beginning Google Maps" author Jeffrey Sambells, and includes a case study by JavaScript guru Aaron Gustafson.
- Available At: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590598563?ie=UTF8&tag=easy..
by Jonathan Snook, Aaron Gustafson, Stuart Langridge, Dan Webb
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If youre a web developer with previous JavaScript and DOM scripting experience, Pro DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries is perfect for you to take your knowledge up to the next level, with coverage of the latest techniques and real-world practical projects to help you learn by example.
- The first part of the book focuses on methodology and technologies for rapid development with JavaScript, including OOP and events, but also Ajax frameworks and JavaScript libraries.
- The second part of the book includes three complete projects for you to learn from: form validation, mashups, and UI design.
- All the example code in the book is built around the modern scripting principles of progressive enhancement and unobtrusive scripting, with usability and accessibility always in mind.
- Available At: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590597648?ie=UTF8&tag=easy..
by Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Tantek Celik, Derek Featherstone, Aaron Gustafson
- I had the pleasure of contributing 3 chapters to Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition, on the topics of CSS Hacks, Filters & Workarounds, JavaScript and the DOM. In the interest of providing a true "desktop reference," the chapters are short and to-the-point, highlighting many of the issues with (and practical applications of) the technologies we, as web professionals, work with every day. That said, I tried to keep these chapters both engaging and informative.
- Available At: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596009879?ie=UTF8&tag=easy..
Easy Reader
Random musings from the Easy Designs team.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Aaron Gustafson posted a photo:
One of my photos from the Royal Ontario Museum found a home on Wikipedia.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
- Tipr makes MakeUseOf.com's Top 10 Twitter bots
Twitter is a great tool that helps you keep in touch and meet a wide variety of new people. Since its release there have been people who think Twitter is
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