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Ten

By Andy Clarke

Stuff and Nonsense is ten years old today.

23/12/08 24

(How to be a) Contract Killer

By Andy Clarke

24ways goes from strength to strength each year and I was so pleased when Drew McLellan asked me back to contribute again.

23/12/08

Guerilla venue switching

By Andy Clarke

What would you do if with only minutes until your guests arrive for your first workshop event, your venue suddenly becomes unavailable? Would you panic?

02/12/08 13

Only two weeks and a handful of places to go

By Andy Clarke

As I check off the days on my calendar, there are only two full weeks until our Visual Web Design Master Class in London on December 1st and only a handful of places still available.

17/11/08

Have a beer with Karl Marx

By Andy Clarke

Well not exactly. Herr Marx has been dead for 125 years, and anyway, I hear that he was often too poor to buy a round. Still, we think that we're showing solidarity to hold our Visual Web Design Master Class evening social in the beardy geezer's local boozer.

07/11/08 1

Watching the Watchmen

By Andy Clarke

If you attended An Event Apart in either Chicago or New Orleans, or @media in London this year, you might have seen Underpants Over My Trousers, my talk about how comic book design conventions and principles can influence web page design.

15/10/08 5

Win a copy of Inspired Design (DVD) and Transcending CSS

By Andy Clarke

I am really, really pleased that places on our Visual Web Design Master Class are selling fast. Book your place before 10th October 2008 and you could win a copy of Inspired Design (DVD) and Transcending CSS (book), together worth £68.00*.

01/10/08

The best conference schwag?

By Andy Clarke

Having spoken at almost twenty major conferences in the last few years, I've picked up a fair selection of schwag items and giveaways. Now that we are busy organizing our first For A Beautiful Web events, I'd love to know what the best shwag items you've received are.

08/09/08 20

Introducing For A Beautiful Web

By Andy Clarke

It's been on my mind for a while. In the last few years I've been one of the luckiest web designers on this planet (and probably others) because I've been asked to travel all over the world to talk about web design, CSS and even comic books. I love every minute of it.

01/09/08 8

From the people behind For A Beautiful Web and Stuff and Nonsense. You will find news about our events, links to sites and articles elsewhere that have inspired us, plus original articles and screencasts on the creative and technical sides of web site design and development by Andy Clarke and others.

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Transcending CSS (Book)

The web has changed, and so has the art of creating web sites. So how do creative designers learn to be artistic yet functional? With Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design.

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Inspired CSS (DVD)

In this new video, Andy Clarke follows up on the core principles from Transcending CSS, taking you even further along the path to creating beautiful and accessible web sites.

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