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Treehouse magazine launches
Today, the guys at Particletree launched Treehouse, their new PDF-format magazine about web development, and I’ve got an article in it! How cool is that?
About Treehouse
In the words of the estimable Kevin Hale:
[Treehouse] aims to provide web designers, programmers and entrepreneurs a creative home base and outlet for the latest news, trends and techniques in the web development community.
It fits in nicely amid the multitude of blogs, the dedicated web publications like A List Apart and Digital Web, and the virtually nonexistent market of print magazines that cover web design and development. The guys at Particletree have done a great job developing, managing and producing the publication. And if the inaugural issue is any indication, this is really something to look forward to.
As for Particletree themselves — wow, what a bunch. They’ve recently gone full-time publishing their web site and Treehouse, as well as developing some type of super-duper-top-secret software products. I look forward to seeing how they develop the business.
My contribution
Lately I’ve tried to return to basics when it comes to my work. In some ways, I think the web design community (at least the folks I know) is a bit obsessed with trends, hype, and hot technologies. Most of these have value, but it’s difficult to find people talking about design much anymore. (One notable exception is Mark Boulton, who’s published an incomparable series of articles about design over the past few months.)
So when Kevin approached me about writing, I wanted to talk about design. Not XHTML, not CSS, not Ajax, not usability, not accessibility — but design.
At the time, I had been reading Tog on Interface, which got me thinking (in more ways than one). The ideas and principles that Tog and his peers pioneered are timeless, so why not apply those to the work we’re doing on the web today?
So I wrote about that. I’m hoping it turned out well. Thanks to the generosity of Particletree, this first issue is totally free (a great value, by the way), so take a look and let me know what you think.