Jeffrey Zeldman interviews returning guest Sarah Parmenter (.net magazine designer of the year) about designing an app for the homeless; the challenges of multi-device design; teaching HTML and CSS to young people; designing an extremely high-profile multi-platform, multiple magazine newsreader app; the ideal number of employees for a small design studio; Brooklyn vs. Leigh-on-Sea; steeping yourself in platforms you don't use personally; her role as a judge in an upcoming British TV series about design and technology; the increasing complexity of digital design; comping, collaborative, and presentational tools and processes; and more.

Links for this episode:

• http://www.sazzy.co.uk/
  
• https://twitter.com/sazzy
  
• http://www.youknowwhodesign.com/
  
• http://dribbble.com/sarah
  
• http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow/44
  

This episode is sponsored by Shutterstock.com, where you’ll find over twenty million stock photos, vectors, illustrations, and video clips. Get 30% off any package using discount code bigwebshow11.

Author of four classic web design texts (in 13 editions) Jennifer Robbins (@jenville) chats with Jeffrey Zeldman about her upcoming Artifact Conference for multi-device design; why sites are now systems, not pages; how style guides can function as a system design description tool; getting digital UX design into its natural habitat (hint: not a comp) sooner than later; what's new in web design and the 4th Edition of Learning Web Design; and more.

Links for this episode:

• http://learningwebdesign.com/books.html
  
• https://twitter.com/artifactconf
  
• http://artifactconf.com/
  
• http://www.slideshare.net/JenRobbins/designers-and-code-and-workflows-and-stuff-14900090
  

This episode is sponsored by Shutterstock.com, where you’ll find over twenty million stock photos, vectors, illustrations, and video clips. Start your search at Shutterstock.com to find that perfect image for your website, ad, publication or any other creative project.

Evan Williams, co-founder of Blogger, Twitter, and Medium, discusses what it's like to be an internet entrepreneur with host Jeffrey Zeldman in Episode No. 75 of The Big Web Show.

Links for this episode:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Williams_(entrepreneur)
  
• http://evhead.com/
  
• http://twitter.com/ev
  
• http://twitter.com/
  
• http://medium.com
  
• http://blogger.com
  

Today's episode is sponsored by An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites. aneventapart.com

In Episode No. 74 of The Big Web Show, Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks, CodePen, and ShopTalk about the path from employee to media maven, upcoming secret features for CodePen, coping with Retina images, finding sponsors, the success of his Kickstarter campaign, tee shirts for manly men, Twitter dramas about baseline grids, and lots more.

Links for this episode:

• http://codepen.io
  
• http://css-tricks.com
  
• http://shoptalkshow.com
  
• http://jsfiddle.net
  
• http://www.realthread.com
  
• http://css-tricks.com/lodge/
  
• https://twitter.com/chriscoyier
  

This episode is sponsored by An Event Apart, the design conference for

In Episode No. 73 of The Big Web Show, Jeffrey Zeldman interviews content strategist and author of "Content Everywhere" (Rosenfeld Media, 2012) Sara Wachter-Boettcher (@sara_ann_marie) about how practitioners can organize and structure content to maximize its value, longevity, and future-friendliness.

Links for this episode:

• http://twitter.com/sara_ann_marie
  
• http://rfld.me/content-everywhere
  
• http://sarawb.com
  
• http://contentsmagazine.com
  
• http://unsuck-it.com
  
• http://content-science.com/clout-the-book
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Content-Strategy-Work-Real-world-Interactive/dp/0123919223
  
• http://www.abookapart.com/products/the-elements-of-content-strategy
  
• http://www.abookapart.com/products/content-strategy-for-mobile
  

This episode of The Big Web Show is brought to you by An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites. Dedicated to the proposition that the creators of great web experiences deserve a great learning experience, An Event Apart brings together twelve of the leading minds in web design for 3 days of non-stop inspiration and enlightenment. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference for you. Find out more at aneventapart.com.

With the return of the Big Web Show, this week Jeffrey Zeldman speaks with web pioneer Derek Powazek, Founder and CEO of Cute-Fight, the online game for real-life pets and the people who love them

Links for this episode:

• http://powazek.com
  
• http://powazek.com/about/
  
• https://twitter.com/fraying/
  
• http://cute-fight.com
  
• http://www.zeldman.com/2012/09/06/powazek/
  
• http://fertilemedium.com
  
• http://www.zeldman.com/15/derekf.html
  
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/fraying/
  

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In this episode, Jeffrey speaks with founding partner and CEO of Readability, Richard Ziade.

Links for this episode:

• https://www.readability.com/about
  
• http://blog.readability.com/2012/06/announcement/
  
• http://readlists.com/
  
• http://826valencia.org/
  
• http://www.knowbility.org/
  
• http://arc90.com/
  
• https://www.readability.com/policy-faq/
  
• https://twitter.com/#!/richziade
  

Sponsored by An Event Apart.

Jeffrey Zeldman speaks with Dan Benjamin about his career and life journey leading up to the creation of 5by5.

Links for this episode:

• Cork'd
  
• Playgrounder
  
• Dan's first broadcasting rig [photo]
  
• Dan's Bio
  
• Dan Benjamin on 5by5
  

In Episode No. 69 of The Big Web Show, Happy Cog creative director Chris Cashdollar (@ccashdollar) and Jeffrey Zeldman (@zeldman) discuss the joys and challenges of redesigning typography mega-site Fonts.com; nimble versus waterfall; process versus inspiration; running a creative department that is interactive in every sense of the word; the two sides of a design education (learning and teaching); fostering collaboration; and the transition from doodling eight-year-old to graphic design student to interactive creative director.

Christopher Cashdollar is a multi-disciplinary graphic designer with 12 years of interaction design experience. He is currently the Creative Director for Happy Cog Philadelphia, and an adjunct instructor for Drexel University's Westphal College of Media Arts and Design.

Links for this episode:

• Fonts.com Beta
  
• Articles by Chris Cashdollar
  
• Chris Cashdollar on Dribbble
  
• Happy Cog
  
• PhilaMade
  

Jeffrey Zeldman speaks with Tantek Çelik, web standards lead at Mozilla.

Links for this episode:

• "Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem
  
• Restyle W3C: Towards a More Usable Spec Template
  
• hCard 1.0 Specification
  
• The Vendor Prefix Predicament: ALA’s Eric Meyer Interviews Tantek Çelik
  
• Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need
  
• Mozilla WIKI
  
• Mozilla hires open-standards guru Celik
  
• Interview – Tantek on the importance of web standards
  
• Why IE5/Mac Matters
  
• BrowserID
  
• IndieWebCamp