Keir Whitaker and Elliot Jay Stocks of Viewport Industries explore some key considerations for making the jump from client work to running your own show

Eric Bidelman, senior developer programs engineer on the Google Chrome team, presents some practical uses of what's possible with HTML5 and CSS3 today, including the CSS Flexible Box Layout Module and the HTML5 Filesystem API

This month, Mark Penfold's round-up of the best new tools ranges from cutting-edge experiments to down-to-earth utilities. Give them a try: they're all free

Site Search Analytics (SSA) can help make your site easier to navigate. In this exclusive excerpt from his book, Search Analytics For Your Site, Louis Rosenfeld explains how

There’s a brand new way of making web apps interoperable … or there will be, if everyone can agree how it needs to be done. Richard Cobbett reports

Keith Butters, chief experience officer and co-founder of The Barbarian Group, examines the future for professional creative coding and comes up with five things we can do to move it forward

Until browser technology catches up with desktop publishing software, web typography is reviving techniques that we thought OpenType and DTP software had rendered obsolete. Anthony Noel, editor of Webfonts.info, explains

They may be a small part of site design, but buttons are important. So, says Gene Crawford, you should ensure they’re perfectly formed

Even free alternatives to Google's mapping API provide significant advantages. Wm Leler expands your mapping horizons by helping you pick the APIs that are right for your application