Last week, Adobe pushed out the second preview version of Edge, a web animation tool that generates the code for you. There’s been some controversy over its use of div-based animation instead of canvas or SVG, but Adobe wants us all to remember that this is just a taster …

Robert Hoekman Jr has been speaking at web conferences for six years now. Here he analyses seven things that are wrong with such events and comes up with a few ideas about how to fix them

On a gallery-style website, we tend to look over the whole view to see what suits our artistic palette. Digestible chunks of copy or images can be processed like a great tapas meal, argues Matthew Smith

Mozilla's Louis-Rémi Babé rounds up the best Firefox add-ons for web designers and developers and explains how to use them to learn more about HTML, CSS and JavaScript, add an FTP client to your browser and more

You hand your beautifully crafted code to a client, colleague or even CMS, and the next time you check in, it's all ruined. Front-end alchemist Scott Lenger explains how bad code happens to good people, why it matters, and the steps you can take to prevent it

As more and more graphic designers and illustrators gain web design skills, illustrations can increasingly be found on the web. UK designer Mike Kus showcases his 10 favourite examples of websites using illustration to enhance the user experience.

In the first of a special four-part series on cloud computing, brought to you by Europe's number one hosting provider OVH, Dan Frost of 3EV looks under the hood of the cloud environment and explains how to get started with launching an instance, cloud and configuration management

This new category in the .net Awards recognises the year's best online games, where timewasting is positively encouraged. Here we profile our shortlist compiled of your nominations. Let the game play begin!

Designers and developers share with Craig Grannell their tools for designing websites and demand something more in keeping with modern practices. The perfect tool, it seems, simply doesn't exist yet, as highlighted by the Project Meteor campaign