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Big question: what’s the best way to stand out from the crowd?

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Redesign your portfolio site in 10 easy steps

Grace Smith explains the steps to successfully redesign your portfolio

6 Oct 2011

By Grace Smith on October 06, 2011 | 14 comments

Designing for yourself is one of the toughest tasks for a web designer. Grace Smith rounds up 10 vital steps you need to take to pave the way for a successful redesign of your portfolio site
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How to find better clients

Carl Smith argues how the client service model needs to evolve

4 Oct 2011

By Carl Smith on October 04, 2011 | 1 comment

Long live client services! Carl Smith, founding member of nGen Works, answers Khoi Vinh's post calling for the end of the client services model, explains how it has to evolve and how we can find better clients
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Earn money in your sleep!

Adii Pienaar explains how to create your own passive income stream

29 Sep 2011

By Adii Pienaar on September 29, 2011 | 2 comments

It’s every web designer and developer’s dream: a passive income stream that generates cash all by itself. Adii Pienaar explains how to create one of your own
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Top 10 tips for naming your app

What’s in a name? Everything, says Dan Rose

28 Sep 2011

By Dan Rose on September 28, 2011 | 3 comments

Want to make a fortune from your app? Dan Rose explains how picking the right name can make all the difference
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10 amazing Android development tips

Make the most of your dev time with Kevin McDonagh's esssential tips

26 Sep 2011

By Kevin McDonagh on September 26, 2011 | 1 comment

Android promises many exciting opportunities. Kevin McDonagh, director of Android development consultancy Novoda, rounds up 10 essential tips that will help you make the most of your development time
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.net Awards 2011: the 10 sites of the year

We profile the top 10 websites of the year as nominated by you

23 Sep 2011

By Oliver Lindberg on September 23, 2011

In the last of our .net Awards 2011 profiles, we showcase the 10 websites of the year that you have nominated. They all are rich in visual flair and imagination but which one really pushed the boundaries of the web this year?
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Five killer ways to integrate social sharing

Matthew Smith on how to integrate social networking into your sites

21 Sep 2011

By Matthew Smith on September 21, 2011 | 1 comment

Creating your own buttons to get people to Like or tweet your own or your client’s pages isn’t always an option. Matthew Smith takes a look at the right way to integrate social networking into your sites
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Prototyping in code

Alex Morris on how to build prototyping into your workflow

21 Sep 2011

By Alex Morris on September 21, 2011 | 3 comments

Alex Morris, user experience director at Mark Boulton Design, walks us through some of the rationale, the tricks, the processes and techniques you can employ to build HTML prototyping into your workflow
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Exclusive preview of the hottest CSS specs

Divya Manian gives us the lowdown on 13 exciting CSS3 specs

19 Sep 2011

By Divya Manian on September 19, 2011 | 6 comments

Divya Manian, web opener for Opera Software, provides an exclusive look behind the CSS Working Group and the lowdown on 13 exciting CSS3 specs being discussed right now. If you want to know the future of CSS, read on!
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.net Awards 2011: top 10 podcasts

We profile the top web design/development podcasts as nominated by you

16 Sep 2011

By Oliver Lindberg on September 16, 2011

This week we profile the top 10 podcasts for web designers and developers that you have nominated in the .net Awards 2011. Which one's your favourite show?
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Run a WordPress site on the cloud (part 2)

How to set up and run a WordPress site on the cloud and more!

14 Sep 2011

By Dan Frost on September 14, 2011 | 2 comments

After part one’s introduction to cloud hosting, it’s time to step things up a notch. Now Dan Frost of 3EV (3ev.com) explains how to set up and run a WordPress site on the cloud, and looks at some advanced features to help improve your site’s performance
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How to build a killer mobile game

User Vision's Simon Duke and Mark Westwater on developing mobile games

14 Sep 2011

By Simon Duke on September 14, 2011

Simon Duke, senior UX consultant, and Mark Westwater, senior usability consultant of User Vision, explain some of the key constraints to gaming on a smartphone and highlight the key attributes of a successful game
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Big question: what do you think of Adobe Edge?

Our experts give us their opinion on web animation tool Adobe Edge

13 Sep 2011

By Oliver Lindberg on September 13, 2011 | 4 comments

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 …
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7 ways web conferences suck (and how to fix them)

Robert Hoekman Jr lists seven things wrong with web conferences

12 Sep 2011

By Robert Hoekman Jr on September 12, 2011 | 2 comments

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
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.net Awards 2011: top 10 developers

This week we profile the world's coding titans as nominated by you

9 Sep 2011

By Oliver Lindberg on September 09, 2011

This week we profile the world's coding titans as nominated by you. Who will be the Developer of the Year and take the much coveted trophy home?

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