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  • Find the perfect colour for your website

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    Find the perfect colour for your website

    How to use colour to enhance the appeal and usability of your website

    14 Jul 2011

    Colour communicates meaning and our own assumptions can often be wrong as colours have different meanings in different cultures. Cindy Li of Yahoo Applications explains how to use colour to enhance the appeal and usability of your website while ensuring it remains accessible
  • The top 10 open source web fonts

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    The top 10 open source web fonts

    Micah Rich rounds up the best open source fonts

    12 Jul 2011

    Micah Rich, co-founder of The League of Moveable Type, rounds up the best open source fonts for web design and explains how you can contribute. He looks at the precursors to the @font-face revolution, Google Web Fonts and fonts from the League
  • How to use AB testing, eye tracking and Website Optimizer

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    How to use AB testing, eye tracking and Website Optimizer

    How Nomensa used A/B testing to decide between grid or list view

    8 Jul 2011

    By Alastair Campbell on | 3 comments
    What’s the best way to present content: a grid or list view? Alastair Campbell explains how Nomensa used A/B testing, eye tracking, Google Analytics and Website Optimizer to help the .net team decide for the launch of www.netmagazine.com
  • How to run an effective meeting

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    How to run an effective meeting

    Kevin M Hoffman explains how to make meetings more produtive

    7 Jul 2011

    By Kevin M Hoffman on
    Happy Cog's user experience director Kevin M Hoffman discusses the three types of meetings and how to make them more effective and engaging - or even get rid of some altogether
  • The three pillars of ecommerce design

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    The three pillars of ecommerce design

    How to improve the checkout, product pages and customer relations

    4 Jul 2011

    Actinic Software's CEO Ben Dyer looks at a number of best practice tips and advice for ecommerce merchants, designers and implementers in the areas of the checkout, product pages and customer relations
  • The do's and don'ts of Flash

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    The do's and don'ts of Flash

    Firstborn's Zeh Fernando rounds up the do's and don'ts of Flash

    1 Jul 2011

    By Zeh Fernando on
    Zeh Fernando, senior developer at Firstborn, rounds up the ultimate do's and don'ts of Flash to explain how we can improve our workflow to create powerful, rich online experiences more efficiently
  • The five rules of Facebook marketing

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    The five rules of Facebook marketing

    The rules you need to know to grow your brand on Facebook

    29 Jun 2011

    Marcus Whitney, co-founder of social commerce platform Moontoast, lists the rules you need to know to grow your brand on Facebook, look after your fanbase and make some money along the way
  • Progressive enhancement demystified

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    Progressive enhancement demystified

    Aaron Gustafson explains what progressive enhancement really means

    28 Jun 2011

    By Aaron Gustafson on | 1 comment
    In Chapter 1 of his much acclaimed book, Adaptive Web Design, Aaron Gustafson explains what progressive enhancement really means, how it works and what it's got to do with the Galapagos finches and peanut M&Ms. Think of the user, not the browser!

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    Five killer ways to use fixed navigation

    Examples to help you choose whether to fix, or not to fix your nav

    27 Jun 2011

    When it comes to navigation on your site, one of the major questions you're likely to ask yourself is whether to fix, or not to fix. Matthew Smith looks at five top examples of fixed nav systems
  • Top 10 apps for Glastonbury Festival 2011

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    Top 10 apps for Glastonbury Festival 2011

    Keep your finger on the pulse with these apps for festival lovers

    23 Jun 2011

    By Oliver Lindberg on
    Keep your finger on the pulse with these web and mobile apps for festival lovers
  • Discover the F12 developer tools in IE9

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    Discover the F12 developer tools in IE9

    Hack your way through site issues with Microsoft's developer toolkit

    23 Jun 2011

    By Katrien De Graeve on | 4 comments
    Katrien De Graeve, developer evangelist for Microsoft, explains how the F12 developer tools in Internet Explorer 9 make it a lot easier to hack your way through website issues
  • Big question: what do you think about portfolio platforms?

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    Big question: what do you think about portfolio platforms?

    Is it wrong to use an ‘off the rack’ platform like Behance?

    21 Jun 2011

    By Oliver Lindberg on | 4 comments
    Sites such as Behance, Carbonmade and Cargo offer great virtual spaces for creatives to display their work – but is it wrong to use an ‘off the rack’ platform? We ask our panel of experts
  • 20 WebGL sites that will blow your mind

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    20 WebGL sites that will blow your mind

    Giles Thomas rounds up 20 of the best WebGL sites so far

    20 Jun 2011

    By Giles Thomas on
    WebGL, released earlier this year, is the new standard for high-quality 3D graphics in web pages. Giles Thomas of LearningWebGL.com rounds up 20 of the best sites so far
  • 15 surefire ways to speed up your site

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    15 surefire ways to speed up your site

    Sam Quayle rounds up the techniques to use to improve page loading

    15 Jun 2011

    Sam Quayle considers new developments, tools and, most importantly, the techniques you can use to improve page loading times and grasp your users’s diminishing attention
  • Reinventing web design training

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    Reinventing web design training

    How Mark Boulton Design recruited a web design apprentice

    13 Jun 2011

    Emma Boulton explains how and why Mark Boulton Design recruited a web design apprentice and what YOU can do to develop your team
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