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Content strategy 101, Part 4: bringing your content to life

by Sandi Wassmer

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The top 10 realtime web apps

by Phil Leggetter

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Learn to code in a day

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The pro's guide to CSS layouts

Peter Gasston offers a snapshot of the future for CSS layouts

21 Jan 2013

By Peter Gasston on January 21, 2013

CSS’s next big challenge is to make flexible, dynamic page layouts that work across our ever-broadening range of devices. With solutions proposed and under discussion, Peter Gasston offers a snapshot of the future
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Five killer ways to use contingency

It’s important to plan for failure so that you’re able to fail well

21 Jan 2013

By Gene Crawford on January 21, 2013

It’s important to plan for failure so that you’re able to fail well, says Gene Crawford
Feature

The .net strip #28: Mobile run around

Brad Colbow on cumbersome and frustrating mobile experiences

18 Jan 2013

By Brad Colbow on January 18, 2013 | 2 comments

Brad Colbow on cumbersome and frustrating mobile experiences
Feature

Adaptable content

We present an exclusive excerpt of Content Everywhere

18 Jan 2013

By Sara Wachter-Boettcher on January 18, 2013 | 2 comments

Sara Wachter-Boettcher's book, Content Everywhere, went on sale just before the holidays. We present an exclusive excerpt that looks into creating content for responsive and adaptive experiences
Blog

Don't ever stop playing

Sometimes experimentation and play yield the best ideas

17 Jan 2013

By Ashley Nolan on January 17, 2013

Playing around with technologies that interest us, without a particular end in mind, can produce some of the best and most useful ideas, says Ashley Nolan
Tutorial

Getting CSS animations to trigger at the right time

Staggering full-site animations with CSS and JS using page scrolling

17 Jan 2013

By Karl Schellenberg on January 17, 2013 | 2 comments

Karl Schellenberg demonstrates how to stagger full-site animations with CSS3 and JavaScript through page scrolling
Interview

Rob Ford on showcasing the best of the web

The founder of the Favourite Website Awards spills the beans

16 Jan 2013

By Tanya Combrinck on January 16, 2013 | 2 comments

Founder of the Favourite Website Awards, Rob Ford spills the beans on hooking up with Adobe, how things have changed in the last 12 years – and whether beauty or technical prowess wins out
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Five search marketing trends in 2013

2013 search strategies: What can we expect to see more of next year?

16 Jan 2013

By Kelvin Newman on January 16, 2013 | 4 comments

Kelvin Newman, director at SiteVisibility, shares his top five trends for search marketing in 2013
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Responsive web design Zen gardening

Web designers need to put aside their differences, argues Rick Monro

15 Jan 2013

By Rick Monro on January 15, 2013 | 1 comment

In order for responsive web design to move forward, argues Rick Monro, designers must put aside their differences
Tutorial

Create drag and drop features in HTML5

Thomas Hardy demonstrates HTML5’s nifty Drag and Drop API

15 Jan 2013

By Thomas Hardy on January 15, 2013 | 2 comments

Thomas Hardy demonstrates HTML5’s nifty Drag and Drop API, which facilitates dragging and dropping elements natively within the browser
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Designing for success in 2013

The 2013 trends designers need to watch

14 Jan 2013

By Olof Schybergson on January 14, 2013 | 1 comment

Olof Schybergson, CEO, Fjord, explains how to design for business success in the coming year, citing trends designers need to watch
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The top 10 beginner programming mistakes

Game developer and lecturer Iain Lobb on the top pitfalls to avoid

14 Jan 2013

By Iain Lobb on January 14, 2013 | 6 comments

Game developer and lecturer Iain Lobb outlines the top 10 pitfalls that he sees beginners stumbling into time and again
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Big question: Baseline grid or modular scale?

We liked Branch's question, so we turned it over to our experts

10 Jan 2013

By Tanya Combrinck on January 10, 2013 | 1 comment

‘Baseline grid or modular scale? Both? Neither?’ enquired a recent thread on Branch. We liked the question – so we turned it over to our panel of experts
Tutorial

Build a basic responsive site with CSS

Jason Michael walks us through building a simple responsive site

10 Jan 2013

By Jason Michael on January 10, 2013 | 17 comments

Responsive design is much misunderstood. Jason Michael lays to rest some myths, and then walks us through building a simple responsive website
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New tools for web design and development: December 2012

Mark Penfold collates the best new tools of December

9 Jan 2013

By Mark Penfold on January 09, 2013 | 2 comments

Translate your InDesign comps into functioning web pages, try a new HTML5 game engine and check out the new version of Firebug. All this and more in Mark Penfold's latest round-up