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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

by Katie Moffat

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Don’t be afraid to undo previous work, argues designer

GOV.UK website retools and removes icon to better its design

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Paul Irish on awesomeness

Chrome developer advocate on making the web as compelling as possible

28 May 2013

By Martin Cooper on May 28, 2013

Frontend expert Paul Irish is on a mission to make the web as compelling as possible. Martin Cooper talks to Google’s Chrome developer advocate about maintaining motivation, the interaction paradigm and the shape of the web industry
Tutorial

Create modern CSS3 hover effects

A modern CSS3 hover effect with transitions, transforms and delays

28 May 2013

By Thomas Hardy on May 28, 2013 | 9 comments

Create a modern CSS3 hover effect by using CSS transitions, transforms and delays
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The top 10 realtime web apps

Phil Leggetter on the best uses of realtime web technologies

27 May 2013

By Phil Leggetter on May 27, 2013 | 2 comments

Phil Leggetter on the best uses of realtime web technologies
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The .net strip #36: Roger Federer

Brad Colbow on sales people and prestigious clients

24 May 2013

By Brad Colbow on May 24, 2013

Brad Colbow on sales people and prestigious clients
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Dawn of the living services

In the future our homes, and even our bodies, will be networked

24 May 2013

By Louisa Heinrich on May 24, 2013

In future, we won’t just access online services through computers and mobiles – our homes, and even our bodies, will be networked, creating new challenges for UX designers, predicts Louisa Heinrich
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10 tools to use instead of Fireworks

A farewell to Fireworks, and what to use in its place

23 May 2013

By Erik Boman on May 23, 2013 | 13 comments

Erik Boman says farewell to Fireworks and considers what you might like to use in its place
Tutorial

Write an app in AngularJS

Brian Ford explains how to use AngularJS to build a contact manager

23 May 2013

By Brian Ford on May 23, 2013 | 2 comments

The AngularJS framework greatly simplifies frontend development, making it easy and fun to write complex web apps. Brian Ford explains how to use it to build a contact manager
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The top 10 most-used PHP features

Carl Glaysher of Ecce Media rounds up his top PHP features

22 May 2013

By Carl Glaysher on May 22, 2013

Carl Glaysher of Ecce Media rounds up his top 10 most useful PHP functions, classes and features
Blog

Big Mouth: Play your cards right

Nice internet reputation; be a real shame if something happened to it…

22 May 2013

By Gary Marshall on May 22, 2013

That’s a nice internet reputation you’ve got there, observes Gary Marshall. It’d be a real shame if something happened to it…
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Big question: what’s the best way to stand out from the crowd?

Because doing your best at work and hoping people notice isn’t enough

21 May 2013

By Martin Cooper on May 21, 2013 | 1 comment

Doing your best at work and hoping people notice isn’t, sadly, enough. We asked: ”What’s your strategy for standing out from the crowd?”
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Google Glass: my one fear

Garrett Heath on how technology can remove us from the present

21 May 2013

By Garrett Heath on May 21, 2013

Garrett Heath on how technology can remove us from the present
Interview

Andy Hume on being a web person

How HTML5 will win over native apps in the future

20 May 2013

By Martin Cooper on May 20, 2013

Guardian News & Media client-side architect, Andy Hume, explains why he’s a web advocate and how HTML5 will win over native apps in the future
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Content strategy 101, Part 3: put knowledge into action

Why it pays to plan before embarking on any project

20 May 2013

By Sandi Wassmer on May 20, 2013

In the third of a four-part series, Sandi Wassmer argues that it pays to plan before embarking on any project
Tutorial

Design 100 objects at once in Photoshop

Dmitry Tsozia's trick for generating variants of an object or icon

17 May 2013

By Dmitry Tsozik on May 17, 2013

Having to manually apply the same features to near-identical elements can get tiresome. Fortunately, Dmitry Tsozik has a great trick for generating variants of an object or icon
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Five killer ways to use modular design

Break your site design into chunks for ease and reusability

16 May 2013

By Gene Crawford on May 16, 2013

Breaking website design into chunks will help your current project and enable you to reuse work in the future, says Gene Crawford