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Tickets on sale for Generate, .net's first conference!

by Tanya Combrinck

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Content strategy 101, Part 3: put knowledge into action

by Sandi Wassmer

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Facebook’s top 10 social design secrets

by Paul Adams

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Designer says 'stop using Helvetica and Arial'

Instamojo co-founder thinks too many use typefaces without asking why

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Tutorial

Building a modern grid system

What it takes to create a grid system that will help us build faster

15 May 2012

By Jonathan Smiley on May 15, 2012 | 8 comments

ZURB's Jonathan Smiley looks at what it takes to create a grid system that will help us build faster, better and with an eye to the future
Blog

Designing for an infinite number of devices

How sustainable is it to design for an infinite number of devices?

14 May 2012

By Keith Butters on May 14, 2012 | 2 comments

Keith Butters, chief experience officer and co-founder of The Barbarian Group, asks how sustainable it is to design and develop for an infinite number of devices
Feature

20 leading web designers' desks for your inspiration

We've asked 20 pixel pushers to lift the curtain on their workstations

14 May 2012

By Oliver Lindberg on May 14, 2012 | 71 comments

Web designer desks can be very inspiring, so we've asked 20 leading pixel pushers to lift the curtain on their workstations
Feature

The .net strip #25: Time spent on a new social network

This week Brad Colbow looks at the realities of social networks

11 May 2012

By Brad Colbow on May 11, 2012 | 2 comments

This week Brad Colbow's comic strip, first exclusively published in the June issue (#228) of .net magazine, looks at the realities of social networks
Tutorial

Getting started with NFC on Android

We write a demo that both reads and writes custom data to an NFC tag

11 May 2012

By Richard Leggett on May 11, 2012 | 6 comments

Near Field Communication (NFC) enables wireless communication between things like phones, stickers and cards. In this tutorial Richard Leggett shows us how to write a game demo that both reads and writes custom data to an NFC tag
Blog

The importance of goal-driven data

Luis Freitas explores the current state of data gathering

10 May 2012

By Luis Freitas on May 10, 2012

Luis Spencer Freitas, digital marketing manager for Pernod Ricard Americas, explores the current state of data gathering and analyses its true use in an ever-expanding digital culture
Feature

Reduce your bounce rate

Keep visitors on your site longer once they’ve clicked through

10 May 2012

By David Deutsch on May 10, 2012 | 4 comments

How do you keep visitors on your site longer once they’ve clicked through from a search result? David Deutsch gives the lowdown
Interview

Chris Shiflett on Brooklyn Beta Summer Camp

A startup accelerator program for making "stuff that matters"

9 May 2012

By Tanya Combrinck on May 09, 2012

Chris Shiflett, co-founder of Analog, Mapalong, and the Brooklyn Beta conference, talks about a startup accelerator program for making "stuff that matters"
Tutorial

Getting started with RESS

This tutorial will teach you the basics of RESS

9 May 2012

By Anders M Andersen on May 09, 2012 | 6 comments

This tutorial will teach you the basics of RESS (Responsive Design + Server Side Components) and how you can build a responsive page that works well on small screens with the help of server side technologies
Blog

A separate mobile website: no forking way

Karen McGrane warns about the dangers of content forking

8 May 2012

By Karen McGrane on May 08, 2012 | 20 comments

Karen McGrane warns about the dangers of content forking and tells us that the problem responsive design is trying to solve is really a problem with the CMS
Feature

The top 8 web standards myths debunked

Lea Verou takes a look at common misconceptions about the W3C

8 May 2012

By Lea Verou on May 08, 2012 | 3 comments

Lea Verou takes a look at some of the misconceptions of web standards, what the W3C and its working groups actually do and how the standardisation process works
Blog

The age of mobile web apps dawns

Rob Chandhok on how the traditional web app environment is changing

4 May 2012

By Rob Chandhok on May 04, 2012 | 3 comments

Rob Chandhok of Qualcomm discusses the change in the traditional web apps environment and how the increased uptake of HTML5 will allow greater connectivity and an all-round improved end-user experience
Feature

Big question: how important is it to you to keep your clients happy?

Our experts respond to Paul Boag’s tweet about client-centric design

4 May 2012

By Tanya Combrinck on May 04, 2012 | 2 comments

Our experts respond to Paul Boag’s recent tweet: “@boagworld … We need to realign our thinking. Job satisfaction should come from producing design the client loves, not design we (or our peers) love.”
Tutorial

Create beautiful data visualisations with the SVG Google Charts API

David Smith explains how to create flexible SVG-based charts

3 May 2012

By David Smith on May 03, 2012 | 11 comments

Front end developer David Smith explains how to utilise the Google Charts API to create flexible HTML5/SVG-based charts that are visually appealing and work cross browser
Blog

The power of negative reviews

RPM community manager Zack King on turning a negative into a positive

2 May 2012

By Zack King on May 02, 2012 | 2 comments

Zack King, community manager at independent marketing agency RPM, argues that negative reviews are an opportunity that businesses must embrace, for if they don’t, they may lose control completely