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2011 in review: 10 killer YouTube campaigns

The Viral Factory's Matt Smith rounds up the best viral videos

21 Dec 2011

By Matt Smith on December 21, 2011 | 1 comment

Matt Smith, co-founder and director of strategy at The Viral Factory, rounds up 10 of the best social marketing videos of the year. Sit back and enjoy!
Feature

Create the perfect favicon

We present an exclusive expert from The Icon Handbook by Jon Hicks

20 Dec 2011

By Jon Hicks on December 20, 2011 | 3 comments

Today Jon Hicks' much anticipated Icon Handbook, published by Five Simple Steps, is going on sale. We present an exclusive excerpt on creating favicons
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2011 in review: 20 sites that pushed JavaScript to the limit

Web developer Phil Hawksworth looks at exciting uses of JavaScript

20 Dec 2011

By Phil Hawksworth on December 20, 2011 | 5 comments

2011 has been another fascinating year for those of us who build things for the browser. Here web developer Phil Hawksworth looks at some exciting and ambitious uses of JavaScript on the web
Feature

Mobilise your website

Kristofer Layon explains how you can take mobile baby steps

19 Dec 2011

By Kristofer Layon on December 19, 2011

When trying mobile design for the first time, not everyone has the time and resources to build a new mobile site or begin with a mobile first redesign. Kristofer Layon, author of the upcoming book Mobilizing Web Sites, explains how you can take mobile baby steps to design a decent mobile presentation for an existing site
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2011 in review: 20 HTML5 sites that changed the game

Oli Studholme runs through his top 20 HTML sites of 2011

19 Dec 2011

By Oli Studholme on December 19, 2011 | 2 comments

This year HTML5 truly rocked. Oli Studholme, one of the HTML5 Doctors, runs through 20 of the best sites and covers semantics, audio, client-side web apps, canvas as well as SVG and WebGL and looks ahead to the future
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The .net strip #10: CSS ninjas

Brad Colbow ponders the topic of CSS ninjas

16 Dec 2011

By Brad Colbow on December 16, 2011

Web designer Brad Colbow creates an exclusive weekly webcomic for .net magazine. This week he ponders the topic of CSS ninjas...
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Eight ways to prepare your business for 2012

Eight things you need to do to prepare for the end of the year

16 Dec 2011

By Mike Kapetanovic on December 16, 2011 | 3 comments

Mike Kapetanovic, founder of Reef Light Interactive, lists eight things freelancers and agencies should do to prepare for the end of the year and ring in the new one
Tutorial

Create progressively enhanced 3D CSS rollovers

Christian Heilmann on progressively enhancing CSS rollovers

15 Dec 2011

By Christian Heilmann on December 15, 2011 | 4 comments

Christian Heilmann, principal evangelist for HTML5 and the open web at Mozilla, explains how to progressively enhance CSS rollover effects into the 3D space
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2011 in review: 15 web conference talks you need to watch

Lanyrd's Simon Willison presents 15 of the best tech conference talks

15 Dec 2011

By Simon Willison on December 15, 2011

Technology conferences increasingly release videos of their presentations online. Simon Willison, the co-founder and CEO of Lanyrd, presents 15 of the best of 2011
Interview

Seb Lee-Delisle on creative coding

Seb Lee-Delisle chats about the year creative JavaScript went crazy

14 Dec 2011

By Oliver Lindberg on December 14, 2011

It's been a packed year for creative coder, speaker and teacher Seb Lee-Delisle. In our 2011 in review series he chats to Oliver Lindberg about creative JavaScript, WebGL, HTML5, Flash and synchronising 250 phones
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2011 in review: 20 sites that took 3D to the next level

HelloEnjoy's Carlos Ulloa looks at his favourite 3D sites of the year

14 Dec 2011

By Carlos Ulloa on December 14, 2011 | 3 comments

3D on the web really came into its own this year. Here HelloEnjoy's interactive director Carlos Ulloa compiles 20 of the best 3D websites of 2011 and shows us some of his own projects to boot
Blog

The app trap

Could apps be taking us back to the days of “best viewed with ..."?

13 Dec 2011

By Gary Marshall on December 13, 2011 | 4 comments

Could smartphone apps be taking us back to the days of “best viewed with ... ”? Gary Marshall makes his prediction
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2011 in review: the year's best Flash sites

Paul Wyatt rounds up his top 20 Flash sites of the year

13 Dec 2011

By Paul Wyatt on December 13, 2011 | 6 comments

In 2011 Flash fought back with a vengeance and produced some jaw dropping, slightly freaky, creatively brilliant and downright fantastically odd websites. Paul Wyatt rounds up this year's very best Flash sites
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Agile: the next step

Thoughtworks' Jim Highsmith reflects on 10 years of Agile development

12 Dec 2011

By Jim Highsmith on December 12, 2011

Jim Highsmith, one of the co-authors of the Agile manifesto, reflects on 10 years of Agile development and examines how it can keep moving forward as a movement
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2011 in review: 20 CSS sites that rocked!

Peter Gasston looks back at his favourite CSS sites of the year

12 Dec 2011

By Peter Gasston on December 12, 2011

2011 was packed with media queries, standards-based animations and selectors, but what were the best CSS sites of the year? Web developer Peter Gasston, the author of The Book of CSS3, looks back at his favourites