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

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Content strategy 101, Part 3: put knowledge into action

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Facebook’s top 10 social design secrets

by Paul Adams

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Feature

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
Feature

The .net strip #9: Insert content here

This week our comic strip looks at the joys of building your own CMS

9 Dec 2011

By Brad Colbow on December 09, 2011

This week Brad Colbow's exclusive comic strip for netmagazine.com looks at the joys of building your own CMS
Feature

The future of shopping is social

Lynn Teo explores ideas for new social commerce apps

9 Dec 2011

By Lynn Teo on December 09, 2011

Lynn Teo, director and head of user experience at AKQA New York, explores ideas for new social commerce applications from an experience designer's perspective
Interview

Cameron Koczon on Gimme Bar

Cameron Koczon says you should own the content you collect

8 Dec 2011

By Tanya Combrinck on December 08, 2011

Gimme Bar enables you to save bits of the web instead of just bookmarking them. Founder Cameron Koczon tells Tanya Combrinck about the importance of owning the content you’ve collected
Tutorial

How to structure your CSS

Developer Mike Byrne explains how he structures his CSS and why

8 Dec 2011

By Mike Byrne on December 08, 2011 | 18 comments

Freelance interface and frontend developer Mike Byrne, also part of the Area 17 technical team, explains how he structures his CSS and why
Feature

The evolution of client services

Carl Smith argues that the current model of client services is dead

7 Dec 2011

By Carl Smith on December 07, 2011 | 4 comments

Carl Smith, founding member of nGen Works, argues that the current model of client services is dead and explains how it's evolving
Blog

Is Flash dead?

Aral Balkan welcomes Adobe's change of its mobile strategey

7 Dec 2011

By Aral Balkan on December 07, 2011 | 16 comments

Designer and developer Aral Balkan welcomes the change of Adobe's mobile strategy but argues that it's too late and that it spells the beginning of the end of Flash on the web
Feature

Big question: what has been your web design highlight of 2011?

The last year has brought a lot of changes to the web design industry

6 Dec 2011

By Oliver Lindberg on December 06, 2011

The last year has brought a lot of changes to the web design industry. Our experts discuss the best bits of 2011...
Tutorial

Build a login form for your mobile app with DHTMLX Touch

Alexandra Klenova on creating a login form for a mobile app

6 Dec 2011

By Alexandra Klenova on December 06, 2011 | 7 comments

In this introduction to open source JavaScript framework DHTMLX Touch web developer Alexandra Klenova explains how you can implement a login form for a mobile web app and send form values to the server with Ajax
Feature

10 steps to an engaging interactive user experience

Fi's director of UX helps you deliver a great user experience

5 Dec 2011

By Irene Pereyra on December 05, 2011 | 4 comments

Irene Pereyra, director of UX and strategy at digital agency Fantasy Interactive, rounds up 10 top tips to help you deliver an amazing interactive user experience
Feature

The .net strip #8: Your opinion is very important to us

Brad Colbow wonders whether things have got out of hand

2 Dec 2011

By Brad Colbow on December 02, 2011 | 1 comment

"Your opinion is very important to us." How often have you heard this phrase recently? In this installment of our exclusive comic Brad Colbow wonders whether things have got out of hand
Feature

Applying micro-level design criteria

Robert Hoekman Jr on how he established design criteria for Myspace

2 Dec 2011

By Robert Hoekman Jr on December 02, 2011

Writing micro-level design criteria for individual features can help you invent better solutions. In this example leading user experience specialist Robert Hoekman Jr explains how he established design criteria for Myspace and applied them
Feature

The .net Awards 2011: in pictures!

Twas the night the web design world went ROCK: check out our photos!

1 Dec 2011

By Tom May on December 01, 2011

Twas the night the web design world went ROCK: check out our exclusive photos!
Tutorial

Share your open source project via GitHub

Scott Chacon explains how to successfully interact with GitHub

1 Dec 2011

By Scott Chacon on December 01, 2011 | 1 comment

As GitHub brings the power of social networks to the open source coding community, Scott Chacon explains how to successfully interact with it
Interview

Gavin Elliott on web conferences

Gavin Elliott on DIBI and how his own Industry Conference will differ

30 Nov 2011

By Oliver Lindberg on November 30, 2011

Gavin Elliott, who ran the DIBI web conference for Codeworks, talks to Oliver Lindberg about why he has given it up, what he's learned and what we can expect from his own project, next year's Industry Conference