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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 .net strip #11: But it gets conversions

As long as it gets conversions, the client is happy, says Brad Colbow

23 Dec 2011

By Brad Colbow on December 23, 2011

Clients essentially don't care about what you do to their site, as long as it gets conversions, says Brad Colbow, the creator of our exclusive comic
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2011 in review: the most productive year in CSS?

Molly Holzschlag looks back at a year in the CSS Working Group

23 Dec 2011

By Molly Holzschlag on December 23, 2011 | 2 comments

Molly Holzschlag, standardista and open web evangelist, looks back at the work of the W3C’s CSS Working Group in 2011 and gives her thoughts on what's working and what's challenging
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2011 in review: the top five failed web launches

Susan Chadwick looks back at her top five web launch crashes

22 Dec 2011

By Susan Chadwick on December 22, 2011 | 3 comments

Susan Chadwick, co-founder of Edge Testing Solutions, looks back at her top five, well publicised web launch crashes and offers advice on how you can avoid the indignity of apologising to customers when your website falls over
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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!
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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 | 4 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
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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
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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
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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