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How to find better clients

Carl Smith argues how the client service model needs to evolve

4 Oct 2011

By Carl Smith on October 04, 2011 | 1 comment

Long live client services! Carl Smith, founding member of nGen Works, answers Khoi Vinh's post calling for the end of the client services model, explains how it has to evolve and how we can find better clients
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Responsive web design is boring!

Jonathan Longnecker argues that most responsive sites are boring

3 Oct 2011

By Jonathan Longnecker on October 03, 2011 | 24 comments

Jonathan Longnecker, co-founder of web and graphic design agency FortySeven Media, argues that most responsive sites are boring and comes up with a few starting points to help us create designs that break the mould
Tutorial

Build a Tweet map with SVG

Divya Manian explains how to create and manipulate map data

30 Sep 2011

By Divya Manian on September 30, 2011 | 1 comment

Divya Manian of nimbupani.com reveals how to create dynamic visualisations using Polymaps, a library that makes it trivial to create and manipulate map data in SVG
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Earn money in your sleep!

Adii Pienaar explains how to create your own passive income stream

29 Sep 2011

By Adii Pienaar on September 29, 2011 | 2 comments

It’s every web designer and developer’s dream: a passive income stream that generates cash all by itself. Adii Pienaar explains how to create one of your own
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Top 10 tips for naming your app

What’s in a name? Everything, says Dan Rose

28 Sep 2011

By Dan Rose on September 28, 2011 | 3 comments

Want to make a fortune from your app? Dan Rose explains how picking the right name can make all the difference
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How to create a machine-based persona

Sites need to work for machines as well as humans, says Greg Roekens

27 Sep 2011

By Gregory Roekens on September 27, 2011

The sites we build need to work for machines as well as humans, says Greg Roekens
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Create an interactive street view with jQuery

Severin Klaus explains how to add scrolling video to your site

27 Sep 2011

By Severin Klaus on September 27, 2011 | 19 comments

Severin Klaus explains how Hinderling Volkart created an innovative method of scrolling through video for its 360° Langstrasse website, and how you can use it on your site
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How to choose a cloud host

David Flower on how to find the right service for you

27 Sep 2011

By David Flower on September 27, 2011 | 1 comment

More and more hosting companies are offering cloud services, but which one’s right for you? David Flower explains the kinds of questions you need to be asking
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10 amazing Android development tips

Make the most of your dev time with Kevin McDonagh's esssential tips

26 Sep 2011

By Kevin McDonagh on September 26, 2011 | 1 comment

Android promises many exciting opportunities. Kevin McDonagh, director of Android development consultancy Novoda, rounds up 10 essential tips that will help you make the most of your development time
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Native vs mobile apps

Craig Cartwright asks are native phone apps the right way to go?

23 Sep 2011

By Craig Cartwright on September 23, 2011 | 7 comments

Recent research suggests that the native app may be somewhat failing to attract smartphone users, but companies are allocating bigger budgets to mobile delivery systems. Craig Cartwright asks, are native phone apps the right way to go?
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.net Awards 2011: the 10 sites of the year

We profile the top 10 websites of the year as nominated by you

23 Sep 2011

By Oliver Lindberg on September 23, 2011

In the last of our .net Awards 2011 profiles, we showcase the 10 websites of the year that you have nominated. They all are rich in visual flair and imagination but which one really pushed the boundaries of the web this year?
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Create a zoomable user interface

David DeSandro on how to use CSS transforms to create a zoomable UI

22 Sep 2011

By David DeSandro on September 22, 2011 | 2 comments

David DeSandro reveals how to use CSS transforms to create a zoomable user interface similar to that of 2011.beercamp.com. In this tutorial, you’ll also learn how to use JavaScript to hijack scrolling to manipulate the zoom
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Building an immersive environment with CSS and JavaScript

The Big Spaceship team on how they built Activatedrinks.com

22 Sep 2011

By Benjamin Bojko on September 22, 2011 | 2 comments

Technologist Benjamin Bojko and art director Dan Mall, on behalf of digital agency Big Spaceship, give us an exclusive look behind the creation of Activatedrinks.com and explain how they pulled off the loading process and added depth and fluid parallax motion to the particles effect on the site
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Five killer ways to integrate social sharing

Matthew Smith on how to integrate social networking into your sites

21 Sep 2011

By Matthew Smith on September 21, 2011 | 1 comment

Creating your own buttons to get people to Like or tweet your own or your client’s pages isn’t always an option. Matthew Smith takes a look at the right way to integrate social networking into your sites
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Prototyping in code

Alex Morris on how to build prototyping into your workflow

21 Sep 2011

By Alex Morris on September 21, 2011 | 3 comments

Alex Morris, user experience director at Mark Boulton Design, walks us through some of the rationale, the tricks, the processes and techniques you can employ to build HTML prototyping into your workflow