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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

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Feature

Seven tips for running a successful web workshop

David Smith's top tips for running a successful web design workshop

14 Mar 2013

By David Smith on March 14, 2013 | 1 comment

David Smith, technical lead at Burfield, provides his top tips for running a successful web design workshop in 2013
Feature

Hot in web standards: January/February 2013

Lea Verou on the latest developments at the W3C

13 Mar 2013

By Lea Verou on March 13, 2013 | 1 comment

Lea Verou on the latest developments at the W3C, including First Public Working Drafts of the picture element and HTML Templates
Feature

New tools for web design and development: February 2013

Mark Penfold's regular round-up of the newest and best tools

12 Mar 2013

By Mark Penfold on March 12, 2013 | 4 comments

Mark Penfold's regular round-up of the newest and best tools
Interview

Eva-Lotta Lamm on the value of sketching

Sketching as a tool for communication and for personal pleasure

12 Mar 2013

By Martin Cooper on March 12, 2013

Interaction designer, illustrator and artist Eva Lotta-Lamm tells Martin Cooper about how she uses sketching both as a tool for communication and for personal pleasure
Blog

Designing for users

Design isn't a vehicle for showing off; it's for communicating ideas

11 Mar 2013

By Joshua Garity on March 11, 2013

Design is not a vehicle for showing off the latest techniques or tools, it’s a way of communicating ideas, says Joshua Garity
Feature

Five killer ways to use vertical rhythm

How elements like headers and images effect a site's rhythm

11 Mar 2013

By Gene Crawford on March 11, 2013

The placement of elements such as headers and images has a big effect on the overall rhythm of a website, says Gene Crawford
Feature

Content strategy 101, Part 1: giving context to your content

Sandi Wassmer establishes a framework for content strategy

8 Mar 2013

By Sandi Wassmer on March 08, 2013 | 1 comment

In the first of a four-part series, Sandi Wassmer establishes a framework for content strategy
Interview

Simon Collison on the privilege of being a designer

The ever-restless designer, author and thinker talks to Martin Cooper

7 Mar 2013

By Martin Cooper on March 07, 2013

Ever-restless designer, author and thinker Simon Collison tells Martin Cooper about his decision to leave client work, his current work with ‘product shop’ Fictive Kin, and the importance of continuing to question established practice
Tutorial

Providing responsive images with Drupal

Michael Herchel highlights some methods to make life more flexible

7 Mar 2013

By Michael Herchel on March 07, 2013

Serving images to mobile devices can prove a major annoyance for developers. Michael Herchel highlights a number of methods to make life more flexible
Feature

Five killer ways to use Mental Models

Understand how visitors find your content in order to plan your site

6 Mar 2013

By Gene Crawford on March 06, 2013

Understanding the way the visitors to your site discover your content will help you plan its architecture, says Gene Crawford
Tutorial

Make your website printable with CSS

Adrian Roselli shares some techniques for adapting to different media

5 Mar 2013

By Adrian Roselli on March 05, 2013 | 3 comments

Responsive design isn’t just about screen size; it also means adapting to different media – including print. Adrian Roselli shares some techniques
Blog

Jeffrey Zeldman on the dream of a standards-based web

The father of web standards fondly remembers The Web Standards Project

4 Mar 2013

By Jeffrey Zeldman on March 04, 2013

The father of web standards fondly remembers The Web Standards Project and how it revolutionised the industry
Feature

Hacking the brain

How curiosity in human nature helps us create brilliant sites and apps

4 Mar 2013

By Richard Shepherd on March 04, 2013

User experience is often considered a dark art. Here Richard Shepherd argues that a healthy curiosity in human nature helps us create delightful sites and apps
Tutorial

Improve page load times

Increase performance by serving data that’s closer to your users

1 Mar 2013

By Dean Hume on March 01, 2013

Dean Hume explains how content delivery networks can drastically increase the performance of your website by serving data that’s closer to your users
Blog

The cloud’s global future

We need to turn towards a more federated cloud, says Ditlev Bredahl

28 Feb 2013

By Ditlev Bredahl on February 28, 2013

No single provider holds the keys to a truly global cloud. So, argues Ditlev Bredahl, we need to turn towards a more federated model