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Tutorial

Add HTML5 video to your site

Embed native HTML5 video into your pages without plug-ins

8 Apr 2011

By Vadim Makeev on April 08, 2011 | 5 comments

Embed native HTML5 video into your pages without plug-ins, and provide Flash-based fallback content for legacy browsers. Opera’s Vadim Makeev shows the way
Interview

Flipboard's Mike McCue

Mike McCue explains how he's making digital content beautiful

8 Apr 2011

By Tom May on April 08, 2011

Mike McCue, CEO of news and social media aggregator Flipboard, talks to Tom May to explain how he's working to make digital content beautiful and relevant to the real-time web
Feature

Google SEO tricks that will get you blacklisted

The 10 SEO tips you should never follow

6 Apr 2011

By Glenn Alan Jacobs on April 06, 2011 | 16 comments

Glenn Alan Jacobs, managing director of consultancy SpeedySEO, rounds up the top 10 SEO tips you should never follow
Feature

21 essential resource sites for web designers

The sites you need to bookmark to help you design better websites

6 Apr 2011

By Craig Grannell on April 06, 2011 | 12 comments

Craig Grannell rounds up the must-bookmark sites for web design, which help you build better sites yourself
Feature

Big question: what’s inspiring you?

Our industry experts reveal what gets their creative juices flowing

5 Apr 2011

By Oliver Lindberg on April 05, 2011

Design inspiration shouldn’t just come from looking at other people’s web projects. Our panel of industry experts reveal what kind of things are currently getting their creative juices flowing …
Blog

Optimising your website

Colette Wade explains why you should let data guide your development

2 Apr 2011

By Colette Wade on April 02, 2011 | 1 comment

Colette Wade, marketing director for EMEA and Australasia at Webtrends, explains why you should always let the data decide when it comes to site development
Feature

Wireframe tools: the top 10 solutions

Create your next prototype the easy way with our guide

31 Mar 2011

By Thomas Watson on March 31, 2011 | 21 comments

Create your next prototype the easy way with our guide to the best wireframing tools out there
Interview

Viget Labs

Oliver Lindberg chats to the agency about blogging and IE9

29 Mar 2011

By Oliver Lindberg on March 29, 2011 | 1 comment

Oliver Lindberg chats to CEO Brian Williams, development director Clinton Nixon, design director Tom Osborne and senior strategist Ben Adlard about blogging, IE9 and celebrity codes
Blog

Big Mouth: In a hole? Stop Digg-ing

Users aren’t customers: they’re computerised cows, says Gary Marshall

26 Mar 2011

By Gary Marshall on March 26, 2011

Users aren’t customers: they’re computerised cows, says Gary Marshall
Tutorial

Adaptive layouts with media queries

Create a beautiful website optimised for the latest mobile devices

25 Mar 2011

By Aaron Gustafson on March 25, 2011 | 5 comments

Create a beautiful website employing adaptive layouts and optimised for the latest mobile devices. Aaron Gustafson, founder of Easy! Designs, explains how
Interview

Tim Van Damme

Tim Van Damme talks about his new role at Gowalla

24 Mar 2011

By Oliver Lindberg on March 24, 2011 | 1 comment

Belgian star designer Tim Van Damme has joined Gowalla full time. While at SXSW, Oliver Lindberg caught up with him in his new adopted home in Austin, Texas
Feature

How we built: DonQ

The team at Odopod explain how they tweaked the rum brand's website

24 Mar 2011

By Tom May on March 24, 2011

When Puerto Rican rum brand DonQ needed its website revamped, Odopod stepped up to the plate. Guthrie Dolin, Shane Berry and Telly Koosis tell us more
Tutorial

CSS gradient tips (and more!)

Tim Van Damme explains the techniques he used in the Gowalla redesign

23 Mar 2011

By Tim Van Damme on March 23, 2011 | 3 comments

Ever seen a website where you just want to touch everything? Tim Van Damme explains the CSS tips he used in the Gowalla redesign
Feature

Responsive web design

Ethan Marcotte explains how our designs can become more responsive

22 Mar 2011

By Ethan Marcotte on March 22, 2011

With sites being accessed by an increasing array of devices and browsers, users deserve a quality experience no matter the size of their display. Ethan Marcotte explains how our designs can become more responsive
Feature

How to avoid common CSS3 mistakes

Get to grips with CSS3 without messing up

21 Mar 2011

By Chris Coyier on March 21, 2011 | 10 comments

The new features of CSS3 bring with them complexity and new things for us to screw up. This article will help keep us in check as we start using these new features.