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Photoshop texture tutorial

Paravel's Reagan Ray shows you how to create stunning backgrounds

15 Feb 2011

By Reagan Ray on February 15, 2011 | 4 comments

Background textures are an easy way to make colours more interesting. Paravel’s Reagan Ray shows you how to get them on your site using Photoshop, CSS and HTML
Tutorial

Create an image slideshow with MooTools

Ryan Florence shows how to build an easily-updatable slideshow

15 Feb 2011

By Ryan Florence on February 15, 2011 | 2 comments

Ryan Florence explains how to create a great-looking slideshow that's easy for the client to update using the incredibly extensible MooTools framework
Tutorial

JavaScript animations: the link swipe

Tantalise users with a cool rollover effect on

15 Feb 2011

By Mike Byrne on February 15, 2011 | 4 comments

Tantalise users with a cool rollover effect on links. Mike Byrne of Fudge (madebyfudge.com) explains how to build it
Feature

Facebook privacy for web developers: a guide

Toby Beresford explains how to keep on the right side of Facebook

15 Feb 2011

By Toby Beresford on February 15, 2011 | 3 comments

Mind how you go when you're dealing with real user data from Facebook. Toby Beresford, commercial director of Nudge Social Media, explains how to keep on the right side of the law
Feature

CSS3 animations: four stunning examples

Craig Grannell discovers how four top designers use CSS3 animations

15 Feb 2011

By Craig Grannell on February 15, 2011

As an across-the-board shift towards open standards continues, Craig Grannell asks designers at the cutting edge how best to animate web pages using CSS3
Tutorial

Link users to geolocation data with HTML5

Christopher Schmitt demonstrates the HTML5 GeoLocation jQuery Plugin

15 Feb 2011

By Christopher Schmitt on February 15, 2011 | 2 comments

Christopher Schmitt, author of CSS Cookbook and co-founder of Environments for Humans, explains how to use the HTML5 GeoLocation jQuery Plugin
Tutorial

Shrink JavaScript files with Google Closure Compiler

Reduce your JavaScript and help your site run faster than ever

14 Feb 2011

By Matt Kelly on February 14, 2011

Reducing the size of your JavaScript code with Google Closure Compiler will give your site a huge speed boost, explains Matt Kelly of ZURB
Feature

How we built: Cathedral City

The team behind the cheese-based site tell all about the relaunch

10 Nov 2010

By James Griffiths on November 10, 2010

When ‘the nation’s favourite cheese’ wanted to refresh its online presence, they turned to Iris Digital. James Griffiths, Chris Thompson and Claire Wheeldon talk us through the challenge
Interview

Driftlab

Driftlab talk to .net about Flash, Facebook apps and much more

10 Nov 2010

By Tom May on November 10, 2010

Driftlab brings the spirit of the ‘sweet South’ to interactive design. Scott Cook and Ashley Warren chat to Tom May about Flash, Facebook apps and reliving the Confederacy
Blog

Why Flash isn’t dead

Public developer Chris Padmore offers his take on the building tool

10 Nov 2010

By Chris Padmore on November 10, 2010

Public’s senior rich media developer Chris Padmore provides his take on the debate that’s splitting the world of web design
Blog

CSS3 vs JavaScript

Sean Gaffney weighs up the pros and cons of CSS3 and JavaScript

10 Nov 2010

By Sean Gaffney on November 10, 2010 | 2 comments

Both are popular with developers, but which one is best? Sean Gaffney investigates the areas where the two overlap and which comes out on top
Blog

Big Mouth - Shirt happens

A few hours without an ad-blocker drives Gary up the wall

10 Nov 2010

By Gary Marshall on November 10, 2010

When does objection handling become outright harassment? Whenever you turn off your ad blocker, says Gary Marshall
Interview

John Gruber

The man behind Apple-centric blog Daring Fireball talks to .net

10 Nov 2010

By Oliver Lindberg on November 10, 2010

The man behind Apple-centric blog Daring Fireball talks to Oliver Lindberg about his ‘auteur theory of design’, coding for ancient browsers and the future of Markdown, the text-to-HTML converter he created
Blog

Location apps

Charles Weir explains why the mobile future is bright

10 Oct 2010

By Charles Weir on October 10, 2010

Mobile-based location apps are about to get big. Really big. Charles Weir, managing director of mobile software developer Penrillian, explains why the future’s bright
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CSS3Pie for IE

Addy Osmani suggests a tool to ease your IE6 and IE7 CSS woes

10 Oct 2010

By Addy Osmani on October 10, 2010

The IE9 beta might be out, but IE6, 7 and 8 still have trouble rendering CSS3. Allow Addy Osmani to introduce you to CSS3Pie