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Content strategy 101, Part 3: put knowledge into action

by Sandi Wassmer

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Make a CSS TARDIS

by John Galantini

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Facebook’s top 10 social design secrets

by Paul Adams

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Agency urges designers to fight thieves

IP theft can hit reputations and search engine rankings

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Interview

Building tomorrow’s web experiences

Today’s designer challenges and how open standards are meeting them

5 Feb 2013

By Martin Cooper on February 05, 2013

Prior to its Create the Web conference rolling into London, Adobe hosted a round-table event to discuss the challenges facing today’s designers and how open standards are stepping up to meet them. Martin Cooper took a seat
Feature

Big question: what’s the best way to find new work?

Our experts discuss the question of how they go about sourcing work

4 Feb 2013

By Tanya Combrinck on February 04, 2013 | 2 comments

Our panel of experts discuss the all-important question of how they go about sourcing work – and, if they have a steady stream of clients coming to them, how they reached that enviable state
Feature

5 valuable tips for good project management

Five things you need to know about successful project management

4 Feb 2013

By Brett Harned on February 04, 2013 | 3 comments

Brett Harned, director of project management at Happy Cog, on the key elements of successful project management
Feature

The .net strip #30: New Typeface!

Brad Colbow makes some minute adjustments to a bezier curve

1 Feb 2013

By Brad Colbow on February 01, 2013

Brad Colbow makes some minute adjustments to a bezier curve
Feature

Writing modular frontend components in 2013

Angelina Fabbro on encapsulation methods for frontend developers

1 Feb 2013

By Angelina Fabbro on February 01, 2013 | 5 comments

Backend developers use encapsulation to separate and organise code to prevent conflicts, but what can frontend developers use in the browser to achieve the same end?
Blog

Responsive design is only one component of personalisation

Keith Butters looks at various personalisation techniques

31 Jan 2013

By Keith Butters on January 31, 2013

Keith Butters, co-founder of The Barbarian Group, on the importance of clarity when talking with clients about personalisation
Tutorial

Get started with Django

Use Django, a web framework for Python, to build a basic blog engine

31 Jan 2013

By Jamie Curle on January 31, 2013 | 11 comments

Jamie Curle introduces Django and demonstrates how to use it to make a basic blog engine
Blog

Big Mouth: Not so fast, internet

Online eyeballs are fast and fickle; we should slow things down a bit

30 Jan 2013

By Gary Marshall on January 30, 2013 | 1 comment

Online eyeballs are fast and fickle. Gary Marshall reckons we should slow things down a bit and appreciate the things that are racing before us
Feature

5 things you didn't know Sublime Text 2 could do

Alastair Lockie takes us off the beaten track to find some hidden gems

30 Jan 2013

By Alastair Lockie on January 30, 2013 | 2 comments

Sublime Text is packed with features, but some are more well known than others. Alastair Lockie takes us off the beaten track to find some hidden gems in this powerful editor
Interview

Dan Mall on The Businessology Show

Dan Mall's new podcast about the business of running a design practice

29 Jan 2013

By Tanya Combrinck on January 29, 2013

Dan Mall and Jason Blumer have started a new podcast about the business of running a design practice
Feature

The best image compression tools

Save bandwidth and accelerate your site's performance

29 Jan 2013

By Mike Williams on January 29, 2013 | 3 comments

Save bandwidth and accelerate your site's performance with these powerful free tools
Feature

Five killer ways to use parallax

It’s important to build visuals around your narrative to engage users

28 Jan 2013

By Gene Crawford on January 28, 2013 | 5 comments

It’s important to build visuals around your narrative to engage users, says Gene Crawford
Feature

Mobile prototyping: a new paradigm

Can traditional prototyping techniques be used for mobile app design?

28 Jan 2013

By Alexis Piperides on January 28, 2013 | 1 comment

Designers and UX professionals use design techniques like sketches, wireframes and mockups to visualise a website during the design process. Can these web design techniques also be used for mobile app design - or is it time for change?
Feature

The .net strip #29: Stupid autocorrect

Brad Colbow on the bane of mobile devices

25 Jan 2013

By Brad Colbow on January 25, 2013

Brad Colbow on the bane of mobile devices
Feature

Interaction design lessons from sci-fi: Visual interfaces

Futuristic interface design lessons you can use in your own work

25 Jan 2013

By Chris Noessel and Nathan Shedroff on January 25, 2013 | 3 comments

Make it so is a book for interface designers interested in understanding sci-fi's role in design history and using sci-fi interfaces in their own work. Here we present an exclusive excerpt on visual design, with a focus on typography