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Tickets on sale for Generate, .net's first conference!

by Tanya Combrinck

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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

by Paul Adams

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Designers respond to Flickr revamp

It’s a massive improvement, they say, except when they don’t

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Tutorial

Make your sites load faster

How to make sites render faster, and why you should be doing this

7 Feb 2013

By Tom Gullen on February 07, 2013 | 2 comments

Your website’s visitors care whether or not it loads quickly. Tom Gullen explains what the price of a slow site can be and shows you how to make yours render faster
Blog

The end of accessibility?

Good design? UX? Accessibility? Can we have it all? asks Sandi Wassmer

6 Feb 2013

By Sandi Wassmer on February 06, 2013

Good design? UX? Accessibility? Can we have it all? asks Sandi Wassmer
Feature

Developers and designers unite!

Erik Boman on how to improve communication within your team

6 Feb 2013

By Erik Boman on February 06, 2013 | 3 comments

Poor communication between designers and developers can add weeks of work and mountains of stress to a project. Erik Boman identifies the stages where communication is most vital and suggests strategies to improve information-sharing
Tutorial

Hook into native events with PhoneGap

Develop cross-platform apps with web standards using PhoneGap

5 Feb 2013

By Matt Gifford on February 05, 2013 | 1 comment

Develop cross-platform apps with web standards: Matt Gifford introduces PhoneGap
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