December 2010 (#209)

Issue 209 contains information on CSS3 animations and provides an essential guide to handling private data on Facebook

Ditch Flash and get to grips with CSS3 animations with our guide, and take control of your web type like never before with the help of Elliot Jay Stocks' comprehensive walkthrough.

Issue includes:

Amaze with CSS3 animation
A guide to Facebook privacy
Master type for the web
Interview: John Gruber
Design your own type
Master the Flexible Box model

Amaze with CSS3 animations

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
A guide to Facebook privacy

Mind how you go when you're dealing with real user data from Facebook. Toby Beresford of Nudge Social Media explains how to keep within the rules
Master type for the web

Elliot Jay Stocks explains the fundamentals of web typography and introduces some advanced techniques
Interview: John Gruber

The man behind Daring Fireball talks about his 'auteur theory of design', coding for ancient browsers and the future of Markdown, his text-to-HTML converter
Design your own type

Can't find the font you need? Then why not design one yourself? Tom Lane shows you how to create your own hand-drawn typography
Link users to geolocation data

Christopher Schmitt, author of CSS Cookbook, explains how to use the HTML5 GeoLocation jQuery Plugin