March 2013 (#238)
Get your site to the top of Google using responsible techniques; get new HTML5 and CSS3 features working in older browsers using polyfills; implement infinite scroll on your site, create slick CSS animations and much more!
If you still think of SEO as snake oil touted by greasy algorithm-chasers in cheap suits, Bryson Meunier has some news for you. Today it's recognised as a useful, legitimate discipline that's simply about connecting relevant content with relevant searchers, and our main feature this month explains why and how SEO should be considered right from the start of your web projects. Elsewhere in the magazine CSS3 PIE creator Jason Johnston looks at how polyfills can be used to make modern web features work in older browsers; Emma Lewis combines a Masonry layout with in-page category filtering and infinite scroll and Josh Netherton provides a guide to making an animated features block. Plus:
- Martin Cooper interviews Paul Boag
- Our Big Question panel discusses how to go looking for new client work
- Tutorial: seven ways towards better APIs
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Get to the top of Google!
SEO is a shapeshifter: its current, grown-up incarnation is audience-driven, engine and user friendly. Bryson Meunier of Resolution Media explains -
Make HTML5 work today
Want to use modern web features but need to support older browsers? Polyfills might be the solution. Jason Johnston fills in the essential details -
Interview: Paul Boag
After nearly two decades at the web's coalface, Paul Boag's creative fervour remains undimmed. Martin Cooper tries to keep up with the Headscape co-founder as he chats ideas, motivations and the importance of keeping it simple -
Filter with Infinite Scroll
Emma Lewis shows how to combine a Masonry layout with in-page category filtering and Infinite Scroll to create a homepage that provides easy access to all of your content -
Build animated feature sections
Josh Netherton guides you through creating an animated features block, from sketching storyboards to coding out the CSS3 animations - learning the syntax on the way -
Seven ways towards better APIs
As we integrate multiple data sources into apps and websites, great API design gets ever more crucial. Lorna Jane Mitchell sets out seven tips for designing better RESTful APIs
