May 2012 (#227)
Get more out of content management systems! We reveal helpful techniques to create responsive websites in WordPress and if you fancy an alternative, why you may actually would want to switch to Drupal
We've got a host of great content in this month's issue of .net magazine, but fans of content management systems - and let's be honest, who isn't a fan of content management systems? - will be extemely excited by a couple of articles: our cover feature concentrates on the best ways to create a responsive site using WordPress, but we love Drupal, too, and we show you how to painlessly migrate to Drupal. Also in this issue:
- Pick the best PHP framework
- Build a homepage template with CSS
- Add HTML5 audio to your sites
- Keep your web apps safe from hackers
- Master the jQuery Scroll Path plug-in
- Danny Sullivan on the future of SEO
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Responsive design with WordPress
Jesse Friedman shares helpful techniques for embracing and, at times, overcoming inherent WordPress functionality to create dynamic responsive websites -
Choose the right PHP framework
PHP frameworks give us common structures to normalise web apps, assist productivity, reduce repetitive coding and create more stable sites. Kai Chan helps you pick one -
Migrating to Drupal
Tabitha Winter explains how and why her B2B company Base One switched to Drupal and the lessons they learned along the way -
Interview: Danny Sullivan
Search Engine Land’s editor-in-chief is considered by many to be the world’s leading authority on search. He chats to Tom May about Google+, objective reporting, search conferences and bad SEO advice -
CSS/build a homepage template
Frontend developer Steven Wu walks you through using the latest web standards and vendor prefixes – along with appropriate fallbacks – to create a web page template -
HTML5/play audio in the browser
Playing HTML5 audio natively in the browser can be a challenge. Ashley Gullen, creator of HTML5 game editor Construct 2, guides you through the maze
