November 2012 (#234)
Building the right development techniques into your workflow can improve your productivity by leaps and bounds. In this issue Darcy Clarke explores the latest and greatest HTML, CSS and JS techniques
There's also the first in a series of articles on content strategy from Sandi Wassmer, and, in our Hacking the Brain feature, Richard Shepherd explains how an understanding of human nature can help us to build delightful sites and apps. In our interview this month we hear from designer and entrepreneur Tina Roth Eisenberg about how she and makes a living out of her personal projects. Plus:
- Make a kinetic typography video
- Illustrate with CSS and HTML5
- Use Flash principles in HTML
- Design 100 objects at once
- Write an app in AngularJS
- Develop modern web apps with Dart
- HTML5 theming in Drupal 7
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Essential HTML, CSS and JS techniques
Senior UX developer Darcy Clarke dives into the latest HTML, CSS and JS techniques to assist your workflow -
Hacking the brain
User experience is often considered a dark art. Here Richard Shepherd argues that a healthy curiosity in human nature helps us create delightful sites and apps -
Giving context to your content
In the first of a four-part series, Sandi Wassmer establishes a framework for content strategy -
Interview: Tina Roth Eisenberg
Tina Roth Eisenberg (aka swissmiss) runs a temporary tattoo company, a shared workspace, a lecture series, a to-do app and a popular design blog. She tells Tanya Combrinck about her success -
Write an app in AngularJS
The AngularJS framework greatly simplifies frontend development, making it easy and fun to write complex web apps. Brian Ford explains how to use it to build a contact manager -
Apply Flash principles to HTML
Old habits can die hard. But don't worry, Paul Wyatt and Joseph Luck are here to guide you through launching a site in HTML - with traditional Flash sensibilities




