Summer 2012 (#231)
Creating flexible layouts that will work on any device and any screen size is the next big challenge for CSS. In this month's issue Peter Gasston takes us on a tour of some well-implemented properties you can use now as well as the exciting proposed properties we could be using in the future
There's also a guide to creating or updating your online portfolio from Gary Marshall, an interview with Elliot Jay Stocks and tutorials on HTML5's Drag and Drop API and building a basic responsive site with CSS. Here are some more highlights:
- Build smoother JavaScript apps
- Make your website printable
- Make your sites load faster
- The pro's guide to Adobe Edge
- Build an ecommerce store
- Using PHP Data Objects
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The future of CSS layouts
Peter Gasston explores the CSS properties of today and tomorrow that will enable us to build flexible, dynamic layouts that work on any device -
Make the perfect portfolio
If you don't have a portfolio, you should - and if you do, perhaps you ought to take a fresh look at it, reckons Gary Marshall -
Interview: Elliot Jay Stocks
8 Faces creator Elliot Jay Stocks talks about redesigning Smashing Magazine, 'typography out' and how print informs the web -
Create drag and drop features
Thomas Hardy demonstrates HTML5's nifty Drag and Drop API, which facilitates dragging and dropping elements natively within the browser -
Make your apps smoother
A growing amount of real-time content is being written in JavaScript. Ashley Gullen shows how to avoid pauses caused by garbage collection for a smoother experience -
Build a basic responsive site
Responsive design is much misunderstood. Jason Michael lays to rest some myths, and then walks us through building a simple responsive website
