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  • 50 free web design tools that rock!

    Gary Marshall shares 50 of the best free web tools to help build your site, from well known tools as WordPress and Drupal through to some you may have never considered

  • How to survive a web conference

    It’s time for the web’s best and brightest to come out and play. Gary Marshall discovers how to survive this year’s conference season
    By Gary Marshall on

  • The top 10 ways to create digital magazines

    With the growing number of smartphones, tablets, and eReaders, why limit your audience? Create content that works for everyone, no matter what technology they prefer. Martha Rotter, co-founder of Woop.ie, reviews 10 of the best tools
    By Martha Rotter on | 5 comments

  • Jump from graphic to web design in seven easy steps

    Graphic designers who want to transition from print to web need to stop being scared of the 'tech boogie man' and make the leap. Jose Caballer presents seven steps to help you get off the fence and start making more money
    By Jose Caballer on | 6 comments

  • Where are our absolute CSS units?

    Lewis Nyman dives into the problem with multiple pixel densities across web capable devices and investigates the mysterious disappearance of our old tools, absolute CSS units
    By Lewis Nyman on | 2 comments

  • Designing for touch

    Fingers and thumbs turn desktop conventions on their head. Interaction designer Josh Clark explains what you need to keep in mind when designing for mobile touchscreens and compares finger-friendly touch interfaces for iPhone, iPad and Android

  • Seven lessons learned from responsive web design

    What’s good for the developer isn’t necessarily good for the customer. Vince Allen, senior front-end developer at Lot18, gives the background on why responsive web design is the right focus for web development

  • Dieter Rams' 10 principles of good web design

    Dieter Rams is one of the most important designers of the 20th century but his famous 10 principles for good design focused on industrial design. Here Lisbon-based designer Nuno Loureiro applies them to web design
    By Nuno Loureiro on | 8 comments

  • Create the perfect favicon

    Today Jon Hicks' much anticipated Icon Handbook, published by Five Simple Steps, is going on sale. We present an exclusive excerpt on creating favicons
    By Jon Hicks on | 1 comment

  • Mobilise your website

    When trying mobile design for the first time, not everyone has the time and resources to build a new mobile site or begin with a mobile first redesign. Kristofer Layon, author of the upcoming book Mobilizing Web Sites, explains how you can take mobile baby steps to design a decent mobile presentation for an existing site
    By Kristofer Layon on

  • 2011 in review: 20 CSS sites that rocked!

    2011 was packed with media queries, standards-based animations and selectors, but what were the best CSS sites of the year? Web developer Peter Gasston, the author of The Book of CSS3, looks back at his favourites
    By Peter Gasston on
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