With its swift installation and simple set-up, Elgg provides you with all the tools you need to become the next MySpace. Karl Hodge shows you how to create your very own Elgg social network
With a few well-placed Flash tricks, you can liven up that dull micro site or standalone promotions site. Paul Wyatt shows you how to create a looping animated background
Background textures are an easy way to make colours more interesting. Paravel’s Reagan Ray shows you how to get them on your site using Photoshop, CSS and HTML
Ste Brennan of Code Computerlove explains how to embed your site within Facebook, from initial set-up to sending invitations and posting to users’ walls
Embed native HTML5 video into your pages without plug-ins, and provide Flash-based fallback content for legacy browsers. Opera’s Vadim Makeev shows the way
Rey Bango, evangelist at Microsoft and director of community for the jQuery project, explains how to make HTML5 and CSS3 features work in older browsers with the help of polyfills and shims
WebGL, released earlier this year, is the new standard for high-quality 3D graphics in web pages. Giles Thomas of LearningWebGL.com rounds up 20 of the best sites so far
In Chapter 1 of his much acclaimed book, Adaptive Web Design, Aaron Gustafson explains what progressive enhancement really means, how it works and what it's got to do with the Galapagos finches and peanut M&Ms. Think of the user, not the browser!
Create a web app that feels native on the iPad and other mobile devices, using the Sencha Touch library. Robert Douglas of mobile design specialists ribot explains how
Belgian interface designer and CSS trickster Benjamin de Cock shows us how to use the power of CSS3 to create an animated, automatically centred clickable accordion, while also discussing the drawbacks of the technique