Luke Shumard provides a crash-course in David DeSandro’s Masonry, a jQuery plug-in that’s ideal for both novice and intermediate web designers

Matthew Knight explains why you don’t need to be a genius to make simple digital toys – just build upon the genius of others and make use of Google Apps Script

Ibon Tolosana and Iker Jamardo Zugaza show you how to get to grips with cross-platform HTML5 game development using Canvas

We present an exclusive excerpt from jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials, on the basics of theming and building and using a custom theme for your app

Joel Besada shows you how to take a personal site with a common text document layout, and create something far more interesting with the jQuery Scroll Path plug-in

New JS libraries are making rapid development of complex interfaces a breeze. Stephen Fulljames builds an image gallery to showcase the power of Knockout

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

Andi Smith demonstrates how to use Web Real Time Communication to control webcam and microphone streams using JavaScript APIs

Karl Schellenberg demonstrates how to stagger full-site animations with CSS3 and JavaScript through page scrolling

Develop cross-platform apps with web standards: Matt Gifford introduces PhoneGap

Your website’s visitors care whether or not it loads quickly. Tom Gullen explains what the price of a slow site can be and shows you how to make yours render faster

Léonie Watson of Nomensa explains how DIY widgets can still play a significant role in overcoming barriers to accessibility

Lukas Ruebbelke demonstrates all the steps necessary to build a real-time collaboration board powered by AngularJS and Socket.io

Severin Klaus explains how Hinderling Volkart created an innovative method of scrolling through video for its 360° Langstrasse website, and how you can use it on your site

David DeSandro reveals how to use CSS transforms to create a zoomable user interface similar to that of 2011.beercamp.com. In this tutorial, you’ll also learn how to use JavaScript to hijack scrolling to manipulate the zoom

Technologist Benjamin Bojko and art director Dan Mall, on behalf of digital agency Big Spaceship, give us an exclusive look behind the creation of Activatedrinks.com and explain how they pulled off the loading process and added depth and fluid parallax motion to the particles effect on the site

Stevan Živadinović, the brains behind multi-plane side-scroller web comic Hobo Lobo of Hamelin, walks us through the development of the Parallaxer platform and gives a crash course on turning pencil drawings into transparent-background assets

CSS-Tricks' Chris Coyier talks us through different CSS and jQuery solutions to create responsive and fluid width videos that maintain aspect ratio and work with all major video hosts, including YouTube and Vimeo