We've changed editors but we haven't changed our usual mix of features and hands-on tutorials covering the latest web technologies. The cover feature, for a start, rounds up the latest apps for responsive design, image compression and more!

CSS animation is set for widespread adoption. Peter Gasston shows how we can extend its capabilities by mixing and chaining with JavaScript events

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

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

Rich, smart API continues to wow developers, long after initial release

This month, Mark Penfold's round-up of the best new tools ranges from cutting-edge experiments to down-to-earth utilities. Give them a try: they're all free

From simple charts to complex maps and infographics, Brian Suda's round-up of the best – and mostly free – tools has everything you need to bring your data to life

Poll shows desktop JavaScript libraries winning out, even on mobile

Learn a jQuery expand and collapse technique that will be useful in many situations

Plug-in aims to be smart, native, extensible and hackable

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 course teaches designers how to make sites interactive

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

'Conditional-free' jQuery plug-in assists with legacy and hi-res scripts and styles

Ecosystem aims to deal with fragmentation, duplication and author associations

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

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

Percentage of websites with jQuery deployed surpasses Adobe Flash