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

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

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

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

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

Web designer Josh Miller, the creative director of Paramore, shows us how to turn an unordered list into a rotating diagonal portfolio with CSS3 and jQuery, just like the one he built for joshmiller7.com

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

Use JavaScript, CSS and the Google Maps API to build a custom-themed, real-time Flickr visualisation like NET-A-PORTER LIVE. James Christian and web developer Ben Gannaway reveal the techniques they used

Client-side JavaScript frameworks are not just for building big fancy applications. Lead software engineer Matt Kelly explains how ZURB used the lightweight JavaScript framework Backbone.js to build FlickrBomb, a tool for loading Flickr photos into placeholder images

Using the open source script PhotoSwipe, you'll learn how to add a gesture-based, fully interactive image gallery into your mobile website that replicates the "native" photo application bundled with iOS devices. Ste Brennan also gives a quick rundown of the events that are made available by mobile browsers

A lot of developers who are new to jQuery get hung up by jQuery selectors. In this tutorial Jay Blanchard, author of the forthcoming book Applied jQuery, covers jQuery's selector syntax, how to optimise jQuery selectors and how to apply more advanced selector combinations to your markup elements

Ben Bodien and Marc Roberts, co-founders of Neutron Creations, explain how to build a simple, semantically clean and extensible jQuery tab system

Christopher Schmitt, author of CSS Cookbook and co-founder of Environments for Humans, explains how to use the HTML5 GeoLocation jQuery Plugin

Reducing the size of your JavaScript code with Google Closure Compiler will give your site a huge speed boost, explains Matt Kelly of ZURB

In this exclusive excerpt of Murach's HTML5 and CSS3, Zak Ruvalcaba and Anne Boehm explain how to use jQuery Mobile to create a mobile web site