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  • Create a custom lettered logo in Illustrator

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    Create a custom lettered logo in Illustrator

    How to use Adobe Illustrator CS5 to creatively manipulate letterforms

    2 Feb 2012

    Learn how to use Adobe Illustrator CS5 to creatively manipulate letterforms that, in combination with unique shapes and negative space, create a solid, recognisable mark. Designer Chandler Van De Water talks us through it
  • Implement Google Custom  Search into WordPress

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    Implement Google Custom Search into WordPress

    Paul Maloney shows us how to replace WordPress' search function

    31 Jan 2012

    WordPress has a search function which has developers opinions split. Freelancer Paul Maloney shows us how to replace the search function with a super powered Google Custom Search engine
  • Design the perfect URL

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    Design the perfect URL

    Faruk Ates explains how to get the most from your site’s address

    26 Jan 2012

    Graphics, content and navigation are all well and good, but it’s important not to neglect the URL. Faruk Ates explains how to get the most from your site’s address
  • Coding efficiency for beginners: write reusable code

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    Coding efficiency for beginners: write reusable code

    Embrace the secrets of being lazy. Write less code and get more done

    24 Jan 2012

    Embrace the secrets of being lazy. Learn how to write less code while getting more done. Become adored by your project manager for finishing projects faster. Lazy coder Aaron Morris, interactive developer at Jam3, gets you started
  • Preparing an application for distribution

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    Preparing an application for distribution

    Before you get your application published, you need to get it ready

    17 Jan 2012

    Creating an application can be extremely exciting for any developer but before you get your application published, you need to get it ready. iOS and Mac developer/designer Daniel Bramhall explains how
  • Automate your Android app testing

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    Automate your Android app testing

    Don’t trust humans to do all of your testing – not even experts

    12 Jan 2012

    Don’t trust humans to do all of your testing – not even experts. John Senner, Koa Metter and Emory Myers of MokaSocial reveal how to delegate the dirty work
  • Faster button styling with Sass

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    Faster button styling with Sass

    Ryan Taylor on how to implement different buttons with Sass

    10 Jan 2012

    Everybody loves a nicely styled CSS button but Ryan Taylor explains how he used Sass and Compass to create a mixin to implement a variety of buttons in no time and also covers browser support fallbacks
  • Going mobile with ExpressionEngine

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    Going mobile with ExpressionEngine

    Garrett Winder on the process of going mobile with ExpressionEngine

    6 Jan 2012

    Follow along as Garrett Winder of Erskine Design talks us through the process of going mobile with ExpressionEngine using a dedicated approach
  • Create an awesome cinemagraph in Photoshop

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    Create an awesome cinemagraph in Photoshop

    Heehaw Digital's Robbie Dickson on creating a cinemagraph

    4 Jan 2012

    Robbie Dickson, senior editor at Heehaw Digital, takes you step by step through the process of creating a cinemagraph, the next generation of web based animated photography
  • Code a real-time survey with HTML5 WebSockets

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    Code a real-time survey with HTML5 WebSockets

    Use WebSockets and Pusher to build a demo application

    29 Dec 2011

    Phil Leggetter explains how to use WebSockets and Pusher to build a demo application, plus how to layer a user experience on to an app using progressive enhancement
  • Getting started with HTML5 geolocation

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    Getting started with HTML5 geolocation

    How to access the W3C Geolocation API and what to do with this data

    27 Dec 2011

    In an exclusive excerpt from The HTML5 Cookbook Christopher Deutsch and Marc Grabanski explain how to access the W3C Geolocation API and what you can do with this data using Google Maps and other third-party libraries like SimpleGeo
  • Create progressively enhanced 3D CSS rollovers

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    Create progressively enhanced 3D CSS rollovers

    Christian Heilmann on progressively enhancing CSS rollovers

    15 Dec 2011

    Christian Heilmann, principal evangelist for HTML5 and the open web at Mozilla, explains how to progressively enhance CSS rollover effects into the 3D space
  • How to structure your CSS

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    How to structure your CSS

    Developer Mike Byrne explains how he structures his CSS and why

    8 Dec 2011

    Freelance interface and frontend developer Mike Byrne, also part of the Area 17 technical team, explains how he structures his CSS and why
  • Build a login form for your  mobile app with DHTMLX Touch

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    Build a login form for your mobile app with DHTMLX Touch

    Alexandra Klenova on creating a login form for a mobile app

    6 Dec 2011

    In this introduction to open source JavaScript framework DHTMLX Touch web developer Alexandra Klenova explains how you can implement a login form for a mobile web app and send form values to the server with Ajax
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