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  • Build a responsive website in a week: designing responsively (part 1)

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    Build a responsive site in a week: designing responsively (part 1)

    Paul Robert Lloyd talks us through the responsive design process

    23 Apr 2012

    By Paul Robert Lloyd on | 5 comments
    Interested in responsive web design but not sure how to get started? Don't fret, help is at hand! As part of Responsive Week, we've asked Clearleft's Paul Robert Lloyd to talk us through the responsive design process, soup to nuts
  • Kinetic typography techniques with After Effects

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    Kinetic typography techniques with After Effects

    The art of animating text to voice and music with Photoshop and AE

    19 Apr 2012

    By Angie Taylor on | 1 comment
    Creative director and motion graphic artist Angie Taylor (@theangietaylor) shows how to use Photoshop and Adobe After Effects for kinetic typography - combining text and motion to express ideas in the form of animation
  • Building fast and responsive websites

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    Building fast and responsive websites

    An exlusive excerpt of Shi Chuan's HTML5 Mobile Development Cookbook

    17 Apr 2012

    In this exclusive excerpt from his HTML5 Mobile Development Cookbook web developer Shi Chuan, co-creator of the HTML5 Boilerplate, explains how to build pages with semantic markup, use dynamic loading, make buttons with instant response and more
  • Getting WordPress to play nice with responsive images

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    Getting WordPress to play nice with responsive images

    David Smith finds an alternative way to deal with images in WordPress

    13 Apr 2012

    Frontend designer David Smith responds to Jesse Friedman's article on responsive design with WordPress and presents an alternative way to deal with images
  • Build a lightbox for a responsive HTML5 touch interface

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    Build a lightbox for a responsive HTML5 touch interface

    Stephen Woods on how to create a simple lightbox with gesture support

    11 Apr 2012

    By Stephen Woods on | 1 comment
    Stephen Woods, frontend engineer at Flickr, explains how to create a simple lightbox with gesture support and provides tips for improving the perceived as well as the actual performance of touch interfaces
  • Protect your WordPress site with .htaccess

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    Protect your WordPress site with .htaccess

    Paul Maloney explains how to secure your WordPress site with .htaccess

    5 Apr 2012

    WordPress is the world’s most popular CMS with over 70 million users, but how safe is your install? Paul Maloney shows you how to secure your WordPress site with .htaccess.
  • Create an interactive WebGL liquid metal ball

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    Create an interactive liquid metal ball with WebGL

    So you want to create an interactive WebGL liquid metal ball?

    3 Apr 2012

    So you want to create an interactive WebGL liquid metal ball? Glad you asked, programming wizard Paul Lewis has got just the thing!
  • Styling the user interface of a Sencha Touch application

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    Styling the user interface of a Sencha Touch application

    How to customise your app and use the Sencha theme engine with SASS

    29 Mar 2012

    By John Clark and Bryan Johnson on | 1 comment
    In this exclusive excerpt from their book on the Sencha Touch mobile JavaScript framework, John Clark and Bryan Johnson explain how to customise your app and use the Sencha theme engine with SASS and Compass
  • Create an interactive bubble chart with HTML5 canvas

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    Create an interactive bubble chart with HTML5 canvas

    Josh Marinacci on how to build an interactive chart with HTML5 canvas

    27 Mar 2012

    By Josh Marinacci on | 2 comments
    Josh Marinacci, software engineer, researcher, part-time designer, and general miscreant, explains how to use HTML5 canvas to build an interactive chart that works on desktop mobile and then populate it with real data
  • Build a 360 view image slider with JavaScript

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    Build a 360 view image slider with JavaScript

    Robert Pataki demonstrates how to show-off great looking products

    22 Mar 2012

    Robert Pataki of Waste Creative demonstrates how to show-off great looking products and keep users interested by making your own 360 view image slider in JavaScript
  • Get more out of your CSS transitions with jQuery

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    Get more out of your CSS transitions with jQuery

    Get better control over your CSS transitions with the help of jQuery

    20 Mar 2012

    CSS3 transitions alone don’t always quite cut it. We can use a little help from jQuery to get better control over them and push them just a bit further. Val Head shows us how
  • JavaScript debugging for beginners

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    JavaScript debugging for beginners

    David Smith outlines the key features of modern developer tools

    15 Mar 2012

    Frontend developer David Smith outlines a few of the key features of modern developer tools that can aid debugging JavaScript in your website or application
  • Integrating Knockout.js with third-party libraries

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    Integrating Knockout.js with third-party libraries

    Finish the slidr app and integrate Knockout with existing frameworks

    13 Mar 2012

    By Matt Brailsford on
    In this tutorial we will finish off our slidr demo app, and at the same time take a look at how to integrate Knockout with existing frameworks
  • Require or recommend plugins with a WordPress theme

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    Require or recommend plug-ins with a WordPress theme

    Recommend pre-packaged or repository plugins within your WP theme

    8 Mar 2012

    By Thomas Griffin on | 1 comment
    In this tutorial, we will cover how you can easily include pre-packaged or repository plug-ins with a WordPress theme and prompt users to install and activate them in one single step, using native WordPress classes and interfaces
  • Craft cleaner, more concise HTML with Haml

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    Craft cleaner, more concise HTML with Haml

    Nick Walsh shows you how to get started, with or without Ruby

    6 Mar 2012

    Parallel to the ideas behind Sass and CoffeeScript, Haml turns your markup into veritable haiku. Nick Walsh of Envy Labs shows you how to get started, with or without Ruby
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