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The .net strip #17: Project requirements

Brad Colbow — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:00:00 +0000

This week Brad Colbow, the creator of our exclusive comic strip, delves into the reality of project requirements

37signals to stop developing for IE8

Craig Grannell — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:50:59 +0000

Basecamp Next will require IE9+, Firefox 4+, Chrome 7+ or Safari 4+

The top three Flash game engines

Tom Vian — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Flash game engines are still a great choice for building browser-based 2D games. Freelance game developer Tom Vian takes a look at the three most popular open source frameworks

Inside the CSS WG: Daniel Glazman, co-chair

Molly Holzschlag — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:00:00 +0000

In a new series web standards advocate Molly Holzschlag gives us exclusive access to the W3C CSS Working Group and interviews its members about their work and vision. Today she quizzes the group's co-chair, Daniel Glazman

WebKit scuppers skip-to-content links

Craig Grannell — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:31:34 +0000

JavaScript required to get anchors to work properly in Safari and Chrome

Create a custom lettered logo in Illustrator

Chandler Van De Water — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

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

GOV.UK launches in beta

Tanya Combrinck — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:33:13 +0000

A search-based single site for all government services

The instant web

Luis Freitas — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Digital marketing strategist Luis Freitas ponders on the next step the web is going to take and discusses the semantic web, the instant web and Web 3.0

Twitter's Bootstrap toolkit hits 2.0

Craig Grannell — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:03:10 +0000

HTML/CSS framework gets new icons and responsive grid driven by community feedback

Designing for touch

Josh Clark — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Fingers and thumbs turn desktop conventions on their head. Interaction designer Josh Clark explains what you need to keep in mind when designing for mobile touchscreens and compares finger-friendly touch interfaces for iPhone, iPad and Android

Test motion events with new polyfill

Craig Grannell — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:43:29 +0000

One line of JavaScript enables you to send motion events to the page, thanks to Remy Sharp's Remote-Tilt tool, which provides in-browser motion testing

Big question: what do you love and hate about Facebook?

Tanya Combrinck — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Facebook inspires strong emotions in many of us, so we asked our experts to tell us what they find most delightful and most despicable about the social networking giant

Implement Google Custom Search into WordPress

Paul Maloney — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:42:06 +0000

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

Startup slammed for copying 37signals

Craig Grannell — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:16:47 +0000

Curebit 'inspired' by design but also hot-links to code and images

Gamification – nuggets of wisdom or fool’s gold?

Toby Beresford — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Gamification is more than a buzzword. Web app entrepreneur Toby Beresford clears up misconceptions and discusses the merits of gamificaction