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  • Create faster fluid layouts with LESS

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    Create faster fluid layouts with LESS

    Use variables, mixins & functions to speed up fluid layouts with LESS

    10 Aug 2012

    By Paul Mist on
    Paul Mist explains how to code dynamic CSS with LESS and how we can make use of variables, mixins and functions to speed up the creation of fluid layouts
  • I like working with web designers who can’t code

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    I like working with web designers who can’t code

    Kirsty Burgoine on why she prefers working with non-coding designers

    10 Aug 2012

    By Kirsty Burgoine on | 7 comments
    Web designer and developer Kirsty Burgoine explains why she prefers to work with designers that can't do any frontend coding
  • Make your iOS app accessible with VoiceOver

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    Make your iOS app accessible with VoiceOver

    How to make your iOS app accessible to VoiceOver

    9 Aug 2012

    By Léonie Watson on
    You’ve created your iOS app, now you need to make it accessible to VoiceOver, says Nomensa's Léonie Watson
  • Reactive web design

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    Reactive web design

    How responsive web design is only scratching the surface

    8 Aug 2012

    Dan Donald argues that responsive web design is only scratching the surface of how sites can adapt to meet their users’ requirements
  • 10 good reasons to use CoffeeScript

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    10 good reasons to use CoffeeScript

    Caike Souza talks you through the advantages of CoffeeScript

    8 Aug 2012

    Caike Souza talks you through some of the advantages of CoffeeScript and demonstrates why it's worth using the language in your projects
  • Turn your side project into a money-making business

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    Turn your side project into a money-making business

    Jump from client work to running your own show

    7 Aug 2012

    By Viewport Industries on | 3 comments
    Keir Whitaker and Elliot Jay Stocks of Viewport Industries explore some key considerations for making the jump from client work to running your own show
  • Create a data driven Twitter avatar

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    Create a data driven Twitter avatar

    Matthew Knight explains how you can build upon the genius of others

    7 Aug 2012

    By Matthew Knight on | 4 comments
    Matthew Knight explains why you don’t need to be a genius to make simple digital toys – just build upon the genius of others and make use of Google Apps Script
  • Brian LeRoux on PhoneGap

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    Brian LeRoux on PhoneGap

    How it’s sowing the seeds of its own destruction

    6 Aug 2012

    By Tom May on
    PhoneGap enables you to write apps for an array of mobile platforms using standard web languages. Its top evangelist, Brian LeRoux, chats to Tom May about the framework’s evolution, and how it’s sowing the seeds of its own destruction
  • Five things you didn't know the web could do

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    Five things you didn't know the web could do

    Google's Eric Bidelman shows what's possible with HTML5 and CSS3 today

    6 Aug 2012

    By Eric Bidelman on | 5 comments
    Eric Bidelman, senior developer programs engineer on the Google Chrome team, presents some practical uses of what's possible with HTML5 and CSS3 today, including the CSS Flexible Box Layout Module and the HTML5 Filesystem API
  • Get started with jQuery Masonry

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    Get started with jQuery Masonry

    Luke Shumard provides a crash-course in David DeSandro’s Masonry

    3 Aug 2012

    By Luke Shumard on | 1 comment
    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
  • 10 steps to get designs signed off and keep your client happy

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    10 steps to get designs signed off and keep your client happy

    Designer Joey Rabbitt shares some techniques he learned over the years

    3 Aug 2012

    Joey Rabbitt, a web designer and frontend developer currently working for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, shares some techniques to keep the client sign-off process smooth
  • Agile agency collaboration with huge corporations

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    Agile agency collaboration with huge corporations

    Customer liason doesn't always have to be a them and us affair

    2 Aug 2012

    By Jonty Sharples on
    Jonty Sharples explains how working for a giant client doesn't always have to be a matter of them and us
  • Customise the WordPress admin area

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    Customise the WordPress admin area

    Thomas Hardy shows you how to restyle the popular CMS

    2 Aug 2012

    Tailor the Administration Screens in WordPress to match your client's branding with Thomas Hardy's guide to customising the popular CMS
  • Design for life

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    Design for life

    How do you keep people using your products throughout their life?

    1 Aug 2012

    By Matt Rook on
    How do you keep people using your products throughout the different stages of their life? Matt Rook of XO Group Inc has some suggestions
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