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  • Always check your  Terms and Conditions!

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    Always check your Terms and Conditions!

    Failure to check your site's T&Cs; could be costly, warns Ed Boal

    17 Aug 2012

    A recent case in the UK High Court has highlighted the importance of ensuring that website terms and conditions are binding, fair and enforceable. Ed Boal reports
  • Save the planet through sustainable web design

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    Save the planet through sustainable web design

    Design to minimise your carbon footprint, argues Pete Markiewicz

    17 Aug 2012

    By Pete Markiewicz on | 5 comments
    Green issues aren't just for politicians, or for Google. Web developers also need to think in terms of minimising their sites' carbon emissions, argues Dr Pete Markiewicz
  • The pro’s guide to gamification

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    The pro’s guide to gamification

    Boost visitor engagement by using games mechanics

    16 Aug 2012

    By Toby Beresford on | 2 comments
    Games mechanics are a great way to influence users’ behaviour. Toby Beresford explains how incorporating them into your websites can boost visitor engagement
  • Danny Sullivan on his passion for search

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    Danny Sullivan on his passion for search

    Google+, objective reporting, search conferences and bad SEO advice

    16 Aug 2012

    Search Engine Land’s editor-in-chief Danny Sullivan is considered by many to be the world’s leading authority on search. He chats to Tom May about Google+, objective reporting, search conferences and bad SEO advice
  • 10 ways to make your content portable and accessible

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    10 great ways to make your content portable and accessible

    Martha Rotter's tips to keep your readership as large as possible

    15 Aug 2012

    By Martha Rotter on | 3 comments
    Martha Rotter, freelance web developer and co-founder of Idea magazine, explains how you can make your content portable but discovers quite a few accessibility issues with digital magazines
  • App.net will change social networking forever

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    App.net will change social networking forever

    App.net threatens Twitter's ad-supported model, argues Jim Morrison

    14 Aug 2012

    With $800,000 of crowd funding in place, the new social network App.net threatens the ad-supported business models of Facebook and Twitter, argues Jim Morrison
  • Six ways to get people to pay for your content

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    Six ways to get people to pay for your content

    People are willing to pay; just get them to reach for their wallets

    14 Aug 2012

    People are willing to pay for content, says Henry Rimmer, you just have to encourage them to reach for their wallets
  • Determining breakpoints for a responsive design

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    Determining breakpoints for a responsive design

    Tim Kadlec's future-friendly approach to determining breakpoints

    14 Aug 2012

    We present an exclusive excerpt from Tim Kadlec's book, Implementing Responsive Design, on adopting a future-friendly approach that determines breakpoints according to content as opposed to device
  • Create faster fluid layouts with LESS

    Tutorial

    Create faster fluid layouts with LESS

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

    10 Aug 2012

    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

    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 | 1 comment
    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
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