How to use CSS3 columns
With increasing diversity in monitor sizes, it’s not practical to design single blocks of text that take up the entire…
How to create a color picker with HTML5 Canvas
Creating canvas apps is the new thing, we can even create games with it, it’s supported in all major browsers…
Giveaway: Win $500 credits from VectorStock
VectorStock.com have a huge collection of vector files, with thousands of new files being added each week. Vectors cover subjects…
How to make your contact forms mobile friendly
Given the rise in mobile web usage year on year, there is now an increased focus on making websites more…
Beyond blogging: WordPress as a platform
WordPress has evolved hugely over the years from simple fork of blogging software to a powerful platform. According to a…
How to use the Fullscreen API
Bundled with HTML5 came a large number of API goodness and one of the best was the Fullscreen API that…
What’s new for designers, March 2013
The March edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins and JavaScript resources,…
A new mobile focus for Drupal 8
Drupal 8 is due out later this year, and already speculation has begun to mount over what’s going to be…
Building the StartupGiraffe website
We launched our new StartupGiraffe website a few months ago, and we’ve been meaning to write a post about how…
How to manage the back button with JavaScript
One major issue with JavaScript-based applications is that they break the Back button. If you update content on the page…
Integrating content marketing strategies and mobile design
Anyone who’s up on technology has heard of mobile web design and content marketing—two terms used with increasing frequency in…
How to speed up your website load times
Do you want your website to load blazing fast? This article will teach you how to make your website load…
ReCAPTCHAing the importance of UX
Recently, I had the ‘joy’ of attempting to book tickets with Ticketmaster.co.uk and, I knew exactly what I was in…
How to find your USP
Do you call yourself a freelance web designer? If so, you are only partially correct. The truth is that you…
Optimize your JavaScript with RequireJS
RequireJS is an effective way to improve the speed and quality of your JavaScript code additionally making it a lot…
Pinterest redesigns
Pinterest have just announced on their blog that they will be experimenting with a new look using a small group…
Web IDEs: the future of coding
Still using desktop code editors? Web integrated development environments (IDEs) are a new way to build your web projects directly…
How to build a threaded comment block with HTML5 and CSS3
Blogs and forums often have threaded comment replies built into their network. Popular social networks Reddit and Hacker News both…