Smart CSS Ain't Always Sexy CSS (Digital Web Magazine)

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Smart CSS Ain’t Always Sexy CSS

The web industry has never been short of zealots. Since the age of the spacer-gif, there have always been designers ready to fight for their preferred technique—and none more so than CSS nerds. If you’ve ever agonized over finding the perfect semantic class name, this is the article for you. Martin Ringlein tells us why being sexy is overrated. Read more

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Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web

by Ben Ward (in Articles)

Are you a member of all the latest and greatest social networking sites? Tired of re-entering your personal details? Need to keep your information up-to-date across a myriad of accounts, and enable your user base to do the same? You need the foundations of the social web, brought to you by Ben Ward. Read more

Integrating Social Media into a Web Content Strategy

by Britt Parrott (in Articles)

You might know your Facebook from your Odeo, but most companies couldn’t give a Flickr about social media. How do we let them know the opportunities that a Web 2.0 world can hold for them? Britt Parrott explains how to develop a coherent and buzzword-free web content strategy. Read more

The Education of Geeks and Freaks

by Tom Green (in Articles)

Between choosing the most semantic markup, wrangling IE6 CSS bugs, and arguing which JavaScript library would win in a fight, it is easy to forget that the future of web design rests in the hands of a small group of people—those with responsibility for educating the next generation. Columnist Tom Green reports on the sad state of post-secondary education, and what it might mean for the future of effective web development. Read more

Why Do Web Startups Die? Lack of Alphalpha

by Dave Goldenberg (in Articles)

Every week heralds the announcement of yet another handful of web startups, filling a new niche or competing with established services—but all too often they are never heard from again. Marketing expert Dave Goldenberg is here to tell us what the problem is... and it has nothing to do with sprouts. Read more

Review: Building Findable Websites

by Matthew Pennell (in Book Reviews)

All the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript tricks in the world won’t help you if nobody can find your website in the first place. We take a look at the book that aims to make sure your site has that most important of features: Findability. Read more

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