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I spend much of my life seeing new products and services online. What I’ve noticed many times is the “me too” creation of similar businesses – such as the amount of daily deals sites currently popping up. You may roll your eyes and think that the old saying “First past […]

Loading screens are a necessity of digital life. It’s important to provide a user with feedback when you start a process for which your application has to wait for a response. If a user presses a button it’s important they know that the action they’ve taken has been acted upon. […]

If you’re working with Ruby, chances are by now you’ve heard the word “metaprogramming” thrown around quite a lot. You may have even used metaprogramming, but not fully understood the true power or usefulness of what it can do. By the end of this article, you should have a firm […]

By Simon Pascal Klein 10th Aug 2011 Podcast Inspiration, Tutorial 1 Welcome back everyone! I caught up with SitePoint lead designer Alex Walker and master of the “Cicada Principle” to have a chat about limitations and banalities of CSS3 gradients and where SVG backgrounds could suitably replace them.   Download this […]

When you are up to your elbows in running a business, it can often be easy to overlook some of the strategies or ideas we should be considering every once in a while. With that in mind, here is an alphabet of words to spark those all-important reminders. A is […]

We’re back again with another installment of the Alphabet for Web Business series; I trust that you find these two words inspiring and helpful. O is for Opportunity Many of us speak about innovation or “different thinking”, however much of the great inventions of the last decade have been the […]

There are a lot of articles out there that claim to showcase 50 or more ‘essential’ web and desktop apps for freelancers who want to run their businesses 100% digitally. The reality is that anyone who claims there are 50 or even 30 ‘essential’ apps for freelancers probably has no […]