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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 […]

This isn’t a typical “SEO mistakes” article. I won’t exude the virtues of readable URLs and unique page titles — good web developers know those techniques. This advice is aimed at people running a business. You may not have strong IT or marketing skills, but you’re probably aware of the […]

WordPress can save developers weeks of effort. It’s difficult to justify writing your own CMS when it offers so many features. That said, there are times when you want to inject your own PHP code; perhaps a custom form or a report generated by another system. To insert your code […]

By Jason Beaird 9th Aug 2011 General, Layout Inspiration, Tutorial 1 Most of what we’ve talked about thus far has been design theory. Theory’s helpful, but it can only take us so far towards understanding why some ideas work — and others don’t — in a website’s design. In my opinion, examples and practice […]