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Development: How to decide which content management system is best

When trying to decide which content management system is best, developers often think about how easy the content management system is to integrate before ever considering how easy it is to use. This needs to change.

Development: Wireframing responsive sites

Wireframing responsive sites can be time consuming as you have to mockup each screen size. Ed Merritt is in the process of solving this problem.

Development: URL structures and analytics

It’s well known that good URL structures can help SEO, but how often do we think about the impact of URL structures on analytics? We should.

Development : Build a better web application for your business

I’m fed up with hearing about yet another Silicon Valley Web application, built with fairy dust and funded by magic pixies. It’s time to talk about web applications built by the rest of us.

Development : Making mobile mistakes

I started in the web back in 1994. We made a lot of mistakes. Unfortunately I am beginning to see those mistakes repeated in 2011… in mobile development.

Development : Create a website using Dropbox and a text editor

Whether it is for rapid prototyping or just to easily throw up a few thoughts online, the last tool you would think of is Dropbox. However its now possible using Droppages.

Development : Are you doing A/B testing?

Its easy, its cheap and it could increase the conversion rate on your website significantly. Why then are we not all doing A/B testing?

Development : Archive your tweets

Twitter is becoming an increasingly important business tool and yet what we post which could easily be lost forever.

Development : Confused by the mobile web? Join the club.

Unless you’ve been stuck under a rock for the past year or two, you’ll have noticed that mobile is reasonably big news.

Design : Beautiful design, robust technology

Temporary websites are often the most tricky to build. Their transitory nature and short bursts of high traffic can be extremely demanding on both designer and developer.

Development : CSS Trickster Chris Coyier

Chris Coyer is best know for his work on CSS-Tricks a ever growing web design community. However, as you will discover in this interview it isn’t just limited to CSS.