This is a guest post by Jan Rajtoral AKA Gonzo the Great, founder of gonzodesign, who provides design services across the full spectrum of Brand Identity, Graphic Design, Print and Advertising Design & Website Design.

In this new series of posts we’re going to take a look at what has been published last month in the Blogosphere. We hand-picked the best stuff including resources, tutorials, scripts/snippets, WordPress related posts and a lot more. All these design-related links have been mentioned on Twitter in the last month, and collated in this single article. So, I hope you’ll enjoy this roundup cause we think that having resources and staying up-to-date is important in your personal growth and development as a (web) designer or developer.

HTML, CSS, PhP, Coding & Resources

HTML5 Please - Look up HTML5, CSS3, etc features, know if they are ready for use, and if so find out how you should use them – with polyfills, fallbacks or as they are. Use the new and shiny responsibly.

When can I use… Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc - Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers.

PHP script to find malicious code on a hacked server - When hackers get into a server, they often modify files to inject malicious code, install PHP backdoor scripts, or modify .htaccess to redirect requests to another site.

Filament Group’s Open Source Code Repositories - This page will serve as a centralized list of all projects, which we’ll keep updated as we develop new widgets and techniques. Look below for links to downloadable code, live demos, and articles explaining our thought process

Javascript Best Practices - a list of best practices and preferred ways of developing javascript code, based on opinions and experience from many developers in the javascript community. Since this is a list of recommendations rather than a list of absolute rules.

The State Of HTML5 Video - HTML5 has entered the online video market, which is both exciting and challenging for developers in the industry. Our State of HTML5 Video Report is a place for us to share with other developers/users in the industry just what HTML5 can and cannot support.

The Lowdown on :Before and :After in CSS - What is a pseudo-element and how does it differ from a pseud-class? Why do pseudo-elements sometimes have one colon and sometimes have two? How are :before and :after implemented in CSS?

Using webfonts to insert characters or symbols in a website - In this article I am not gonna talk about the greatness of webfonts in general—the opportunity to pick any type style we want for our website—or the possibility to use sets of vector pictograms instead of bitmap images.

Responsive Data Table Roundup - The idea of the original was to abandon the grid layout of the table and make each cell it’s own line. Each of those lines is labeled with a pseudo element. This creates a much taller table, requiring more vertical scrolling, but does not require horizontal scrolling.

Design • Curate - Design Curate is a collection of free and commercial resources for designers. All our free resources are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

Tutorials

Filter Functionality with CSS3 - Using the general sibling combinator and the :checked pseudo-class, we can toggle states of other elements by checking a checkbox or a radio button. In this tutorial we will be exploring those CSS3 properties by creating a experimental portfolio filter that will toggle the states of items of a specific type.

(Better) Tabs with Round Out Borders - A good-looking tab control usually has one feature that I’ve always found impossible to reproduce without images: borders that bend to the outside at the bottom of each tab. In this article I would like to show how you can use the CSS :before and:after pseudo elements to create this effect without using images.

Textarea Auto Resize - On a current project, I was trying to find a way to auto-resize a textarea according to some content that would be loaded in dynamically via Ajax. I didn’t know the height of the content and the textarea element doesn’t resize naturally like other HTML elements, so I needed to update the height of the element with JavaScript each time the content changed.

CSS Buttons with Pseudo-Elements – I’ve been experimenting with the power of CSS pseudo-elements, specially when it comes to mixing them with buttons and that way recreating some great effects that were only possible to do with sprites, in the past. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create buttons with a twist, using just one anchor tag per button and the great power of CSS.

git – the simple guide - just a simple guide for getting started with git. no deep shit ;)

Tools (web applications, bookmarklets, frameworks etc.)

3×4 Grid Builder - Drag and drop. View the code. Grid Builder enables you to easily build an HTML grid with a simple drag and drop interface.

deCSS3 - A bookmarklet for testing your graceful degradation. Use this bookmarklet to get a whiff of what your site will look like on older browsers that don’t support CSS3 (Currently supports: Chrome, Safari).

Initializr - With Great Templates Comes Great Responsivity! (Responsive Template, boilerplate code of a responsive layout)

Fbootstrapp - Fbootstrapp is a toolkit designed to kickstart development of facebook iframe apps in both relevant sizes. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more, styled in the typical facebook look and feel.

dabblet- an interactive playground for quickly testing snippets of CSS and HTML code. It uses -prefix-free, so that you won’t have to add any prefixes in your CSS code. You can save your work in Github gists, embed it on websites and share it with others.

CSSrefresh - CSSrefresh is a small, unobstructive javascript file that monitors the CSS-files included in your webpage. As soon as you save a CSS-file, the changes are directly implemented, without having to refresh your browser.

w3clove - Site-wide markup validation. There’s no need to manually submit all your URLs. Just give us the URL of your home page and we’ll scrape it to get its internal links.

WebINK’s free plugin – Server based Font management, use real web fonts in Photoshop for your web designs. Design with Google and WebINK web fonts.

Bootstrap Generator - Kick-start your Twitter Bootstrap project the way you want. Simply alter some options and click “Generate” to get your compiled Bootstrap CSS file.

Gridpak - an interactive web application for generating responsive grid layouts very quickly. Once you have setup the layout, a custom download is ready which includes a CSS, LESS, SCSS file, etc.

hextone – A great tool to convert HEX color codes to RGB

jQuery Plugins, Javascript, etc.

impress.js - It’s a presentation tool inspired by the idea behind prezi.com and based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions in modern browsers.

Scrollorama - The jQuery plugin for doing cool scrolly stuff (any numeric CSS property). Design and build your site, dividing your content into blocks. Embed scrollorama.js after jQuery and initialize the plugin, passing the blocks class selector as a parameter.

Sugar - Sugar is a Javascript library that extends native objects with helpful methods. It is designed to be intuitive, unobtrusive, and let you do more with less code.

Lightbox_me - Lightbox_me is an essential tool for the jQuery developer’s toolbox. Feed it a DOM element wrapped in a jQuery object and it will lightbox it for you, no muss no fuss.

slabText – a jQuery plugin for producing big, bold & responsive headlines. Put simply, the script splits headlines into rows before resizing each row to fill the available horizontal space.

PxLoader - A Javascript library that helps you download images, sound files or anything else you need before you take a specific action on your site (like showing a user interface or starting a game). You can use it to create a preloader for HTML5 games and websites.

ResponsiveSlides.js - ResponsiveSlides.js is a tiny jQuery plugin that creates a responsive slideshow using images inside a single container. It work with wide range of browsers including all IE versions from IE6 and up.

CraftMap - jQuery plugin that converts a simple image into a functional map. Like Google Maps, you can place your own marker icons and add location information to specific markers with a draggable image interface.

Popcorn.js – An HTML5 media framework written in JavaScript for filmmakers, web developers, and anyone who wants to create time-based interactive media on the web. Popcorn.js is part of Mozilla’s Popcorn project.

TextExt Plugin for jQuery - TextExt’s modular design allows you easily turn a standard HTML text input into a wide range of modern, tailored to your needs input field without bloating your source code and slowing down your site with the code that you aren’t using.

Arctext.js – The main idea behind the Arctext plugin is to rotate letters with CSS3 transforms in order to place them along a curved path. The curve is always a segment of a circle (hence arc) for which the radius can be specified.

Sharrre (Social Sharing jQuery Plugin) - All sharing buttons are different, with Sharrre you can create uniform buttons to integrate with your designs. With Sharrre, the API buttons are called on demand and once, regardless of how many buttons you have.

Font.js: A Powerful Font Toolkit for JavaScript - a little font toolkit for your JavaScript that is kind of akin to the built-in Image object but for Fonts.  It gives you font loading events using a technique perfected in Mozilla’s pdf.js project, metrics information, and a better version of the canvas element’s measureText method with additional information such as height, bounding box, and leading.

WordPress Related

Weever app for WordPress - a free new HTML5 tool to build a mobile app for your WordPress site.

slYder – Lightweight WordPress Slider - slYder is an extremely lightweight wordpress slider, it allows you to add an extremely lightweight wordpress content slider anywhere in your theme via template tag or wordpress shortcode.

How to Customize the WordPress 3.3 Toolbar - You can make the WordPress interface easier for clients by removing unnecessary menus, widgets and meta boxes. However, in WordPress 3.3, the admin and header bars have been merged to create a single toolbar.

Yoast’s WordPress SEO vs All in One SEO Pack - There are currently two very popular WordPress plugins to help you strengthen your site’s search engine friendliness. Yoast’s WordPress SEO Plugin and the Grand old Daddy of SEO plugins, All in One SEO Pack.

How To Create Custom Taxonomies In WordPress - The following release of 3.1 included many features to enhance support of custom taxonomies. Better import and export handling, advanced queries with tax_query, hierarchical support, body classes and a bunch of wonderful functions to play with were all part of the package.

The WordPress Gallery Shortcode: A Comprehensive Overview - If you haven’t had the chance to use the WordPress Gallery Shortcode in the past, this is going to be a great starting out point for you. For others who have used it, we are going to be covering some features of the shortcode that you might not have considered yet.

The Ultimate WordPress Theme Development Glossary - This post is an attempt to provide a glossary for the common terms used in WordPress Themes. This glossary will help new WordPress users understand the features offered by a theme and they can make informed ..

Prevent Password Reset WordPress Plugin - It adds a checkbox to the “Personal Options” section of each user’s profile page in the WordPress admin, once this option is selected for a user, their password cannot be reset via the “lost password” form.

The Ultimate Quickstart Guide to Speeding Up Your WordPress Site - In this tutorial we will cover all aspects of W3 caching, ySlow, Google page speed, CSS sprites & htaccess rules, to achieve a high ySlow score like i have done on my blog.

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Tweet Heat – The hottest Tweets of the Month [January 2012]

I have very mixed feelings about social media. And that’s why it’s almost taken until now to really start to work with these tools in a business capacity.

For all the benefits that it provides, I have had some serious hang-ups when joining, and participating in, social media.

And, I’ll tell you why.

Loss of Content Ownership

In the fine print, Facebook lets you know that when you post things on their site, that content no longer belongs to you, it belongs to them. By virtue of using their service, that picture of you and your sweetheart overlooking the Grand Canyon on that vacation you’ll always remember no longer belongs to you. It belongs to Zuckerberg. And, why would he want that picture of you and your girlfriend anyway…

The Perfect Audience… for Paid Advertisers.

What has been created is something that doesn’t resemble the web at all, at least not what it was intended to be. The web used to be a place where anonymity and free exchange of ideas was the point of the “inter-net”. It connected people when and how they wanted to be connected. Since you didn’t have to share your personal information with a cadre of highly-trained software analysts/behavior manipulators, you were free to be honest. The problem with social networking sites is that there are levels of honesty, and different ways you can interact. But, Facebook tracks it all. Then serves you up advertisements that they think you’ll like. Rat in a cage?

It goes even deeper in that Facebook’s news feed, learns from your behavior and sends you items that you are more likely to like, and interact with – not necessarily what’s actually going on around you – a filtered version of what’s going on – to keep you addicted to facebook. The problem lies in “filter bubbles” as Eli Pariser calls them. Take a look at this amazing Ted Talk for more information:

Man Power

Who’s going to run it? Everytime I have a client ask about social media – this is my question to them. The truth is – like any medium – you get out of it what you put in – and Social Media may in fact be even more man power intense in this regard. You can/should be on networks constantly (and there are whole companies that ONLY do this!) in order to maximize the effectiveness of your social media campaigns (and catch any positive or negative situations to properly guide them).

Avoiding the Unavoidable

Everyone is on some kind of network these days. You (and I’m really telling myself this) must be where your clients are.

So, forgive me for my hesitation, though I feel that I was (am) thoughtful about my reasoning, but I’m now at the table. We’re “social” and it’s really cool. So, drop me a line if you think that I was being a bit neurotic. Drop me a line if you think I wasn’t. Or just hit me up with your Twitter links in the comments, and I’ll chase after your tweets!

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On Social Media

This is a post from Angela Nielsen of One Lily Creative Agency, a full-service web and print design company. Angela loves creating designs that win awards for clients, and is addicted to the thrill of helping people make sense of all this web-techno-marketing stuff.

They say the proof is in the numbers. If that’s the case – then there is no denying that social media is more powerful than ever, and growing faster and stronger every day. There are many different social media networks out there, but this data visualization will provide some very interesting statistics on the big four… Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+.

Check out the full-size piece as well.

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Current State of Social Media: The Big Four [Exclusive Infographic]

This is a guest post by Chico Charlesworth. He has created a geographic visualisation with the help of his BBC colleague, Tom Martin. The visualisation mashes up location-aware social data to visually capture people’s experiences and reactions to the royal wedding.

It was built in three days and is showcased as a video and a web application.

A little bit of Twitter goes a long way

The first step was to collect the local tweets during the day of the royal wedding by using Twitter’s Search API and geocodes. Geocodes include the latitude and longitude of a location. The geocode used for the royal wedding was “geocode=51.502652,-0.131493,0.7mi”, which returns tweets located within a 0.7 mile radius from where the royal wedding happened. Over the course of the day, 4000+ local tweets were captured. The visualisation timeline was narrowed down into a 12 hour period, resulting in almost 3000 tweets between the hours of 8am and 8pm.

Mapping local tweets

Once the local tweets were gathered, the next step was to display them on a map. The map is displayed on a web page by using Google’s Maps API, where each local tweet is displayed as a marker. What’s neat is that each marker is visually identifiable as a tweet, a photo or a Foursquare checkin. Best of all, it’s interactive and quite addictive to click on the tweets, photos and checkins as they popup when hovering over their corresponding marker.

Tweet stats

Along with plotting the data on a map, statistics are displayed to add another dimension. The stats are broken down into total local tweets, total checkins, total photos, girls vs boys, top tweeters and top retweets.

Try it yourself

In terms of the technology stack, a Java back-end collected the tweets and made them accessible to a jQuery powered front-end, which in turn updates the map and stats.

The following snippet of code is a simplified version of the real thing.

Future visualisation projects of this kind could be applied to a range of other social occasions including festivals, sporting events and events with strong social buzz.

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HOW TO: Create a Geovisualisation Web App with Local Tweets

This is a post from our new author Angela Nielsen of One Lily Creative Agency, a full-service web and print design company. Angela loves creating designs that win awards for clients, and is addicted to the thrill of helping people make sense of all this web-techno-marketing stuff.

40 years ago the first email was sent. The email simply said ‘qwertyuiop’, and was sent to the computer sitting next to it. It’s not possible for anyone to have predicted how our world would change after the successful sending of that first message.

Today social media is everywhere. Networking sites, gaming sites, entertainment and media, there is a site for everyone. Friends are reconnecting, businesses are reaching new audiences, and Presidents are winning races. You can checkin at your favorite coffee shop, upload your latest art project, even meet your future spouse.

The last 40 years we’ve seen alot of ups and some downs, but it looks like social media is here to stay. Wonder what the next 40 years will bring?

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The History Of Social Media [Infographic]

This is a guest post by Leo Widrich – Co-Founder of Buffer, a Twitter App to tweet more consistently without annoying your followers. As he focuses on getting Buffer off the ground, Leo writes and gives Twitter Tips at blog.bufferapp.com

Saving time on Twitter and handling it more efficiently is key for me. Especially as you can easily waste hours and hours without getting anything else done. So here is a set of 10 tools I use frequently which allow me to remain genuine, yet optimise my efforts on Twitter. Take a look, I hope they are interesting for you too:

1.) Twoolr – The Twitter Metrics You Were Looking For

Twoolr is a super slick Twitter App offering you the chance to see a ton of interesting analytics going on around your Twitter account. Wordclouds, user comparison or simple growth reports, it’s all there on an intuitive interface.

Big Time Saver: Get reports straight to your inbox is super handy and convenient

More here: Twoolr

2.) Buffer – Tweeting more consistently without annoying

(Full disclosure: I work on Buffer.)  Buffer gives you the chance to tweet all the interesting stuff you are reading, without flooding your followers. Simply throw all those tweets into your Buffer and they are posted well spaced out for you throughout the day.

Big Time Saver: Add tweets to Buffer from any page and even Twitter.com with browser extensions.

Find out more here: Buffer

3.) Hashable – Making connections and remembering them

Hashable is a super simple tool to facilitate making introductions online. You simply put a hashtag describing the activity or form of meeting you just had and the name. In this way you can share with others what you are up to.

Big Time Saver: All these connections are safely stored to be accessed anytime to refresh your memory.

Find out more here: Hashable

4.) BackTweets – Find Out Who Is Tweeting Your Stuff

BackTweets is one of those super handy tools any blogger or content producer should have in his toolkit. Simply add your URL of the post you want to track and get absolutely every single person mentioning it. It gets all shortened or unshortened URL’s alike.

Big Time Saver: There is no sign up required, so all you do is throw your URL in and you are set.

Find out more here: Backtweets

5.) Twilert – Google Alerts For Twitter

The name basically says it all. Twilert is a neat system that allows you to track certain search terms everywhere in the TwitUniverse. You then receive a daily digest email each day with full details about who and when your search term was mentioned.

Big Time Saver: Twilert offers a lot of filtering options to really only display relevant results.

Find out more here: Twilert

6.) Tweepi – Get rid of unwanted followers

Tweepi is a friendly tool that helps you to clean out your Twitter account. Get rid of those that don’t follow you back, clutter your stream or have turned inactive users. In just a few clicks you can handle all this and lots of more features.

Big Time Saver: It save a ton of time that you are able to reciprocate those that YOU don’t follow back.

Find out more here: Tweepi

7.) Tweriod – Learn about your followers activity

Tweriod is the perfect solution for you in case you want to know in detail when your followers are online during the day. Tweriod will provide you with two simple graphs showing you the days of the week and times of the day your followers are online the most.

Big Time Saver: The app conveniently sends you a DM for when your reports are ready.

Find out more here: Tweriod

8.) MediaFunnel – Tweet Collaboratively

MediaFunnel is the less well known competitor to CoTweet. It allows you to tweet together in teams on one Twitter account with a ton of helpful features integrated into the platform. The interface is very intuitive and handling tweets as a team works a charm.

Big Time Saver: What I really like is the option to set up brand monitoring right there.

Find out more here: MediaFunnel

9.) Refynr – Refine your Twitter Stream

Refynr is a new Tool that is quickly gaining popularity. It allows you to set up your twitter stream to contain less clutter such as Foursquare tweets, #FF or day to day happenings that don’t add any value to your stream.

Big Time Saver: It also works on your mobile where getting rid of clutter is very useful

Find out more here: Refynr

10.) BinReminded – Set Tweet Reminders

You are living inside Twitter and are sick of forgetting certain things. Set yourself reminders for when things are due and receive timely tweets to remember them. The functionality also extends to texts and payments via paypal.

Big Time Saver: The fact that you can set recurring events helps a great deal to save more time.

Find out more here: BinReminded

These are my top ten tools which save me a ton of time each day.

Are some of the above useful for you too?

Let me know below, eager to find out.

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10 Twitter Tools To Save More Time

Yep, we all know social networks are a big deal and all. But our friends from Tech King released a new stellar infographic to show you just How incredibly popular Social Networking really is. Check it out below or click here for the full version.

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New Infographic – Everything You Need to Know About Social Networks

Our friends from Schweppes released a cool app recently, regarding the newest hype on Facebook where users can take the advantage of Facebook’s new profile design. Here’s all you need to know:

How to enable new Facebook Profile design for your profile?

Step 1: Goto the announcement page.

Step 2: Click on “Get thew New Profile” button on the upper right corner.

How to Customize your New Facebook Profile with the Schweppes App

Shortly after the new Fb release a French artist took advantage of the new profile design to express himself. Many other creative minds have played around with their profiles. This inspired Schweppes to develop the Schweppes Profile App on Facebook, which helps anybody who doesn’t have Photoshop skills and much time to get a great new profile as well.

Your turn now – do you have a cool Fb profile page? Don’t shy away – leave the link below.

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Customize your New Facebook Profile with the Schweppes App

This is a guest post by Jenny Braudaway – a media culture expert and Marketing Associate at Rand Media Group, a full service, integrated online marketing company based in Chicago. She blogs at the RMG blog, and tweets @sweetfracture5.

Social media marketers take note. In light of the recent midterm elections, what do Foursquare, Twitter and Facebook all have in common? If you said that they all care deeply about democracy, well…you’d be wrong. (And if you said that they are all social media giants, well then, you’d be Captain Obvious). The answer? They all know how to leverage a social event and they know how to make themselves useful.

As part of its efforts to participate in the midterm elections, Twitter announced on its blog that for the first time ever, users would be able to follow the election “in its entirety–via text and video–on Twitter.com.” Detailing partnerships with major news organizations such as @cnn (who would be analyzing the “public’s thoughts and conversations about key races and issues” through tweets) and @washingtonpost, sponsor of the #election hashtag, Twitter effectively became the one-stop online hub for election news and gossip, while its Twitter Vote Report project kept mobile tweepl up to date on wait times at their local polling places. Meanwhile, Facebook and Foursquare did their part with location-based “I Voted” badges as well as data collection and reporting.

All of this made for the most social-media centric election yet. By the end of election day, over 12 million people clicked the “I voted” button on Facebook and over 50,000 checked in to their polling places using Foursquare. As for Twitter, its place as news media’s partner in crime for breaking news coverage was cemented. And though it is yet to be seen how @washingtonpost’s promoted #election trending topic affected its web traffic performance, odds are, it didn’t hurt. Indeed, it may very well pave the way for how media organizations will use promoted trending topics in the future.

Without completely writing off altruism as a motive for the trio of social media giants – after all, @foxnews was notably missing from Twitter’s list of election coverage compadres – it goes without saying that the personal is political. The benefits are hard to measure but easy to identify, namely, Twitter/Facebook/Foursquare’s successful branding of their cultural use-value. Sure, it’s no secret that social media tools make great virtual water coolers and excellent news filters. But now they are embedded in the political process – from channeling the flow of conversation to locating your local polling place – to the degree that they possess, ostensibly, a civic value as well. And the more synonymous they become with important social practices like this, the more social value they accumulate.

All good marketing is social. Good social media marketers position themselves where relevant conversations take place, and then, they make themselves useful. Whether it is relevant content curation, wicked insight, a good laugh, or a great, crowd-sourced discount–value leads to engagement and social sharing. As a tactic, a cultural or social event is an excellent way to engage with publics both broad and niche at a well-planned point in time, as long as it is relevant. It can be something as simple as moderating a #chat for the conference you’re presenting at, to bigger and bolder initiatives like creating an app that aggregates content around an event, a la Twitter’s NYC Fashionweek microsite. Whatever it is, it should enhance – not interrupt – the user’s engagement with that particular event, while reinforcing the relevance and value of your own brand.

As for the election results, the Republicans took the House, but the 2nd biggest winner may have been Twitter. It emerged as the most useful social media tool for politics, from discussion and reporting, to public relations. Promoted tweets will now be all the more relevant to news organizations who want to be on top of the discussion during breaking news events. And as for the political news junkies, well, they’ve been on the bandwagon for a while now.

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Midterm 2010 Social Media Inspiration

The last edition of the Inspired Giveaway was a massive hit so we continue to offer brilliant web related books – this time in collaboration with Rob Ford of the FWA fame and TASCHEN Books. The Internet Case Study Book is nothing else than the bible of any web entrepreneur!

Rob Ford

Rob Ford is TheFWA’s founder and comes from a background in finance, sales and project management. He created the site without external funding and built a huge business around it. His work has featured in the Chicago Tribune, Guardian and various web related magazines. He has judged many industry award shows, contributes regularly to web design sites and magazines, and writes a regular column in Adobe’s Edge Newsletter. Here’s a great interview with him. You should folllow Rob on Twitter as well -> @fwa

The Internet Case Study Book

Featuring 60 success stories, from clients’ briefings to final projects, this book, which follows on from the best selling Guidelines for Online Success title, provides detailed studies divided into five chapters: e-Commerce, Corporate Sites, Campaigns, Social Media, and Promotional Sites. These subjects form the core of what the web can offer to every person or institution, and knowing how these projects were developed can help differentiate your business or online presence from that of your competitors.

Long story short you need to get this book if you’re serious about online business and read the professional case studies detailed in the five categories of the book: Campaigns, E-Commerce, Promotional, Social Media & Corporate.

Giveaway

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