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20 great examples of WordPress websites

Building a site but not sure which CMS to go with? Take a look at these 20 great examples of WordPress sites to get that inspiration flowing...

Spice up your personal site with jQuery

In this tutorial, Swedish computer science student Joel Besada shows you how to take a personal site with a common text document layout, and create something far more interesting with the jQuery Scroll Path plug-in.

Create a futuristic composition in Photoshop

Pioneer of Photoshop-based digital art Per Gustafsson shares some pro techniques for adding mood to your Photoshop projects.

Short film: The Future Forms of Life

3D artist David Lance reveals how he made a weird and wonderful creature for his short film.

The Design Student Handbook: on sale now

The first in a six-part series of practical manuals by Computer Arts magazine, The Design Student Handbook is your definitive guide to breaking into the design industry - and it's on same now in the UK and online.

Optimising for Retina: 10 essential tools

You can't afford to ignore the challenges presented by the prevalence of hi-res displays, but fortunately, there are some great tools out there for high-res design.

Designers speak out on "the new Steve Jobs"

Sir Jonathan Ive now have creative control of both product and interface design at Apple. Should we be celebrating? Leading designer give their views...