In addition to forecasting more online shopping and showing the geographical distribution of Internet users, the study also shows a dramatic shift toward mobile web use.

Paul Irish and Divya Manian have developed a base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site — HTML5 Boilerplate.

Derek Powazek writes about his usage of the 'block' functionality on social web sites such as Tumblr and Flickr.

"Mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access devices worldwide by 2013, according to a new forecast by research firm Gartner."

Mike Davidson of Mike Industries examines the rise of Apple and fall of Microsoft. Their ability to provide awesome experiences and what their strategies mean for web developers in the mobile-web era.

Nieman Journalism Lab's Megan Garber comments on Dave Eggers' talk at ASNE’s conference. In the keynote Eggers confesses “I love print … I just love the form.” But it's not just print itself — ink, paper, the tactile nature of text — that he admires. It’s the sense of comprehensiveness and direction — physically, and, he suggests, psychologically — that print represents. The ideas Eggers highlighted in his defense of print…are actually readily applicable to the web.

1. Comprehensiveness and containment.
2. Length and thoughtfulness
3. Professionalism and expert curation
4. Physicality and variety

Smashing Magazine's Vitaly Friedman assesses the current state of web design in 2010. He outlines some major trends that are emerging.

As The New Yorker’s first Web editor, Blake Eskin has led the iconic magazine brand into the digital age. Sparksheet's Dan Levy interviews Eskin about the challenges of maintaining editorial excellence in the digital age.

"The second installment of the “State of Web Development” survey of professional web designers and developers. It includes details and analysis of all the responses to over 50 ques­tions covering technologies, techniques, philosophies and practices that today’s web professionals employ."

Apple's Safari Reference Library. Technical Note TN2262: Preparing Your Web Content for iPad

Charles McCathieNevile, Chief Standards Officer at Opera answers questions put to him by Mac Slocum for O'Reilly Radar. The topic: What will the browser look like in five years?

Mark Boulton’s 'Designing for the Web' is now available to read for FREE online. I splashed out £5 last year for a UU copy of the PDF and only got as far as the first chapter. I wonder if I'll read any more of it now that it's on the interwebs and not hiding away in a Mac OS X subfolder of a subfolder.

Relpost diggs deep to bring you fresh content from the hottest web designers and the coolest blogs serving you juicy, related goodness. Handpicked related posts for Web Designers.

Beet.TV interview Marc Ruxin, EVP and Chief Innovation Officer for McCann Worldgroup on the problems surrounding online video advertising.

Martin Langeveld, a newspaper executive with a background in marketing, PR and strategic planning shares his views on how and why the iPad (and mobile platforms in general) will become dominant platforms in the broadcasting information. Langeveld and his partners run CircLabs Inc. a Silicon Valley-based firm offering a holistic, user-centric suite of solutions aimed at sustaining journalism in a digital world. Fantastic Resource.

"…Or, to put it another way: Posterous is an *engineered product*, while Tumblr is a *designed product*." & "…The second is that for consumer web apps today, design matters more than technology."

Programmers over at the BBC scratch an itch by drawing up a process that willl allow for a little bit of A/B Testing.

Andy Budd: "In short, we need educators who are leaders rather than followers. A great example of this are Web Standardistas Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson. These guys lecture on interaction design at the University of Ulster in Belfast. As well as writing a best selling book on standards based design they speak at conferences, organise community events and generally act as part of the glue that keeps our web community together."

Andy Budd: "The UK has some of the top fashion schools in the world, producing graduates of outstanding calibre. We’ve got graphic design schools staffed by some of the top names in the industry, and product design schools creating our next generation of innovators. So why don’t we seem able to do the same for the world of interaction design?"

iA: "Technology often develops from primitive to complicated to simple. The web develops faster and is more client focused than traditional technologies. Web development is cheaper, more flexible and most importantly: everyone can contribute to its development. In concrete terms: Better interaction design, less graphic design. Better user experience, less debates about taste. Faster technology, more reliable design standards…"

Wilson Miner: "After years of wondering why browsers defaulted to 16pt text sizes I’m starting to be convinced that long text really is significantly more readable on screen at precisely that size."

Via iA: "95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography."

Full-time and freelance job opportunities for web, design, and creative professionals

A showcase of well designed left-aligned web designs.