If you’re a regular subscriber to Elated, you may have noticed a distinct lack of updates for the last few months. This article explains why!

jQuery Mobile is a great JavaScript framework that's designed to help you build mobile web apps and mobile-friendly websites quickly and easily. The latest version, 1.4, came out last month, and it represents a big step forward for the framework.

In this article you'll get an overview of the changes and improvements in 1.4, and learn how to apply some of these techniques to your own websites and web apps.

The world of building websites is always a fast-moving one. It seems like some amazing new framework or design app comes out every day!

In this article you'll get a rundown of 7 exciting new developments in the web design and development arena. These technologies promise to make it easier than ever to create beautiful, functional websites and web apps. Enjoy!

It's giveaway time again! This week we're excited to announce that we have teamed up with WebHostingBuzz to offer you the chance to win one of three awesome web hosting packages, worth over $95! This package features unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, a free domain name and more! Read on to find out exactly how you can be in with a chance to win.

The Ruby programming language is becoming increasingly popular, thanks to its clean syntax, its object-oriented features, and its range of high-quality libraries and frameworks.

In this tutorial, you get a gentle introduction to programming in Ruby. You learn how to install Ruby, how to write simple Ruby scripts, and how to create Ruby classes and objects. Includes example code to get you up and running.

The scene: The mid-nineties, somewhere in rural Bedfordshire, UK.

The twentysomething me is sitting on the floor of a house having a quiet epiphany. It's the house of the manager of my band and I'm reading art books from her collection, while someone strums a guitar nearby. The manager's cooking something intriguing for tea while on the phone she's organising an installation for the artist sat on the sofa to my right. Someone's just brought round a very early PowerBook and we're thinking how cool this gadget is and how we might use this thing called PageMaker to do better flyers and posters for the band.

This was the first period in my life where I consciously understood a thing I now call the continuum. This flash of intuition has guided almost everything I've done since then, and revolves around the idea that everything is connected, and all art, business and relationships are essentially components of a single entity.

It's giveaway time again here on Elated! This week, you can win a copy of the Pro version of Type & Grids, a lovely responsive HTML5 template that makes it really easy to build a great-looking, responsive layout for your websites. We have three copies of this template to give away.

jQuery Mobile is a handy JavaScript framework that makes it easy for you to build mobile web apps and mobile-friendly websites. jQuery Mobile 1.3 came out last week, and it has all sorts of lovely new features and improvements over 1.2.

In this article you'll get an overview of these changes, and see how to use jQuery Mobile 1.3 to enhance your websites and web apps even further.

So you've been given the job of looking after the company website. Where do you begin?

In this article, Simon Meek lays down the law as to what you should be able to do if you've been put in charge of your organisation's website. You'll learn 9 useful skills that you'll need to have, including using your browser effectively, good copywriting technique, image manipulation skills, and more!

In this tutorial you'll explore anonymous functions in PHP. Anonymous functions are a PHP feature that you probably won't use that often; however, they can be really useful in certain situations, as you'll see.

You'll learn how to create and call anonymous functions; how to assign them to variables; how to use them to create callbacks and closures, and lots more!