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19/08/2008 | Filed under Magazine > Latest issue / Magazine > Back issues
.net issue 180 is now on sale! We reveal the ultimate ways to beat the creative block and generate new ideas, and show you what to do when someone rips off your site
EDITORIAL INTRO FOR ISSUE 180
“Just one in five of you visits our site on a regular basis and, well, that’s just not good enough”
I’ve just come back from a presentation where we were given the results of our latest reader survey. There were some interesting figures. For instance, I bet you didn’t know that 86 per cent of you are, in fact, men. This figure, in itself, may not be noteworthy. But from this statistic our eggheads, working busily behind the scenes, can calculate that 14 per cent of you are women! (You see, this is why we spend weeks collating this data!)
In other news, we have a total readership of 32,402, with the majority of you enjoying the magazine and finding our CD to be useful. But there’s one area where we’re letting the side down – our website.
Just one in five of you visits our site on a regular basis and, well, that’s just not good enough. So here’s how you can help: visit our site, make a note of what you’d like to see more of, and mail me with your thoughts; we’ll even print the best ones!
.net issue 180 is on sale now!
 Beat the creative block TA blank sheet of paper can incite creative paralysis. So how do you bust out and gain control? Eric Karjaluoto, of strategic interactive agency smashLAB, shares his thoughts |  Thwart the design thieves You’ve spent time and effort creating a beautiful site, only to find it’s been ripped off by a rival. Is there anything you can do? Elliot Jay Stocks canvasses the industry’s top designers for their ideas |
 Interview with Poke’s Simon Waterfall Award-winning digital agency Poke is pushing the boundaries of the developer-client relationship. Simon Waterfall, co-founder and creative director, reveals what makes its way of working so different |  Flash animation with ActionScript 3.0 Pushed for time? Deadlines looming? Learn to copy tweened animations to ActionScript and you can save yourself hours of effort. Paul Wyatt demonstrates this handy technique |
 Enhance internal page links Craig Grannell shows you how to use a couple of nifty CSS3 tricks to improve the usability of internal page links on your websites |  Q&A with Tom Watson Gordon Brown’s web Tsar talks to .net about the failures and successes of the UK government’s online strategy |
