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.net issue 189 is on sale now! We explode the myths of web design and explain how to make the most of Google Analytics

EDITORIAL INTRO FOR ISSUE 189

“The very best myths are usually the ones that have some grain of truth at their centre”

We’ve all propagated a myth at some point or other in our lives. Most of us probably aren’t too willing to admit it, but the fact is that we’re predisposed to believe things that people tell us. We’re just nice like that. However, the more outlandish the claim, the more likely we are to question it, which is why the very best myths are usually the ones that have some grain of truth at their centre.

In this issue’s lead feature, we dispel some of the biggest myths in web design and development, which – though often containing an element of fact – can have an adverse effect on your projects if you strictly adhere to them.

It’s time to slay the dragon, and banish outdated dogma to a far and distant land. So, without further ado, turn to page 40 of the new issue and discover whether everything you think you know about web design and development is actually wrong!

.net issue 189 is on sale now!

Exploding the myths of web design Everyone knows it, so it must be true, right? Wrong! Craig Grannell talks to industry figures to uncover some major misconceptions in web design and development	Make cloud computing work for you Forget blue-sky thinking: where it’s really at is in the cloud, says Tim Carr of 3ev
Get your first job in web design As the academic year draws to a close, web design students are gearing up to unleash themselves on the job market. Recent graduate Jack Osborne has some advice for them	Interview with Jake Nickell of Threadless Threadless uses the power of crowdsourcing to sell more than 100,000 T-shirts a month. Company founder Jake Nickell talks to Oliver Lindberg about how he turned a simple hobby into a multimillion dollar business empire
Create a custom CMS Tired of hacking canned blogging tools into CMSes for non-blog sites? Jeff Croft shows you how to create a CMS tailored specifically to your unique content	How to win clients Fancy going freelance or starting your own agency? In this special six-part series, we reveal all you need to know to go it alone. In part one, Robert Mills from Mark Boulton Design explains how to go about winning your first clients