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01/12/2009 | Filed under Magazine > Latest issue

.net issue 197 is on sale now! Discover the winners of this year’s .net Awards and learn the secrets of their success

EDITORIAL INTRO FOR ISSUE 197

“Technologies have been pushed to the limit, with areas such as 3D adding to the online experience”

It hit me back in August when we started to work on our annual Awards. I just couldn’t get the thought out of my head: this has been the most exciting year I’ve seen in web design and development – bar none.

Sure, in the past there have been more exciting periods for given sections of the web community. But 2009 feels like a year where you could look across the board and say that in terms of sheer quality, things have never been better.

User experience is now a key part of most major web builds. It’s never been easier for developers to realise their ideas, thanks the variety of tools available to them. Technologies have been pushed to the limit, with areas such as 3D adding to the online experience. And – more than ever – ours is an industry that shares its knowledge with others.

We were proud to play a small part in the story of 2009, and here’s to bigger and better things in 2010!

.net issue 197 is on sale now!

The .net Awards Who’s the best, who’s coming up and who’s fallen from grace? Jason Walsh reveals all, and chats to the winners to discover the secrets of their success	Build amazing apps with Adobe tools Flash used to be “skip intro” and annoying ads. Now it’s a complete web development platform and even powers desktop apps. Simon Bisson explains how to get the most out of it
Interview: Gary Vaynerchuk Gary Vaynerchuk, host of Wine Library TV, has turned the American wine industry on its head. Oliver Lindberg talks to him to find out how Ze Frank changed his life, why he still answers every email and what else he has up his sleeve	Design a 3D virtual window Max Folley of interactive agency BKWLD explains how to pull images in from Flickr and manipulate them in 3D space using a webcam and facial recognition
Build an ExpressionEngine site Glen Swinfield and Phil Swan of Nottingham-based digital agency Erskine Design walk you through building a basic site with the powerful ExpressionEngine CMS	Build an on-screen display app Usman Sheikh and Liang Lin of Contrive Digital built a brilliant display application for the recent .net Awards ceremony in London. Here they explain how you can create your own