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Matthew MagainMatthew Magain is the Creative Director of sitepoint.com.

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Matthew Magain has written 15 articles for SitePoint with an average reader rating of 8.3.

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Luke Stevens on Data Driven Design
Build Your Own Data-backed Personas
Introducing the SitePoint Personas
Web Site Basics: Stuff Beginners Need To Know
Scratching the Surface with August de los Reyes
Digg's Designer Divulges Design Details
Jina Bolton on Creating Sexy Stylesheets
10 Tips for Being a Greener Web Designer
Andy Budd on Usability, Design, and the Death of CSS
Design Contests Made Me A Better Designer
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SitePoint Tribune Legend Steps Down
Win Signed SitePoint Books at Web Directions South
SitePoint Podcast #30: Google Infects IE
SitePoint Podcast #29: Interview with Roy Rubin
An Update on the SitePoint Newsletter Lists
Personas Quiz: Did you Win a $100 Amazon Voucher?
Announcing the Winner of our Web Directions South Quiz
Vote For These SitePoint SXSW Panels
Aussies to Geek it up During Web Week
Take Our Personas Quiz, Win a $100 Amazon Voucher!
McFarlane Prize 2009: Nominations Open
Build Your Own URL Shortener
Take the Web Directions Quiz and Win!
Web Directions South: Discount Tickets for SitePoint Readers
Introducing Flippa: The New Place to Buy and Sell Web Sites
FullCodePress: And The Winner Is ...
More Video Action From FullCodePress 2009
FullCodePress Update: CodeBlacks Bet On Beta CMS
FullCodePress Organiser's Dastardly Plans Revealed
FullCodePress: WordPress vs Rails
Learn About Affiliate Marketing... For Free
StartupCamp Sydney Sites Go Under The Hammer
Introducing the SitePoint Web Slices and Accelerator for IE8
Reseller Email Marketing: A New Revenue Stream For Designers?
Win SitePoint Books At Web-blast '08
Adding the SitePoint References to Coda
Twitter Competition, Part 2: CSS Book Giveaway
SitePoint Edge Of The Web Competition: And The Winner Is...
Last Chance To Win A Free Adobe AIR Book!
Follow Us On Twitter; Attend Edge Of The Web For Free!
How Smart Are You? It’s Quiz Time!
SitePoint Named Finalist for 2008 My Business Award
Web Directions South, Day Two: Crowd vs Community
Web Directions South, Day One: Conversation Is King
Cool SitePoint Schwag At Web Directions South
More Free Stuff? Yep, Take A Quiz And Win A Book!
99designs Voted Best Web Site At SmartCompany Awards
Target Settles Accessibility Lawsuit for $6 Million
Would You Switch To IE8?
Another 100 Free Adobe AIR Books: First In, Best Dressed!
SitePoint Services: Introducing Clients To Vendors
Free Book Giveaway: Adobe AIR For JavaScript Developers
5 Awesome Productivity Apps For The iPhone
Who Is The Best Web Developer In Australia?
Create Your Own Font Using FontStruct
Learn JavaScript From The Master At Web Directions South
7 Reasons Why The New SitePoint Front Page Rocks
Learn Design From The Masters—First Up: Mark Boulton
Why The 10 Commandments Of Web Design Are Complete Baloney
CSS Theme Week... And That's All Folks!
CSS Animation: The Ultimate Web Design Easter Egg
CSS Theme Week: More CSS Tutorials Than You Can Handle!
The Web Site Flipping World Championships
Reddit's Flawed CAPTCHA: Adding Insult To Injury
Free PDF Download: Firefox 3 Revealed!
Four Days Left To Win A MacBook From 99designs!
Google Changes Favicon, Challenges You To Do Better
Goosh: Google From The Command Line
Checkmate—There’s Money In Online Games
Button Up! More Photoshop Goodness...
The Conversation Is More Important Than The Topic
Adobe Flex/AIR Article Competition: And The Winners Are...
Web Directions UX Wrap-up: Andy Budd and Steve Baty
Web Directions UX: Making Your Users Feel Special
FREE PDF Download: The Photoshop Anthology
The Ultimate Money-making Blog Smackdown
Meet Richard the Designer. Richard Loves Design Contests.
New Directions In Web Conferences
Enter The Matrix -- Browse The Complete SitePoint Library
Determining the TRUE Value of a Web Site
Adobe AIR/Flex Competition Deadline Extended
Marketplace Madness: Two Categories Now FREE!
WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Released
Bigger And Better: Trends in Mobile Screen Sizes
Live Demos: The SitePoint CSS Reference Goes Interactive
Google Invests Big In Clean Energy
Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers
Web Directions North Podcasts and Slides Online
10th Birthday Special: Buy One Kit, Get One Free!
Get Your Non-Apple PC With Mac OS X Pre-installed
Write For SitePoint And Win The Adobe CS3 Web Premium Suite
Microsoft To Follow Apple's Lead on Backwards Compatibility
Firefox 3 Beta 5 Available For Download
SitePoint Is Looking For A New Managing Editor
Opera and Safari Pass Acid3 Test
Team SitePoint Learns To Improvise
Adobe Integrated Runtime: More Than Just Hot AIR
How To Become A Project Management Super Hero
Mozilla Prism: Stuck In The Middle With UI
Learn From The Best: The SitePoint Gurus
Interpreting the Results of the SitePoint Reader Survey, Part 2: Content
Interpreting the Results of the 2008 SitePoint Reader Survey, Part 1
The SitePoint HTML Reference Is Live!
And The Winner of the Nintendo Wii is...
WaSP Gives SitePoint Books The Thumbs Up
Ask.com: We've Got All The Answers
Kiss Your Ask.com Goodbye
Only 3 Days Left To Win A Wii!
WaSP Releases Acid3 Test
Microsoft Backflips on Browser Version Targeting
News Wire: AIR, Flex 3, Click Fraud, and more!
The Web's $100 Million Secret Economy
The Ultimate CSS Reference!
Microsoft Wipes Out Open Document Formats
News Wire: Google's Colorful Logo, jQuery Reference, and more
Email Sucks; Mozilla Wants To Fix It.
Wow! Windy Wellington's Webstock Wrap-up...
Marketplace Users Risk Getting Left Behind
Drupal 6.0 Released
Yahoo: 60% Chance To Sell To Alternative Bidder
File Not Found? Google Knows Best
99designs launches!
News Wire: Safari Speeds Up AND Gets Web Fonts!
Take the SitePoint Reader Survey: Win a Nintendo Wii!
Yahoo Says No: Genius or Suicide?
CSS Reset Reloaded. Again.
MySpace Developer Platform Launches
Apple's OS X "Utter Crap" According to Linux Founder
Microsoft Offers $42 Billion For Yahoo!
Introducing The SitePoint CSS Reference!
99designs Logo Contest Winner Announced!
HTML 5 Spec Released, Warts and All
IE8 Standards Mode Is Opt-in
The Best Web Design Comics
Sun Buys MySQL For $1 Billion
Help Create the Acid3 Test for JavaScript Compliance
Cross-site Ajax in Firefox 3
Design Contests Needs An Identity
Web Directions North: Discount For SitePoint Readers
Facebook Opens Up, But You Still Have To Add Friends Manually
HTML5 Working Group Rejects Open Media Formats
How To Run A Successful Design Contest
WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft
Facebook Beacon: The Great Privacy PR Stunt
SitePoint Books Rated Best of 2007
Rails 2.0.1 Released!
@media Ajax Presentation: Metaprogramming JavaScript
Free Podcast: The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
Who Said Beautiful Web Design was Hard?
Google To Abandon PageRank?
The Email Standards Project Launches
SitePoint Giving Away Books Based On Foosball Skills!
Google And Paypal To Pay You For Xmas Shopping
Free Rails PDF: Only 3 Days To Go!
Web Directions North: Early Bird Pricing Ending Soon!
Design the Cover of SitePoint's Next Book!
Design Great Billboards
Over One Terabyte of FREE PDFs!
A Survival Guide for ASP.NET Developers
And the iPod Touch goes to...
The Email Standards Project: Moderating the Email Wars
Web Directions: The myths of innovation
SitePoint Contests Highly Commended in McFarlane Prize
Web Directions: Comic book inspiration and the CSS Eleven
Free books for the 5,000th member!
SitePoint shortlisted for best Australian web site
Throw your Mac out the Window!
FullCodePress Designers Share Their Design Secrets
sitepoint.com ranked 3rd most popular eBusiness site in the world!
FullCodePress: Pre-built vs Custom?
FullCodePress: Watch the sites evolve live!
Where Is Your Passion?
Geek Olympics: 24 hours, 2 teams, 1 trophy...
Aussie Web Design Awards Roundup
Win Cash for the best Facebook App!
iPhoney: Test Your Site for iPhone Compatibility
Web Directions South: Early Bird Pricing Ending Soon!
Rich Developer, Poor Developer
Safari for Windows!
User Style Sheets Come of Age
Easy Database Schema Diagrams with DBVisualizer
Typography: Baseline Rhythm Deciphered
HTML: The Top 5 Forgotten Elements
Are You Ready For Web 3.0?
SXSW Interactive 2007: Final Wrap-up
SXSW Interactive 2007: Day Three
WaSP Street Team
SXSW Interactive 2007: Day Two
SXSW Interactive 2007: Day One
Books for Beers at SXSW!
Bowl with Team SitePoint at SXSW!
Rails 1.2: No More Excuses!
Usability Double-whammy!
The State of Web Development: PHP developers most likely to switch to Rails
2006 Create: Awards for Excellence in Australian Design
The McFarlane Prize for excellence in Australian web design
Adobe CS2 breaks Intel Apple Macs
Web geeks + snowboarding = Snow Web 06
WCAG 2.0 is broken--leave your comments now!
Atlas disappoints in cross-browser support
Google Calendar: All Your Appointments Are Belong To Us
digg: anti-social software?
OSDC 2005 Wrap Up

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