Before (left) and after: our new picture galleries

Front-end developer Emma Sax explains how - and why - we moved to a full-page gallery experience

Need new ideas for everyday ingredients? Photograph: Alamy

There comes a time of day, usually in the late afternoon, when thoughts drift to the imagined delights of that evening's dinner table. Questions are tweeted, inspiration sought from desk mates and strangers, buck-passing phone calls are made to partners, wheedling tone at the ready, "any ideas for tea tonight?" (or is that just me?). But sometimes inventive colleagues, patient friends and long-suffering partners are not to hand and we're left juggling the contents of our fridges around our imaginations by ourselves. Inevitably, in these moments, many of us turn to the internet.

We've spent some time browsing the many great recipe searches you recommended, thought about how we all search for inspiration at tea time, and today we are pleased to be adding our own ingredient-led recipe search to the mix. Continue reading...

We've launched a new twitterstream today, @GdnLocal, to help hyperlocal websites and local news bloggers across the country stay connected.
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Reading your reactions to our World Cup 2010 Twitter replay visualization made me smile. There's no better affirmation for a web project than seeing it reach people around the world. With readers of every competing nation taking an interest, I thought it might be worth describing how we put it together. As with football, teamwork is everything. Continue reading...

You'll now see Guardian Weekly unique content across the site

Guardian content pages now come equipped with a shortened version of the URL for easier sharing

... and Steve Jobs likes it

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The 2010 'Future of web design' conference set out to cover "the topics that matter most to today's web designers and front end developers, including HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and UX". Guardian Information Architect Martin Belam went along.

To fix the recent problems with our Guardian iPhone app simply delete the app and reinstall the app (please note you will not be charged again should you do this)

We recently made changes to the "tweet this" button on guardian.co.uk, so that it uses a shorter format of our URLs. This is part of some ongoing work to provide useful social media tools on guardian.co.uk pages - and we are interested in getting your views on some of our suggested new features.

Over the past few months the guardian.co.uk politics pages have been revamped in readiness for the 2010 general election. Matthew O'Brien explains what these numbers tell us

The revamped world front page

We've launched a new world page. Let us know what you think

The Guardian's national carbon calculator. Photograph: David Levene

Mairead O'Connor: Our national carbon calculator attempts to model where the UK's carbon emissions come from. Find out more about how we developed this product and explore the data behind it

The University of Edinburgh's Informatics Forum was the venue for a debate about 'Journalism in the digital age', held as part of the city's International Science Festival.

The Guardian recently hosted a panel event at the Edinburgh International Science Festival. Martin Belam, Information Architect for guardian.co.uk, gave this presentation discussing the impact of technological changes on journalism, and looking ahead at future trends.

Detail from the Guardian Eyewitness app for iPad featuring a Dan Chung photograph of post-tsunami devastation in Indonesia and the thumbnail gallery view feature

A photographic feast offered on Apple's latest highly tactile, visual device