Web Designer issue 188 is available from September 22nd so here’s our regular preview of the latest cover and some info on the major highlights in the mag and on the coverdisc…

YouTube’s javascript player API makes it possible to create a custom player using javascript controls with a chromeless version of its embedded Flash player

Web Designer issue 174 hits the shelves tomorrow (26 August) and so we’ve got a sneak peak of the latest cover and a quick breakdown of the main content

Following in the footsteps of other mainstream musical acts that have found web design to be a dearth of inspiration – namely Brazilian combo CSS, of course, and rap forefather Grandmaster Flash (apologies for that one) – there’s a new star on the scene.He’s already burning things up on YouTube with some rapid fire hip-hop rhymes, oh yes, he is the web design rapper!You can add to his popularity by checking out http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qMe7Z3EYg.Just remember not to get ‘refresh’ with his ‘URL’ or you might get ‘hits’ and end up in a body ‘tag’…Scary stuff.We reckon there’s a load of great web design/hip-hop or R&B puns to exploit, so why not drop us a load on this very blog?Let’s kick it off with J’Lo’s seminal ‘Jenny from the <blockquote>’.(I’m sorry)

We’ve spotted a really cool link today in the Web Designer office, and thought we’d share it with you.Head on over to www.youtube.com/experiencewii to see a really cool sponsored video clip for the new Wario Shake game.Pay attention to the graphical debris and falling page furniture – really well done.

The major Web players, Google, Yahoo, Flickr, eBay etc, have been jumping on the open source bandwagon and opening up their frameworks, giving developers free access to their application programming interfaces (APIs)