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Visit this page at http://www.smartphonemag.com/

As the online presence of an industry publication, this site required a lot of custom features. 

The home page itself is a custom script which retrieves the most recent content on the site and looks for an ideal balance of blog entries ("Experts Online"), articles from the current issue, articles from back issues, and help & how-tos.  If it doesn't find enough articles of a certain type in the most recent articles, it promotes an old article of that type, making it appear new again for the purposes of displaying it on the home page.  Since all these tasks are time-intensive, the page is cached on the server and only refreshed every 10 minutes.