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Jose Olarte - Simulating The Letterpress: From Live Filters In Fireworks To CSS Code

One of the visual effects that is a mainstay in my Web design toolkit is theletterpress effect. Used properly, it’s a quick way to make text blend better with the layout, as if it were machine-stamp

Tutorials , Fireworks

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Mike Sierra - Do Mobile And Desktop Interfaces Belong Together?

The term “responsive design” has gathered a lot of well-deserved buzz among Web designers. As you probably know, it refers to an easy way to dynamically customize interfaces for different devices an

Responsive Design , Hybrid , mobile

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Daniel Pataki - Guide To WordPress Coding Standards

Whenever we set code to screen, we must follow some sort of logic. You may well be the only person who understands that logic, but you still make the effort. The reason we follow standards and pract

wordpress , Techniques (WP)

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Simon Schmid - The Personality Layer

“Oh hai Smashing Magazine!” That’s one of the dozen ways that Flickr welcomes its users upon signing in every time. It’s an easily overlooked detail, one that the service would work without flawless

Graphic Design , ux , Emotional Design , Design

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Zack Grossbart - 12 Commandments Of Software Localization

You’ve presented the new website and everyone loves it. The design is crisp, the code is bug-free, and you’re ready to release. Then someone asks, “Does it work in Japanese?” You break out in a col

Localization , coding

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Paul Boag - Are You Giving Your Users Positive Feedback?

We love to tell users that they have done something wrong. We have error messages for everything from poorly formatted telephone numbers to incorrect logins. But what about our user’s successes, do

ux , Usability , Opinion Column

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Jeremy Girard - Keys To Better Communication With Clients

I recently spoke with a prospective client who started the conversation by saying that he had called usbecause he was unhappy with his website’s current design and development team. Questioning what

Clients , Communication , Business

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Chris Coyier - Coding Q&A With Chris Coyier: Code Smell And Type On A Grid

Howdy, folks! Welcome to the new incarnation of Smashing Magazine’s QA. It’s going to work like this: you send in questions you have about CSS, and at least once a month we’ll pick out the best ques

coding , Css

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Nicholas C. Zakas - It’s Time To Stop Blaming Internet Explorer

Earlier this week, we published two articles by Louis Lazaris: one on why old browsers are holding back the Web and another encouraging Web users to upgrade their browsers and use modern browsers ot

coding , Web Design , Browsers , Internet Explorer

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Lyndon Cerejo - The Elements Of The Mobile User Experience

Mobile users and mobile usage are growing. With more users doing more on mobile, the spotlight is on how to improve the individual elements that together create the mobile user experience. The mobi

Design Patterns , mobile , ux

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Laura Franz - Avoiding Faux Weights And Styles With Google Web Fonts

If you’re using Google Web Fonts on your websites, then there’s a very good chance that 1 in 5 visitors are seeing faux bold and italic versions of your fonts — even if you correctly selected and us

Typography , fonts

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Sabina Idler - Better Product Pages Turn Visitors Into Customers

The way you present your product or service is essential to its success — or at least it could be if you know how to do it right. On the Web, like anywhere else, the first impression you make on peo

ux , Branding , Product Strategy , Design

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Louis Lazaris - Dear Web User: Please Upgrade Your Browser

Shopping. Social networking. Emailing. Reading. Finding directions. Banking. Researching. Those are some of the most common tasks people perform on the World Wide Web. You’ve probably done all of th

ux , Web Design , Browsers

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Louis Lazaris - Old Browsers Are Holding Back The Web

Because of how far certain Web technologies like HTML5 and CSS3 have brought us, many would say that—from a Web platform perspective—the future is now. Sounds like a cliché, I know. At the very leas

Web Design , Browsers , Internet Explorer

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Vitaly Friedman - Typography Guidelines And References

Here are carefully selected articles about typography and type design that have been published in Smashing Magazine over all the years. Quick Overview Respect Thy Typography The Perfect Parag

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Greg Nudelman - Essential Design Patterns For Mobile Banking

Despite a great deal of mobile innovation, many creators of financial apps still copy their interface patterns from the desktop Web, even though these patterns are not as well suited to the mobile s

Design Patterns , mobile

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Jason Amunwa - Tips For A Finely Crafted Website

Good Web designers know what many others might not realize: that creating a truly beautiful website requires care, time and craft. And similar to how a craftsperson molds their creation by combining

Graphic Design , Interaction Design , ux , Design

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Siobhan McKeown - Writing Effective Documentation For WordPress End Users

Today I get to write about something close to my heart: documentation. The emails I love the most start with, “I’ve got this new product. Please, document it!” I get a lot of pleasure from learning

wordpress , Techniques (WP)

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Vitaly Friedman - Learning CSS3: A Reference Guide

This overview features a hand-picked and organized selection of the most useful Smashing Magazine’s articles related to CSS3 and published here over all the years. Quick Overview Why We Should

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Trevor Kay - Interactive Prototypes And Time-Savers With Adobe Fireworks

Without context, it would be difficult for your clients to understand the flow of an app or website in the way you originally planned it. The best way to introduce context is by adding interactivity

Tutorials , Fireworks , Techniques , Prototyping

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Vitaly Friedman - Road Map To Coding With HTML5: Tutorials and Guidelines

This overview features a hand-picked and organized selection of the most useful and popular Smashing Magazine’s articles related to HTML5 and published here over all the years. Quick Overview F

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Vitaly Friedman - Responsive Web Design Guidelines and Tutorials

In this overview you will find the most useful and popular articles we have published on Smashing Magazine on Responsive Web Design. Quick Overview Design Process In The Responsive Age Respon

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Vitaly Friedman - Usability & User Experience

This overview features a hand-picked and organized selection of the most useful and popular Smashing Magazine’s articles related to Usability and User Experience and published here over all the year

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Vitaly Friedman - Mastering CSS Principles: A Comprehensive Guide

This overview features a hand-picked and organized selection of the most useful and popular Smashing Magazine’s articles related to CSS and published here over the years. Quick Overview CSS Flo

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