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Tim Ahrens - A Closer Look At Font Rendering

The Web font revolution that started around two years ago has brought up a topic that many of us had merrily ignored for many years: font rendering. The newfound freedom Web fonts are giving us brin

Typography , fonts , Inspiration

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Christopher Butler - Stop Shouting. Start Teaching.

Imagine you are in a classroom. Let’s say a high school classroom. You’re sitting at your desk, listening to your favorite teacher—the one who inspired you, the one who got you excited about that th

Marketing , workflow , E-Commerce , Discussions , Opinion Column

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Indi Young and Brad Colbow - Mental Model Diagram – Cartoon

We tend to carefully create our HTML and CSS, and meticulously place every pixel to our designs. We plan exactly where our content should be placed on a particular site. Among many other decisions w

Interaction Design , ux

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Jonathan Snook - Decoupling HTML From CSS

For years, the Web standards community has talked about the separation of concerns. Separate your CSS from your JavaScript from your HTML. We all do that, right? CSS goes into its own file; JavaScri

coding , Css , HTML

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Bruce Lawson - Why We Shouldn’t Make Separate Mobile Websites

There has been a long-running war going on over the mobile Web: it can be summarized with the following question: “Is there a mobile Web?” That is, is the mobile device so fundamentally different th

Responsive Design , mobile , Strategy

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Goce Mitevski - Random Redirection In WordPress

How do you make your WordPress magazine more interactive? Have you tried random redirection? Call it recycling if you like, but random redirection doesn’t have to be about retreading familiar terri

wordpress , Techniques , admin

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Karen Kaushansky - Designing With Audio: What Is Sound Good For?

Our world is getting louder. Consider all the beeps and bops from your smartphone that alert you that something is happening, and all the feedback from your appliances when your toast is ready or yo

Interaction Design , ux , Web Audio , Design , ui

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Tom Giannattasio - Beercamp: An Experiment With CSS 3D

I recently had the pleasure of organizing this year’s Beercamp website. If you’re unfamiliar, Beercamp is a party for designers and developers. It’s also a playground for front-end experimentation.

css3 , coding

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Varya Stepanova - BEM: A New Front-End Methodology

This article is the sixth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The fi

Frameworks , templates , coding , Css , HTML , Javascript

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Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser - When Typography Speaks Louder Than Words

Clever graphic designers love to use typography to explore the interaction between the look of type and what type actually says. In communicating a message, a balance has to be achieved between the

Graphic Design , Typography , Web Design

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Siobhan McKeown - Smashing Special: What’s Going On In The WordPress Economy? - Part 2

This article is part of our series of Smashing Specials — extended articles and studies dedicated to a specific topic. The special looks at the current state of the WordPress economy, exploring WP M

wordpress , Techniques (WP)

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Siobhan McKeown - What’s Going On In The WordPress Economy?

In a post on her blog last year, WordPress designer, business woman and author Lisa Sabin Wilson, talked about how thankful she is to be part of the WordPress economy. It’s an economy that thousands

Community , wordpress , Trends , plugins , Business

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Sabina Idler - Not Just Pretty: Building Emotion Into Your Websites

Emotional design has become a powerful tool in creating exceptional user experiences for websites. However, emotions did not use to play such an important role on the Web. Actually, they did not use

ux , Emotional Design , Content Strategy , Design

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Niels Matthijs - CSS Sprites Revisited

I’m pretty confident that I won’t surprise anyone here by saying that CSS sprites have been around for quite a while now, rearing their somewhat controversial heads in the Web development sphere as

Sprites , Techniques , coding , Css , Essentials

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Theresa Neil, Rich Malley - UI Patterns For Mobile Apps: Search, Sort And Filter

As I was waiting for a table at a local restaurant the other day, I flipped through a couple of the free classified papers. I was shocked to realize how dependent I’ve grown on three simple features

Design Patterns , ux , Usability

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John Casey - The Art Of Launching An App: A Case Study

You’ve made your first app! Now what? Anyone in the app business knows that marketing an app is tough. And according to a recent article on TechCrunch, “Getting a mobile app noticed in the increasi

Marketing , mobile , Case Studies , Content Strategy , Product Strategy , Business

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Daniel Pataki - Manage Events Like A Pro With Wordpress

Repeating events, schedules, multiple days, multiple tracks, multiple prices, multiple speakers, multiple organizations, multiple payment options — the list goes on on for quite some time. Today

wordpress , Management

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Laura Franz - Drop Caps: Historical Use And Current Best Practices With CSS

The practice of using a large letter to mark the start of a text has been around for almost two thousand years. Illustrated caps increased usability by marking important passages and guiding readers

Typography , Design

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Daniel Waisberg - How To Keep Your Google Analytics Data Safe And Clean

Whoever works with analytics on a day-to-to-day basis knows how important it is to have a continuity with the data. Any slip might be fatal: data can disappear, trends misunderstood and jobs lost. L

Statistics , workflow , Analytics , Tools

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Vitaly Friedman - 23 Inspirational And Artistic Desktop Wallpaper for April

We’ve discovered the best one — desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd. This creativity mission has been going on for over four years now, and we are very thankfu

Wallpapers , Graphics

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Louis Lazaris - When You Learn Something, Write About It!

I don’t think anyone can deny that the Web has changed the way people teach, learn, and do research. Of course, this doesn’t mean that everything we read online is true and accurate—far from it. But

Community , workflow , Opinion Column

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Sacha Greif - How to Easily Sell Digital Goods Online

There’s a realization that every freelance designer must go through at some point: client work isn’t enough to ensure your long-term financial security. What if you get sick? What if you can’t find

E-Commerce , Payment , Income , Business

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Aarron Walter - Redesigning With Personality

We are very happy to present a sample chapter from the SOLD OUT printed Smashing Book #3, written by Aarron Walter. In this chapter, Aarron explains how sharing our personalities can help us create

Graphic Design , Personality , Web Design , Emotional Design

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Chuck Longanecker - Give Your Website Soul With Emotionally Intelligent Interactions

What is it that makes us loyal fans of the websites and apps we love? When we sat down to answer this question for ourselves, we found that the websites and apps we truly love have one thing in comm

Interaction Design , ux , Emotional Design

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