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Justin Mifsud - Can User Experience Be Beautiful? An Analysis Of Navigation In Portfolio Websites

When users land on your website, they typically read the content available. Then, the next thing that they will do is to try and familiarize themselves with your website. Most of the time this invol

Graphic Design , Portfolios , Navigation , Web Design

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Thierry Koblentz - Device-Agnostic Approach To Responsive Web Design

This is a different take on Responsive Web design. This article discusses how we can better embrace what the Web is about by ignoring the big elephant in the room; that is, how we can rely on media

Techniques , Responsive Design , coding

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Alastair Johnston - Weird And Wonderful Typography - Yet Still Illegible

First a question (or perhaps a Freudian jab at your subconscious): What does this shape represent? Could it be a trowel, a duck, an ornamental motif, or a seed-pod? I know, Aladdin’s Lamp! What i

Graphic Design , Typography , fonts , Inspiration , Web Design

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Petter Silfver - The Elements Of Navigation + 6 Design Guidelines

When users look for information, they have a goal and are on a mission. Even before you started to read this article, chances are you did because you either had the implicit goal of checking what’s

Interaction Design , Navigation , ux , Usability , Design

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Erskine Design - Gridpak: The Responsive Grid Generator

This article is the fifth 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 , Tools , coding

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Craig Anderson - The Art Of Content Marketing

A few months ago I went to collect a friend from hospital. Arriving early, I entered the waiting room and noticed in-house magazines stacked by the door. I picked one up, grabbed a coffee and took a

Marketing , Content , Content Strategy , Business

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Espen Brunborg - Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends

Since Elliot Jay Stocks so poignantly told us to destroy the Web 2.0 look, we’ve witnessed a de-shinification of the Web, with fewer glass buttons, beveled edges, reflections, special-offer badges,

Graphic Design , Trends , ux , Opinion Column

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Kevin Muldoon - Useful Free Admin Plugins For WordPress

The admin area is the heart of any WordPress-powered website. It’s where everything is controlled and where admin, editors, authors and contributors publish content to posts, pages and other custom

wordpress , admin , plugins

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Espen Brunborg - Respect Thy Typography

Good typography shouldn’t have to rely on ornamental crutches to stand tall. Yet despite all the tools and knowledge available to us, we readily embrace a flourishing, decorative typography, with ch

Typography , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Smashing Usability Testing Panel: Opt-Out Successful

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Lynda Elliott - Techniques For Overcoming Poor CSS Support In Email

Unlike most Web browsers, email clients have not yet united in support of HTML email standards, resulting in poor CSS support for email. Inconsistent support for images in email clients has thus mo

Newsletters , Techniques , Emails , coding , Css , HTML

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Vitaly Friedman - Smashing Usability Testing Panel: Check Your Email!

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Vitaly Friedman - Smashing Usability Testing Panel: Yay, Subscription Confirmed!

Fantastic, it worked! Your sign-up to our Usability Testing Panel has been confirmed. You should have received a final confirmation via email. If you haven’t done it yet, please add us to your addr

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Vitaly Friedman - The Smashing Usability Testing Panel: Join In!

Here at Smashing Magazine, we work very hard to improve the overall user experience for our readers. Design, usability, copy, the quality of published articles, our products and projects—just to nam

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Rian van der Merwe - A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children

I spend a lot of time buying and testing iPad apps for kids. To be more specific, I lovingly do this for a certain two-year-old girl who is currently on a very successful #OccupyiPad mission in my h

ux , Usability , Design

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Veerle Pieters - The Smashing Book #3 Cover Design

After some doubting on my end (as I was slightly concerned about the timing), I decided to take on the project. This was just too good an opportunity, as the briefing basically said “Do your thing.

Events , Smashing Books

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Adrian Taylor - Top Non-Destructive Photoshop Techniques

The creative process is not a linear one. As artists and designers, we often set off in one direction only to decide that the proper solution lies somewhere else completely. Unfortunately, many of t

Photoshop , workflow , Techniques , Graphics

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Tom McFarlin - A Process For Professional WordPress Development

Recently, we discussed “How Commercial Plugin Developers Are Using The WordPress Repository.” This article provided a solid explanation of the plugin repository, how to use it, how not to abuse it,

wordpress , Themes , Techniques (WP) , plugins

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Richard Shepherd - Behind The Scenes Of Tourism New Zealand (Case Study)

In 2011 we saw the rise in popularity of two relatively new trends: responsive Web design and the use of HTML’s canvas. While some websites had experimented with both, in the last 12 months we’ve se

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design , Design

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Martha Rotter - Designing Engaging And Enjoyable Long-Form Reading Experiences

Finally, some good news from the media industry: digital subscriptions are growing. We’re seeing positive reports from newspapers such as the New York Times and magazine publishers such as Conde Nas

Graphic Design , ux , Readability , Design

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Zack Grossbart - Writing Unit Tests For WordPress Plugins

My first goal for the WordPress Editorial Calendar was to make it do anything useful. I was new to JavaScript and PHP and didn’t really know what I could pull off. In a few days I had a proof of con

wordpress , coding , Techniques (WP) , plugins , Javascript

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Shoko Mugikura - Japanese Writing, A Beautifully Complex System

As a Japanese person living in Europe, I’m sometimes asked: “Japanese is a difficult language, isn’t it?” Those asking are often surprised when my answer is a simple: “No, actually, it’s not.” Whil

Graphic Design , Typography , Inspiration , Web Design

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Dominic Giglio - Inside The WordPress Toolbar

The WordPress Admin Bar, first introduced in version 3.1, debuted to mixed reactions. A Google search for “wordpress admin bar” returns multiple articles about how to disable or remove it. Version 3

wordpress , Functions , Guides , php

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Joseph McDermott - The Basics Of Creating A Magento Module

A lot of community extensions (or modules) are available for the feature-rich open-source e-commerce solution Magento, but what if they don’t quite work as you want them to? What if you could unders

Frameworks , Magento , coding

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