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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: February 2012

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a m

Wallpapers , Graphics

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Andreas Carlsson & Jaan Orvet - The Future Of Screen Typography Is In Your Hands

We do more reading on the screen today than we did even a year ago. If we are ever to have a golden age of reading on the screen, this might be the start of it. Tablets, Nooks and Kindles make buyi

Typography , coding , Javascript

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Chris Ellison - Limiting The Visibility Of Posts In WordPress Via Usernames

The easiest method to get this system working is to make the recipients of the information “subscribers” (since they need not be able to post) and the distributors of information “authors” (since th

wordpress , Functions , Custom Fields

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Tomer Sharon - The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love

UX practitioners, both consultants and in house, sometimes conduct research. Be it usability testing or user research with a generative goal, research requires planning. To make sure product manager

User Research , Tools , ux

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Jeremy Girard - How To Deliver Exceptional Client Service

We often hear companies, including Web agencies, boast about how they provide exceptional client service. But how do they define exceptional? Consider this scenario. You are hired to design and dev

Clients , Communication , Customer Service , Business

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Yiannis Konstantakopoulos - What Successful Products Teach Us About Web Design

Web design is a craft that is constantly evolving and yet also sometimes sabotaged. The moment a design is released, a new version is born. In the beginning, like a baby, it seems vulnerable and wea

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Paul Tero - Introduction To Linux Commands

At the heart of every modern Mac and Linux computer is the “terminal.” The terminal evolved from the text-based computer terminals of the 1960s and ’70s, which themselves replaced punch cards as the

Linux , coding

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Vitaly Friedman - Open Call For International Communities

Our editorial process is quite evolved, yet we are very open to users’ suggestions. In fact, if an author has something to say, we try to help them collect their thoughts, strengthen their points an

Community , Conferences , Discussions , Opinion Column

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Jose Olarte - Extracting Logos Using Levels In Adobe Fireworks

In all the years that I’ve been using Adobe Fireworks, I have always had to perform one task in every project: remove the background from a logo. Most of the time, it’s because the client doesn’t ha

Tutorials , Fireworks , Techniques

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Kevin Muldoon - How To Integrate Facebook, Twitter And Google+ In WordPress

Integrating social media services in your website design is vital if you want to make it easy for readers to share your content. While some users are happy with the social media buttons that come bu

wordpress , Social Media , Techniques (WP)

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Nicole Miller - Guidelines For Outsourcing, Sub-Contracting and Hiring Out

From one artist to another, I know how satisfying it can be to achieve the perfect shade of a color or squeeze the most difficult font into the funkiest space. Having spent some time experimenting

workflow , Teams , Clients , Business

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Rob Flaherty - Designing The Well-Tempered Web

As technology evolves, so does the art and craft of Web design. New technology creates new challenges, which require new solutions. Often we’re working in uncharted territory, where the solutions de

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David Bushell - Resolution Independence With SVG

In this article, we’ll look at Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), one of the most underused technologies in website development today. Before diving into an example, let’s consider the state of the We

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Siobhan McKeown - How Commercial Plugin Developers Are Using The WordPress Repository

A few weeks ago I wrote about how you can put together a great readme.txt for the WordPress plugin directory. In addition to using a WordPress readme as a tool to help out your users, you can use it

wordpress , plugins

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Sarah Bauer - A User-Centric Guideline To Product Pages

Product pages for e-commerce websites are often rife with ambitions: recreate the brick-and-mortar shopping experience, provide users with every last drop of product information, build a brand perso

ux , Content , E-Commerce , Communication

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Vitaly Friedman - 23 Splendid High-Quality Free Fonts

Every now and then, we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you sh

Typography , fonts , Free Fonts

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Peter Gasston - Adventures In The Third Dimension: CSS 3D Transforms

This proposal was called 3D Transforms, and it was soon implemented in Safari for Mac and iOS. About a year later, support followed for Chrome, and early in 2011, for Android. Outside of WebKit, how

css3 , coding , Css

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Morgan Brown - Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing User Flows

For designers, it’s easy to jump right into the design phase of a website before giving the user experience the consideration it deserves. Too often, we prematurely turn our focus to page design and

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Kevin Leary - How To Create A Custom Taxonomy In WordPress

Better import and export handling, advanced queries with tax_query, hierarchical support, body classes and a bunch of wonderful functions to play with were all part of the package. Let’s take an in

wordpress , Tutorials

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Cameron McEfee - GuideGuide: Free Plugin For Dealing With Grids In Photoshop

The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for Gmail-like client-side drafts. Today we are happy to pr

Photoshop , Graphics , Tools , Freebies

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: January 2012

We continue to nourish you with a monthly spoon of inspiration. This post features 20 free desktop wallpapers created by artists across the globe for January 2012. Both versions with a calendar and

Wallpapers , Graphics

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Vitaly Friedman - 91 Holiday Season Vector Icons [Freebie]

Before this year does come to an end, we are happy to present to you a fresh new Web UI set includig 91 icons created by August Interactive for the holiday season. The set is a collection of widely

Icons , Freebies

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Konstantinos Kouratoras - Internationalizing And Localizing Your WordPress Theme In 6 Steps

This article covers the basics of internationalization, which is the process of designing a theme in such a way that the end user can adapt it to various languages without having to change the sourc

wordpress , Localization , Themes

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Robert Hoekman Jr - The Myth Of The Sophisticated User

When this acquaintance of mine arrived at the subject of a particularly hairy task flow, he said, “Well, these aren’t going to be very savvy users, so we should probably put some instructions there.

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