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Christian Heilmann - Teach Them How To Hit The Ground Running And Faceplant At The Same Time?

A few days ago, a tutorial on how to Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP was published on Smashing Magazine’s Coding section that frustrated me. It frustrated me as it was incredibly easy to predi

Community , Tutorials , coding , Opinion Column

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Brian Scordato - How Do You Deal With Overstressed, Irrational Clients? An Entrepreneur’s View

I was recently referred to Sam Barnes’ piece on Smashing Magazine “How to Explain to Clients That They Are Wrong.” The article was well written and made a lot of sense to me, but there are two sides

workflow , Clients , Communication , Business

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Daniel Pataki - Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP (For Beginners)

’Tis the season to be jolly, and how much jollier could we make it than with a helpful Christmas wish list crafted for your family to ensure that you get maximum presentage this holiday? In this art

MySQL , php , coding

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Vitaly Friedman - Free New Twitter Profile Page GUI PSD

Download the Set for free! You can use the freebie for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the file

Freebies , PSD

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Vitaly Friedman - Photo Contest - Holidays Around The World

For those who have participated, thank you for taking the time to shoot the photos and sending them to us. We’ve received hundreds of pictures from all over the world and we have to be honest and s

Contests , Events , Pictures

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Daniela Panfili - Introduction To Designing For Windows Phone 7 And Metro

It also targets a different market than its predecessor: instead of being designed mainly for business and technology workers, WP7 is targeted at active people with a busy life, both offline and onl

Windows Phone , ux , Interfaces , Design , ui

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Jon Savage and Simon H. - How To Turn Small Projects Into Big Profit - A Case Study

However, during the course of the first meeting, the client mentions that they don’t have a budget. Being the inquisitive businessperson that you are, you say, “Well, we work with budgets of almost

Clients , Case Studies , Income , Business

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Leigh Howells - A Guide To Heuristic Website Reviews

How To Tell Whether A Website Is Junk We are all reviewers. We review many websites every day without even realizing it. In fact, many of us are experts at it. We don’t realize it because the whole

ux , Usability

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Divya Manian - Six CSS Layout Features To Look Forward To

At W3Conf, I gave a talk on how the CSS Working Group is attempting to solve the concerns of Web developers with multiple proposals. There are six layout proposals that are relevant to us, all of wh

css3 , Layouts , coding , Css

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Danny Cooper - A Comprehensive WordPress Checklist To Creating The Perfect Website

There is no doubt that WordPress is the best content management system (CMS) for your website. Sure, countless CMS’ are available, ranging from open-source to paid, and you’ll hear evangelists on al

wordpress , Tutorials , Themes , Techniques (WP)

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Peiter Buick - The Messy Art Of UX Sketching

Although starting a prototype on a computer is sometimes easier, it’s not the best way to visually problem-solve. When you need to ideate website layouts or mobile applications or to storyboard work

Sketching , Ideation , Tools , ux , Process , Prototyping

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Louis Lazaris - An Introduction To Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS)

From a Web developer’s perspective, however, some may argue that speed is king. More and more, I’m starting to favour that stance. In recent years many experienced front-end engineers have offered t

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Francisco Inchauste - Designing for the Mind

Do you know what makes a design good? Is it merely an opinion, or is there something more to it? Breaking design down seems like such an abstract thing. Even the designers who are able to create tho

Inspiration , Web Design , Psychology

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Eran Galperin - So You Want To Build A Software Product

If you like the idea of being your own boss (I certainly do), chances are you get the itch sometimes to create your own product — a product whose direction you control, that you do not have to compr

Software , coding , Customer Service , Business

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Jeff Gothelf - Clear Indications That It’s Time To Redesign

Redesign. The word itself can send shudders down the spines of any Web designer and developer. For many designers and website owners, the imminent onslaught of endless review cycles, coupled with an

Redesign , ux , Product Strategy

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David Mottram - How I Mixed Up Illustration: Combining Analog And Digital Techniques

Sometimes, I paint it completely by hand; sometimes I’ll scan in a pencil drawing. Many of my pieces are 100% analog that I’ll show only at shops or galleries. Use anything you can; if the illustrat

Illustrator , Photoshop , Tutorials , Graphics

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Elio Rivero - 10 Tips To Optimize Your WordPress Theme

Limit The Excerpt’s Word Count One thing that can go wrong in WordPress magazine themes is when users include too many words before the more tag. Sure, they could handcraft the excerpt in the dedic

wordpress , optimization , Themes , Techniques (WP)

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Leonard Souza - How To Transform The Minds Of Clients

Ah, the love of a client. That is indeed what we all seek as professionals, is it not? If we lived in a utopia, then that’s all there would be. Openness. Honesty. Passion. Flowing in both directions

Graphic Design , User Research , Clients , ux

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Jason Gross - The Process of Creativity

The creative attribute has always been a highly debated and researched component of the human psyche. The “designer” job title seems to be one that calls to the more creative minded among us and acc

workflow , Creativity

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Vitaly Friedman - 20 Festive Christmas Icons [Freebie]

Feel free to also have a look at some of our previous Smashing Christimas icon sets: Free Smashing Christmas Icon Set by Icon Eden (2009) and Free Smashing Christmas Icon Set by SoftFacade (2008).

Christmas , Icons , Freebies , EPS

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Alexander Kaupanin - Auto-Save User’s Input In Your Forms With HTML5 And Sisyphus.js

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

coding , Javascript

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Sameer Borate - Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress

The reason for using Amazon S3 to store important data follows from the “3-2-1” backup rule, coined by Peter Krogh. According to the 3-2-1 rule, you would keep three copies of any critical data: the

wordpress , Tutorials , workflow , Techniques (WP)

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Addy Osmani - The Smashing Guide To Moving The Web Forward

Modernizr, HTML5 Boilerplate and jQuery are just a few examples of well known projects which were born from a desire to put something out there that could help others on the Web do more. These proje

Community , Tools , Opinion Column , Javascript

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: December 2011

We continue to nourish you with a monthly spoon of inspiration. This post features 30 free desktop wallpapers created by artists across the globe for December 2011. Both versions with a calendar and

Wallpapers , Christmas , Graphics

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