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Lea Verou - Optimizing Long Lists Of Yes / No Values With JavaScript

Very frequently in Web development (and programming in general), you need to store a long list of boolean values (yes/no, true/false, checked/unchecked… you get the idea) into something that accepts

Techniques , coding , Javascript

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Daniel Pataki - How To Use AJAX In WordPress

In the last few years AJAX has creeped into websites and has slowly become THE way to create dynamic, user friendly and responsive websites. AJAX is the technology that lets you update the contents

wordpress , php , Javascript

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Jeff Gothelf - How To Build An Agile UX Team: The Culture

This is the first in a three-part series on how to build and grow successful user experience teams in agile environments. It covers challenges related to organization, hiring and integration that pl

UX Design , Productivity , Software , Process

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Krzysztof Rakowski - Getting Started With PHP Templating

In the early days of PHP applications, “spaghetti code” was a familiar sight. In this article, we’ll cover how to separate the view of your PHP application from its other components. We’ll look at w

Techniques , Frameworks , php , coding

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David Hansen - Advanced Layout Templates In WordPress’ Content Editor

As a Web designer, I often find myself building WordPress-based websites that will ultimately be updated and maintained by clients who have little to no experience working with HTML. While the TinyM

wordpress , Techniques , templates

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Amy Balliett - The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design

Editor’s Note: You might want to read Nathan Yau’s article The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design: Revisited here on Smashing Magazine which is a response to this article. Since the dawn of the

Infographics , Design , Data Visualization

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Tad Fry - Design With Dissonance

You might consider yourself knowledgeable, but you’ve probably never heard of this powerful communication and design technique that I’m about to share. I’m sure you’ve seen it in practice but never

UX Design , Content , Communication , Design

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Lea Verou - PrefixFree: Break Free From CSS Prefix Hell

Editor’s note: This article is the first piece in our new series introducing new, useful and freely available tools and techniques presented and released by active members of the Web design communit

css3 , Tools , coding

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Vitaly Friedman - Free Twitter GUI PSD

Updating your Twitter profile can give you really unnecessary headaches. In today’s post, we proudly present to you a Twitter UI GUI template, designed by Shelby White which has exclusively been rel

Freebies , Resources , PSD

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Peter Wilson - The Developer’s Guide To Conflict-Free JavaScript And CSS In WordPress

Imagine you’re playing the latest hash-tag game on Twitter when you see this friendly tweet: “You might want to check your #WP site. It includes two copies of jQuery. Nothing’s broken, but loading

wordpress , workflow , Maintenance , Techniques (WP) , Javascript

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Danny Iny - Introducing The Fabulous 6 + 1 Model For Effective Copywriting (Better Than AIDA!)

AIDA. Attention, interest, desire, action. It’s the classic copywriting formula, studied and used by almost every copywriter on the planet. Well, I’m not a fan. Not because it isn’t accurate, and

UX Design , Communication , Copywriting

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Addy Osmani - Essential jQuery Plugin Patterns

I occasionally write about implementing design patterns in JavaScript. They’re an excellent way of building upon proven approaches to solving common development problems, and I think there’s a lot o

Tools , coding , jquery

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Rachel Andrew - Supporting Your Product: How To Provide Technical Support

Users will always need support. You could have a bulletproof product and the most excellent tutorials and documentation, and someone will find a way to break it or just not read the information star

Clients , Customer Service , Business

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Joe Leech - Free Cheat Sheet For Designing Web Forms

Forms, forms, forms: so often overlooked in design. In this post, we are pleased to release the Form Design Cheat Sheet, created by Joe Leech and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. This

UX Design , Tools , Freebies , Usability

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Daniel Pataki - The Definitive Guide To WordPress Hooks

If you’re into WordPress development, you can’t ignore hooks for long before you have to delve into them head on. Modifying WordPress core files is a big no-no, so whenever you want to change existi

wordpress , Functions , hooks , Essentials

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D Bnonn Tennant - 16 Pixels Font Size: For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake

Please note that this article used to have another layout that got lost in space during the migration of content to new servers. I know what you’re thinking. “Did he just say 16 pixels? For body co

Typography , fonts , Readability

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Tim R. Todish - Not Your Parent’s Mobile Phone: UX Design Guidelines For Smartphones

In your pocket right now is the most powerful “remote control” (as Drew Diskin put it) that has ever existed. It is no ordinary remote control. It can harness everything that all of the previous mas

Design Patterns , UX Design , mobile , Interfaces , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - 22 Creepy Halloween Icons [Freebie]

This special Halloween icon set was inspired by classic cartoons. Spice up your website or application with a spooky Halloween atmosphere. The set was designed by the creative folks behind I

Icons , Freebies , Halloween

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Christian Heilmann - A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript

In school, I hated math. It was a dire, dry and boring thing with stuffy old books and very theoretical problems. Even worse, a lot of the tasks were repetitive, with a simple logical change in ever

animation , Techniques , coding , Css , Javascript

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Justin Tadlock - How To Create Wordpress Meta Boxes

What seems like one of the most complicated bits of functionality in WordPress is adding meta boxes to the post editing screen. This complexity only grows as more and more tutorials are written on t

wordpress , Functions , Techniques (WP)

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Lara Swanson - Improve The User Experience By Tracking Errors

It’s easy to see your top-visited pages, navigation patterns and conversion metrics using visitor-tracking tools like Google Analytics. However, this data doesn’t show the roadblocks that users typi

UX Design , User Research , Forms , ux , Design

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Jon Savage and Simon H. - How To Use Textures In Web Design

Texture is becoming integral to design. It’s gone beyond being a trend — it’s now a simple and effective way to add depth to a website. Wielding the power of texture is a great responsibility. It in

Illustrator , Photoshop , Graphics , Web Design , textures , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: October 2011

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 , Downloads , Freebies

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Daniel Pataki - WordPress Essentials: How To Create A WordPress Plugin

WordPress plugins are PHP scripts that alter your website. The changes could be anything from the simplest tweak in the header to a more drastic makeover (such as changing how log-ins work, triggeri

wordpress , plugins , Essentials

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