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Anders Hoff - Free Website ROI Calculator (Google Spreadsheet)

In this post we are glad to present to you yet another freebie: the Website ROI Calculator, a free Google Spreadsheet created by Anders Hoff specifically for Smashing Magazine and our readers. Of co

Freebies , Income , Business

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David Bushell - Understanding The Copyright License

The Web is full of creative and practical resources that we can use to improve our projects. Photography, fonts, music and code are perfect examples. Finding stock objects and existing implementatio

workflow , Privacy , Copyright , Licenses , Design

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Katrín Eyþórsdóttir - The Story Of Scandinavian Design: Combining Function and Aesthetics

This article was written by Katrín Eyþórsdóttir, our talented and hard-working trainee from Iceland. As a designer with background in product design, Katrín is presenting her understanding of what h

Graphic Design , Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Useful HTML, CSS And JavaScript Tools That Do Pretty Much Everything

Front-end development is a tricky beast. It’s not difficult to learn, but it’s quite difficult to master. There are just too many things that need to be considered; too many tweaks that might be nec

Tools , coding , Css , Resources , HTML , Javascript

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Ben Seigel - A Comprehensive Website Planning Guide

Editor’s Note: This guide has been updated to reflect more recent advice on why planning is essential for most businesses and organizations. → Go to updated article. As a veteran designer, develope

workflow , Maintenance , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Free HTML5/CSS3 WordPress 3.1+ Theme With Responsive Layout: Yoko

Yoko is a modern and flexible WordPress theme. With the responsive layout based on CSS3 media queries, the theme adjusts to different screen sizes. The design is optimized for big desktop screens, t

wordpress , Freebies , Themes , html5

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Vitaly Friedman - Website Navigation: Planning And Implementing

The thing that makes navigation difficult to work with in Web design is that it can be so versatile. Navigation can be simple or complex: a few main pages or a multi-level architecture; one set of c

Showcases , Navigation , Web Design , Design

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Allie Gray Freeland - Content Strategy: Optimizing Your Efforts For Success

Content strategy is a beast with many heads, names and trajectories. To approach it is to be sucked in full force. Even so, as crucial as content strategy is, conveying its gravity to a big audience

Content , Web Design , Content Strategy , Copywriting , Design , Business

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Jonathan Wold - How To Build A Media Site On WordPress

WordPress is amazing. With its growing popularity and continual development, it is becoming the tool of choice for many designers and developers. WordPress projects, though, are pushing well beyond

wordpress , Social Media , php

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: June 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

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Andy Croxall - 10 Oddities And Secrets About JavaScript

JavaScript. At once bizarre and yet beautiful, it is surely the programming language that Pablo Picasso would have invented. Null is apparently an object, an empty array is apparently equal to false

Errors , Mathematics , coding , Essentials , Javascript

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Ian Lurie - Getting Started With Defensive Web Design

Most of the time, visitors leave because they’ve hit a roadblock: a problem that lets them go no further. They typed their credit card number wrong or clicked the wrong link or mistyped a URL. And i

ux , Interfaces , Design

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Daniel Pataki - Better Image Management With WordPress

With the advent of sophisticated and user-friendly content management systems like WordPress, textual content has become increasingly easier to manage. The architecture of these systems aims to deli

wordpress , Tutorials , Responsive Images

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Paul Tero - Introduction To DNS: Explaining The Dreaded DNS Delay

Imagine that your biggest client calls because they are having trouble retrieving their email. Or they want to know what their best-selling item is right now. Or their most popular blog post. Perhap

backend , dns , coding

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Sacha Greif - Building An Effective ‘Coming Soon’ Page For Your Product

I recently had to design a couple of teaser pages for a client and a personal project, and this led me to think about what exactly makes for a good teaser page — or to be more precise a “coming soon

Showcases , Branding , Web Design , Design

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Mark Cossey - The Future Of Content Delivery: How Print Loves Web

A recent power cut highlighted the fragile and dated way I access content on the Web. I sit in front of a computer which has a number of hardware elements like a keyboard, mouse and monitor — all co

Print , ux , Content

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Rick Sloboda - Why Can’t We(bbies) Be Friends?

The Web industry is loaded with some of the globe’s brightest minds and revolutionary technologies. Yet, designers, developers, copywriters and other Web types repeatedly fail to reach their full co

Creativity , Content , Discussions

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Tom Giannattasio - Relationship Engineering: Designing The Happily Ever After

I remember when we first met. We hit it off instantly, and it didn’t take long before I was in love. I introduced her to my family, and they all loved her, too. Hell, I even convinced my wife that s

Relationships , Branding , Web Design , Design

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Shell Greenier - Optimizing Emotional Engagement In Web Design Through Metrics

Using metric data, we are able to trace behavioral and emotional responses to identify the weak spots in our storytelling strategies. By identifying and optimizing these areas, we’re able to make ou

Storytelling , ux , Emotional Design , Psychology

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Daniel Waisberg - Optimizing Error Pages: Creating Opportunities Out Of Mistakes

In this article, we’ll review a few techniques that will help Web designers and UI professionals improve their error pages in order to engage visitors and improve the experience. As C.S. Lewis said,

Errors , optimization , Navigation , Web Design , Design

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Louis Lazaris - An Introduction To CSS Keyframes Animation

By now you’ve probably heard at least something about animation in CSS3 using keyframe-based syntax. The CSS3 animations module in the specification has been around for a couple of years now, and it

animation , css3 , coding , Responsive Images , Css

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Michael Aleo - Web Designers, Get Out There and Make Something!

When people ask me what I do, I tell them I make websites. They usually smile and nod and then ask whom I might make these sites for. I’ll ramble off a random list of clients I perceive to be most i

Community , Inspiration , Opinion Column

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Cassie McDaniel - Designers And Developers Playing Nice

The differences between designers and developers often erupt in pointed jabs on the Web or at conferences. Jokes or not, the jabs create friction whose consequences are real. I am a designer, and b

workflow , Teams , Communication , Business

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Michael Tuck - Getting Ahead Of The Curve: Branding On Mobile Devices And Desktop Browsers

According to Brandweek, “brands are the express checkout for people living their lives at ever increasing speed.” This article shows you how, and why, to add “app”-like icons to your sites for sever

mobile , Devices , Branding , Web Design , Logo Design

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