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Christian Krammer - The Future Of CSS: Experimental CSS Properties

Despite contemporary browsers supporting a wealth of CSS3 properties, most designers and developers seem to focus on the quite harmless properties such as border-radius, box-shadow or transform. The

coding , Css , Resources

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Jacob Goldman - New WordPress Power Tips For Template Developers And Consultants

It has been a big year for WordPress. If there were still some lingering doubts about its potency as a full-fledged content management system, then the full support for custom taxonomies and custom

wordpress , php , templates , Techniques (WP)

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Paul Boag - Nudging Clients In The Right Direction To Give Them What They Want

“How did you do that?” My colleague Leigh sounded impressed. He had been working with a problem client for weeks trying to get design approval. Then I came along and was able to get signed-off in a

workflow , Clients , Business

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Anthony T - Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups And Log-Ins

There are many ways to design sign-up and log-in forms. Most designers are familiar with the conventional ways. But understanding and applying a few innovative techniques could make your forms simpl

CAPTCHA , Forms , Security , ux , Usability , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Useful Photoshop Tools and Techniques For Your Workflow

Productivity is a crucial asset of professional designers. Photoshop is an extremely powerful application for photo processing and image manipulation, and we can make it even more powerful by using

Photoshop , CMYK , Scripting , Graphics , Tools , PSD

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Dave Sparks - Using CSS3: Older Browsers And Common Considerations

With the arrival of IE9, Microsoft has signalled its intent to work more with standards-based technologies. With IE still the single most popular browser and in many ways the browser for the uniniti

css3 , coding , Css , Browsers , Essentials

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Lyndon Cerejo - A User-Centered Approach To Web Design For Mobile Devices

For the past few years, we’ve heard pundits declaring each year as “year of the mobile Web”; each year trying to sound more convincing than the previous. Whether 2011 will be the real “year of the m

Responsive Design , mobile , Strategy

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: May 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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Sam Quayle - Real-Time Data And A More Personalized Web

As Web designers, we face a daily struggle to keep pace with advances in technology, new standards and new user expectations. We spend a large part of our working life dipping in and out of recent d

Web Design , Personalization , Design

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Greg Nudelman - Mobile Auto-Suggest On Steroids: Tap-Ahead Design Pattern

In contrast to desktop Web search, auto-suggest on mobile devices is subject to two additional limitations: typing avoidance and slower bandwidth. The new patent-pending design pattern, Tap-Ahead, u

Interaction Design , Design Patterns , mobile

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David Cole - Proximity In Design: Why I Can’t Use My Car’s A/C

I’m always fumbling with the A/C controls in my car. My daily commute is in hot, sunny Southern California, home of the courteous freeway driver. I can’t afford to take my eyes off the road for too

Relationships , Case Studies , Design

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Trent Walton - CSS3 vs. CSS: A Speed Benchmark

I believe in the power, speed and “update-ability” of CSS3. Not having to load background images as structural enhancements (such as PNGs for rounded corners and gradients) can save time in producti

Speed , performance , css3 , coding , Css

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Vitaly Friedman - Smashing Book 2: Why We Love It And Why You’ll Love It, Too

Two and a half months ago, the Smashing Book 2 was released. For us, a small independent publisher, it was a big deal, because this ambitious project on which we had been working since July 2010 was

Events , Smashing , Smashing Books

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Steven Gliebe - Detailed Comparison Of Premium WordPress Theme Clubs

WordPress professionals are faced with many options when deciding which membership-based theme providers are worth their investment. It is important to know how frequent future releases are, what yo

wordpress , Themes , Techniques (WP)

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Sarah & Adrienne Kahn - Showcase Of Creative Navigation Menus: Good And Bad Examples

Good navigation is the main cornerstone of an effective website. In practice, however, it’s often a tough challenge to come up with a meaningful, unambiguous way to organize, arrange, and display co

Showcases , Navigation , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Powerful New CSS Techniques And Tools

The hard work of front-end designers never ceases to amaze us. Over the last months, we’ve seen Web designers creating and presenting a plethora of truly remarkable CSS techniques and tools. We have

Techniques , Tools , coding , Css , Resources

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Marc Edwards - Pixel Perfection When Rotating, Pasting And Nudging In Photoshop

When creating Web and app interfaces, most designers slave over every single pixel, making sure it’s got exactly the right color, texture and position. If you’re not careful, though, some common fun

Photoshop , Techniques , Graphics

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Colleen Jones - Make Your Content Make A Difference

Content, content, content. It’s an obvious part of any interactive experience. In fact, you’ve probably heard content is king, or queen, or some sort of royalty. Yet, content is elusive. Often, you

Editorial , Content , Copywriting , Design

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Leigh Mason - Taking Credit Card Payments Online: What’s Involved?

If you’re looking to integrate a credit card payment solution onto your website, the following steps are a guide to applying for, enabling and taking payments online. At first glance, the prospect o

Security , Web Design , E-Commerce , Payment , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - The Smashing Cartoons

Smashing Cartoons was a regular section on Smashing Magazine in which we used to publish a new cartoon every Friday illustrated by the one and only Ricardo Gimenes. We all have our favorite client

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Tom Giannattasio - Relationship Engineering: Designing Attraction

Apple seems to have entranced people. It’s hard to walk down the street without passing someone who is plugged in to those iconic white headphones or to enter a coffee shop without hearing someone g

Web Design , Emotional Design , Personalization , Opinion Column , Design

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Soh Tanaka - Helpful JavaScript & jQuery Tools, Libraries & Plugins

Recently we’ve been receiving more requests for carefully selected, useful round-ups. We try to avoid round-ups on Smashing Magazine, but sometimes the format is useful and — if the resources are re

Tools , templates , coding , jquery , Javascript

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Christian Holst - Fundamental Guidelines Of E-Commerce Checkout Design

Here is the harsh reality of e-commerce websites: according to recent e-commerce studies, at least 59.8% of potential customers abandon their shopping cart (MarketingSherpa puts it at 59.8%, SeeWhy

Security , ux , Usability , E-Commerce

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Andy Croxall - Image Manipulation With jQuery And PHP GD

One of the numerous advantages brought about by the explosion of jQuery and other JavaScript libraries is the ease with which you can create interactive tools for your site. When combined with serve

php , coding , Responsive Images , jquery

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