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David Travis - Persuasion Triggers In Web Design

How do you make decisions? If you’re like most people, you’ll probably answer that you pride yourself on weighing the pros and cons of a situation carefully and then make a decision based on logic.

ux , Usability , Emotional Design , Psychology

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Robert Bowen - Art Inspiration From Individual Artist Portfolios

In a creative field like design, we face an undeniable truth: our wells of inspiration are bound to run dry from time to time. In those periods of imaginative downtime, we seek out sources that can

Art , Graphics , Illustrations , Paintings

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Cameron Chapman - Why Intellectual Property Rights Are So Important

Intellectual property rights are often confusing and sometimes the topic of heated debates. There are those who question the worth of creative products and projects, claiming design and art are some

Content , Copyright , Discussions , Opinion Column

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Cameron Chapman - Web Design Questionnaires, Project Sheets and Work Sheets

It’s nearly impossible to provide an accurate quote to a prospective Web design client without first gathering information about what that particular client needs. Some designers do this in either a

Clients , Downloads , templates , Checklists , Web Design , Design , Business

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Daniel Eckler, Glenn Manucdoc - Showcase Of Beautiful But Unusable Websites

In this showcase we present websites that sacrifice usability for beauty and present issues related to clutter, loading, navigation, archiving or visibility. Unfortunately, although the sites featur

Showcases , ux , Usability

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Paras Chopra - Multivariate Testing In Action: Five Simple Steps To Increase Conversion Rates

The attention span on the Web has been decreasing ever since Google had arrived and changed the rules of the game. Now with millions of results available on any topic imaginable, the window to grab

performance , testing , E-Commerce , Conversion , Design

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The Smashing Newsletter Team - Photoshop-Inspired Techniques with 100% CSS

In this article, we’re going to take a look at some design solutions that are now possible with CSS, whether it be with the new, more advanced CSS3 or with prior versions. Everything from small deta

Photoshop , css3 , coding , Css

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Rachel Andrew - Designing For Content Management Systems

Designing and indeed front-end development for a website that will have content edited by non-technical users poses some problems over and above those you will encounter when developing a site where

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Robert Bowen - Where Have All The Comments Gone?

Years ago, the online design community was a thriving conversationalist — of sorts — through the comment sections across the community. It was through leaving meaningful comments that the thought-pr

Community , Content , Discussions , Opinion Column

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ZURB - How To Use the “Seven Deadly Sins” to Turn Visitors into Customers

In this article we’ll show examples of how successful companies exploit the tendency to conduct all the famous Seven Deadly Sins, and in turn generate momentum with their website visitors. Ready? Le

Marketing , Content , E-Commerce , Business

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Marc Edwards - Designing for iPhone 4 Retina Display: Techniques and Workflow

The iPhone 4 features a vastly superior display resolution (614400 pixels) over previous iPhone models, containing quadruple the 153600-pixel display of the iPhone 3GS. The screen is the same physic

workflow , Techniques , mobile , iphone , ios , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - Web Typography: Educational Resources, Tools and Techniques

In this post we present an extensive overview of educational resources, tools, articles, techniques and showcases all related to web typography. Please notice that the overview presents resources wh

Techniques , Typography , Tools , fonts , Resources , Design

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Sharon Hart - Illustrator’s Live Trace: Sketch To Vector

Live Trace was introduced in Adobe Illustrator CS2 but is still a powerful tool available in Illustrator CS5. This process really gives an artist the freedom to digitally experiment with drawings of

Illustrator , Tutorials , Graphics , Drawing

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John Mindiola - Gender Disparities in the Design Field

Walk into any design classroom, at any college in America, and you’ll see a comfortable mix of male and female students. Turn your attention to the front of the classroom, or down the hall to the fa

Community , Teams , Diversity , Discussions

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Sarah & Adrienne Kahn - Designing Memorable Websites: Showcase of Creative Designs

One of the main goals of having a website, whether it be a portfolio website or a business website, is to declare your presence on the Web. There are thousands upon thousands of websites out there;

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Louis Lazaris - Learning to Love HTML5

From my own vantage point — aside from a few disputes about what the term “HTML5” should and shouldn’t mean — the web design and development community has for the most part embraced all the new tech

coding , HTML , html5

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Vitaly Friedman - 50 Free High Quality Icons Sets

Please always read the disclaimers carefully before using the icons — they do change from time to time. We truly respect and appreciate the efforts and the hard work of designers of the icons featur

Graphics , Icons , Freebies

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Thierry Koblentz - Equal Height Column Layouts With Borders And Negative Margins In CSS

1. Centering Columns Without A Wrapper div This layout will be built without a wrapper div: The basics We use the background of body and the border of one of the columns to create background co

Techniques , Css , Browsers

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Robert Bowen - When 24/7/365 Fails: Turning Off Work On Weekends

The web has continued evolving since its inception, as have those who have devoted their professional lives to working in and around this massive communication tool. We have had to roll with the cha

workflow , Time management , Productivity , Teams , Career , Business

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Douglas Bonneville - Best Practices Of Combining Typefaces

Combine a Sans Serif with a Serif By far the most popular principle for creating typeface combinations is to pair a sans serif header typeface with a serif body typeface. This is a classic combinat

Typography , fonts , Design

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Jon Raasch - How To Build A Mobile Website

In wealthy countries, the shift is being fueled by faster mobile broadband connections and cheaper data service. However, a large increase has also been seen in developing nations where people have

mobile , Android , Strategy

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Louis Lazaris - !important CSS Declarations: How and When to Use Them

When the CSS1 specification was drafted in the mid-to-late 90s, it introduced !important declarations that would help developers and users easily override normal specificity when making changes to t

coding , Css , Essentials

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Vitaly Friedman - Free Fonts of the Week - Best of

We continue to collect most beautiful high quality freefonts, which can be used for both private and professional projects without any restrictions whatsoever. They are hard to find, but the search

Typography , Downloads , Freebies , fonts , Free Fonts , Design

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Trevor Morris - Transparent CSS Sprites

Sprites are simply a collection of images which are merged together to create a single file. You then use CSS, changing the background-position the image, to display the correct part of the image yo

Techniques , coding , Css

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