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Paras Chopra - In Defense Of A/B Testing

Recently, A/B testing has come under (unjust) criticism from different circles on the Internet. Even though this criticism contains some relevant points, the basic argument against A/B testing is fl

testing , Design

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Jon Raasch - jQuery Plugin Checklist: Should You Use That jQuery Plug-In?

jQuery plug-ins provide an excellent way to save time and streamline development, allowing programmers to avoid having to build every component from scratch. But plug-ins are also a wild card that i

coding , plugins , jquery

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Bobby Foley - Corporate Website Design: Creative and Beautiful Solutions

What do corporate websites have in common with other people’s children? Three things: they have their charm, like finger-paintings on the refrigerator; they can be useful, if infrequently; they are

Showcases , Inspiration , Corporate

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Vitaly Friedman - Polaroid: A Free Magento Theme For Your E-Commerce Website

Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: Polaroid Magento Theme, a professional design skin for the shops powered by the popular open-source ecommerce web application Magento. The theme w

Magento , Freebies , E-Commerce

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Peter Crawfurd - Improve Your E-Commerce Design With Brilliant Product Photos

Product photography could well be the single most important design aspect of any e-commerce website. Without the ability to touch, hold, smell, taste or otherwise handle the products they are intere

Web Design , E-Commerce , Design

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Louis Lazaris - A Design Is Only As Deep As It Is Usable

There are well-known proverbs that imply (or state outright) that beauty is superficial and limited in what it can accomplish. “It’s what’s inside that counts” and “Beauty is only skin deep” are a f

ux , Usability , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Modernist: Free WordPress Theme with Focus on Typography

The theme supports widgets, is SEO optimized, has clean and documented code. It is loading very quickly, and has various WordPress 3.0 features. Works in IE 6+ and all versions of Safari/Firefox/Ope

wordpress , Freebies , Themes

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Kyle Steed - Balancing Inspiration and Individuality

I love it when a good story is broken down so that even the simplest of minds can understand. I’m not the smartest, fastest or most creative person in the world, so I don’t like using a lot of big w

Inspiration , Opinion Column

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Paul Andrew - 100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition

It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since our last WordPress theme collection, but there you have it — the time has come again. Once a year we feature the most useful and interesting WordPre

wordpress , Freebies , Themes

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Jeremy Girard - Users Are Not Idiots

Websites are designed to be used by people of varying backgrounds, educations and technical levels. One of the challenges we face when designing for the Web is finding a way to create sites and appl

ux , Content , Web Design , Discussions

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Robert Bowen - The Web Design Community Offers Advice To Beginners

At one time or another, we are all newbies. That’s right: you can deny it all you want, but not one of us got into this game with a full deck stacked in our favor. We entered as newbies, born fresh

Community , Opinion Column , Design

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Jeremy Girard - Giving Users Some Credit

Websites are designed to be used by people of varying backgrounds, educations and technical levels. One of the challenges we face when designing for the Web is finding a way to create sites and appl

Content , Web Design , Content Strategy , Business

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Kate Davies - Recession Survival Tips For Online Businesses

In a recession, companies go one of two ways: either they become the cautious cat, adopting a wait-and-see attitude, spending carefully on their marketing and less overall, cutting back, or they bec

Marketing , Clients , Customer Service , Income , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - The World Of Signage Photo Contest: Join In and Win a Digital SLR Camera!

Update: the results of the contest are published now. Typography and icons are everywhere: they surround us, guide us, help us find the right path every day. As Web designers and graphic artists, w

Photography , Signs , Contests , Events

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Otba Mushaweh - 25 Useful Videos and Presentations for Designers

With the huge number of design-related conferences and events around the world, the Web gives those of us who cannot attend them a great opportunity to listen and benefit from their great and talent

Videos , workflow , Inspiration

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Vitaly Friedman - 55 Beautiful Free High-Quality Fonts To Jazz Up Your Designs

Every now and then we look around, select fresh high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you sho

Typography , fonts , Free Fonts

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Dan Redding - The Future Of The Internet

“In only a few short years, electronic computing systems have been invented and improved at a tremendous rate. But computers did not ‘just grow.’ They have evolved… They were born and they are being

future , Inspiration , Web Design

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Katie Thompson - Showcase Of Delicious Coffee Websites

And in fact, coffee houses and suppliers are quite a business, with online presences ranging from simple layouts with striking typography to advanced layouts with remarkable photography. Coffee webs

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Julia May - Business Card Design Starter Kit: Showcase, Tutorials, Templates

Professionals in any field should always keep business cards on them because you never know when you’ll meet a potential client, partner or like-minded person. Despite their small size, business car

Print , Showcases , Inspiration , Business Cards , Design , Business

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Aquil Akhter - Beautiful Examples of Transparent Screen Trick Photos

Two weeks ago we published a showcase of beautiful pinhole photography, and this weekend again we’ve got something unusual and creative to lift up your spirits and challenge your creativity. Illusio

Photography , Graphics

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Jessica Bordeau - Social Sushi And Hard Work

When I found the ad for the internship position at Smashing Magazine about six month ago, I replied within half an hour. I wrote my response quickly because, for once, I didn’t have to exaggerate my

Internships , Events , About Us

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Nathan Ford - Craft An Irresistible Price By Focusing On Your Users

This makes price every bit as important as design, information architecture and wireframing, and it goes deeper than just getting people to click “Buy.” By focusing on users in setting and maintaini

Marketing , Pricing , Income , Business

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Andy Croxall - Commonly Confused Bits Of jQuery

All of which means that, unless you have some odd grudge against jQuery, those days are gone — you can actually get stuff done now. A script to find all links of a certain CSS class in a document an

coding , Essentials , jquery

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Speider Schneider - Designers, “Hacks” and Professionalism: Are We Our Own Worst Enemy?

But I was struck by how these words are a perfect assessment of our society. We want it all, instantly and as cheap as possible. We are a Walmart culture. Fast and cheap have entered our every pore

workflow , Career

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