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Joost de Valk - Lessons Learned From Maintaining A WordPress Plugin

The updates that I released had a couple of purposes, ranging from bug fixes to new features and fixes in documentation. While all of these are nice to talk about, the bug fixes are the ones you’ll

wordpress , Maintenance , plugins

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Tom Giannattasio - In Defense Of Photoshop

A militia of designers have assembled to launch this coup. Their propaganda is convincing, and their proposed successor is worthy, capable and sexy. Their cause is important, but their manifesto is

Photoshop , Graphics , Opinion Column

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Ben Gremillion - Passing The Holy Milestone: How To Meet Deadlines

For too many projects, there comes a time when every action taken, every decision and sacrifice made, is spurred on by pressure to finish. Tempers seem to shrink along with the available days, talk

workflow , Time management , Productivity , Teams , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - 50 Useful Tools and Resources For Web Designers

An effective, well-organized workflow is an important asset of professional web designers. The more useful and time-saving your tools are, the more time you can focus on important things, thus creat

Tools , coding , Resources

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Vailancio Rodrigues - The Showcase of Beautiful Pinhole Photography

What is a pinhole camera? A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture — effectively a light-proof box with a small hole on one side. Light from a scene pass

Photography , Graphics

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Marilina Maraviglia - About Art - What Do We Really Mean

Mark Rothko, an American artist who described himself as an “abstract painter”, once said about art that he was not the kind of person interested in the relationship of form, color orsimilars. He di

Graphic Design , Art , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Free Full Layered Facebook GUI PSD Kit

The kit brings the Facebook vector icon and logo. Also, since the focus of this resource are the UI elements, it brings a main window with the header, menu and the chat window for you to set up yo

Facebook , Graphics , Freebies , PSD

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Cameron Chapman - A Complete Guide To Tumblr

Tumblr is also an option for designers and creative people, because it gives you complete control over the look of your tumblelog. It also offers great opportunities for theme designers, especially

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Kat Neville - How To Design Style Guides For Brands And Websites

A website is never done. Everyone has worked on a project that changed so much after it launched that they no longer wanted it in their portfolio.One way to help those who take over your projects is

Branding , Style Guides , Design , Logo Design

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Speider Schneider - The Creative vs. The Marketing Team: Yin And Yang, Oil And Water

Smashing Editorial: Please notice that the language in some parts of this article may be very informal. If you think you might be offended, please stop reading this article now. Instead consider th

Marketing , workflow , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - 12 CMS Icons For Content Management Systems [Freebie]

Download the icon set for free! You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including

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Rachel Andrew - How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website

Editor’s Note: Please note that this article was published in 2010 and is outdated. Rachel Andrew has written another article on the current state of media queries for responsive design that include

css3 , Responsive Design , mobile , Media Queries , Css

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Jessica Bordeau - Behind The Scenes of Smashing Magazine: Interview With Our Writers

In the web design scene, the sense of community is extremely strong. We always talk about “giving back” and about how much we learn from those who do. A few names are popular and dropped here and th

Interviews , Events

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Vitaly Friedman - Showcase of Sweet Chocolate Websites

As one would expect, chocolate website often use an appetizing brown dominant color. If you take time to look at the panel of colors associated with it, you will find out that there is a lot of comb

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Niels Matthijs - When One Word Is More Meaningful Than A Thousand

You may be wondering why you’re reading about the good old semantics on Smashing Magazine. Why doesn’t this article deal with HTML5 or another fancy new language: anything but plain, clear, tired ol

Semantics , coding , HTML , html5

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Vitaly Friedman - 100 Free All-Purpose Icons for Designers and Developers

Download the icon set for free! You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including

Icons , Freebies , PSD

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Robert Bowen - What Is The Last Thing You Do Before You Launch A Website?

Naturally, each of us has developed a process that we engage in as we wrap up a project, but a few procedures tend to be used over and over again by the masses. We know this because we ran a poll on

Launch , Checklists , Web Design , Design

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Jad Limcaco - Milton Glaser: Creator Of The I Love New York Logo - An Interview

This is the most exciting “Ask the Expert” interview that we’ve had so far. A few months back, I had the opportunity to speak with Milton Glaser thanks to one of his assistants, Scarlett Rigby. I w

Interviews , Design , Logo Design

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Vitaly Friedman - CSS3 Design Ideas

This process has taken a lot of time as it wasn’t easy, because we received quite a few creative submissions: however, a decision had to be taken and so we thoroughly went from one competition entry

css3 , Layouts , coding

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Vitaly Friedman - Showcase of Wonderful Photography

Whether in black and white or in colors, they are all related by a strong sense of composition and an emphasis on lightening and colors work. All images are linked to their sources, which you are en

Photography , Graphics , Pictures

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Vitaly Friedman - Showcase of Beautiful Photography

Sometimes, a picture can be powerful enough to be inspirational material all by itself. To provide you with some inspiration for the upcoming week, this sunday we feature some truly beautiful and im

Photography , Graphics

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Alexander Dawson - Web Designer As The Artist, Scientist And Philosopher

Web professionals have to be both flexible and creative to meet the needs of each client — and these characteristics often transcend the design and development process. Each of us has a unique appro

workflow , Art , Design

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Andrew Rossi - Increasing Innovation With Hack Nights

If you work at an agency or design house, chances are that most of your time is spent working on client projects. After months of bending over backwards to meet your clients’ demands, work may start

workflow , Interviews , Inspiration , Skills , Innovation

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Speider Schneider - Renegotiating The Contract (And Other Tales Of Horror)

You’ve met with the client, done the creative brief and gotten some kind of written agreement or contract. Work has been creative and progressing nicely. The joy and hope for life slowly return as t

Contracts , Clients , Business

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