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Vitaly Friedman - 50 Useful Coding Techniques (CSS Layouts, Visual Effects and Forms)

This is where we come in. We are always looking to collect such articles for our posts so that we can deliver the most useful and relevant content to our readers. In this post, we present an overvie

Techniques , Layouts , coding , Css

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Steven Snell - Group Interview: Expert Advice For Students and Young Web Designers

Our readers have requested that Smashing Magazine conduct an interview with industry leaders on issues that are relevant to students and those just starting off in their design career.With the help

Community , workflow , Clients , Opinion Column , General

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Steven Snell - Expert Advice For Students And Young Web Designers

Our readers have requested that Smashing Magazine conduct an interview with industry leaders on issues that are relevant to students and those just starting off in their design career. With the h

workflow , Education , Clients , Career

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Jad Limcaco - You Can Use CSS3 Right Now

CSS3 makes a designer’s work easier because they’re able to spend less time hacking their CSS and HTML code to work in IE and more time crafting their design. It is the future of web design and can

Css , Resources

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Vitaly Friedman - 60 Live-Saving Medical Icons [Freebie]

The icons can serve as great in-app icons for desktop or RIAs in the medical domain. With perspective and reflective effects these can be a real stunner on landing pages or in touch screen applicati

Graphics , Downloads , Icons , Freebies

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Chui Chui Tan - Email Newsletter Design: Guidelines And Examples

The fundamental rule for creating an email newsletter is to give it interesting, relevant and up-to-date information that is enjoyable to read. Users sign up for newsletters hoping be informed about

Marketing , Newsletters , Emails , Web Design , Content Strategy , Design

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Lee Munroe - The Definitive Guide To Styling Links With CSS

So without links, we’d be lost. We look for them on the page when we want to venture further. Sure, we pause to read a bit, but inevitably we end up clicking a link of some sort. Further Reading on

seo , Web Design , Design

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Travis King - Successful Strategies For Selling Ad Space On Low-Traffic Websites

Upon first thinking about it, the idea of selling advertising on a website or blog with limited traffic seems a bit daft. After all, aren’t most advertisers interested in putting their product in fr

Marketing , Advertising , adsense , Business

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Brad Colbow - The Life, Times (and Death?) of Internet Explorer 6 (Comic Strip)

In this post we’re looking at what Internet Explorer 6 used to be and why its image changed over the years. You can also see the comic in a larger version. Further Reading on SmashingMag: The

Cartoons , Browsers , Design , Internet Explorer

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Francisco Inchauste - Better User Experience With Storytelling (Part 2)

In the first part of this Better User Experience With Storytelling series, we explored some of the basic structures and story patterns found in myths and religions. We saw how these patterns continu

Storytelling , ux , Usability , Emotional Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Photoshop Shortcut Keys Cheat Sheet [PDF]

The cheat sheet was created by Kenneth Setzer and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The cheat sheet is a mousepad-sized image featuring a typical PC keyboard. Photoshop’s

Photoshop , Cheat Sheets , Graphics , Downloads

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Christian Heilmann - Developing Sites With AJAX: Design Challenges and Common Issues

This is that moment, and I am here to tell you a few things about our friend in the Web 2.0 world: AJAX. We seem to have AJAX licked. The Web technology is ubiquitous, and libraries and frameworks

Techniques , Ajax , coding

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Adit Gupta - Applying Mathematics To Web Design

“Mathematics is beautiful.” This may sound absurd to people who wince at numbers and equations. But some of the most beautiful things in nature and our universe exhibit mathematical properties, from

Mathematics , Web Design , Design

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Jad Limcaco - How to Drastically Improve Your Designs

Design is everywhere. We see it in on billboards as we drive down the street. When we go to a restaurant and look at the menus, we see it. When we sit down on our couch and watch television, it’s vi

workflow , Techniques , Inspiration , Design

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Kat Neville - The Art And Science Of The Email Signature

Email signatures are so easy to do well, that it’s really a shame how often they’re done poorly. Many people want their signature to reflect their personality, provide pertinent information and more

Inspiration , Emails , Web Design , Content Strategy , Design

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Jad Limcaco - 100 Years of Movie Title Stills

I’m always observing graphic design in different things. The other day, while I was watching something on TV, the design of the title screen caught my attention. I figured that this would be a great

Creativity , Inspiration

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Vitaly Friedman - 50 Cool Javascript Examples And CSS3 Tricks

Although the browser support of CSS 3 is limited, many designers across the globe experiment with new powerful features of the language, using graceful degradation for users with older browsers and

Techniques , coding , Css , Resources , Javascript

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Francisco Inchauste - UX Storytelling For A Better User Experience (Part One)

Stories have defined our world. They have been with us since the dawn of communication, from cave walls to the tall tales recounted around fires. They have continued to evolve with their purpose rem

Storytelling , ux , Emotional Design

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Cameron Chapman - Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color

There are few things in design that are more subjective—or more important—than the use of color. A color that can evoke one reaction in one person may evoke the opposite reaction in another, due to

Graphic Design , Color Theory , Design Principles , Colors , Design

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Jad Limcaco - Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien From the Eyes of Designers

The past couple of weeks, the media has been in a frenzy. When news that Conan O’Brien was getting the boot from NBC, there suddenly was an uproar. Everyone was defending Conan, including designers.

Creativity , Inspiration , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - The Smashing Book: Already Got Yours?

Many things have been happening with and around The Smashing Book in recent weeks. You must have read or heard that it would fall apart immediately upon being opened (okay, that’s a bit of an exagge

Events , Smashing Books

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Tom Walker - Indispensable Browser Based Apps

There are browser based alternatives to almost every traditional piece of software you frequently use, whether it’s for word processing, image editing, listening to music, screen sharing, storing fi

Tools , Apps , Resources

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Aygul Zagidullina - Showcase Of Web Design In Germany

German design is certainly worthy of respect and a delight to the eye of anyone who takes the time to observe it. For years, we have accumulated knowledge, upheld eternal principles of style, simpli

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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ZURB - The New Hotness: Using CSS3 Visual Effects

Previously in this series on CSS3, we talked not only about how to create scalable and compelling buttons but about how to effectively use new CSS3 properties to speed up development and quickly cre

css3 , coding , Css

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