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Marco Kramer - 10 Pre-Press Tips For Perfect Print Publishing

A lot of designers think CMYK is the way to go when designing for print. We will, of course, always use CMYK-based ink, but this does not mean you have to work with CMYK files. You can work with RGB

RGB , CMYK , Print , Publishing , Design

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Zoe Mickley Gillenwater - Modern CSS Layouts: The Essential Characteristics

Now is an exciting time to be creating CSS layouts. After years of what felt like the same old techniques for the same old browsers, we’re finally seeing browsers implement CSS 3, HTML 5 and other t

Layouts , coding , Css , Essentials

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Oliver Reichenstein - Brand = User Experience: The Interface Of A Cheeseburger

In the first part of a series on the UX = Brand, the adventure of a web designer starts in a McDonald’s, where he discovers that there is a worm hole between the world of Branding and User Experienc

Branding , User Interaction , Design , Business

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Lee Munroe - Showcase of Web Design In Ireland

This post is the second article of our new series “Global Web Design”. Over the next months we’ll be covering various continents, featuring web developers and web designs from different countries of

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Cameron Chapman - Rich Typography On The Web: Techniques and Tools

Let’s face it: Web-safe fonts are very limiting. Maybe a dozen fonts are out there that are widely enough adopted to be considered “Web safe,” and those ones aren’t exactly spectacular for much othe

Techniques , Typography , fonts , Web Design , Design

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Jean-Baptiste Jung - 10 Useful WordPress Coding Techniques

In this article, we have compiled ten useful WordPress code snippets, hacks and tips to help you create a WordPress theme that stands out from the crowd. 1. Style Posts Individually The problem.

wordpress , Techniques (WP)

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Louis Lazaris - The Mystery Of The CSS Float Property

Years ago, when developers first started to make the transition to HTML layouts without tables, one CSS property that suddenly took on a very important role was the float property. The reason that t

coding , Css , Essentials

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Arseny Vesnin - Showcase of Web Design in Russia

Web Design in Russia The land mass that is one-sixth of the Earth is always surprising. As the founder of one of design-related magazines in Russia (Designcollector.net), I am happy to present the

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Callum Chapman - The Ultimate Round-Up Of T-Shirt Design Tutorials

If you have yet to design for apparel goods, today is your lucky day! Below, we present over 20 useful t-shirt graphic tutorials written by fellow designers, followed by a selection of great resourc

Tutorials , CMYK , Graphics , Drawing , T-shirts

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Robert Bowen - How To Identify And Deal With Different Types Of Clients

In today’s digital age, the arena has shifted to the Web, and the online office space that most freelancers inhabit limits personal interaction. Though sussing out a client’s personality via online

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Louis Lazaris - CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8

One of the most bizarre statistical facts in relation to browser use has to be the virtual widespread numbers that currently exist in the use of Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8. As of this wri

testing , coding , Css , Essentials , Internet Explorer

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Jacob Gube - Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices

How can we create effective call to action buttons that grab the user’s attention and entice them to click? We’ll try to answer this question in this post by sharing some effective design techniques

Buttons , Showcases , Inspiration , Conversion

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Marc Edwards - Setting Up Photoshop For Web, App and iPhone Development

Most people who have designed websites or apps in Photoshop will, at one point or another, have had issues trying to match colors in images to colors generated by HTML, CSS or code. This article aim

Photoshop , Tutorials , RGB , CMYK , Graphics , iphone

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Paul Boag - How To Persuade Your Users, Boss Or Clients

Like many in the Web design industry, I have a strange job. I am part salesperson, part consultant and part user experience designer. One day I could be pitching a new idea to a board of directors,

Clients , Communication , Business

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Jen Gordon - iPhone App Design Trends

However, some designers invest a lot of time and efforts into creating usable and original user interfaces (yes, there are usable and creative UIs). Further Reading on SmashingMag: How To Cre

Design Patterns , Trends , Showcases , mobile , iphone

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Cameron Chapman - 15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design

There are tons of mistakes that online retailers make every day, all of them avoidable with a little careful planning. And even if you’re already committing some of these mistakes, most of them are

ux , Usability , E-Commerce

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Tyler Tate - Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces

Clean. Easy to use. User-friendly. Intuitive. This mantra is proclaimed by many but often gets lost in translation. The culprit: complexity. How one deals with complexity can make or break an applic

ux , Usability , ui

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Robert Bowen - How To Draft A Freelance Contract

In the world of freelancing, the entrepreneur has to take on a number of tasks for themselves that would normally be handled by a separate department at a bigger company. Most of these tasks are not

Contracts , templates , Business

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Soh Tanaka - Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started

If you are getting your feet wet with CSS, this is the perfect time to fire up your favorite text editor and follow along in this tutorial as we cover the most common and practical uses of CSS. We’

coding , Css , Essentials

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Callum Chapman - The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials

Below we present 25 useful print design tutorials as well as a collection of inspirational links at the bottom of the post to improve your skills and get your imagination running wild. These tutoria

Tutorials , CMYK , Print , Graphics , Business Cards

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Andrew Follett - How To Respond Effectively To Design Criticism

Whether you’re getting feedback from your boss or a client, having a proper perspective on criticism and a sound understanding of how to use it effectively is important. Unfortunately, not many peo

workflow , Teams , Clients , Business

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Cameron Chapman - 40+ Desert Island Web Development Tools

What would you do if you were suddenly stranded on a desert island in the middle of nowhere, with only a USB drive, a dial-up internet connection, and a barebones computer with no software outside t

Invoicing , Software , Tools , Gimp , Design , Time Savers

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Louis Lazaris - Search Results Design: Best Practices and Design Patterns

If you’ve been assigned to design or provide the architecture for a large e-commerce project or other information-heavy website whose success depends on content findability, it is vital that the des

Showcases , Search , Inspiration , Web Design

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Adeel Raza - Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone

Over the last couple of years, mobile devices have managed to gain mainstream popularity. With iPhone, making mobile Web applications finally usable by broad masses, web design can now be applied to

Design Patterns , mobile , Inspiration , iphone , ios

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