Nov 17 2025

Atila Fassina - The Hype Around Signals

The groundwork for what we call today “signals” dates as early as the 1970s. Based on this work, they became popular with different fields of computer science, defining them more specifically around

Techniques , coding , ui

Nov 17 2025

Myriam Frisano - SVG Coding Examples: Useful Recipes For Writing Vectors By Hand

Even though I am the kind of front-end engineer who manually cleans up SVG files when they are a mess, I never expected to become one of those people. You know, those crazy people that draw with cod

Guides , coding , svg

Oct 02 2008

Glen Stansberry - 13 Useful Batch Image Processors

Whether you’re a Web developer, Web designer or blogger, you’ve probably had to deal with the headache of converting many images to different sizes and formats. It’s not much fun if you have to conv

optimization , Tools , Open Source , Responsive Images , Design

Jun 15 2010

ZURB - Spicing Up Your Website With jQuery Goodness

There comes a point in every website design when you simply want to give the website a little spice to impress the visitor and make it memorable. You want that sexy interaction to capture the user’s

coding , jquery

Mar 23 2009

Chris Coyier - [Ask SM: CSS] Equal Spacing, CSS Font Replacement

This is our fourth installment of Ask SM, featuring reader questions about Web design, focusing on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this post we’ll cover how you can distribute the horizontal space bet

coding , Css

Nov 17 2025

Jhey Tompkins - What If Our Sliders Actually Slid?

One of my main mantras is using “Creative Coding” to level up your skills. It’s one of the main reasons I have gotten to where I am. But when so much of the web is very “set in its way”, it takes a

Techniques , coding , HTML

Mar 01 2010

Inayaili de Leon - The Future Of CSS Typography

There has been an increasing and sincere interest in typography on the web over the last few years. Most websites rely on text to convey their messages, so it’s not a surprise that text is treated w

Typography , coding , Css

Jun 09 2009

The Smashing Newsletter Team - Adaptive CSS-Layouts: New Era In Fluid Layouts?

If you as a designer are going to go through all the extra work of creating a functional fluid layout, why not go a bit further and make it compatible with all resolutions, instead of just most? You

Layouts , coding , Css

Jun 29 2009

Cameron Chapman - 45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires

With lists of points covering multiple areas from content to usability to accessibility to standards, you’re a lot less likely to overlook important parts of a site. Below are 45 checklists to make

Tools , Checklists , Web Design , Resources

Sep 09 2008

Sven Lennartz - The Big Horizontal Line Archive - Download your <hr> line now!

What is hr /? Basically, it is an old HTML-tag which has been used since the very beginning of the Web. hr stands for the horizontal rule and represents exactly what you would expect — a horizontal

Graphics , Downloads , Freebies , Inspiration , HTML