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Kyle Peatt - Off The Beaten Canvas: Exploring The Potential Of The Off-Canvas Pattern

The off-canvas flyout menu has taken over as the primary navigation pattern for mobile layouts — even some desktop layouts have jumped on board. And for good reason: An off-canvas menu is a great wa

Design Patterns , mobile , ux , Web Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Welcome To The Smashing WordPress Section

With WordPress’ phenomenal growth, we’ve seen an explosion in the amount of WordPress-related content available on the web. There are plenty of beginner tutorials, round-up posts, and code snippets,

Guides , Web Design , Business

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Alex Moss - How WordPress Came To Be - An Interviews With Matt Mullenweg And Mike Little

2013 was a busy year for me for conferences and travel. I met Mike Little, one of the two co-founders of WordPress. Three months later, I was honored to meet the other co-founder, Matt Mullenweg, tw

wordpress , Interviews , Inspiration

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Anselm Hannemann - Kickstart Your Project With INIT And Grunt

Whenever you start a project, you have to repeat certain tasks and set up certain structures: create new folders, choose a framework, set up your development tasks. But configuring settings once and

workflow , optimization , Frameworks , coding

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Nadine Chahine - A Type Design Brief: What Is In It, And Why Does It Matter?

Type design is equal parts suffering and euphoria. It is a walk along a winding road that goes on for many weeks and months before it’s done. A type design brief is like a charter path: It asks you

Calligraphy , Graphics , Typography , fonts , Inspiration

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Joshua Mauldin - How To Make An Effective Style Guide With Adobe Fireworks

I started with style guides like any other obsessive-compulsive designer: with the desire to make it simple to maintain and grow a design. Plus, knowing which component to use in a given situation i

Tutorials , Fireworks , Style Guides , Design Systems

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Vitaly Friedman - Useful Web Design Resources – Learning Coding & Design

Since learning is a lifelong task that doesn’t stop after pursuing a certain academic certificate, this round-up is not only dedicated to beginners. It’s for everyone who wants to become an expert i

Techniques , Tools , Resources

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Gabriele Romanato - Creating A Client-Side Javascript Shopping Cart

Session storage is a new feature introduced by the W3C’s “Web Storage” specification. It’s supported in Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera Desktop (for a complete list, please c

php , coding , jquery , HTML , Javascript

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Mark McDonnell - How To Build A CLI Tool With Node.js And PhantomJS

In this article, we’ll go over the concepts and techniques required to build a command line tool using Node.js and PhantomJS. Building a command line tool enables you to automate a process that woul

Tutorials , node.js , Techniques , coding , Resources , Javascript

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Peter Traeg - Four Ways To Build A Mobile Application, Part 3: PhoneGap

Adobe’s PhoneGap platform enables a developer to create an app that runs on a variety of mobile devices. The developer accomplishes this largely by writing the user interface portion of their applic

mobile , Apps , native , Android , ios

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Paul Jarvis - How To Create A Self-Paced Email Course

When I realized I had written what seemed to be a course (i.e. not my usual article or book), I was left with a sense of panic. There are so many options for running an online email course, and all

Newsletters , Emails , Content Strategy , Income , Business

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Anna Shuvalova - Smashing Book #4: Behind The Scenes

If you’re a graphic designer, you will often have to work with off-the-shelf material created by others — for instance, combining ready-to-use fonts with images from a photographer or stock website.

Illustrator , workflow , Graphics , Creativity , Design

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Ishan Anand - How To Apply Transformations To Responsive Web Design

To most Web developers, it sounds controversial until you hear the punchline: Last summer, the developers in charge of Google’s Chrome browser floated a proposal that went virtually unnoticed by the

css3 , Responsive Design , mobile , Apps , Content , Opinion Column

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Maksim Chemerisuk - Introducing Live Extensions For Better-DOM: What They Are And How They Work

After recently writing an article on “Writing A Better JavaScript Library For The DOM”, I realized that the topic is indeed a very complex one and that it’s important to understand what exactly live

Techniques , coding , jquery , Javascript

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Gavyn McKenzie - One Solution To Responsive Images

Responsive images have been, and are, one of the hardest problems in responsive Web design right now. Until browser vendors have a native solution, we have to think on the fly and come up with our o

optimization , Techniques , Responsive Design , mobile

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Spyros Zevelakis - Interview With Graphic Designer Anthony Burrill

Anthony Burrill is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary graphic design, known for his thought-provoking posters, printed traditionally in letterpress. He has never worked for another d

Interviews , Inspiration , Career

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: February 2014

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a m

Wallpapers , Graphics , templates

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Vitaly Friedman - The Mystery #2 Is Resolved: The Rain That Never Stops, Cakes and Frightened Cats

Everybody loves a good riddle, but when you design one, you never know how it will be perceived until you try it out. The new Smashing Mystery Riddle didn’t emerge over night, and after weeks of fin

Mystery Riddles

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Jeremy Girard - Getting The Most Out Of Your Web Conference Experience

To be a web professional is to be a lifelong learner. The ever-changing landscape of our industry requires us to continually update and expand our knowledge so that our skills do not become outdated

Community , Conferences , Inspiration , Communication

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Vitaly Friedman - The Smashing Mystery Riddle #2: Have You Figured It Out Yet?

Remember the Smashing Book Mystery riddle from a couple of months ago? Guess what: the Mystery continues! To celebrate the launch of the SmashingConf NYC and our lovely book, we’ve prepared a new ri

Mystery Riddles , Web Design , Design

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Marko Dugonjić - Pragmatic UX Techniques For Smarter Websites

What is “User Experience Design” exactly? Should you not start it unless you are fully dedicated, or should you embrace it in the process as soon as possible? Are all designers also user experience

Interaction Design , User Research , ux , Usability , Product Strategy

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Vitaly Friedman - 60 Stylish Round Icons - Meet The Roundicons

Everyone loves a good, clean and simple icon set. Today, we’re honored to present to you a set of 60 vector round icons which was cleverly designed by the creative trio at Roundicons and released ex

Icons , Freebies , templates

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Ben Howdle - Understanding JavaScript Bind ()

Function binding is most probably your least concern when beginning with JavaScript, but when you realize that you need a solution to the problem of how to keep the context of this within another fu

Techniques , Tools , coding , Javascript

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Yiannis Konstantakopoulos - How To Deal With Workaholism On Web Teams

Workaholism is often confused with hard work. Some people who work on the Web seem not only to disregard its dangers, but to actively promote it. They see it as a badge of honor—but is it really? On

workflow , Human Resources , Teams , Business

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