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Vitaly Friedman - 99 Powerful New CSS- and JavaScript Techniques

With CSS3, some of the older techniques now have become obsolete, others have established themselves as standards, and many techniques are still in the “crazy experimentation” stage. Since the rele

Techniques , Css , Javascript

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Siobhan McKeown - Do’s And Don’ts For WordPress Startups

But what if you’re just starting out? What if you’re taking your first steps with a WordPress business? Where do you go for advice? I’ve gotten in touch with a bunch of people running WordPress b

Community , wordpress , Techniques (WP)

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Anthony T - Why Your Links Should Never Say “Click Here”

Have you ever wanted your users to click a link but didn’t know how to get them to act? When some designers run into this problem, they’re tempted to use the words “Click here” on their links. Befo

seo , ux , Usability , Opinion Column

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Heydon Pickering - Classes? Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Classes!

It would be no revelation to you to say that HTML elements can be styled without recourse to the class attribute, but have you considered the multitude of benefits that come from forgoing classes al

coding , Css , Opinion Column , HTML

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Paul Boag - Work, Life And Side Projects To Work On

There is no doubt about it. I am a hypocrite. Fortunately, nobody has noticed… until now. Here’s the thing. On one hand, I talk about the importance of having a good work/life balance, and yet on th

workflow , Project Management , Productivity , Design , Business

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Joseph Casabona - Easily Customize WordPress’ Default Functionality

Change The Default Source Of jQuery Another great thing about WordPress is that it comes locked and loaded with all kinds of JavaScript libraries, including jQuery. It also gives you the power to c

wordpress , Tutorials , Themes

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David Appleyard - 10 Amazing Academic Icons + PSD Source [Freebie]

Today, it is our pleasure to present to you a free set of academic icons related to education — commissioned by PixelsDaily exclusively for Smashing Magazine and the design community. The icons are

Icons , Freebies , PSD

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Aral Balkan - Mobile Considerations In User Experience Design: “Web or Native?”

We appreciate your time and your interest, and thank you for your support and love. We are happy to present a yet another sample chapter from the book. In his chapter, Aral Balkan explores what “na

Hybrid , mobile , ux , native , Web Development

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Rachel McCollin - Responsive Images With WordPress’ Featured Images

In this article, we’ll look at how to use WordPress’ built-in featured images capability to deliver different-sized image files to different devices. “Featured images,” sometimes referred to as thum

wordpress , Responsive Design , mobile , Media Queries

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Lyndon Cerejo - User Experience Takeaways From Online Car Shopping

Emergency car shopping is no fun. This past month was the second time I had to shop for a car in a short timeframe without advance warning. Like most informed shoppers, I went online to get a feel f

Design Patterns , ux , Usability , Case Studies , Design

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Zack Grossbart - JavaScript Profiling With The Chrome Developer Tools

Little changes in your code can have gigantic performance impacts. A few lines here or there could mean the difference between a blazingly fast website and the dreaded “Unresponsive Script” dialog.

coding , Browsers , Javascript

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Joshua Bullock - Developing A Design Workflow In Adobe Fireworks

Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks and even Web browsers themselves are available to aid us in our work. But with so many choices, how do we determine the right tool to move from concept to functiona

workflow , Fireworks

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Dennis Kardys - How To Sketch A New Mobile Web

The mobile Web has gotten a bum rap. It spends most of its time either in the shadow of the desktop or playing the role of the native app’s frumpy friend. Luckily, we’ve got the tools to change that

Sketching , mobile , ux , Content Strategy

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Rian van der Merwe - Design Patterns: When Breaking The Rules Is OK

We’d like to believe that we use established design patterns for common elements on the Web. We know what buttons should look like, how they should behave and how to design the Web forms that rely o

Interaction Design , ux , Usability , Design

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Paul Tero - Unicode, UTF8 & Character Sets: The Ultimate Guide

This is a story that dates back to the earliest days of computers. The story has a plot, well, sort of. It has competition and intrigue, as well as traversing oodles of countries and languages. Ther

Guides , Typography , coding

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Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser - Why Subtle Typographic Choices Make All The Difference

A strong understanding of how designers control meaning is essential for anyone interested in graphic design or typography. In a previous article,we discussed how sophisticated and complex visual an

Graphic Design , Design Principles , Typography , Web Design

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Cristian Antohe - Front-End Author Listing And User Search For WordPress

At its core, WordPress is a rock-solid publishing platform. With a beautiful and easy to use interface, and support for custom post types and post formats, publishers have the flexibility to do what

wordpress , Shortcodes , plugins

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Paul Boag - Social Media Is A Part Of The User Experience

The term “social media guru” has almost become a dirty word within the Web community. In fact, despite most of us being early adopters of social networks such as Facebook or Twitter, we consider soc

Marketing , Social , ux , Business

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Juhani Lehtimaki - Building, Testing And Distributing Android Apps

When iOS started to gain momentum, soon after the first iPhone launched, many businesses started to pay attention to apps. The number of apps for iOS grew exponentially, and every company, big and s

Design Patterns , mobile , ux , Apps , Android

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Vitaly Friedman - 23 Colorful And Fresh Summer Desktop Wallpaper

We’ve discovered the best one—desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd. This creativity mission has been going on for over four years now, and we are very thankful

Wallpapers , Graphics

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Sam Deering - Useful jQuery Function Demos For Your Projects

Every aspiring Web developer should know about the power of JavaScript and how it can be used to enhance the ways in which people see and interact with Web pages. Fortunately, to help us be more pro

coding , Css , jquery , HTML

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Drew Clemens - Design Process In The Responsive Age

You cannot plan for and design a responsive, content-focused, mobile-first website the same way you’ve been creating websites for years—you just can’t. If your goal is to produce something that is n

Responsive Design , ux , Process , Wireframing

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Paul Scrivens - MUD: Minimum Usable Design

There is a paradox that fits my life. Doesn’t matter what aspect of my life I am talking about because it always seems to apply. Even more so when I think about this paradox and the design of this w

Web Design , Psychology

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Kevin Muldoon - How To Log In To WordPress Using A Social Network

WordPress has a fairly straightforward registration system. To register, you only need to submit a user name and your email address. A password is then emailed to you and you can log in. This regist

wordpress , Social Media

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