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Daniel Sternlicht - Develop A One-Of-A-Kind CSS / JS-Based Game Portfolio

A portfolio is a must-have for any designer or developer who wants to stake their claim on the Web. It should be as unique as possible, and with a bit of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you could have a o

coding , Css , HTML , Javascript

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Vitaly Friedman - The First Smashing Conference: A Community Event For Web Designers

This very spirit is the driving force behind our daily work at Smashing Magazine, and this spirit is what has prompted us to organize the very first Smashing Conference: a friendly, valuable and ins

Smashing Events , Events

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Chen Blume - Blueprints For The Web: Specctr Adobe Fireworks Plugin

There is an aspect to Web design that no one likes to talk about: spec’ing. We all do it, we all hate it, but we also understand that specs are vital to both designers and developers. For those who

Fireworks , Freebies , extensions

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Marc Gayle - How To Get Started With Ruby

Ruby is an object-oriented language. What does that even mean? It has unique quirks and characteristics that we’ll explain clearly. This article assumes that you have no programming experience, not

coding , Ruby on Rails

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Rachel McCollin - Creating Mobile-Optimized Websites Using WordPress

“Mobile Web design.” Unless you’ve been hiding under a bush for the last 18 months, you’ll know that it’s one of the hottest topics in the industry at the moment. Barely a week goes by without new t

wordpress , Responsive Design , mobile

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Mads Soegaard - The History Of Usability: From Simplicity To Complexity

The story of usability is a perverse journey from simplicity to complexity. That’s right, from simplicity to complexity—not the other way around. If you expect a “user-friendly” introduction to usa

ux , Usability , Design

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Taavi Vaimel - Best Newspaper Themes For WordPress

We haven’t included “news magazine” themes, but we’ll get to those in our upcoming article on magazine-style themes. The themes are categorized a bit differently than what you may be use

wordpress , Themes

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Chad Smith & Derek Woods - Replicating MySQL AES Encryption Methods With PHP

At our company, we process a lot of requests on the leading gift cards and coupons websites in the world. The senior developers had a meeting in late October to discuss working on a solution to repl

php , Security , coding

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Dan Reynolds - How To Choose The Right Face For A Beautiful Body

What is it that makes a typeface into a text font, instead of a font for larger sizes? The answer differs slightly, depending on whether one aims for print or Web-based environments. Nevertheless,

Typography , fonts

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Peep Laja - Quick Course On Effective Website Copywriting

Many dismiss copywriting as something that ad agency people do. Truthfully, all of us need to pay close attention to copywriting if we want to achieve our business objectives. The goal of a “regula

workflow , Content , Communication , Content Strategy , Copywriting , Business

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Gavyn McKenzie - A Good User Interface Means Something Completely Different On Mobile Devices

Responsive design is the hottest topic in front-end Web development right now. It’s going to transform the Web into an all-singing, all-dancing, all-devices party, where we can access any informatio

Responsive Design , mobile

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Aurélien Denis - How To Customize The WordPress Admin Easily

In this article, we take a break from some of the more advanced ways to customize WordPress, and share some super-easy customization techniques for the WordPress Admin area. If you’re just getting

wordpress , admin , Techniques (WP)

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Zack Grossbart - Backpack Algorithms And Public-Key Cryptography Made Easy

E-commerce runs on secrets. Those secrets let you update your blog, shop at Amazon and share code on GitHub. Computer security is all about keeping your secrets known only to you and the people you

Security , coding

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Vitaly Friedman - Welcome To The Smashing Mobile Section!

This Mobile section of Smashing Magazine is curated by our editor Derek Allard and features articles on best and emerging practices for responsive Web design, Web apps and native apps. While the mob

mobile

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Louis Rosenfeld - Stop Redesigning And Start Tuning Your Site Instead

In my nearly two decades as an information architect, I’ve seen my clients flush away millions upon millions of dollars on worthless, pointless, “fix it once and for all” website redesigns. All type

Responsive Design , User Research , ux , Information Architecture , Design

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Sam Collins - Free Zocial Button Set: Social CSS3 Buttons

The idea behind this project was to produce a consistent set of buttons that could be used for the range of social actions frequently taken in Web applications. These actions are often important goa

Buttons , css3 , Freebies , coding

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Simon Loxley - Font Wars: A Story On Rivalry Between Type Foundries

I had thought of terms like “intellectual property” or “intellectual theft” as being of fairly recent provenance, so my eye was caught by the latter’s use in a headline of a 1930 edition of the Amer

Typography , fonts

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Marli Mesibov - How To Enhance Your Creativity - Taming The Wild Mind

Myths have developed around and researchers have studied how the human brain juggles creativity and organization. Popular theory tells us that the left brain is structured and logical, while the rig

Graphic Design , workflow , Creativity

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Siobhan McKeown - Diary Of A WordCamp

Pretty much anyone who has anything to do with WordPress is coming to volunteer-organized events called WordCamps. In March, I travelled to Utrecht, where I was lucky enough to attend WordCamp Neth

Community , wordpress

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Erik Perotti - Interaction Design In The Cloud

Interaction designers create wireframes in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, OmniGraffle and Microsoft Visio. Originally, these wireframes were primitive shapes drawn to represent various UI elements

Interaction Design , Tools , ux

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Phil Leggetter - How To Build A Real-Time Commenting System

Adding real-time functionality to an application can result in a more interactive and engaging user experience. However, setting up and maintaining the server-side real-time components can be an unw

coding , Css , HTML , html5 , Javascript

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Pritam - How To Add Custom Fields In A WordPress Comment Form

Apart from its ease of use and the availability of themes and plugins, WordPress can be easily modified to include custom features and functions. Hooks and filters are built into the CMS that allow

wordpress , Custom Fields , Comments

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Vitaly Friedman - The Smashing Book #3 “Redesign The Web” Is Out!

We believe this is by far the best book we’ve produced so far. We are very proud and excited, and the initial verdict has been thoroughly positive, yet in the end it’s up to you to decide how valuab

Events , Smashing Books

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Benjamin De Cock - Refining Your Design In Adobe Fireworks

While certainly not as well known as Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks is a great tool for creating user interfaces, website designs and mock-ups, wireframes, icons and much more. However, most designers w

workflow , Fireworks , Techniques

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