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Nathan Ford - How To Apply Macrotypography For A More Readable Web Page

Any application of typography can be divided into two arenas: micro and macro. Understanding the difference between the two is especially useful when crafting a reading experience, because it allows

Graphic Design , Typography , Web Design , Readability

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Robert Brauer - Removing Stumbling Blocks In Mobile Forms

I normally try to be as attentive as possible, but this time a big crack in the pavement caught my shoe and threw me completely off balance. After reporting my clumsy accident to friends and family

Interaction Design , mobile , ux , Usability

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Konstantinos Kouratoras - WordPress Shortcodes: A Complete Guide

When a shortcode is inserted in a WordPress post or page, it is replaced withsome other content. In other words, we instruct WordPress to find the macrothat is in square brackets ([]) and replace it

wordpress , Functions , Shortcodes , php

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: May 2012

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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Jacob Cook - How I Work: Yahoo!’s Doug Crockford On JavaScript

The goal is not to get into the specific nuances of their craft (as that information already exists online), but rather step back and learn a bit about their habits, philosophies, and workflow for p

workflow , coding , Javascript

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Peter Steen Høgenhaug - Gamification And UX: Where Users Win Or Lose

The gaming industry is huge, and it can keep its audience consumed for hours, days and even weeks. Some play the same game over and over again — and occasionally, they even get out their 15-year-old

Interaction Design , ux , Design

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Alessio Atzeni - A Pure CSS3 Cycling Slideshow

Thanks to CSS3, we can create effects and animations without using JavaScript, which will facilitate the work of many designers. But we must be careful to avoid abusing CSS3, not only because old b

animation , css3 , coding

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Tim Ahrens - A Closer Look At Font Rendering

The Web font revolution that started around two years ago has brought up a topic that many of us had merrily ignored for many years: font rendering. The newfound freedom Web fonts are giving us brin

Typography , fonts , Inspiration

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Christopher Butler - Stop Shouting. Start Teaching.

Imagine you are in a classroom. Let’s say a high school classroom. You’re sitting at your desk, listening to your favorite teacher—the one who inspired you, the one who got you excited about that th

Marketing , workflow , E-Commerce , Discussions , Opinion Column

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Indi Young and Brad Colbow - Mental Model Diagram – Cartoon

We tend to carefully create our HTML and CSS, and meticulously place every pixel to our designs. We plan exactly where our content should be placed on a particular site. Among many other decisions w

Interaction Design , ux

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Jonathan Snook - Decoupling HTML From CSS

For years, the Web standards community has talked about the separation of concerns. Separate your CSS from your JavaScript from your HTML. We all do that, right? CSS goes into its own file; JavaScri

coding , Css , HTML

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Bruce Lawson - Why We Shouldn’t Make Separate Mobile Websites

There has been a long-running war going on over the mobile Web: it can be summarized with the following question: “Is there a mobile Web?” That is, is the mobile device so fundamentally different th

Responsive Design , mobile , Strategy

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Goce Mitevski - Random Redirection In WordPress

How do you make your WordPress magazine more interactive? Have you tried random redirection? Call it recycling if you like, but random redirection doesn’t have to be about retreading familiar terri

wordpress , Techniques , admin

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Karen Kaushansky - Designing With Audio: What Is Sound Good For?

Our world is getting louder. Consider all the beeps and bops from your smartphone that alert you that something is happening, and all the feedback from your appliances when your toast is ready or yo

Interaction Design , ux , Web Audio , Design , ui

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Tom Giannattasio - Beercamp: An Experiment With CSS 3D

I recently had the pleasure of organizing this year’s Beercamp website. If you’re unfamiliar, Beercamp is a party for designers and developers. It’s also a playground for front-end experimentation.

css3 , coding

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Varya Stepanova - BEM: A New Front-End Methodology

This article is the sixth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The fi

Frameworks , templates , coding , Css , HTML , Javascript

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Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser - When Typography Speaks Louder Than Words

Clever graphic designers love to use typography to explore the interaction between the look of type and what type actually says. In communicating a message, a balance has to be achieved between the

Graphic Design , Typography , Web Design

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Siobhan McKeown - Smashing Special: What’s Going On In The WordPress Economy? - Part 2

This article is part of our series of Smashing Specials — extended articles and studies dedicated to a specific topic. The special looks at the current state of the WordPress economy, exploring WP M

wordpress , Techniques (WP)

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Siobhan McKeown - What’s Going On In The WordPress Economy?

In a post on her blog last year, WordPress designer, business woman and author Lisa Sabin Wilson, talked about how thankful she is to be part of the WordPress economy. It’s an economy that thousands

Community , wordpress , Trends , plugins , Business

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Sabina Idler - Not Just Pretty: Building Emotion Into Your Websites

Emotional design has become a powerful tool in creating exceptional user experiences for websites. However, emotions did not use to play such an important role on the Web. Actually, they did not use

ux , Emotional Design , Content Strategy , Design

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Niels Matthijs - CSS Sprites Revisited

I’m pretty confident that I won’t surprise anyone here by saying that CSS sprites have been around for quite a while now, rearing their somewhat controversial heads in the Web development sphere as

Sprites , Techniques , coding , Css , Essentials

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Theresa Neil, Rich Malley - UI Patterns For Mobile Apps: Search, Sort And Filter

As I was waiting for a table at a local restaurant the other day, I flipped through a couple of the free classified papers. I was shocked to realize how dependent I’ve grown on three simple features

Design Patterns , ux , Usability

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John Casey - The Art Of Launching An App: A Case Study

You’ve made your first app! Now what? Anyone in the app business knows that marketing an app is tough. And according to a recent article on TechCrunch, “Getting a mobile app noticed in the increasi

Marketing , mobile , Case Studies , Content Strategy , Product Strategy , Business

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Daniel Pataki - Manage Events Like A Pro With Wordpress

Repeating events, schedules, multiple days, multiple tracks, multiple prices, multiple speakers, multiple organizations, multiple payment options — the list goes on on for quite some time. Today

wordpress , Management

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