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Leonard Souza - How To Transform The Minds Of Clients

Ah, the love of a client. That is indeed what we all seek as professionals, is it not? If we lived in a utopia, then that’s all there would be. Openness. Honesty. Passion. Flowing in both directions

Graphic Design , User Research , Clients , ux

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Jason Gross - The Process of Creativity

The creative attribute has always been a highly debated and researched component of the human psyche. The “designer” job title seems to be one that calls to the more creative minded among us and acc

workflow , Creativity

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Vitaly Friedman - 20 Festive Christmas Icons [Freebie]

Feel free to also have a look at some of our previous Smashing Christimas icon sets: Free Smashing Christmas Icon Set by Icon Eden (2009) and Free Smashing Christmas Icon Set by SoftFacade (2008).

Christmas , Icons , Freebies , EPS

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Alexander Kaupanin - Auto-Save User’s Input In Your Forms With HTML5 And Sisyphus.js

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

coding , Javascript

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Sameer Borate - Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress

The reason for using Amazon S3 to store important data follows from the “3-2-1” backup rule, coined by Peter Krogh. According to the 3-2-1 rule, you would keep three copies of any critical data: the

wordpress , Tutorials , workflow , Techniques (WP)

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Addy Osmani - The Smashing Guide To Moving The Web Forward

Modernizr, HTML5 Boilerplate and jQuery are just a few examples of well known projects which were born from a desire to put something out there that could help others on the Web do more. These proje

Community , Tools , Opinion Column , Javascript

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: December 2011

We continue to nourish you with a monthly spoon of inspiration. This post features 30 free desktop wallpapers created by artists across the globe for December 2011. Both versions with a calendar and

Wallpapers , Christmas , Graphics

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Rachel Andrew - A Guide To PHP Error Messages For Designers

I have been a PHP developer for 10 years, and my company has developed a content management system, written in PHP, that is intended to be very simple to install and get started with. So, I spend a

Errors , php , coding

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Heydon Pickering - The Perfect Paragraph

This is a mistake. Here, we’ll refer to some time-honored typesetting conventions, with an emphasis on readability, and offer guidance on adapting them effectively for devices and screens. We’ll see

Typography , ux , Css , Design

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Jason Mark - How WordPress Took The CMS Crown From Drupal And Joomla

According to W3Techs, almost 55% of the 1 million most visited websites that are run on a content management system (CMS) are run on WordPress. WordPress is a darn fine CMS and is stable and easy to

wordpress , joomla , cms , Drupal

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Paul Scrivens - Easier Is Better Than Better

Common sense would dictate that if you were given a list of choices, you would choose the one that is most important to you, when in reality humans usually choose the one that is easiest for them to

Web Design , Psychology , Discussions , Opinion Column

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Christian Krammer - How To Set Up A Print Style Sheet

In a time when everyone seems to have a tablet, which makes it possible to consume everything digitally, and the only real paper we use is bathroom tissue, it might seem odd to write about the long-

Techniques , Print , coding , Css

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Marc Edwards - How To Export From Photoshop

It’s probably the least interesting part of designing software, usually entailing hours of grinding. Saving images to multiple scales — as required by iOS and other platforms — adds complication to

Photoshop , Graphics

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Siobhan McKeown - How To Improve Your WordPress Plugin’s Readme.txt

If you’re a plugin developer and you just love to write code, then writing a readme.txt file for a plugin in WordPress’ repository might be your idea of hell. When you’ve written all of that lovely

wordpress , plugins

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Robert Hoekman Jr - A UX Strategist’s Work

Right there in the center of my boilerplate for user experience strategy and design proposals is a section that I glare at with more resentment each time I complete it. It’s called “Deliverables,” a

Productivity , ux , Process , Design

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Zack Grossbart - How To Create Web Animations With Paper.js

The Web is just starting to use animation well. For years, animated GIFs and Flash ruled. Text moved and flashed, but it was never seamless. Animations had boxes around them like YouTube videos. HTM

coding , HTML , html5 , Javascript

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Bruce Lawson - Sexy New HTML5 Semantics

Sexy yet hollow demos aside, even the most JavaScript-astic Web 2.0-alicious application will likely have textual content that needs to be marked up sensibly, so let’s look at some of the new elemen

Semantics , coding , HTML , html5

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Sarah Bauer - Fluidity Of Content And Design

It goes that one night, protagonist Max “wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind or another.” He hammers nails into walls, pesters a small dog. Author Maurice Sendak doesn’t explain these h

ux , Content , Communication , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Free Icon Set For Web Designers: Aroma (250+ PNG Icons)

Oliver Twardowski had released the Ultimate Free Web Designer’s Icon Set (750 icons, including PSD sources) in the past, and this time he has prepared a fresh, new icon set which contains over 250 o

Icons , Freebies

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Kevin Leary - WordPress Multisite: Practical Functions And Methods

Although each “website” in a network is independent, there are many ways to share settings, code and content throughout the entire network. Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been developing the

wordpress , Functions , php , Essentials

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Jeremy Girard - Assuming Leadership In Your Design Agency

There comes a point in the career of many Web designers where the logical progression in that career is to take on a leadership position. A logical step or not, when a designer “assumes” this type o

Teams , Business

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Rian van der Merwe - The Data-Pixel Approach To Improving User Experience

This article came out of my own questions about how to make the realignment philosophy practical and apply it to my day-to-day work — especially when what’s needed is more than a few tweaks to the w

Graphic Design , Redesign , ux , Design

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Thord Daniel Hedengren - Getting Started With bbPress

Forums have been around forever, so it should come as no surprise that several plugins for the popular publishing platform WordPress provide this feature, as well as support for integrating other fo

wordpress , plugins

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Philip Tellis - Analyzing Network Characteristics Using JavaScript And The DOM, Part 1

In this article, we’ll look at some methods of manipulating JavaScript to determine various network characteristics from within the browser — characteristics that were previously available only to a

performance , coding , Javascript

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