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D Bnonn Tennant - 16 Pixels Font Size: For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake

Please note that this article used to have another layout that got lost in space during the migration of content to new servers. I know what you’re thinking. “Did he just say 16 pixels? For body co

Typography , fonts , Readability

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Tim R. Todish - Not Your Parent’s Mobile Phone: UX Design Guidelines For Smartphones

In your pocket right now is the most powerful “remote control” (as Drew Diskin put it) that has ever existed. It is no ordinary remote control. It can harness everything that all of the previous mas

Design Patterns , UX Design , mobile , Interfaces , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - 22 Creepy Halloween Icons [Freebie]

This special Halloween icon set was inspired by classic cartoons. Spice up your website or application with a spooky Halloween atmosphere. The set was designed by the creative folks behind I

Icons , Freebies , Halloween

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Christian Heilmann - A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript

In school, I hated math. It was a dire, dry and boring thing with stuffy old books and very theoretical problems. Even worse, a lot of the tasks were repetitive, with a simple logical change in ever

animation , Techniques , coding , Css , Javascript

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Justin Tadlock - How To Create Wordpress Meta Boxes

What seems like one of the most complicated bits of functionality in WordPress is adding meta boxes to the post editing screen. This complexity only grows as more and more tutorials are written on t

wordpress , Functions , Techniques (WP)

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Lara Swanson - Improve The User Experience By Tracking Errors

It’s easy to see your top-visited pages, navigation patterns and conversion metrics using visitor-tracking tools like Google Analytics. However, this data doesn’t show the roadblocks that users typi

UX Design , User Research , Forms , ux , Design

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Jon Savage and Simon H. - How To Use Textures In Web Design

Texture is becoming integral to design. It’s gone beyond being a trend — it’s now a simple and effective way to add depth to a website. Wielding the power of texture is a great responsibility. It in

Illustrator , Photoshop , Graphics , Web Design , textures , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: October 2011

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 , Downloads , Freebies

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Daniel Pataki - WordPress Essentials: How To Create A WordPress Plugin

WordPress plugins are PHP scripts that alter your website. The changes could be anything from the simplest tweak in the header to a more drastic makeover (such as changing how log-ins work, triggeri

wordpress , plugins , Essentials

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Jason Mark - How To Make An eBook

Making an eBook is easy, regardless of your coding experience. This is good, because 99.9% of your time should be spent on writing and getting your book out there, rather than on technology. Any el

workflow , Techniques , coding

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Darren Geraghty - 9 Conversation Techniques For Designers

Designers are visually literate creatures. We use visuals to express our ideas, whether by building wireframes, sketching interfaces or pushing pixels. As a result, the majority of knowledge capture

Techniques , ux , Communication , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - User Interface Design In Modern Web Applications

What is user interface design? What makes a user interface effective, and more importantly, how do you go about crafting a good user interface? This chapter looks at the theory as well as the practi

Interfaces , User Experience , ui

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Eran Galperin - You’re Pricing It Wrong: Software Pricing Demystified

Pricing your own product is always a tricky proposition, and the more critical the price is to your product’s success, the more difficult it is to set. It’s easy to look at another product and say h

Software , Pricing , Business

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Ryan Olson - How To Develop WordPress Locally With MAMP

Local development refers to the process of building a website or Web application from the comfort of a virtual server, and not needing to be connected to the Internet in order to run PHP and MySQL o

wordpress , workflow , admin , SQL

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Zack Grossbart - Searchable Dynamic Content With AJAX Crawling

Google Search likes simple, easy-to-crawl websites. You like dynamic websites that show off your work and that really pop. But search engines can’t run your JavaScript. That cool AJAX routine that l

Techniques , seo , Ajax , coding , Javascript

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Ben Callahan - Content Prototyping In Responsive Web Design

Michelangelo once said, “The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.” Translate this to the world of Web design and you might say, “No matter how grea

Responsive Design , mobile , Content , Prototyping

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Vitaly Friedman - 16 Pixels

16 Pixels for body copy. Anything less is a costly mistake. I know what you’re thinking. “Did he just say 16 pixels? For body copy? Obnoxiously big! 12 pixels is ideal for most websites.” I’d like

Typograhpy , fonts , Readability

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Derek Mack - How To Create An Animated HTML Graph With CSS And jQuery

People in boardrooms across the world love a good graph. They go nuts for PowerPoint, bullet points and phrases like “run it up the flagpole,” “blue-sky thinking” and “low-hanging fruit,” and everyt

animation , coding , Css , jquery , Data Visualization

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Lyndon Cerejo - Improving The Online Shopping Experience, Part 2: Guiding Customers Through The Buying Process

Part 1 of “Improving the Online Shopping Experience” focused on the upper part of the purchase funnel and on ways to get customers to your website and to find your products. Today, we move down the

seo , ux , Search , Usability , Psychology

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Ben Callahan - Content Prototyping In Responsive Web Design: Related Resources

This overview features the useful resources related to the article Content Prototyping In Responsive Web Design, written by Ben Callahan. Related Resources Content Precedes Design An intense

Responsive Design , Content , Prototyping

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Paul Boag - Are You Ready For A Web Design Challenge?

This is not a normal Smashing Magazine post. I’m not going to teach you something new or inspire you with examples of great work. Instead, I want to encourage you to complete a Web design challenge.

Community , Web Design , Design , Business

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Daniel Pataki - How To Interact With The WordPress Database

While you already use many functions in WordPress to communicate with the database, there is an easy and safe way to do this directly, using the $wpdb class. Built on the great ezSQL class by Justin

wordpress , php , SQL , Essentials

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Laura Klein - How A/B Testing And Analytics Can Make You A Better Designer

Metrics can be a touchy subject in design. When I say things like, “Designers should embrace A/B testing” or “Metrics can improve design,” I often hear concerns. Many designers tell me they feel th

User Research , ux , Design

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Richard Shepherd - CSS3 Flexible Box Layout: Everything I Wish I Knew When I Started

The flexible box layout module — or “flexbox,” to use its popular nickname — is an interesting part of the W3C Working Draft. The flexbox specification is still a draft and subject to change, so kee

flexbox , Layouts , coding , Css

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