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Vitaly Friedman - Web Design Elements: Examples And Best Practices

This overview features a hand-picked and organized selection of the most useful and popular Smashing Magazine’s articles featuring various building blocks of a website and published here over all th

Guides , Tools , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Portfolio Web Design Showcases

This is an overview of the best Portfolio Web design showcases we have published on Smashing Magazine over all the years. 69 Sexy Portfolio Designs To Inspire You Today designing a unique, compell

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Derek Johnson - HTML5 And The Document Outlining Algorithm

By now, we all know that we should be using HTML5 to build websites. The discussion now is moving on to how to use HTML5 correctly. One important part of HTML5 that is still not widely understood is

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David Kadavy - Mind Your En And Em Dashes: Typographic Etiquette

An understanding of typographic etiquette separates the master designers from the novices. A well-trained designer can tell within moments of viewing a design whether its creator knows how to work w

Typography , fonts , Design

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Tom Giannattasio - Mastering Photoshop Techniques: Layer Styles

Layer Styles are nothing new. They’ve been used and abused again and again. Despite their ubiquity, or perhaps because of it, many designers do not yet realize the full potential of this handy menu.

Photoshop , Tutorials , Graphics

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Paul Boag - How To Build A Better Web Application For Your Business

Most of us will never get to work on a Web application that is funded by venture capital and for which the business aims are a secondary consideration. For us, developing a Web application is about

workflow , Process , Product Strategy , Business

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Rick Monro - The Selfless Designer

Becoming an effective designer requires embracing universal design principles and best practices. Over the years, I have come to see that reaching maturity as a designer is a continual process of re

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Lewis Nyman - Techniques For Gracefully Degrading Media Queries

Media queries are the third pillar in Ethan Marcotte’s implementation of responsive web design. Without media queries, fluid layouts would struggle to adapt to the array of screen sizes on the hundr

Responsive Design , Media Queries , coding , Css

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Dan McKenzie - How To Design For Android Tablets

More than ever, designers are being asked to create experiences for a variety of mobile devices. As tablet adoption increases and we move into the post-PC world, companies will compete for users’ at

Responsive Design , mobile , Tablets , Android

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Ken Reynolds - Ignorance Is Bliss For A Creative Mind

The saying “Ignorance is bliss” originates in Thomas Gray’s poem “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” (1742). The quote goes: “Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.” Face it: you

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Cameron Chapman - Review Of Cross-Browser Testing Tools

At some point in the future, the way that all major browsers render Web code will likely be standardized, which will make testing across multiple browsers no longer necessary as long as the website

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Jad Limcaco - Design Talent Or Design Skill?

I’ve always wondered this: “Is there such thing as a talented designer? Or is good design a skill? Or maybe to be a great designer, you need a combination of talent, skill, and experience.” W

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Jason Gross - The Neglected Necessities Of Design

Right now is an exciting time to be in the Web design community. Every month we seem to stumble on a new thought-provoking way to put our expanding tool set to use for our clients and the patrons of

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Karim Boubker - The Personification Of Design

Every single day for the past twenty two years of my life, I have never left my house without having to worry about my appearance. I am human, and as such, I tend to identify myself by what I wear.

Web Design , Emotional Design , Discussions , Design

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Paul Boag - Utilizing The Power Of Recycling In Web Design

Truth be told, I am a philistine. When people talk about recycling, I don’t think of saving the planet. In my earlier post, “Lessons Learned: Productivity Tips For Running A Web Design Business,” I

workflow , Web Design , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - 27 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts

Every now and then, we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you sh

Typography , fonts , Free Fonts

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Dan Mayer - Design Legacy: A Social History Of Jamaican Album Covers

Mention Jamaican music to someone who isn’t a fan and you can bet that a fairly predictable image pops into the head of your listener. Chances are this image looks something like the cover of Bim Sh

Graphic Design , Covers , Inspiration , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - 20 Professional E-Commerce Icons [Freebie]

Today, we are glad to release a set of 20 high quality E-commerce Icons in 64×64px, available in .png-format. This set was designed by Web Icons Set with the purpose to be used in e-commerce website

Icons , Freebies , Inspiration

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Tara Hornor - Examples And Tips For Using Illustrator’s Warp Tools

Adobe Illustrator is one very useful program for creating vector artwork. The tools and features available in Illustrator make it easy to create digital illustrations, whether from scratch or by tra

Illustrator , Tutorials , Graphics

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David Martin - Dear Clients, The Web Has Changed. It’s Time To Use CSS3 and HTML5 Now.

Since hearing about HTML5 and CSS3, then later reading Hardboiled Web design by Andy Clarke, I have been working on a presentation to help introduce these development methods to my clients. If all i

Clients , coding , Css , HTML , html5

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Anne Miles - What Web Designers Can Learn From Video Games

Games are becoming more Web-like, and the Web is becoming more game-like. If you need proof of this, you have only to look at Yahoo Answers. Random questions are posed, the top answer is chosen, and

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Paul Boag - Defending The Generalists In The Web Design Industry

In recent years there has been a move away from generalist Web designers to specialists such as content strategists, user experience architects, and front-end coders. Where once there was a single j

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Tobias Günther - Modern Version Control With Git

In this article, we will cover the basic background information for understanding how — and more importantly, why — to use Git. Later, we will take a closer look at Git’s features, including branchi

Techniques , Tools , Git

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Felicity Evans - Email Is (Still) Important And Here Is Why

Social media is more than a buzzword. It’s now a lifestyle decision for a lot of companies. Many individuals and organizations have abandoned a traditional web presence (which used to mean a website

workflow , Productivity , Emails , Communication , Business

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