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Vitaly Friedman - Smashing Book 2: Why We Love It And Why You’ll Love It, Too

Two and a half months ago, the Smashing Book 2 was released. For us, a small independent publisher, it was a big deal, because this ambitious project on which we had been working since July 2010 was

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Steven Gliebe - Detailed Comparison Of Premium WordPress Theme Clubs

WordPress professionals are faced with many options when deciding which membership-based theme providers are worth their investment. It is important to know how frequent future releases are, what yo

wordpress , Themes , Techniques (WP)

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Sarah & Adrienne Kahn - Showcase Of Creative Navigation Menus: Good And Bad Examples

Good navigation is the main cornerstone of an effective website. In practice, however, it’s often a tough challenge to come up with a meaningful, unambiguous way to organize, arrange, and display co

Showcases , Navigation , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Powerful New CSS Techniques And Tools

The hard work of front-end designers never ceases to amaze us. Over the last months, we’ve seen Web designers creating and presenting a plethora of truly remarkable CSS techniques and tools. We have

Techniques , Tools , coding , Css , Resources

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Marc Edwards - Pixel Perfection When Rotating, Pasting And Nudging In Photoshop

When creating Web and app interfaces, most designers slave over every single pixel, making sure it’s got exactly the right color, texture and position. If you’re not careful, though, some common fun

Photoshop , Techniques , Graphics

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Colleen Jones - Make Your Content Make A Difference

Content, content, content. It’s an obvious part of any interactive experience. In fact, you’ve probably heard content is king, or queen, or some sort of royalty. Yet, content is elusive. Often, you

Editorial , Content , Copywriting , Design

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Leigh Mason - Taking Credit Card Payments Online: What’s Involved?

If you’re looking to integrate a credit card payment solution onto your website, the following steps are a guide to applying for, enabling and taking payments online. At first glance, the prospect o

Security , Web Design , E-Commerce , Payment , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - The Smashing Cartoons

Smashing Cartoons was a regular section on Smashing Magazine in which we used to publish a new cartoon every Friday illustrated by the one and only Ricardo Gimenes. We all have our favorite client

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Tom Giannattasio - Relationship Engineering: Designing Attraction

Apple seems to have entranced people. It’s hard to walk down the street without passing someone who is plugged in to those iconic white headphones or to enter a coffee shop without hearing someone g

Web Design , Emotional Design , Personalization , Opinion Column , Design

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Soh Tanaka - Helpful JavaScript & jQuery Tools, Libraries & Plugins

Recently we’ve been receiving more requests for carefully selected, useful round-ups. We try to avoid round-ups on Smashing Magazine, but sometimes the format is useful and — if the resources are re

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Christian Holst - Fundamental Guidelines Of E-Commerce Checkout Design

Here is the harsh reality of e-commerce websites: according to recent e-commerce studies, at least 59.8% of potential customers abandon their shopping cart (MarketingSherpa puts it at 59.8%, SeeWhy

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Andy Croxall - Image Manipulation With jQuery And PHP GD

One of the numerous advantages brought about by the explosion of jQuery and other JavaScript libraries is the ease with which you can create interactive tools for your site. When combined with serve

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Paras Chopra - Multivariate Testing 101: A Scientific Method Of Optimizing Design

In a previous article on Smashing Magazine, I described A/B testing and various resources related to it. I have also covered the basics of multivariate testing in the past, yet in this post I’ll go

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2011

We continue to nourish you with a monthly spoon of inspiration. This post features 35 free desktop wallpapers created by artists across the globe for April 2011. Both versions with a calendar and wi

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Richard Shepherd - How To Use CSS3 Pseudo-Classes

CSS3 is a wonderful thing, but it’s easy to be bamboozled by the transforms and animations (many of which are vendor-specific) and forget about the nuts-and-bolts selectors that have also been added

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James Gardner - Designing For The Future Web

Designing for the future Web. That’s a big subject. Where do we start when we’re talking about something thatisn’there yet? In this article, we’ll look at what the future Web might look like and ho

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Chris Blunt - Get Started Developing For Android With Eclipse, Reloaded

In the first part of this tutorial series, we built a simple brew timer application using Android and Eclipse. In this second part, we’ll continue developing the application by adding extra function

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Dirk Metzmacher - Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop

Here is a short overview of the techniques we’ll be covering in this follow-up: Defining Colors Controlling Folders Split-Toning Effect Flexible Vignette Skin Retouching In Camera Raw

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Douglas Bonneville - How To Choose A Font — A Step-By-Step Guide!

Choosing a font can be tricky. The beauty and complexity of type, combined with an inexhaustible supply of options to evaluate, can make your head spin. But don’t be baffled — and don’t despair. Whi

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Paul Tero - Speeding Up Your Website’s Database

However, the focus of the discussion is generally on minimizing file sizes, improving server settings and optimizing CSS and Javascript. The discussion glosses over another important factor: the sp

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Vitaly Friedman - Dear Web Design Community, Where Have You Gone?

Our established set of design and coding practices is more comprehensive than it has ever been before. Our designs are becoming more usable, our code more scalable, our layouts more responsive. In f

Community , Web Design , Communication , Opinion Column , Design

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Thierry Koblentz - Styling Elements With Glyphs, Sprites and Pseudo-Elements

Today, on the shoulders of giants, we’ll try to push the envelope. We’ll discuss how you can style elements with no extra markup and using a bidi-friendly high-contrast proof CSS sprite technique. T

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Suzanne Ginsburg - Are Touchscreen Tablets Effective Design Tools?

Regardless of the final platform — desktop, tablet, mobile — most designers start their explorations on paper. Depending on the designer’s preference, the paper may be bound or unbound, lined or unl

workflow , Sketching , Tablets , Design

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Lisa Valuyskaya - InDesign Tips I Wish I’d Known When Starting Out

I love Adobe InDesign. For multi-page documents, it’s the most flexible and complete application out there. Yet I remember how counter-intuitive some things were when I was learning it for the first

InDesign , CMYK , Graphics , Publishing

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