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Craig Anderson - E-Commerce Copywriting: The Guide to Selling More

Quality product descriptions can transform e-commerce conversion rates — it’s common to see increases of 30-100%. As well as converting more visitors, search traffic increases drastically when uniqu

Content , Web Design , E-Commerce , Content Strategy , Copywriting , Design , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - 25 Impressive Free High-Quality Fonts

In this selection, we’re pleased to present Pompadour Numeral Set, Lato, Crimson Text, Espinosa Nova, Musa Ornata, Spatha Sans, ColorLines, Roke1984, Neuton, Avro, Baurete and other fonts. Please no

Typography , fonts , Free Fonts

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Daniel Durrans - Compositing in Photoshop: Time-Saving Tips

Compositing is a skill and process that spans the entire spectrum of creative industries. At the high end, compositing boasts its own specialized profession in film and television post production an

Photoshop , Graphics , Tools , Time Savers

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Dan Mayer - What Font Should I Use? 5 Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces

For many beginners, the task of picking fonts is a mystifying process. There seem to be endless choices — from normal, conventional-looking fonts to novelty candy cane fonts and bunny fonts — with n

Typography , fonts , Design

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Paul Tero - What To Do When Your Website Goes Down

Have you ever heard a colleague answer the phone like this: “Good afterno… Yes… What? Completely?… When did it go down?… Really, that long?… We’ll look into it right away… Yes, I understand… Of cour

backend , php , Linux , coding

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Vitaly Friedman - Why We Should Start Using CSS3 And HTML5 Today

Just like the elusive character from Beckett’s classic play, this day of full cross-browser support is not ever truly going to find its dawn and deliver us this wonderful new Web where our work look

css3 , coding , Css , HTML , html5

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Andreas Zeitler - Most Common Mistakes in Screencasting

When people think about how to start screencasting, they often forget that screencasting is not only a very interesting way of showing something quickly, comprehensibly and easily; it’s also a way o

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John Rainsford - Preparing Artwork for Screen Printing in Adobe Illustrator

Getting t-shirts printed is an ideal way to promote your business, organization or event. They are a promotional item that people can actually use, and they have the added bonus of being an advertis

Illustrator , Tutorials , CMYK , Graphics

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Dmitry Fadeyev - How To Use The LESS CSS Preprocessor For Smarter Style Sheets

Enter the LESS CSS preprocessor. You see, while the simple design of CSS makes it very accessible to beginners, it also poses limitations on what you can do with it. These limitations, like the ina

less , coding , Css

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Roland Peelen - Post-Production Trends in 3D Visualizations

Post-production might well be the most underappreciated part of creating 3D visualizations. It gives you the power to easily make some changes; put in the sky you like, add some dirt, make the color

Graphics , 3d , Illustrations , Visualizations

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Alexander Dawson - A Study of Trends in Mobile Design

This article is a part of our new eBook Mobile Design For iPhone And iPad (just $9.90). The eBook presents articles on professional design for the iPhone and iPad, including guidelines for the devel

Design Patterns , mobile , Studies , Android

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: December 2010

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use a specific wallpaper for a longer period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why

Wallpapers , Christmas , Graphics

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David Travis - Persuasion Triggers In Web Design

How do you make decisions? If you’re like most people, you’ll probably answer that you pride yourself on weighing the pros and cons of a situation carefully and then make a decision based on logic.

ux , Usability , Emotional Design , Psychology

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Robert Bowen - Art Inspiration From Individual Artist Portfolios

In a creative field like design, we face an undeniable truth: our wells of inspiration are bound to run dry from time to time. In those periods of imaginative downtime, we seek out sources that can

Art , Graphics , Illustrations , Paintings

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Cameron Chapman - Why Intellectual Property Rights Are So Important

Intellectual property rights are often confusing and sometimes the topic of heated debates. There are those who question the worth of creative products and projects, claiming design and art are some

Content , Copyright , Discussions , Opinion Column

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Cameron Chapman - Web Design Questionnaires, Project Sheets and Work Sheets

It’s nearly impossible to provide an accurate quote to a prospective Web design client without first gathering information about what that particular client needs. Some designers do this in either a

Clients , Downloads , templates , Checklists , Web Design , Design , Business

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Daniel Eckler, Glenn Manucdoc - Showcase Of Beautiful But Unusable Websites

In this showcase we present websites that sacrifice usability for beauty and present issues related to clutter, loading, navigation, archiving or visibility. Unfortunately, although the sites featur

Showcases , ux , Usability

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Paras Chopra - Multivariate Testing In Action: Five Simple Steps To Increase Conversion Rates

The attention span on the Web has been decreasing ever since Google had arrived and changed the rules of the game. Now with millions of results available on any topic imaginable, the window to grab

performance , testing , E-Commerce , Conversion , Design

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The Smashing Newsletter Team - Photoshop-Inspired Techniques with 100% CSS

In this article, we’re going to take a look at some design solutions that are now possible with CSS, whether it be with the new, more advanced CSS3 or with prior versions. Everything from small deta

Photoshop , css3 , coding , Css

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Rachel Andrew - Designing For Content Management Systems

Designing and indeed front-end development for a website that will have content edited by non-technical users poses some problems over and above those you will encounter when developing a site where

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Robert Bowen - Where Have All The Comments Gone?

Years ago, the online design community was a thriving conversationalist — of sorts — through the comment sections across the community. It was through leaving meaningful comments that the thought-pr

Community , Content , Discussions , Opinion Column

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ZURB - How To Use the “Seven Deadly Sins” to Turn Visitors into Customers

In this article we’ll show examples of how successful companies exploit the tendency to conduct all the famous Seven Deadly Sins, and in turn generate momentum with their website visitors. Ready? Le

Marketing , Content , E-Commerce , Business

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Marc Edwards - Designing for iPhone 4 Retina Display: Techniques and Workflow

The iPhone 4 features a vastly superior display resolution (614400 pixels) over previous iPhone models, containing quadruple the 153600-pixel display of the iPhone 3GS. The screen is the same physic

workflow , Techniques , mobile , iphone , ios , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - Web Typography: Educational Resources, Tools and Techniques

In this post we present an extensive overview of educational resources, tools, articles, techniques and showcases all related to web typography. Please notice that the overview presents resources wh

Techniques , Typography , Tools , fonts , Resources , Design

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