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Sharon Hart - Illustrator’s Live Trace: Sketch To Vector

Live Trace was introduced in Adobe Illustrator CS2 but is still a powerful tool available in Illustrator CS5. This process really gives an artist the freedom to digitally experiment with drawings of

Illustrator , Tutorials , Graphics , Drawing

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John Mindiola - Gender Disparities in the Design Field

Walk into any design classroom, at any college in America, and you’ll see a comfortable mix of male and female students. Turn your attention to the front of the classroom, or down the hall to the fa

Community , Teams , Diversity , Discussions

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Sarah & Adrienne Kahn - Designing Memorable Websites: Showcase of Creative Designs

One of the main goals of having a website, whether it be a portfolio website or a business website, is to declare your presence on the Web. There are thousands upon thousands of websites out there;

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Louis Lazaris - Learning to Love HTML5

From my own vantage point — aside from a few disputes about what the term “HTML5” should and shouldn’t mean — the web design and development community has for the most part embraced all the new tech

coding , HTML , html5

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Vitaly Friedman - 50 Free High Quality Icons Sets

Please always read the disclaimers carefully before using the icons — they do change from time to time. We truly respect and appreciate the efforts and the hard work of designers of the icons featur

Graphics , Icons , Freebies

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Thierry Koblentz - Equal Height Column Layouts With Borders And Negative Margins In CSS

1. Centering Columns Without A Wrapper div This layout will be built without a wrapper div: The basics We use the background of body and the border of one of the columns to create background co

Techniques , Css , Browsers

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Robert Bowen - When 24/7/365 Fails: Turning Off Work On Weekends

The web has continued evolving since its inception, as have those who have devoted their professional lives to working in and around this massive communication tool. We have had to roll with the cha

workflow , Time management , Productivity , Teams , Career , Business

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Douglas Bonneville - Best Practices Of Combining Typefaces

Combine a Sans Serif with a Serif By far the most popular principle for creating typeface combinations is to pair a sans serif header typeface with a serif body typeface. This is a classic combinat

Typography , fonts , Design

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Jon Raasch - How To Build A Mobile Website

In wealthy countries, the shift is being fueled by faster mobile broadband connections and cheaper data service. However, a large increase has also been seen in developing nations where people have

mobile , Android , Strategy

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Louis Lazaris - !important CSS Declarations: How and When to Use Them

When the CSS1 specification was drafted in the mid-to-late 90s, it introduced !important declarations that would help developers and users easily override normal specificity when making changes to t

coding , Css , Essentials

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Vitaly Friedman - Free Fonts of the Week - Best of

We continue to collect most beautiful high quality freefonts, which can be used for both private and professional projects without any restrictions whatsoever. They are hard to find, but the search

Typography , Downloads , Freebies , fonts , Free Fonts , Design

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Trevor Morris - Transparent CSS Sprites

Sprites are simply a collection of images which are merged together to create a single file. You then use CSS, changing the background-position the image, to display the correct part of the image yo

Techniques , coding , Css

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Speider Schneider - Take The Initiative and Create Your Own Projects

Their parents had hoped for their own children to work there and eventually retire in the same homey place. They were anchored in this town that held no other industries. Like layoffs in a town that

workflow , Business

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Thomas McGee - Billboard Web Design: How To Win Your Audience’s Attention

Generally, the eye-catching ads are mostly the ones with witty taglines that are easy and fun to remember. As much as the colors of the images and fonts being used are important to make it easy on t

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Felicity Evans - When A Thousand Words Is Worth A Picture

Good design speaks for itself, right? Unfortunately, that is rarely the case. Most of us don’t have the privilege of designing for ourselves; we design for clients, clients who have their own taste

Content , Web Design , Copywriting , Opinion Column , Design

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Dmitry Belitsky, Grayson Stebbins - Successful Freelancing With Ruby On Rails: Workflow, Techniques And Tools

While you have the freedom to choose when you work, where you work and what you work on, you are also responsible for everything: deadlines, finding work, the quality of your work, communication and

coding , Ruby on Rails

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Chris Blunt - Get Started Developing For Android With Eclipse

There’s a lot to get excited about in mobile application development today. With increasingly sophisticated hardware, tablet PCs and a variety of software platforms (Symbian OS, iOS, WebOS, Windows

eclipse , Android , coding

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Robert Hartland - How To Make Innovative Ideas Happen

In one of his recent presentations, Frans Johansson explained why groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas than their counterparts. After watching his presentation The Secret Tr

Ideas , Inspiration , Innovation

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Vitaly Friedman - 18 Credit Card, Debit Card and Payment Icons [Freebie]

Today we are glad to release a Payment Icon Set, a set with 18 payment icons in PNG format, in the resolutions 32×32px — 128×128px. This set was designed by Phil Matthews and released especially for

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Andrew Follett - Review of Popular Web Font Embedding Services

In the mid-80s the desktop publishing revolution began with the introduction of the Mac Plus, Aldus PageMaker and the Apple LaserWriter printer. It took quite a few years for these tools to make an

Typography , fonts

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Vitaly Friedman - 50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers

There are tools that make our lives much easier. However, finding those obscure time-savers which would save time in every single project isn’t easy and requires a lot of time. At Smashing Magazine,

Tools , coding , Resources

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Philip Tellis - Common Security Mistakes in Web Applications

Web application developers today need to be skilled in a multitude of disciplines. It’s necessary to build an application that is user friendly, highly performant, accessible and secure, all while e

php , Security , coding

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Jeff Gardner - How I Got 4x Better Organized - Tips For Web Designers

As a web designer, you’re often forced to wear many different hats every day. You’re the CEO, creative director, office manager, coffee fetcher and sometimes even janitor. That’s a lot for anyone, a

workflow , Time management , Productivity , Business

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Alexander Dawson - The User Is The Anonymous Web Designer

We invest time, money and effort into understanding our audience, and the movement toward a more socially networked Web has made us realize the power that visitors have over how our designs are engi

ux , Design

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