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Kate Davies - Recession Survival Tips For Online Businesses

In a recession, companies go one of two ways: either they become the cautious cat, adopting a wait-and-see attitude, spending carefully on their marketing and less overall, cutting back, or they bec

Marketing , Clients , Customer Service , Income , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - The World Of Signage Photo Contest: Join In and Win a Digital SLR Camera!

Update: the results of the contest are published now. Typography and icons are everywhere: they surround us, guide us, help us find the right path every day. As Web designers and graphic artists, w

Photography , Signs , Contests , Events

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Otba Mushaweh - 25 Useful Videos and Presentations for Designers

With the huge number of design-related conferences and events around the world, the Web gives those of us who cannot attend them a great opportunity to listen and benefit from their great and talent

Videos , workflow , Inspiration

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Vitaly Friedman - 55 Beautiful Free High-Quality Fonts To Jazz Up Your Designs

Every now and then we look around, select fresh high-quality free 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 sho

Typography , fonts , Free Fonts

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Dan Redding - The Future Of The Internet

“In only a few short years, electronic computing systems have been invented and improved at a tremendous rate. But computers did not ‘just grow.’ They have evolved… They were born and they are being

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Katie Thompson - Showcase Of Delicious Coffee Websites

And in fact, coffee houses and suppliers are quite a business, with online presences ranging from simple layouts with striking typography to advanced layouts with remarkable photography. Coffee webs

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Julia May - Business Card Design Starter Kit: Showcase, Tutorials, Templates

Professionals in any field should always keep business cards on them because you never know when you’ll meet a potential client, partner or like-minded person. Despite their small size, business car

Print , Showcases , Inspiration , Business Cards , Design , Business

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Aquil Akhter - Beautiful Examples of Transparent Screen Trick Photos

Two weeks ago we published a showcase of beautiful pinhole photography, and this weekend again we’ve got something unusual and creative to lift up your spirits and challenge your creativity. Illusio

Photography , Graphics

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Jessica Bordeau - Social Sushi And Hard Work

When I found the ad for the internship position at Smashing Magazine about six month ago, I replied within half an hour. I wrote my response quickly because, for once, I didn’t have to exaggerate my

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Nathan Ford - Craft An Irresistible Price By Focusing On Your Users

This makes price every bit as important as design, information architecture and wireframing, and it goes deeper than just getting people to click “Buy.” By focusing on users in setting and maintaini

Marketing , Pricing , Income , Business

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Andy Croxall - Commonly Confused Bits Of jQuery

All of which means that, unless you have some odd grudge against jQuery, those days are gone — you can actually get stuff done now. A script to find all links of a certain CSS class in a document an

coding , Essentials , jquery

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Speider Schneider - Designers, “Hacks” and Professionalism: Are We Our Own Worst Enemy?

But I was struck by how these words are a perfect assessment of our society. We want it all, instantly and as cheap as possible. We are a Walmart culture. Fast and cheap have entered our every pore

workflow , Career

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Joost de Valk - Lessons Learned From Maintaining A WordPress Plugin

The updates that I released had a couple of purposes, ranging from bug fixes to new features and fixes in documentation. While all of these are nice to talk about, the bug fixes are the ones you’ll

wordpress , Maintenance , plugins

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Tom Giannattasio - In Defense Of Photoshop

A militia of designers have assembled to launch this coup. Their propaganda is convincing, and their proposed successor is worthy, capable and sexy. Their cause is important, but their manifesto is

Photoshop , Graphics , Opinion Column

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Ben Gremillion - Passing The Holy Milestone: How To Meet Deadlines

For too many projects, there comes a time when every action taken, every decision and sacrifice made, is spurred on by pressure to finish. Tempers seem to shrink along with the available days, talk

workflow , Time management , Productivity , Teams , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - 50 Useful Tools and Resources For Web Designers

An effective, well-organized workflow is an important asset of professional web designers. The more useful and time-saving your tools are, the more time you can focus on important things, thus creat

Tools , coding , Resources

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Vailancio Rodrigues - The Showcase of Beautiful Pinhole Photography

What is a pinhole camera? A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture — effectively a light-proof box with a small hole on one side. Light from a scene pass

Photography , Graphics

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Marilina Maraviglia - About Art - What Do We Really Mean

Mark Rothko, an American artist who described himself as an “abstract painter”, once said about art that he was not the kind of person interested in the relationship of form, color orsimilars. He di

Graphic Design , Art , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Free Full Layered Facebook GUI PSD Kit

The kit brings the Facebook vector icon and logo. Also, since the focus of this resource are the UI elements, it brings a main window with the header, menu and the chat window for you to set up yo

Facebook , Graphics , Freebies , PSD

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Cameron Chapman - A Complete Guide To Tumblr

Tumblr is also an option for designers and creative people, because it gives you complete control over the look of your tumblelog. It also offers great opportunities for theme designers, especially

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Kat Neville - How To Design Style Guides For Brands And Websites

A website is never done. Everyone has worked on a project that changed so much after it launched that they no longer wanted it in their portfolio.One way to help those who take over your projects is

Branding , Style Guides , Design , Logo Design

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Speider Schneider - The Creative vs. The Marketing Team: Yin And Yang, Oil And Water

Smashing Editorial: Please notice that the language in some parts of this article may be very informal. If you think you might be offended, please stop reading this article now. Instead consider th

Marketing , workflow , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - 12 CMS Icons For Content Management Systems [Freebie]

Download the icon set for free! You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including

Icons , Freebies , cms

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Rachel Andrew - How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website

Editor’s Note: Please note that this article was published in 2010 and is outdated. Rachel Andrew has written another article on the current state of media queries for responsive design that include

css3 , Responsive Design , mobile , Media Queries , Css

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