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Kat Neville - Invoice Like A Pro: Design Examples and Best Practices

Your invoice should be prim and proper, so that you can get paid by your clients efficiently. While invoicing is not a fun task, it’s a necessary one: by keeping clients informed of your expectation

Contracts , Invoicing , Clients , Inspiration , Design , Business

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Louis Lazaris - Website Maintenance Tips for Front-End Developers

One of the biggest advantages of online media over print is the ability to change, update, and enhance online media at virtually anytime, with virtually no negative side effects. In fact, if a websi

Bugs , Maintenance , Security , Documentation , Web Design , Design , Business

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Jad Limcaco - How to Blend Faces in Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is my favorite software. One of the reasons why I love it is because asides from being able to make a living creating designs from the software, I can use it to have a little fun as

Photoshop , Tutorials

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Julia May - 50 Beautiful and Creative Blog Designs

The most recent collection of creative blog designs was featured here on Smashing Magazine back in July. Only three months have passed and we’ve got a new dose of inspiration for you. Beautiful and

Showcases , Inspiration , Blogging

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Tom Giannattasio - The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing

Enter anti-aliasing: the next best thing to a world of higher-resolution monitors. The concept of anti-aliasing is fairly simple: add semi-transparent pixels along the edges of letterforms to smooth

Photoshop , Graphics , Typography , fonts , Design

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Jad Limcaco - 50 Creative Star Logos For Inspiration

The other day, while browsing some logo galleries, I noticed the trend of using stars in logos. I saw all kinds of different companies and organizations who used a star in their logo. It used to be

Inspiration , Logo Design

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Kevin Holesh - Increasing Online Sales: Simple Usability Problems To Avoid

1. Hidden Search Box A solid information architecture can do wonders for people who enjoy browsing, but some customers just want to find what they’re looking for, buy it and get out. These people a

Security , ux , Usability , Conversion

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Callum Chapman - Showcase Of Beautiful Textured Web Designs

Textures have become more popular and been put to greater use in recent years. They’re not limited to Web design either; textures of all kinds are used in print design, illustration, traditional art

Showcases , Inspiration , textures

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Kayla Knight - Offline Inspiration: How To Find It and Get The Most Out Of It

No designer should ever feel that taking time to find true inspiration is time wasted. This article explores offline sources of inspiration and discusses how they can be treated as a part of the des

Art , Inspiration

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Marco Kramer - 10 Pre-Press Tips For Perfect Print Publishing

A lot of designers think CMYK is the way to go when designing for print. We will, of course, always use CMYK-based ink, but this does not mean you have to work with CMYK files. You can work with RGB

RGB , CMYK , Print , Publishing , Design

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Zoe Mickley Gillenwater - Modern CSS Layouts: The Essential Characteristics

Now is an exciting time to be creating CSS layouts. After years of what felt like the same old techniques for the same old browsers, we’re finally seeing browsers implement CSS 3, HTML 5 and other t

Layouts , coding , Css , Essentials

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Oliver Reichenstein - Brand = User Experience: The Interface Of A Cheeseburger

In the first part of a series on the UX = Brand, the adventure of a web designer starts in a McDonald’s, where he discovers that there is a worm hole between the world of Branding and User Experienc

Branding , User Interaction , Design , Business

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Lee Munroe - Showcase of Web Design In Ireland

This post is the second article of our new series “Global Web Design”. Over the next months we’ll be covering various continents, featuring web developers and web designs from different countries of

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Cameron Chapman - Rich Typography On The Web: Techniques and Tools

Let’s face it: Web-safe fonts are very limiting. Maybe a dozen fonts are out there that are widely enough adopted to be considered “Web safe,” and those ones aren’t exactly spectacular for much othe

Techniques , Typography , fonts , Web Design , Design

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Jean-Baptiste Jung - 10 Useful WordPress Coding Techniques

In this article, we have compiled ten useful WordPress code snippets, hacks and tips to help you create a WordPress theme that stands out from the crowd. 1. Style Posts Individually The problem.

wordpress , Techniques (WP)

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Louis Lazaris - The Mystery Of The CSS Float Property

Years ago, when developers first started to make the transition to HTML layouts without tables, one CSS property that suddenly took on a very important role was the float property. The reason that t

coding , Css , Essentials

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Arseny Vesnin - Showcase of Web Design in Russia

Web Design in Russia The land mass that is one-sixth of the Earth is always surprising. As the founder of one of design-related magazines in Russia (Designcollector.net), I am happy to present the

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Callum Chapman - The Ultimate Round-Up Of T-Shirt Design Tutorials

If you have yet to design for apparel goods, today is your lucky day! Below, we present over 20 useful t-shirt graphic tutorials written by fellow designers, followed by a selection of great resourc

Tutorials , CMYK , Graphics , Drawing , T-shirts

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Robert Bowen - How To Identify And Deal With Different Types Of Clients

In today’s digital age, the arena has shifted to the Web, and the online office space that most freelancers inhabit limits personal interaction. Though sussing out a client’s personality via online

Clients , Business

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Louis Lazaris - CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8

One of the most bizarre statistical facts in relation to browser use has to be the virtual widespread numbers that currently exist in the use of Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8. As of this wri

testing , coding , Css , Essentials , Internet Explorer

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Jacob Gube - Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices

How can we create effective call to action buttons that grab the user’s attention and entice them to click? We’ll try to answer this question in this post by sharing some effective design techniques

Buttons , Showcases , Inspiration , Conversion

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Marc Edwards - Setting Up Photoshop For Web, App and iPhone Development

Most people who have designed websites or apps in Photoshop will, at one point or another, have had issues trying to match colors in images to colors generated by HTML, CSS or code. This article aim

Photoshop , Tutorials , RGB , CMYK , Graphics , iphone

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Paul Boag - How To Persuade Your Users, Boss Or Clients

Like many in the Web design industry, I have a strange job. I am part salesperson, part consultant and part user experience designer. One day I could be pitching a new idea to a board of directors,

Clients , Communication , Business

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Jen Gordon - iPhone App Design Trends

However, some designers invest a lot of time and efforts into creating usable and original user interfaces (yes, there are usable and creative UIs). Further Reading on SmashingMag: How To Cre

Design Patterns , Trends , Showcases , mobile , iphone

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