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Stephanie Orma - Crank Up Your Design Radar

But when the computer is shut down, does your “design radar” go off-line, as well? For instance, when it’s time to grocery shop, are you in the get-in/get-out as fast as possible mindset? Or do you

Inspiration

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Andrew Gibson - 35 Beautiful Photography Websites

Interest in photography websites has exploded over the last 10 years, largely thanks to the developments in digital photography. Cameras and computers have become cheaper and more powerful, software

Photography , Showcases , Inspiration , Galleries

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Iris Lješnjanin - The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designer

Realizing many Smashing readers probably already have a head-start into the world of professional and freelance web design, this post is meant to act as not only a step-by-step guide, but also as a

Contracts , Invoicing , Career , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - Free Typographic XHTML/CSS-Layouts For Your Designs

The response was overwhelming and we really had a hard time going through the designs, analyzing them and deciding which templates deserve the awards. Unfortunately, many templates were just copies

Freebies , Layouts , coding , Css

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Janko Jovanovic - Web Form Validation: Best Practices and Tutorials

The goal of web form validation is to ensure that the user provided necessary and properly formatted information needed to successfully complete an operation. In this article we will go beyond the v

CAPTCHA , Forms , Validation , Web Design , Design

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Justin Johnson - 10 Useful CSS/JS-Coding Solutions For Web-Developers

Over the last months we’ve been paying closer attention to interesting design techniques and coding solutions and tried to understand how each of these solutions work and how they can benefit other

Techniques , coding , Css , Javascript

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Vitaly Friedman - HTML5 Cheat Sheet [PDF] Free Download

XHTML 2 is dead, long live HTML5! According to W3C News Archive, XHTML 2 working group is expected to stop work end of 2009 and W3C is planning to increase resources on HTML5 instead. And even altho

Cheat Sheets , Downloads , Freebies , coding

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Kitty Florido - 25 Free Mac Apps That Will Boost Your Productivity

There are many applications that can help you work faster and efficiently. Though, not many applications come cheap. For this post we tried to digg deep to find the best selection of free and/or ope

workflow , Tools , Apps , Open Source , Mac

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Aquil Akhter - Beautiful Examples of Vexel Artworks and Tutorials

Vexel art is a digital art that is an entirely pixel-based form of raster art that imitates the vector graphics technique, but is distinguished from normal vector graphics or raster images. “Vexel”

Tutorials , Art , Graphics , Drawing

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Jacob Goldman - Power Tips For WordPress Template Developers

With its latest releases, WordPress has extended its potential well beyond blogging, moving toward an advanced, robust and very powerful content management solution. By default, WordPress delivers a

wordpress , php , templates , Techniques (WP)

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Sergey Chikuyonok - Clever JPG Optimization Techniques

In this article, we’ll show you a different approach to image optimization, based on how image data is stored in different formats. Let’s start with the JPG format and a simple technique called the

optimization , Techniques , Graphics , Design

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Mark Nutter - Best Practices For Effective Design Of “About me”-Pages

The “about me”-page is one of the most overlooked pages in development and one of the highest ranked pages on many websites. In a world that’s becoming increasingly connected through the Web, it’s i

Portfolios , Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Cameron Chapman - 45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires

With lists of points covering multiple areas from content to usability to accessibility to standards, you’re a lot less likely to overlook important parts of a site. Below are 45 checklists to make

Tools , Checklists , Web Design , Resources

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Vitaly Friedman - 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills

Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move ahead. These skills don’t come overnight, and they re

Resources , Copywriting , Skills , Blogging

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Moin Anjum - 35 Stunning Macro Photography Ideas

Macro photography is also known as close-up photography. Compared to other types of photography, macro photography is quite difficult, because of the nifty equipment, lightning and other techniques

Photography , Graphics , Pictures

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Gerri Elder - 35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design

Now it’s time to present you with some fresh (or not mentioned earlier) tools that can assist designers in their work. Today, we will look at 35 new and useful CSS tools, generators and resources t

Tools , coding , Css , Resources

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Jacob Gube - Module Tabs in Web Design: Best Practices and Solutions

A module tab is a User Interface (UI) design pattern where content is separated into different panes, and each pane is viewable one at a time. The user requests content to be displayed by clicking (

Techniques , Showcases , Navigation , Tabs , Inspiration

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Matt Cronin - Welcoming And Informative Introductions In Web Design

Using an introduction has several benefits. The first is that introductions can coax the user further into the website. If the introduction is colorful, well-designed and has a good title, the user

Trends , Showcases , Inspiration

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Janko Jovanovic - 10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To

Design patterns were first described in the 1960s by Christopher Alexander, an architect who noticed that many things in our lives happen according to patterns. He adapted his observations to his wo

Design Patterns , ux , ui

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Jacob Gube - 50 Fresh JavaScript Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow

JavaScript is an integral part of the RIA revolution. JavaScript allows developers to create rich and interactive web interfaces and establishing asynchronous communication with servers for constant

Tools , Ajax , Resources , jquery , Javascript

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Sven Lennartz - 30 Free Photoshop Swirl Brushes

Today we are glad to release 30 Swirl Brushes, a set with 30 high-quality swirl Photoshop brushes with an average size 2000px. These brushes were created with Adobe Photoshop CS4 and also work with

Photoshop , Graphics , Freebies , Brushes

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Andy Salisbury - How to Make OS X’s Exposé Work: 5 Productivity Tips

Working on a Mac is a nice experience. Not only because of the aesthetics, but also because of the many useful tools built right into the operating system. One such tool is Exposé, which allows inst

workflow , Productivity , Mac

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Vitaly Friedman - Freebie Release: Quartz Icon Set

The icons can be used without any restrictions for any type of composition – text- or graphic-based. The icons cover a wide range of designs – e-mail icons, software icons, general web application

Downloads , Icons , Freebies

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Michael Irigoyen - 10 Ways To Make Your XHTML Site Accessible Using Web Standards

Without argument, one of the most important things to consider when creating a website is that it be accessible to everyone who wants to view it. Does your website play nice with screen readers? Can

xhtml , Accessibility , coding , Standards

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