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10:24 am - Wed, March 30, 2011
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How To Use CSS3 Pseudo-Classes
CSS3 is a wonderful thing, but it's easy to be bamboozled by the transforms and animations (many of which are vendor-specific) and forget about the nuts-and-bolts selectors that have als...
09:24 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
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How To Use CSS3 Pseudo-Classes
CSS3 is a wonderful thing, but its easy to be bamboozled by the transforms and animations (many of which are vendor-specific) and forget about the nuts-and-bolts selectors that have also been added to...
11:39 am - Tue, March 29, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Designing For The Future Web
Designing for the future Web. That's a big subject. Where do we start when we're talking about something thatisn’there yet?In this article, we'll look at what the future Web mi...
10:39 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
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Designing For The Future Web
Designing for the future Web. Thats a big subject. Where do we start when were talking about something thatisn’there yet?In this article, well look at what the future Web might look like and how...
10:30 am - Mon, March 28, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Get Started Developing For Android With Eclipse, Reloaded
In the first part of this tutorial series, we built a simple brew timer application using Android and Eclipse. In this second part, we'll continue developing the application by adding ex...
09:30 am GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Get Started Developing For Android With Eclipse, Reloaded
In the first part of this tutorial series, we built a simple brew timer application using Android and Eclipse. In this second part, well continue developing the application by adding extra functionali...
11:40 am - Fri, March 25, 2011
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Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop
Two weeks ago we published the first part of Photoshop tips and tricks for photo retouching. Today, we’ll be presenting the rest of the article. We hope that these techniques will ...
10:40 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop
Two weeks ago we published the first part of Photoshop tips and tricks for photo retouching. Today, we’ll be presenting the rest of the article. We hope that these techniques will be quite usefu...
01:16 pm - Thu, March 24, 2011
Smashing Magazine
How to Choose a Typeface
Choosing a typeface can be tricky. The beauty and complexity of type, combined with an inexhaustible supply of options to evaluate, can make your head spin. But don’t be baffled &q...
12:16 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
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How To Choose A Font A Step-By-Step Guide!
Choosing a font can be tricky. The beauty and complexity of type, combined with an inexhaustible supply of options to evaluate, can make your head spin. But don’t be baffled and don’t des...
09:05 am - Wed, March 23, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Speeding Up Your Website's Database
Website speed has always been a big issue, and it has become even more important since April 2010, when Google decided to use it in search rankings. However, the focus of the discussion...
08:05 am GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
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Speeding Up Your Websites Database
Website speed has always been a big issue, and it has become even more important since April 2010, when Google decided to use it in search rankings. However, the focus of the discussion is generally o...
11:49 am - Mon, March 21, 2011
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Dear Web Design Community, Where Have You Gone?
As Web craftsmen, we are living in exciting times today. The frenetic pace of evolution in our industry has created remarkable opportunities for our work. Our established set of design a...
10:49 am GMT - Mon, March 21, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Dear Web Design Community, Where Have You Gone?
As Web craftsmen, we are living in exciting times today. The frenetic pace of evolution in our industry has created remarkable opportunities for our work. Our established set of design and coding prac...
06:34 pm - Sat, March 19, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Styling Elements With Glyphs, Sprites and Pseudo-Elements
In 2002, Mark Newhouse published the article "Taming Lists", a very interesting piece in which he explained how to create custom list markers using pseudo-elements. Almost a d...
05:34 pm GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Styling Elements With Glyphs, Sprites and Pseudo-Elements
In 2002, Mark Newhouse published the article “Taming Lists”, a very interesting piece in which he explained how to create custom list markers using pseudo-elements. Almost a decade later, ...
09:51 am - Fri, March 18, 2011
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Are Touchscreen Tablets Effective Design Tools?
Regardless of the final platform " desktop, tablet, mobile " most designers start their explorations on paper. Depending on the designer's preference, the paper may...
08:51 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Are Touchscreen Tablets Effective Design Tools?
Regardless of the final platform desktop, tablet, mobile most designers start their explorations on paper. Depending on the designers preference, the paper may be bound or unbound, lined or unlined,...
10:06 am - Thu, March 17, 2011
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Adobe InDesign Tips I Wish I’d Known When Starting Out
I love Adobe InDesign. For multi-page documents, it's the most flexible and complete application out there. Yet I remember how counter-intuitive some things were when I was learning it f...
09:06 am GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
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InDesign Tips I Wish I'd Known When Starting Out
I love Adobe InDesign. For multi-page documents, its the most flexible and complete application out there. Yet I remember how counter-intuitive some things were when I was learning it for the first ti...
09:59 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
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The Design Community Offers Its Favorite Bits of Advice
We, members of the design community, are on an ongoing quest for knowledge and learning opportunitiesanything we can find to enhance our skills and share the precious pearls of wisdom weve held close ...
09:59 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
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Web Design Tips for Beginners Everything I Wish I Knew When I Started
We recently turned to our beloved followers on Twitteras we like to do from time to timeto help us demonstrate one of the greatest things about the online design community: its willingness and eagerne...
03:32 pm - Tue, March 15, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed
A lot of designers seem to be talking about user experience (UX) these days. We're supposed to delight our users, even provide them with magic, so that they love our websites, apps and s...
02:32 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed
A lot of designers seem to be talking about user experience (UX) these days. Were supposed to delight our users, even provide them with magic, so that they love our websites, apps and start-ups. User ...
02:00 pm - Mon, March 14, 2011
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Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques
The Web is 95% typography, or so they say. I think this is a pretty accurate statement: we visit websites largely with the intention of reading. That's what you're doing now " ...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques
Editor’s Note: This article is a bit out of date please proceed reading with caution.The Web is 95% typography, or so they say. I think this is a pretty accurate statement: we visit websites la...
11:19 am - Fri, March 11, 2011
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Syncing Content With HTML5 Video
One of the main changes from HTML4 to HTML5 is that the new specification breaks a few of the boundaries that browsers have been confined to. Instead of restricting user interaction to t...
12:16 pm - Wed, March 9, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Photo Retouching
When it comes to designing in Photoshop, there is a myriad of ways one could use to achieve a certain result, especially when it comes to photo retouching. Designers use technique they a...
01:35 pm - Tue, March 8, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Ten Things Every WordPress Plugin Developer Should Know
Plugins are a major part of why WordPress powers millions of blogs and websites around the world. The ability to extend WordPress to meet just about any need is a powerful motivator for ...
01:35 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
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10 Things Every WordPress Plugin Developer Should Know
Plugins are a major part of why WordPress powers millions of blogs and websites around the world. The ability to extend WordPress to meet just about any need is a powerful motivator for choosing WordP...
01:32 pm - Mon, March 7, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business
User experience design for the Web (and its siblings, interaction design, UI design, et al) has traditionally been a deliverables-based practice. Wireframes, site maps, flow diagrams, co...
01:32 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Lean UX Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business
User experience design for the Web (and its siblings, interaction design, UI design, et al) has traditionally been a deliverables-based practice. Wireframes, site maps, flow diagrams, content inventor...
11:57 am - Fri, March 4, 2011
Smashing Magazine
In Search Of The Perfect CAPTCHA
CAPTCHAs, or Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, exist to ensure that user input has not been generated by a computer. These peculiar puzzles are...
11:57 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Smashing Magazine
In Search Of The Best CAPTCHA
CAPTCHAs, or Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, exist to ensure that user input has not been generated by a computer. These peculiar puzzles are commonly used...
05:26 pm - Wed, March 2, 2011
Smashing Magazine
The @Font-Face Rule and Useful Web Font Tricks
The possibility of embedding any font you like into websites via @font-face is an additional stylistic device which promises to abolish the monotony of the usual system fonts. It surely ...
02:39 pm - Tue, March 1, 2011
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Smashing Email Newsletter Turns One Year Old: Comment and Win!
As most of you may already know, every second Tuesday of a month we send out an email newsletter to our subscribers (over 50,000 at the moment). Every newsletter issue contains exclusive...
01:27 pm - Mon, February 28, 2011
Smashing Magazine
Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2011
We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspira...