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09:45 pm GMT - Fri, December 30, 2011
Smashing Magazine Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: January 2012
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 inspiration. As a mat...
12:45 pm - Fri, December 30, 2011
Smashing Magazine Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: January 2012
    We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some int...
02:14 am GMT - Fri, December 30, 2011
Smashing Magazine 91 Holiday Season Vector Icons [Freebie]
Today’s freebie may be the last one for this year, but that doesn’t mean it will be the last of our freebies on Smashing Magazineno siree! Before this year does come to an end, we are happ...
05:14 pm - Thu, December 29, 2011
Smashing Magazine Freebie: Free Vector Web Icons (91 Icons)
    Today’s freebie may be the last one for this year, but that doesn’t ...
03:53 pm GMT - Thu, December 29, 2011
Smashing Magazine Internationalizing And Localizing Your WordPress Theme In 6 Steps
An important part of developing a WordPress theme is to prepare it so that users from every corner of the planet can translate its messages to any language. This article covers the basics of internati...
02:48 pm - Wed, December 28, 2011
Smashing Magazine The Myth Of The Sophisticated User
    As I sat in my local co-working space, shoulder-deep in a design problem on my M...
02:23 pm GMT - Wed, December 28, 2011
Smashing Magazine The Myth Of The Sophisticated User
As I sat in my local co-working space, shoulder-deep in a design problem on my MacBook Air, I could hear him. He was on the phone, offering screen-by-screen design recommendations to his client for th...
09:14 pm GMT - Tue, December 27, 2011
Smashing Magazine Teach Them How To Hit The Ground Running And Faceplant At The Same Time?
A few days ago, a tutorial on how to Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP was published on Smashing Magazine’s Coding section that frustrated me. It frustrated me as it was incredibly easy to p...
12:14 pm - Tue, December 27, 2011
Smashing Magazine Teach Them How To Hit The Ground Running And Faceplant At The Same Time?
    A few days ago, a tutorial on how to Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP was p...
03:03 am GMT - Sat, December 24, 2011
Smashing Magazine How Do You Deal With Overstressed, Irrational Clients? An Entrepreneur's View
As an entrepreneur who has been on the clients side of the design and development process, Id like to discuss the thought process of the client, as well as some effective ways to interact with them. F...
06:03 pm - Fri, December 23, 2011
Smashing Magazine How Do You Deal With Overstressed, Irrational Clients? An Entrepreneur’s View
    As an entrepreneur who has been on the clients side of the design and developmen...
10:29 pm GMT - Thu, December 22, 2011
Smashing Magazine Free New Twitter Profile Page GUI PSD
Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: a Twitter GUI PSD for the recently released Twitter UI update, designed by Jon Darke of Every Interaction and released exclusively for Smashing Maga...
06:43 pm - Thu, December 22, 2011
Smashing Magazine The Smashing Deals Countdown: Three More Days Till Christmas
    As the end of the year approaches and the holidays near, many of you might alrea...
01:29 pm - Thu, December 22, 2011
Smashing Magazine Freebie: New Twitter Profile Page GUI PSD
    Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: a Twitter GUI PSD for the re...
01:09 pm GMT - Thu, December 22, 2011
Smashing Magazine Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP (For Beginners)
Editor’s note Please notice that this article doesn’t provide production code to use in your live websites. Make sure to read the full article and study more on PHP security before using t...
10:36 pm - Wed, December 21, 2011
Smashing Magazine Dear Drupal: Seasons Greetings. Love, Smashing WordPress.
    Every day I work with WordPress in one way or another. My Twitter feed is full o...
05:33 am GMT - Wed, December 21, 2011
Smashing Magazine Photo Contest - Holidays Around The World
A couple of days ago, we launched a photo contest in which you could submit a photo of how upcoming holidays are celebrated in your city. For those who have participated, thank you for taking the time...
08:33 pm - Tue, December 20, 2011
Smashing Magazine Smashing Photo Contest “Holidays Around The World”: Best Entries!
    A couple of days ago, we launched a photo contest in which you could submit a ph...
04:12 pm - Tue, December 20, 2011
Smashing Magazine Introduction To Designing For Windows Phone 7 And Metro
    Microsofts new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7 (WP7), introduces a fres...
03:11 pm GMT - Tue, December 20, 2011
Smashing Magazine Introduction To Designing For Windows Phone 7 And Metro
Microsofts new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7 (WP7), introduces a fresh approach to content organization and a different UX, based on the Metro design language and principles that will be in...
11:12 pm GMT - Mon, December 19, 2011
Smashing Magazine How To Turn Small Projects Into Big Profit - A Case Study
In the Web world, hearing businesses and freelancers alike complain about low-budget projects is not too uncommon. Lets say that a local coffee shop needs to update its Web presence and contacts you f...
02:12 pm - Mon, December 19, 2011
Smashing Magazine Turning Small Projects Into Big Profit, A Case Study
    In the Web world, hearing businesses and freelancers alike complain about low-bu...
03:43 pm - Fri, December 16, 2011
Smashing Magazine A Guide To Heuristic Website Reviews
    In this article, well explore a scoring system for rating and comparing websites...
02:34 pm GMT - Fri, December 16, 2011
Smashing Magazine A Guide To Heuristic Website Reviews
In this article, well explore a scoring system for rating and comparing websites, well visualize those ratings using infographics, and well see what data and structure this method provides for reviewi...
03:02 pm - Thu, December 15, 2011
Smashing Magazine Six CSS Layout Features To Look Forward To
    A few concerns keep bobbing up now and then for Web developers, one of which rel...
02:23 pm GMT - Thu, December 15, 2011
Smashing Magazine Six CSS Layout Features To Look Forward To
A few concerns keep bobbing up now and then for Web developers, one of which relates to how to lay out a given design. Developers have made numerous attempts to do so with existing solutions. Several ...
11:23 pm - Wed, December 14, 2011
Smashing Magazine The Smashing Deals Countdown For Christmas
    Christmas is near and the spirits are rising but why not speed it all up a bit? ...
03:52 pm GMT - Wed, December 14, 2011
Smashing Magazine A Comprehensive WordPress Checklist To Creating The Perfect Website
There is no doubt that WordPress is the best content management system (CMS) for your website. Sure, countless CMS are available, ranging from open-source to paid, and youll hear evangelists on all si...
03:09 pm - Tue, December 13, 2011
Smashing Magazine The Messy Art Of UX Sketching
    I hear a lot of people talking about the importance of sketching when designing ...
02:43 pm GMT - Tue, December 13, 2011
Smashing Magazine The Messy Art Of UX Sketching
I hear a lot of people talking about the importance of sketching when designing or problem-solving, yet it seems that very few people actually sketch. As a UX professional, I sketch every day. I often...
03:11 pm - Mon, December 12, 2011
Smashing Magazine An Introduction To Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS)
    Have you ever heard the phrase “Content is King”? Being a Web develo...
03:03 pm GMT - Mon, December 12, 2011
Smashing Magazine An Introduction To Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS)
Have you ever heard the phrase “Content is King”? Being a Web developer, and therefore having a job that’s often linked to content creation, it’s likely you have. It’s a ...
12:07 am GMT - Sat, December 10, 2011
Smashing Magazine Designing for the Mind
Do you know what makes a design good? Is it merely an opinion, or is there something more to it? Breaking design down seems like such an abstract thing. Even the designers who are able to create thoug...
02:10 pm - Fri, December 9, 2011
Smashing Magazine Designing For The Mind
    Francisco Inchauste for Smashing Magazine, 2011....
03:09 pm - Thu, December 8, 2011
Smashing Magazine Clear Indications That It’s Time To Redesign
    Redesign. The word itself can send shudders down the spines of any Web designer ...
02:58 pm GMT - Thu, December 8, 2011
Smashing Magazine Clear Indications That It's Time To Redesign
Redesign. The word itself can send shudders down the spines of any Web designer and developer. For many designers and website owners, the imminent onslaught of endless review cycles, coupled with an i...
01:04 pm - Thu, December 8, 2011
Smashing Magazine So You Want To Build A Software Product
    If you like the idea of being your own boss (I certainly do), chances are you ge...
07:04 pm - Wed, December 7, 2011
Smashing Magazine Mixing Up Illustration: Combining Analog And Digital Techniques
    In the digital age, dont forget to use your digits! Your hands are the original ...
07:04 pm GMT - Wed, December 7, 2011
Smashing Magazine How I Mixed Up Illustration: Combining Analog And Digital Techniques
In the digital age, dont forget to use your digits! Your hands are the original digital devices Lynda Barry People often ask how I arrived at a finished illustration. Honestly, its different every ti...
03:54 pm GMT - Wed, December 7, 2011
Smashing Magazine 10 Tips To Optimize Your WordPress Theme
The beauty of WordPress is in how easy it is to adapt for different tasks. One can extend it with just a couple of lines of code. In this post, well review 10 shortcode snippets that will tweak and op...
02:20 pm - Wed, December 7, 2011
Smashing Magazine Holidays Around The World: Smashing Photo Contest
    2012 is around the corner and the year is (already!) coming to an end. We’...
08:06 pm GMT - Tue, December 6, 2011
Smashing Magazine The Process of Creativity
The creative attribute has always been a highly debated and researched component of the human psyche. The designer job title seems to be one that calls to the more creative minded among us and accordi...
02:59 pm - Tue, December 6, 2011
Smashing Magazine Effective User Research And Transforming The Minds Of Clients
    Ah, the love of a client. That is indeed what we all seek as professionals, is i...
02:44 pm GMT - Tue, December 6, 2011
Smashing Magazine How To Transform The Minds Of Clients
Ah, the love of a client. That is indeed what we all seek as professionals, is it not? If we lived in a utopia, then thats all there would be. Openness. Honesty. Passion. Flowing in both directions, c...
07:16 pm - Mon, December 5, 2011
Smashing Magazine Sisyphus.js: Gmail-Like Client-Side Drafts, And A Bit More
    Editors note: This article is the third in our new series that introduces new, u...
07:16 pm - Mon, December 5, 2011
Smashing Magazine Auto-Save User’s Input In Your Forms With HTML5 and Sisyphus.js
    Editors note: This article is the third in our new series that introduces new, u...
03:31 pm GMT - Mon, December 5, 2011
Smashing Magazine Auto-Save Users Input In Your Forms With HTML5 And Sisyphus.js
This article is the third in our new series that introduces new, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first artic...
12:55 pm - Mon, December 5, 2011
Smashing Magazine Freebie: Festive Christmas Icon Pack (20 .EPS Icons)
    The year is slowly coming to an end and we’re glad to present to you a fes...
12:55 pm GMT - Mon, December 5, 2011
Smashing Magazine 20 Festive Christmas Icons [Freebie]
The year is slowly coming to an end and we’re glad to present to you a festive icon set to inspire you in your designs. In this post we present a minimalist collection of 20 free festive vector ...
04:23 pm - Fri, December 2, 2011
Smashing Magazine Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress
    Computing is full of buzzwords, cloud computing  being the latest one. But ...
02:59 pm - Fri, December 2, 2011
Smashing Magazine Content Strategy Within The Design Process
    The first thing to understand about content strategy is that no two people under...
09:11 am - Fri, December 2, 2011
Smashing Magazine Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress
    Computing is full of buzzwords, cloud computing  being the latest one. But ...
03:55 pm GMT - Thu, December 1, 2011
Smashing Magazine Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress
Computing is full of buzzwords, cloud computing being the latest one. But unlike most trends that fizzle out after the initial surge, cloud computing is here to stay. This article goes over Amazons S3...
03:38 pm - Wed, November 30, 2011
Smashing Magazine The Smashing Guide To Moving The Web Forward
    Many of us rely on open source tools, technologies and standards to help improve...
01:33 pm - Wed, November 30, 2011
Smashing Magazine Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: December 2011
    We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some int...
11:16 am - Wed, November 30, 2011
Smashing Magazine A Guide To PHP Error Messages For Designers
    PHP is widely available with inexpensive hosting plans, which makes it a popular...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, November 30, 2011
Smashing Magazine A Guide To PHP Error Messages For Designers
PHP is widely available with inexpensive hosting plans, which makes it a popular choice for developers who write software for the Web. From big platforms, such as WordPress, down to small scripts, suc...