Articles by Smashing Magazine from January 2012

   We do more reading on the screen today than we did even a year ago. If we are ever to have a golden age of reading on the screen, this might be the start of it.Tablets, Noo...

We do more reading on the screen today than we did even a year ago. If we are ever to have a golden age of reading on the screen, this might be the start of it.Tablets, Nooks and Kindles make buying a...

   Controlling who is able to view a post is a simple task once the system is established. Limiting access to certain users has several applications, such as enabling a design...

Controlling who is able to view a post is a simple task once the system is established. Limiting access to certain users has several applications, such as enabling a design studio to distribute artwor...

   UX practitioners, both consultants and in house, sometimes conduct research. Be it usability testing or user research with a generative goal, research requires planning. To...

UX practitioners, both consultants and in house, sometimes conduct research. Be it usability testing or user research with a generative goal, research requires planning. To make sure product managers,...

We often hear companies, including Web agencies, boast about how they provide exceptional client service. But how do they define exceptional? [Links checked April/11/2017]Consider this scenario. You a...

   We often hear companies, including Web agencies, boast about how they provide exceptional client service. But how do they define exceptional?Consider this scenario. You are...

   Web design is a craft that is constantly evolving and yet also sometimes sabotaged. The moment a design is released, a new version is born. In the beginning, like a baby, i...

Web design is a craft that is constantly evolving and yet also sometimes sabotaged. The moment a design is released, a new version is born. In the beginning, like a baby, it seems vulnerable and weak,...

   At the heart of every modern Mac and Linux computer is the terminal.  The terminal evolved from the text-based computer terminals of the 1960s and 70s, which themselve...

At the heart of every modern Mac and Linux computer is the terminal. The terminal evolved from the text-based computer terminals of the 1960s and 70s, which themselves replaced punch cards as the main...

At Smashing Magazine, we are big proponents of diversity and sharing. We encourage designers and developers worldwide to step up and use Smashing Magazine as a platform to share their opinions, ideas ...

   At Smashing Magazine, we are big proponents of diversity and sharing. We encourage designers and developers worldwide to step up and use Smashing Magazine as a platform to ...

   In all the years that Ive been using Adobe Fireworks, I have always had to perform one task in every project: remove the background from a logo. Most of the time, its becau...

In all the years that Ive been using Adobe Fireworks, I have always had to perform one task in every project: remove the background from a logo. Most of the time, its because the client doesnt have th...

   Integrating social media services in your website design is vital if you want to make it easy for readers to share your content. While some users are happy with the social ...

Integrating social media services in your website design is vital if you want to make it easy for readers to share your content. While some users are happy with the social media buttons that come buil...

From one artist to another, I know how satisfying it can be to achieve the perfect shade of a color or squeeze the most difficult font into the funkiest space.Having spent some time experimenting with...

   As technology evolves, so does the art and craft of Web design. New technology creates new challenges, which require new solutions. Often were working in uncharted territor...

As technology evolves, so does the art and craft of Web design. New technology creates new challenges, which require new solutions. Often were working in uncharted territory, where the solutions deman...

   In this article, well look at Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), one of the most underused technologies in website development today.Before diving into an example, lets consid...

In this article, well look at Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), one of the most underused technologies in website development today.Before diving into an example, lets consider the state of the Web at p...

   A few weeks ago I wrote about how you can put together a great readme.txt for the WordPress plugin directory. In addition to using a WordPress readme as a tool to help out ...

A few weeks ago I wrote about how you can put together a great readme.txt for the WordPress plugin directory. In addition to using a WordPress readme as a tool to help out your users, you can use it t...

   Weve come a long way since the days of the first Macintosh and the introduction of graphical user interfaces, going from monochrome colors to millions, from estranged mice ...

    Product pages for e-commerce websites are often rife with ambitious intentions: ...

Product pages for e-commerce websites are often rife with ambitions: recreate the brick-and-mortar shopping experience, provide users with every last drop of product information, build a brand persona...

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

    Every now and then, we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and pre...

    Back in 2009, the WebKit development team proposed a new extension to CSS that w...

Back in 2009, the WebKit development team proposed a new extension to CSS that would allow Web page elements to be displayed and transformed on a three-dimensional plane. This proposal was called 3D T...

    WordPress 3 introduced custom taxonomies as a core feature. The following releas...

WordPress 3 introduced the custom taxonomy as a core feature. The following release of 3.1 included many features to enhance support of custom taxonomies. Better import and export handling, advanced q...

    For designers, its easy to jump right into the design phase of a website before ...

For designers, its easy to jump right into the design phase of a website before giving the user experience the consideration it deserves. Too often, we prematurely turn our focus to page design and in...

This article is the fourth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The fir...

    This article is the fourth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful ...