Articles by Smashing Magazine from April 2012

   Welcome to the first in a new series of interviews called “How I Work”. These interviews revolve around how thinkers and creators in the Web world design, code,...

   Welcome to the first in a new series of interviews called “How I Work”. These interviews revolve around how thinkers and creators in the Web world design, code,...

Welcome to the first in a new series of interviews called “How I Work”. These interviews revolve around how thinkers and creators in the Web world design, code, and create. The goal is not...

   The gaming industry is huge, and it can keep its audience consumed for hours, days and even weeks. Some play the same game over and over again — and occasionally, the...

The gaming industry is huge, and it can keep its audience consumed for hours, days and even weeks. Some play the same game over and over again and occasionally, they even get out their 15-year-old Ni...

   Thanks to CSS3, we can create effects and animations without using JavaScript, which will facilitate the work of many designers.But we must be careful to avoid abusing CSS3...

Thanks to CSS3, we can create effects and animations without using JavaScript, which will facilitate the work of many designers.But we must be careful to avoid abusing CSS3, not only because old brows...

The Web font revolution that started around two years ago has brought up a topic that many of us had merrily ignored for many years: font rendering. The newfound freedom Web fonts are giving us brings...

   The Web font revolution that started around two years ago has brought up a topic that many of us had merrily ignored for many years: font rendering. The newfound freedom We...

Imagine you are in a classroom. Let’s say a high school classroom. You’re sitting at your desk, listening to your favorite teacherthe one who inspired you, the one who got you excited abou...

   Imagine you are in a classroom. Let’s say a high school classroom. You’re sitting at your desk, listening to your favorite teacher—the one who inspired yo...

   We tend to carefully create our HTML and CSS, and meticulously place every pixel to our designs. We plan exactly where our content should be placed on a particular site. Am...

We tend to carefully create our HTML and CSS, and meticulously place every pixel to our designs. We plan exactly where our content should be placed on a particular site. Among many other decisions we ...

   For years, the Web standards community has talked about the separation of concerns. Separate your CSS from your JavaScript from your HTML. We all do that, right? CSS goes i...

For years, the Web standards community has talked about the separation of concerns. Separate your CSS from your JavaScript from your HTML. We all do that, right? CSS goes into its own file; JavaScript...

   If you run an online magazine, most of your readers will never go through your archive, even if you design a neat archive page. Its not you; its just that going through arc...

There has been a long-running war going on over the mobile Web: it can be summarized with the following question: “Is there a mobile Web?” That is, is the mobile device so fundamentally di...

   There has been a long-running war going on over the mobile Web: it can be summarized with the following question: “Is there a mobile Web?” That is, is the mobil...

If you run an online magazine, most of your readers will never go through your archive, even if you design a neat archive page. Its not you; its just that going through archives is not very popular th...

   Our world is getting louder. Consider all the beeps and bops from your smartphone that alert you that something is happening, and all the feedback from your appliances when...

Our world is getting louder. Consider all the beeps and bops from your smartphone that alert you that something is happening, and all the feedback from your appliances when your toast is ready or your...

   I recently had the pleasure of organizing this years Beercamp website. If youre unfamiliar, Beercamp is a party for designers and developers. Its also a playground for fron...

I recently had the pleasure of organizing this years Beercamp website. If youre unfamiliar, Beercamp is a party for designers and developers. Its also a playground for front-end experimentation. Each ...

   This article is the sixth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the We...

This article is the sixth 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 firs...

Clever graphic designers love to use typography to explore the interaction between the look of type and what type actually says. In communicating a message, a balance has to be achieved between the vi...

   Clever graphic designers love to use typography to explore the interaction between the look of type and what type actually says. In communicating a message, a balance has t...

   In a post on her blog last year, WordPress designer, business woman and author Lisa Sabin Wilson, talked about how thankful she is to be part of the WordPress economy. It&#...

In a post on her blog last year, WordPress designer, business woman and author Lisa Sabin Wilson, talked about how thankful she is to be part of the WordPress economy. It’s an economy that thous...

This article is part of our series of Smashing Specials extended articles and studies dedicated to a specific topic. The special looks at the current state of the WordPress economy, exploring WP Mult...

   Emotional design has become a powerful tool in creating exceptional user experiences for websites. However, emotions did not use to play such an important role on the Web. ...

Emotional design has become a powerful tool in creating exceptional user experiences for websites. However, emotions did not use to play such an important role on the Web. Actually, they did not use t...

   Im pretty confident that I wont surprise anyone here by saying that CSS sprites have been around for quite a while now, rearing their somewhat controversial heads in the We...

Im pretty confident that I wont surprise anyone here by saying that CSS sprites have been around for quite a while now, rearing their somewhat controversial heads in the Web development sphere as earl...

   Editor’s Note: Smashing Magazine is happy to present this sample chapter from Theresa Neils new book Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for iOS, Android and M...

As I was waiting for a table at a local restaurant the other day, I flipped through a couple of the free classified papers. I was shocked to realize how dependent Ive grown on three simple features th...

   If you’ve ever tried working with, coding for or just thinking about anything to do with events, you know they are a total nightmare in every possible way. Repeating ...

If you’ve ever tried working with, coding for or just thinking about anything to do with events, you know they are a total nightmare in every possible way. Repeating events, schedules, multiple ...

   Youve made your first app!Now what?Anyone in the app business knows that marketing an app is tough. And according to a recent article on TechCrunch, Getting a mobile app no...

Youve made your first app! Now what?Anyone in the app business knows that marketing an app is tough. And according to a recent article on TechCrunch, Getting a mobile app noticed in the increasingly c...

The practice of using a large letter to mark the start of a text has been around for almost two thousand years. Illustrated caps increased usability by marking important passages and guiding readers t...

   The practice of using a large letter to mark the start of a text has been around for almost two thousand years. Illustrated caps increased usability by marking important pa...

Whoever works with analytics on a day-to-to-day basis knows how important it is to have a continuity with the data. Any slip might be fatal: data can disappear, trends misunderstood and jobs lost. Los...

   Whoever works with analytics on a day-to-to-day basis knows how important it is to have a continuity with the data. Any slip might be fatal: data can disappear, trends misu...

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...

   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 sour...