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12:55 pm - Wed, May 30, 2012
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Design Process In The Responsive Age
You cannot plan for and design a responsive, content-focused, mobile-first website the same way youve been creating websites for years—you just cant. If your goal is ...
11:40 am GMT - Wed, May 30, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Design Process In The Responsive Age
You cannot plan for and design a responsive, content-focused, mobile-first website the same way youve been creating websites for yearsyou just cant. If your goal is to produce something that is not fi...
10:41 pm GMT - Tue, May 29, 2012
Smashing Magazine
MUD: Minimum Usable Design
There is a paradox that fits my life. Doesn’t matter what aspect of my life I am talking about because it always seems to apply. Even more so when I think about this paradox and the design of th...
01:52 pm GMT - Tue, May 29, 2012
Smashing Magazine
How To Log In To WordPress Using A Social Network
WordPress has a fairly straightforward registration system. To register, you only need to submit a user name and your email address. A password is then emailed to you and you can log in. This registra...
01:41 pm - Tue, May 29, 2012
Smashing Magazine
MUD: Minimum Usable Design
There is a paradox that fits my life. Doesn’t matter what aspect of my life I am talking about because it always seems to apply. Even more so when I think about this ...
10:09 am - Mon, May 28, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Develop A One-Of-A-Kind CSSJS-Based Game Portfolio
A portfolio is a must-have for any designer or developer who wants to stake their claim on the Web. It should be as unique as possible, and with a bit of HTML, CSS and Java...
09:03 am GMT - Mon, May 28, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Develop A One-Of-A-Kind CSS / JS-Based Game Portfolio
A portfolio is a must-have for any designer or developer who wants to stake their claim on the Web. It should be as unique as possible, and with a bit of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you could have a one...
01:25 pm - Fri, May 25, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Blueprints For The Web: Specctr Adobe Fireworks Plugin
There is an aspect to Web design that no one likes to talk about: specing. We all do it, we all hate it, but we also understand that specs are vital to both designers and d...
11:39 am GMT - Fri, May 25, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Blueprints For The Web: Specctr Adobe Fireworks Plugin
There is an aspect to Web design that no one likes to talk about: specing. We all do it, we all hate it, but we also understand that specs are vital to both designers and developers.For those who aren...
07:26 am GMT - Fri, May 25, 2012
Smashing Magazine
The First Smashing Conference: A Community Event For Web Designers
Probably the most remarkable characteristic of our Web design community is that we care about our craft. We care about best practices, about our work, about learning, sharing and improving our skills....
10:26 pm - Thu, May 24, 2012
Smashing Magazine
The First Smashing Conference Is Coming: A Community Event For Web Designers
Probably the most remarkable characteristic of our Web design community is that we care about our craft. We care about best practices, about our work, about learning, shari...
03:11 pm - Thu, May 24, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Creating Mobile-Optimized Websites Using WordPress
Mobile Web design. Unless youve been hiding under a bush for the last 18 months, youll know that its one of the hottest topics in the industry at the moment. Barely a...
11:32 am - Thu, May 24, 2012
Smashing Magazine
A Beginners Guide to Ruby
Ruby is an object-oriented language. What does that even mean? It has unique quirks and characteristics that well explain clearly. This article assumes that you have no pro...
09:28 am GMT - Thu, May 24, 2012
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How To Get Started With Ruby
Ruby is an object-oriented language. What does that even mean? It has unique quirks and characteristics that well explain clearly. This article assumes that you have no programming experience, not eve...
08:30 am GMT - Thu, May 24, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Creating Mobile-Optimized Websites Using WordPress
Mobile Web design. Unless youve been hiding under a bush for the last 18 months, youll know that its one of the hottest topics in the industry at the moment. Barely a week goes by without new tips bei...
01:55 pm GMT - Wed, May 23, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Best Newspaper Themes For WordPress
In this article, the first in our WordPress Best of series, well go over WordPress newspaper themes. Well bring you the 30 best WordPress newspaper themes, as well as two news-aggregator themes. We ha...
12:55 pm - Wed, May 23, 2012
Smashing Magazine
The History Of Usability: From Simplicity To Complexity
The story of usability is a perverse journey from simplicity to complexity. That’s right, from simplicity to complexity—not the other way around.If you expect a...
11:50 am GMT - Wed, May 23, 2012
Smashing Magazine
The History Of Usability: From Simplicity To Complexity
The story of usability is a perverse journey from simplicity to complexity. That’s right, from simplicity to complexitynot the other way around.If you expect a “user-friendly” introd...
07:55 am - Wed, May 23, 2012
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Smashing Daily #7: Wheels, Print And Bingo
In this edition of The Smashing Daily, you will find an answer to the question of why reinventing the wheel is a good thing, why you should make a mobile friendly website f...
06:54 pm GMT - Tue, May 22, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Replicating MySQL AES Encryption Methods With PHP
At our company, we process a lot of requests on the leading gift cards and coupons websites in the world. The senior developers had a meeting in late October to discuss working on a solution to replic...
11:38 am - Tue, May 22, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Replicating MySQL AES Encryption Methods With PHP
At our company, we process a lot of requests on the leading gift cards and coupons websites in the world. The senior developers had a meeting in late October to discuss wor...
10:23 pm GMT - Mon, May 21, 2012
Smashing Magazine
How To Choose The Right Face For A Beautiful Body
What is it that makes a typeface into a text font, instead of a font for larger sizes? The answer differs slightly, depending on whether one aims for print or Web-based environments.Nevertheless, ther...
01:23 pm - Mon, May 21, 2012
Smashing Magazine
How To Choose The Right Face For A Beautiful Body
What is it that makes a typeface into a text font, instead of a font for larger sizes? The answer differs slightly, depending on whether one aims for print or Web-based env...
12:27 am GMT - Sat, May 19, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Quick Course On Effective Website Copywriting
Many dismiss copywriting as something that ad agency people do. Truthfully, all of us need to pay close attention to copywriting if we want to achieve our business objectives. [Links checked February/...
03:27 pm - Fri, May 18, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Quick Course On Effective Website Copywriting
Many dismiss copywriting as something that ad agency people do. Truthfully, all of us need to pay close attention to copywriting if we want to achieve our business objectiv...
12:31 pm - Fri, May 18, 2012
Smashing Magazine
A Foot On The Bottom Rung: First Forays Into Responsive Web Development
Responsive design is the hottest topic in front-end Web development right now. Its going to transform the Web into an all-singing, all-dancing, all-devices party, where we ...
09:15 am - Fri, May 18, 2012
Smashing Magazine
How To Customize The WordPress Admin Easily
In this article, we take a break from some of the more advanced ways to customize WordPress, and share some super-easy customization techniques for the WordPress Admin area...
08:30 am GMT - Fri, May 18, 2012
Smashing Magazine
A Good User Interface Means Something Completely Different On Mobile Devices
Responsive design is the hottest topic in front-end Web development right now. Its going to transform the Web into an all-singing, all-dancing, all-devices party, where we can access any information l...
01:55 pm GMT - Thu, May 17, 2012
Smashing Magazine
How To Customize The WordPress Admin Easily
In this article, we take a break from some of the more advanced ways to customize WordPress, and share some super-easy customization techniques for the WordPress Admin area.If you’re just gettin...
11:21 am - Thu, May 17, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Backpack Algorithms And Public-Key Cryptography Made Easy
E-commerce runs on secrets. Those secrets let you update your blog, shop at Amazon and share code on GitHub. Computer security is all about keeping your secrets known only ...
10:04 am GMT - Thu, May 17, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Backpack Algorithms And Public-Key Cryptography Made Easy
E-commerce runs on secrets. Those secrets let you update your blog, shop at Amazon and share code on GitHub. Computer security is all about keeping your secrets known only to you and the people you ch...
01:28 pm - Wed, May 16, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Stop Redesigning And Start Tuning Your Site Instead
In my nearly two decades as an information architect, Ive seen my clients flush away millions upon millions of dollars on worthless, pointless, fix it once and for all ...
11:58 am GMT - Wed, May 16, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Stop Redesigning And Start Tuning Your Site Instead
In my nearly two decades as an information architect, Ive seen my clients flush away millions upon millions of dollars on worthless, pointless, fix it once and for all website redesigns. All types of ...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, May 16, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Welcome To The Smashing Mobile Section!
This Mobile section of Smashing Magazine is curated by our editor Derek Allard and features articles on best and emerging practices for responsive Web design, Web apps and native apps. While the mobil...
12:39 pm - Tue, May 15, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Zocial Button Set: 72 CSS3 Buttons
The idea behind this project was to produce a consistent set of buttons that could be used for the range of social actions frequently taken in Web applications. These actio...
10:37 am GMT - Tue, May 15, 2012
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Free Zocial Button Set: Social CSS3 Buttons
The idea behind this project was to produce a consistent set of buttons that could be used for the range of social actions frequently taken in Web applications. These actions are often important goals...
09:24 am - Tue, May 15, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Smashing Daily #1: Mobile Device Lab, Browsers and Animated GIFs
Editor’s Note: This post is the first in the new Smashing Daily series on Smashing Magazine, where we highlight items to help you stay on the top of what’s goin...
11:09 pm GMT - Mon, May 14, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Font Wars: A Story On Rivalry Between Type Foundries
I had thought of terms like intellectual property or intellectual theft as being of fairly recent provenance, so my eye was caught by the latters use in a headline of a 1930 edition of the American tr...
02:09 pm - Mon, May 14, 2012
Smashing Magazine
The Font Wars: A Story On Rivalry Between Type Foundries
I had thought terms like intellectual property and intellectual theft were of fairly recent provenance, so my eye was caught by the latters use in a headline of...
12:32 am GMT - Sat, May 12, 2012
Smashing Magazine
How To Enhance Your Creativity - Taming The Wild Mind
Myths have developed around and researchers have studied how the human brain juggles creativity and organization. Popular theory tells us that the left brain is structured and logical, while the right...
03:32 pm - Fri, May 11, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Taming The Wild Mind
Myths have developed around and researchers have studied how the human brain juggles creativity and organization. Popular theory tells us that the left brain is structured ...
01:53 pm GMT - Fri, May 11, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Diary Of A WordCamp
All over the world people are getting together to talk about WordPress. Developers, designers, bloggers, writers, small-business owners, software engineers, system admins, mobile developers, BuddyPres...
01:05 pm - Thu, May 10, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Interaction Design In The Cloud
Interaction designers create wireframes in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, OmniGraffle and Microsoft Visio. Originally, these wireframes were primitive shapes drawn to rep...
11:45 am GMT - Thu, May 10, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Interaction Design In The Cloud
Interaction designers create wireframes in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, OmniGraffle and Microsoft Visio. Originally, these wireframes were primitive shapes drawn to represent various UI elements. ...
01:08 pm - Wed, May 9, 2012
Smashing Magazine
How To Build A Real-Time Commenting System
The Web has become increasingly interactive over the years. This trend is set to continue with the next generation of applications driven by the real-time Web. Adding real-...
10:56 am GMT - Wed, May 9, 2012
Smashing Magazine
How To Build A Real-Time Commenting System
The Web has become increasingly interactive over the years. This trend is set to continue with the next generation of applications driven by the real-time Web. Adding real-time functionality to an app...
08:15 pm GMT - Tue, May 8, 2012
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The Smashing Book #3 "Redesign The Web" Is Out!
The new Smashing Book #3 has finally arrivedfreshly printed, neatly packed and ready to be shipped to you, our dear reader. We believe this is by far the best book we’ve produced so far. We are ...
01:56 pm GMT - Tue, May 8, 2012
Smashing Magazine
How To Add Custom Fields In A WordPress Comment Form
If you have created websites or blogs, then you need no introduction to WordPress, one of the most popular content management systems (CMS). WordPress powers millions of websites, for individuals as w...
11:15 am - Tue, May 8, 2012
Smashing Magazine
The Smashing Book #3 “Redesign The Web” Is Finally Released!
The new Smashing Books have finally arrived—freshly printed, neatly packed and ready to be shipped to you, our dear reader. We believe this is by far the best book we...
11:15 am - Tue, May 8, 2012
Smashing Magazine
The Smashing Book #3 “Redesign The Web” Is Out!
The new Smashing Book #3 has finally arrived—freshly printed, neatly packed and ready to be shipped to you, our dear reader. We believe this is by far the best book w...
02:02 pm - Mon, May 7, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Refining Your Design In Adobe Fireworks
While certainly not as well known as Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks is a great tool for creating user interfaces, website designs and mock-ups, wireframes, icons and much more....
12:50 pm GMT - Mon, May 7, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Refining Your Design In Adobe Fireworks
While certainly not as well known as Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks is a great tool for creating user interfaces, website designs and mock-ups, wireframes, icons and much more. However, most designers who...
09:58 am - Fri, May 4, 2012
Smashing Magazine
You Design It, They Do It
What if someone came to you and said, I’ve designed this great website, but people don’t stay on it. Why? How would you respond? Would you ask them whethe...
02:20 pm - Thu, May 3, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Removing Stumbling Blocks In Mobile Forms
A few weeks ago, I was quite surprised when I saw the pavement quickly approaching while I was out for a walk. Laying there stunned, I soon realized what had happened: I fe...
01:10 pm GMT - Thu, May 3, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Removing Stumbling Blocks In Mobile Forms
A few weeks ago, I was quite surprised when I saw the pavement quickly approaching while I was out for a walk. Laying there stunned, I soon realized what had happened: I fell. Ouch. B-minus. I normall...
12:24 am GMT - Thu, May 3, 2012
Smashing Magazine
How To Apply Macrotypography For A More Readable Web Page
Any application of typography can be divided into two arenas: micro and macro. Understanding the difference between the two is especially useful when crafting a reading experience, because it allows t...
03:24 pm - Wed, May 2, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Applying Macrotypography For A More Readable Web Page
Any application of typography can be divided into two arenas: micro and macro. Understanding the difference between the two is especially useful when crafting a reading exp...
01:55 pm GMT - Tue, May 1, 2012
Smashing Magazine
WordPress Shortcodes: A Complete Guide
WordPress shortcodes were introduced in version 2.5 and since then haveproved to be one of the most useful features. The average user acting as editor has the ability topublish dynamic content using m...
09:03 pm GMT - Mon, April 30, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: May 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...
12:03 pm - Mon, April 30, 2012
Smashing Magazine
Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: May 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 sour...