Articles by Smashing Magazine from June 2012

Working as a web designer can suck sometimes. This is especially true when you dont get to work alongside the client. Unfortunately this scenario is more common than you would think. Many organization...

   Working as a Web designer can suck sometimes. This is especially true when you dont get to work alongside the client. Unfortunately this scenario is more common than you wo...

   Lets assess the situation. WordPress is an extremely popular, flexible, easy to use and open-source blogging and CMS system. More and more mobile devices are flooding the m...

Due to big changes in the SEO landscape, designers, photographers, videographers and writers have new opportunities to build their reputation, expand brand awareness and generate more leads. This post...

Most of us are pretty familiar with responsive Web design by now. Basically, it uses a combination of a fluid layout and media queries to alter the design and layout of a website to fit different scre...

   Due to big changes in the SEO landscape, designers, photographers, videographers and writers have new opportunities to build their reputation, expand brand awareness and ge...

Lets assess the situation. WordPress is an extremely popular, flexible, easy to use and open-source blogging and CMS system. More and more mobile devices are flooding the market every day, changing th...

   Error pages for form-field validation are dreadful. Youve just filled out 20 form fields, yet you get the same bloated page thrown back in your face because a single field ...

Error pages for form-field validation are dreadful. Youve just filled out 20 form fields, yet you get the same bloated page thrown back in your face because a single field failed to validate.I clearly...

   You probably know that testing is good, but the first hurdle to overcome when trying to write unit tests for client-side code is the lack of any actual units; JavaScript co...

You probably know that testing is good, but the first hurdle to overcome when trying to write unit tests for client-side code is the lack of any actual units; JavaScript code is written for each page ...

   There are different ways to make your website faster: specialized plugins to cache entire rendered HTML pages, plugins to cache all SQL queries and data objects, plugins to...

There are different ways to make your website faster: specialized plugins to cache entire rendered HTML pages, plugins to cache all SQL queries and data objects, plugins to minimize JavaScript and CSS...

   Whilst designing for screens—including Web, mobile and rich interaction applications (RIAs)—you often need to create a prototype to see whether the application ...

Whilst designing for screensincluding Web, mobile and rich interaction applications (RIAs)you often need to create a prototype to see whether the application works properly before moving onto the deve...

   Since our last round-up of useful CSS techniques, we’ve seen a lot of truly remarkable CSS geekery out there. With CSS3, some of the older techniques now have become ...

Since our last round-up of useful CSS techniques, we’ve seen a lot of truly remarkable CSS geekery out there. With CSS3, some of the older techniques now have become obsolete, others have establ...

If youre a developer of mobile Web apps, then youve heard this before: Native apps perform better than Web apps.But what does perform better mean? In the context above, performance is usually about me...

WordPress businesses are springing up all of the time. Some of them succeed, some of them fail, and some of them go global. Last month, I wrote a post on Smashing Magazine about the thriving WordPress...

Have you ever wanted your users to click a link but didnt know how to get them to act? When some designers run into this problem, theyre tempted to use the words Click here on their links.Before givin...

   The absolute best thing about WordPress is how flexible it is. Dont like the theme? Just change it. Need added functionality? There is probably a plugin you can download or...

There is no doubt about it, I am a hypocrite. Fortunately nobody has noticed until now. Heres the thing. On one hand I talk about the importance of having a good work/life balance, and yet on the othe...

   There is no doubt about it, I am a hypocrite. Fortunately nobody has noticed until now. Here’s the thing. On one hand I talk about the importance of having a good wor...

The absolute best thing about WordPress is how flexible it is. Dont like the theme? Just change it. Need added functionality? There is probably a plugin you can download or buy. If not, build it yours...

Classes, classes, classes everywhere. What if we dont need CSS classes at all? What if we stopped worrying about how many classes were using and what we should be calling them and just finished with t...

Today, it is our pleasure to present to you a free set of academic icons related to education commissioned by PixelsDaily exclusively for Smashing Magazine and the design community. The icons are ava...

   Our brand new Smashing Books #3 and #3" have been released last month and we’re sincerely grateful for the tremendous feedback, reviews and photos submitted by our tr...

Our Smashing Books #3 and #3 has been released in 2012 and we’re sincerely grateful for the tremendous feedback, reviews and photos submitted by our truly smashing readers across the world. We a...

   Today, it is our pleasure to present to you a free set of icons related to education and academia—commissioned by PixelsDaily exclusively for Smashing Magazine and th...

   Its been a couple of years now since the concept of responsive design took the Web design world by storm, and more and more websites are going responsive. But there are sti...

   The WordPress community recently reached a huge milestone in its development, having earned its 60 millionth user on November 2011, according to WordPress founder Matt Mull...

   Howdy, folks! Welcome to the new incarnation of Smashing Magazines Q&A. Its going to work like this: you send in questions you have about CSS, and at least once a mont...

Howdy, folks! Welcome to the new incarnation of Smashing Magazines Q&A. Its going to work like this: you send in questions you have about CSS, and at least once a month well pick out the best ques...

Its been a couple of years now since the concept of responsive design took the Web design world by storm, and more and more websites are going responsive. But there are still some barriers and potenti...

   Emergency car shopping is no fun. This past month was the second time I had to shop for a car in a short timeframe without advance warning. Like most informed shoppers, I w...

Emergency car shopping is no fun. This past month was the second time I had to shop for a car in a short timeframe without advance warning. Like most informed shoppers, I went online to get a feel for...

   With WordPress 3.4 set to arrive this week, it’s a great time to familiarize ourselves with the new features and additions. The new version of WordPress brings many i...

   Your website works. Now lets make it work faster. Website performance is about two things: how fast the page loads, and how fast the code on it runs. Plenty of services wil...

Your website works. Now lets make it work faster. Website performance is about two things: how fast the page loads, and how fast the code on it runs. Plenty of services make your website load faster, ...

   Every designer has their own workflow when starting a new project, even if its only loosely defined in their head. A typical Web project goes through a variety of steps fro...

Every designer has their own workflow when starting a new project, even if its only loosely defined in their head. A typical Web project goes through a variety of steps from inception to launch, with ...

   This article will guide you through the process of creating a front-end page in WordPress that lists your authors. Well discuss why you would want to do this, well introduc...

   The mobile Web has gotten a bum rap. It spends most of its time either in the shadow of the desktop or playing the role of the native apps frumpy friend. Luckily, weve got ...

   Here’s episode #18 of The Smashing Daily, with the question if designers must know how to code, an in-depth look at type classification, lots of great stuff about Res...

The mobile Web has gotten a bum rap. It spends most of its time either in the shadow of the desktop or playing the role of the native apps frumpy friend. Luckily, weve got the tools to change that. Pr...

   Wed like to believe that we use established design patterns for common elements on the Web. We know what buttons should look like, how they should behave and how to design ...

   This is a story that dates back to the earliest days of computers. The story has a plot, well, sort of. It has competition and intrigue, as well as traversing oodles of cou...

This is a story that dates back to the earliest days of computers. The story has a plot, well, sort of. It has competition and intrigue, as well as traversing oodles of countries and languages. There ...

Wed like to believe that we use established design patterns for common elements on the Web. We know what buttons should look like, how they should behave and how to design the Web forms that rely on t...

A strong understanding of how designers control meaning is essential for anyone interested in graphic design or typography. In a previous article,we discussed how sophisticated and complex visual and ...

   A strong understanding of how designers control meaning is essential for anyone interested in graphic design or typography. In a previous article,we discussed how sophistic...

This article will guide you through the process of creating a front-end page in WordPress that lists your authors. Well discuss why you would want to do this, well introduce the WP_User_Query class, a...

The term social media guru has almost become a dirty word within the Web community. In fact, despite most of us being early adopters of social networks such as Facebook or Twitter, we consider social ...

   The term social media guru  has almost become a dirty word within the Web community. In fact, despite most of us being early adopters of social networks such as Facebo...

   When iOS started to gain momentum, soon after the first iPhone launched, many businesses started to pay attention to apps. The number of apps for iOS grew exponentially, an...

When iOS started to gain momentum, soon after the first iPhone launched, many businesses started to pay attention to apps. The number of apps for iOS grew exponentially, and every company, big and sma...

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...

Every aspiring Web developer should know about the power of JavaScript and how it can be used to enhance the ways in which people see and interact with Web pages. Fortunately, to help us be more produ...

   Every aspiring Web developer should know about the power of JavaScript and how it can be used to enhance the ways in which people see and interact with Web pages. Fortunate...