Articles by Smashing Magazine from August 2013

The layout is the foundation of your website. It guides the user through the sections and tells them what is most important. It also sets the aesthetic of the website. Therefore, you need to carefully...

   The layout is the foundation of your website. It guides the user through the sections and tells them what is most important. It also sets the aesthetic of the website. Therefore, yo...

I have spent nearly a decade experimenting with a single goal in mind: to create scalable, predictably insightful, inspirational environments. I have led creative teams in these environments, and Im c...

   I have spent nearly a decade experimenting with a single goal in mind: to create scalable, predictably insightful, inspirational environments. I have led creative teams in these env...

   In Part 1 of this series, we had a look at how the underlying protocols of the Web work, and how we can use JavaScript to estimate their performance characteristics. In this second ...

In Part 1 of this series, we had a look at how the underlying protocols of the Web work, and how we can use JavaScript to estimate their performance characteristics. In this second part, we’ll l...

   Thanks to strong mobile Web adoption worldwide, we have seen the launch of even more responsive designs in 2012 and 2013. Most of these have been in the publishing category, but lat...

   Thanks to strong mobile Web adoption worldwide, we have seen the launch of even more responsive designs in 2012 and 2013. Most of these have been in the publishing category, but lat...

Thanks to strong mobile Web adoption worldwide, we have seen the launch of even more responsive designs in 2012 and 2013. Most of these have been in the publishing category, but lately we are starting...

   This year has already offered us lots of fantastic Web conferences and events, and guess what, it still hasn’t come to an end! You can continue to plan ahead and make sure tha...

In digital culture, we are beginning to think of our output as products and of our clients as users. Products might be websites, apps or communities, and they might be created by startups, agencies or...

   In digital culture, we are beginning to think of our output as products and of our clients as users. “Products” might be websites, apps or communities, and they might be...

   WebKit has made some serious news by finally implementing the srcset attribute. As Chair of the W3C’s Responsive Images Community Group, I’ve been alternately hoping f...

WebKit has made some serious news by finally implementing the srcset attribute. As Chair of the W3Cs Responsive Images Community Group, Ive been alternately hoping for and dreading this moment for som...

   “Form ever follows function. This is the law.” So said the architect and “father of skyscrapers” Louis Sullivan. For architects not wishing to crush hundreds...

Form ever follows function. This is the law. So said the architect and father of skyscrapers Louis Sullivan. For architects not wishing to crush hundreds of innocent people under the weight of a colos...

   A viral app is the highest achievement on iTunes and Google Play. It’s an app that customers eagerly share across the Internet, through social networks, email, chat and word ...

A viral app is the highest achievement on iTunes and Google Play. Its an app that customers eagerly share across the Internet, through social networks, email, chat and word of mouth. Its like rocket f...

Few applications feel as complete as Adobes InDesign. First released in 1999 as a direct attack against the then-industry standard, Quark, the page-layout application has been made faster and more fea...

Despite improvements in broadband and wireless Internet, load is in many ways more of an issue now than it was five years ago. The proliferation of mobile devices, increased user expectations, and the...

   Few applications feel as complete as Adobe’s InDesign. First released in 1999 as a direct attack against the then-industry standard, Quark, the page-layout application has be...

   Few applications feel as complete as Adobe’s InDesign. First released in 1999 as a direct attack against the then-industry standard, Quark, the page-layout application has be...

   It’s our great pleasure to support active members of the Web design and development community. Today, we’re proud to present the Jelly Navigation Menu that shows the pow...

It’s our great pleasure to support active members of the Web design and development community. Today, we’re proud to present the Jelly Navigation Menu that shows the power of PaperJS and T...

   Quality matters. With our full-day workshops in Freiburg and Berlin, we aim to bring together only the most talented, skilled and passionate experts from various fields of Web desig...

   If you’ve developed mobile applications or have just started building one, then you probably realize that marketing should be as much of an ongoing concern as the productâ�...

If youve developed mobile applications or have just started building one, then you probably realize that marketing should be as much of an ongoing concern as the products design and development. After...

   Touch devices have rightfully been praised for generally being much more intuitive than the decades-old computer mouse and keyboard. Users interact directly with touch interfaces, w...

Touch devices have rightfully been praised for generally being much more intuitive than the decades-old computer mouse and keyboard. Users interact directly with touch interfaces, which narrows the ga...

   People start to lose interest in a website if they don’t get a response within three seconds. Fulfilling this expectation for mobile phone users requires a different approach...

Editors Note: This article features just one of the many solutions for creating high-performance mobile websites. We suggest that you review different approaches such as Building A Responsive Web App,...

   We’ve all seen margin: 0 auto; for horizontal centering, but margin: auto; has refused to work for vertical centering… until now! But actually (spoiler alert!) absolute ...

We’ve all seen margin: 0 auto; for horizontal centering, but margin: auto; has refused to work for vertical centering… until now! But actually (spoiler alert!) absolute centering only req...

   Backbone.js is a popular open-source JavaScript “MV*” framework that has gained significant traction since its first release a little over three years ago. Although Back...

Backbone.js is a popular open-source JavaScript MV* framework that has gained significant traction since its first release a little over three years ago. Although Backbone.js provides structure to Jav...

   In the past, we featured some exciting tools and libraries: PrefixFree, Foundation, Sisyphus.js, GuideGuide, Gridpak, JS Bin and CSSComb. All of them have been developed and release...

In the past, we featured some exciting tools and libraries: PrefixFree, Foundation, Sisyphus.js, GuideGuide, Gridpak, JS Bin and CSSComb. All of them have been developed and released by active members...

Today, we are pleased to introduce Type & Grids, a free responsive HTML5 template by Jeremiah Shoaf. It looks great on all devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets and phones. All of the cont...

   Today, we are pleased to introduce Type & Grids, a free responsive HTML5 template by Jeremiah Shoaf. It looks great on all devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets and pho...

First impressions are lasting impressions. Whether you realize it or not, your typography helps to create an experience for users before theyve even read a word or clicked a button. Typography has the...

   First impressions are lasting impressions. Whether you realize it or not, your typography helps to create an experience for users before they’ve even read a word or clicked a...

The Web is evolving rapidly. Front-end Web development has been majorly affected by recent changes in coding techniques and approaches. In 2003, a competent front-end Web developer would have known HT...

   The Web is evolving rapidly. Front-end Web development has been majorly affected by recent changes in coding techniques and approaches. In 2003, a competent front-end Web developer ...

   As front-end developers and designers, we’re constantly refining two interfaces simultaneously: one for visitors who load the website, the other for developers who have to ta...

As front-end developers and designers, were constantly refining two interfaces simultaneously: one for visitors who load the website, the other for developers who have to tackle the code in the future...

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 sources of in...