Articles by Smashing Magazine from November 2015

Lets get a few things out of the way first. This isnt your regular Smashing Magazine article. Its not a how to; it wont show you how to build a better menu or improve your project tomorrow. This artic...

Whats going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting everything th...

  Lets get a few things out of the way first. This isnt your regular Smashing Magazine article. Its not a how to; it wont show you how to build a better menu or improve your project tomorrow...

  Black Friday has many explanations and various historical reasons. Besides that, every year it leads to people buying things just because retailers give huge discounts. But do you really n...

  Black Friday has many explanations and various historical reasons. Besides that, every year it leads to people buying things just because retailers give huge discounts. But do you really n...

On 12 January 2015, Getwear, an integrated custom jeans company, processed its last order. After that, the company shut down. Despite coming up with a unique custom production process and outstanding ...

  On 12 January 2015, Getwear, an integrated custom jeans company, processed its last order. After that, the company shut down. Despite coming up with a unique custom production process and ...

Ask ten people what SEO is, and youre likely to get ten different answers. Given the industrys unsavoury past, this is hardly surprising. Keyword stuffing, gateway pages, and comment spam earned the f...

  Ask ten people what SEO is, and youre likely to get ten different answers. Given the industrys unsavoury past, this is hardly surprising. Keyword stuffing, gateway pages, and comment spam ...

Some books deserve a spot at your desk. The brand new Hardboiled Web Design by Andrew Clarke is one of them. In its 5th anniversary edition, Andy explains how you can use HTML/CSS efficiently in respo...

I had been doing server-side programming with Symfony 2 and PHP for at least three years before I started to see some productivity problems with it. Dont get me wrong, I like Symfony quite a lot: Its ...

  Some books deserve a spot at your desk. The brand new Hardboiled Web Design by Andrew Clarke is one of them. In its 5th anniversary edition, Andy explains how you can use HTML/CSS efficien...

  I had been doing server-side programming with Symfony 2 and PHP for at least three years before I started to see some productivity problems with it. Dont get me wrong, I like Symfony quite...

  I had been doing server-side programming with Symfony 2 and PHP for at least three years before I started to see some productivity problems with it. Dont get me wrong, I like Symfony quite...

Traditional business logic dictates that you should outsource functions that arent core to your business in order to let the efficiencies of the market drive down costs. Lets say you run a profitable ...

Whats going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting everything th...

  Traditional business logic dictates that you should outsource functions that arent core to your business in order to let the efficiencies of the market drive down costs. Lets say you run a...

  Whats going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting e...

  Whats going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting e...

  Whats going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting e...

Apps and devices designed to improve peoples health are becoming more pervasive. I serve as VP, Director of User Experience, in the New York office of a global agency with both healthcare and consumer...

  Apps and devices designed to improve peoples health are becoming more pervasive. I serve as VP, Director of User Experience, in the New York office of a global agency with both healthcare ...

The Gamepad API is a relatively new piece of technology that allows us to access the state of connected gamepads using JavaScript, which is great news for HTML5 game developers.A lot of game genres, s...

  The Gamepad API is a relatively new piece of technology that allows us to access the state of connected gamepads using JavaScript, which is great news for HTML5 game developers.A lot of ga...

To attract motivated designers and user researchers, keep your eye on the why. Whats the why? Its the underlying purpose that brings you and your employees together. Why the why? Because if you focus ...

  To attract motivated designers and user researchers, keep your eye on the why. Whats the why? Its the underlying purpose that brings you and your employees together. Why the why? Because i...

  To attract motivated designers and user researchers, keep your eye on the why. Whats the why? Its the underlying purpose that brings you and your employees together. Why the why? Because i...

Static site generators are quickly becoming a big part of the professional website builders toolbox. A new static website generator seems to pop up every week. Figuring out which one to use can be lik...

  Static website generation is quickly becoming a big part of the professional website builders toolbox. A new static website generator seems to pop up every week. Figuring out which one to ...

Whats going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting everything th...

  Whats going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting e...

  Whats going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting e...

  Whats going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting e...

For perhaps the first time since the original Macintosh, we can get excited about using system UI fonts. Theyre an interesting, fresh alternative to web typography and one that doesnt require a web-f...

Have you been looking for nice icons to spice up your travel agency or the airline website? Today, we’re happy to release the Voyage Icon Set, a set of 40 free icons available in AI, EPS, PDF, S...

  For perhaps the first time since the original Macintosh, we can get excited about using system UI fonts. Theyre an interesting, fresh alternative to web typography — and one that doe...

  Have you been looking for nice icons to spice up your travel agency or the airline website? Today, we're happy to release the Voyage Icon Set, a set of 40 free icons available in AI, EPS, ...

In the previous article in this series, I discussed scope events and the behavior of the digest cycle. This time around, Ill talk about directives. This article will cover isolate scopes, transclusion...

  In the previous article in this series, I discussed scope events and the behavior of the digest cycle. This time around, Ill talk about directives. This article will cover isolate scopes, ...

With this article, we start exploring various industries and study the current state of front-end, UX and performance of relatively complex websites. First up are airline websites. Some sections of th...

  With this article, we start exploring various industries and study the current state of front-end, UX and performance of relatively complex websites. First up are airline websites. Some se...

Ive been around the block quite a bit as an SEO specialist, and in my experience website speed has emerged as an increasingly important search engine ranking factor over the last few years. Google, in...

  Ive been around the block quite a bit as an SEO specialist, and in my experience website speed has emerged as an increasingly important search engine ranking factor over the last few years...

Whats going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting everything th...

  Whats going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting e...

Time can be analyzed from two different points: objective and psychological. When we talk about time that can be measured with a stopwatch, were talking about objective time, or clock time. Objective ...

  Time can be analyzed from two different points: objective and psychological. When we talk about time that can be measured with a stopwatch, were talking about objective time, or clock time...

Remember all of the wisecracks about executives and their BlackBerry addictions? Back then, constant contact was limited to the few and the mighty relatively speaking, of course. But now, the last la...

  Remember all of the wisecracks about executives and their BlackBerry addictions? Back then, constant contact was limited to the few and the mighty — relatively speaking, of course. B...

The days of floats and margin trickery are finally behind us, as CSS furnishes developers with new and improved properties perfect for those delicate layouts. Layout features such as vertical alignmen...

  The days of floats and margin trickery are finally behind us, as CSS furnishes developers with new and improved properties perfect for those delicate layouts. Layout features such as verti...

At StaticGen, our open-source directory of static website generators, weve kept track of more than a hundred generators for more than a year now, and weve seen both the volume and popularity of these ...

  At StaticGen, our open-source directory of static website generators, weve kept track of more than a hundred generators for more than a year now, and weve seen both the volume and populari...

We all love a good wallpaper to polish up our desktops. So to provide you with fresh artwork on a regular basis, we embarked on our desktop wallpaper mission seven years ago. Each month we challenge y...

  We all love a good wallpaper to polish up our desktops. So to provide you with fresh artwork on a regular basis, we embarked on our desktop wallpaper mission seven years ago. Each month we...