Articles by Smashing Magazine from February 2018

When we share our lessons learned, we cant predict who is going to read them, but it can make all the difference in the world. I still vividly remember that day when I received an email from a school ...

When we share our lessons learned, we cant predict who is going to read them, but it can make all the difference in the world. I still vividly remember that day when I received an email from a school ...

Europes imminent privacy overhaul means that we all have to become more diligent about what data we collect, how we collect it, and what we do with it. In our turbulent times, these privacy obligation...

Europes imminent privacy overhaul means that we all have to become more diligent about what data we collect, how we collect it, and what we do with it. In our turbulent times, these privacy obligation...

In Part 1, I emphasized on the importance of recognizing the purpose of your website, and why planning for the web is just as important as planning for anything else associated with your business. Tod...

(This article is kindly sponsored by Adobe.) Every city has its hidden spots: the best place to see the sunset, a cozy coffee shop that makes excellent espresso, or that impressive building you wont f...

Speed is among the top priorities for any website nowadays. One way to make a website load faster is by code-splitting: splitting an application into chunks that can be loaded on demand — loadin...

A common Grid Layout gotcha is when a newcomer to the layout method wonders how to style a grid cell which doesnt contain any content. In the current Level 1 specification, this isnt possible since th...

Since its creation in 2011, D3.js has become the de facto standard for building complex data visualizations on the web. React is also quickly maturing as the library of choice for creating component-b...

(This is a sponsored article.) With the big picture established — mapping user journeys and defining your designs look and feel — my fifth article in this series of ten articles dives into...

As a veteran designer, developer and project manager on more sites than I can count, I've identified a common problem with many web projects: failure to plan. As the same issues come up repeatedly in ...

Heres a little challenge for you. How would you design a responsive interface for a custom car configurator? The customer should be able to adjust colors, wheels, exterior details, interior details an...

A CFP, or Call For Proposals (sometimes also known as a Call For Papers), is a request for speakers to send their proposed talk ideas to a conference. The conference will review the proposals and deci...

Every profession is a wide field where many people find their very own, custom niches. So are design and web development today. I started building my first website with framesets and HTML4.0, images a...

(This is a sponsored article.) Icons are everywhere. They have been around for a long time, and it’s difficult to imagine a world without icons or symbols today. Only designers will know how muc...

The time of static user interfaces is long gone. Designing interactive prototypes is the best approach to expressing your ideas and explaining them to clients and stakeholders. Or, as Jerry Cao of UXP...

Migrating a standalone WordPress site to a site network (or “multisite”) environment is a tedious and tricky endeavor, the opposite is also true. The WordPress Importer works reasonably we...

Its been impossible to ignore all of the hype surrounding JavaScript frameworks lately, but they might not be the right fit for your projects. Perhaps you dont want to set up an entire build system fo...

(This is a sponsored article.) More than ever, people are engaging with their phones in crucial moments. The average US user spends 5 hours per day on mobile. The vast majority of that time is spent i...

When building a web application, one must consider what kind of delivery mechanism they are going to use. Let’s say we have a cross-platform application that works with real-time data; a stock m...

(This is a sponsored article.) Our friends at Adobe unveiled a very special goodie at the Awwwards Conference in Berlin today. A goodie which is too good to miss: They asked three renowned designers t...

(This is a sponsored article.) Our friends at Adobe unveiled a very special goodie at the Awwwards Conference in Berlin today. A goodie which is too good to miss: They asked three renowned designers t...

Its hard to tell exactly where the rift between “native” and “web” really started. I feel like its one of those things that had been churning just below the surface since the e...

Its hard to tell exactly where the rift between “native” and “web” really started. I feel like its one of those things that had been churning just below the surface since the e...

(This is a sponsored article.) Having undertaken initial user research and analyzed your research findings, the next phase of the design process is to apply what youve learned by developing a series o...

(This is a sponsored article.) Having undertaken initial user research and analyzed your research findings, the next phase of the design process is to apply what youve learned by developing a series o...

Full-day workshop • February 9thThis workshop is designed for designers and developers who already have a good working knowledge of HTML and CSS. We will cover a range of CSS methods for achiev...

When you were small, havent you ever dreamt of becoming the commander of a space mission? Of exploring outer space and seing the Earth from above? Well, you might not have made it into an actual space...

If you want to build a high-performance progressive web app, you need to make sure people get your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript fast!In this interactive talk, we’ll look into the weird gotchas of t...

Images are by far the greatest bottleneck to performance on the web, and with the average web page size now about 2.5MB largeimages taking up 65% of thatwe need to tame the beast. Running images throu...

When you were small, havent you ever dreamt of becoming the commander of a space mission? Of exploring outer space and seing the Earth from above? Well, you might not have made it into an actual space...

If you have ever wanted to send a form without reloading the page, provide a look-ahead search function that prompts the user with suggestions as they type, or auto-save documents, then what you need ...

If you have ever wanted to send a form without reloading the page, provide a look-ahead search function that prompts the user with suggestions as they type, or auto-save documents, then what you need ...

If you have ever wanted to send a form without reloading the page, provide a look-ahead search function that prompts the user with suggestions as they type, or auto-save documents, then what you need ...

Designing the best experience is a challenge, and every designer and developer has their own way of tackling it. But, well, no matter how different our approaches are, one thing is for sure: We can le...

Designing the best experience is a challenge, and every designer and developer has their own way of tackling it. But, well, no matter how different our approaches are, one thing is for sure: We can le...

Designing the best experience is a challenge, and every designer and developer has their own way of tackling it. But, well, no matter how different our approaches are, one thing is for sure: We can le...

Web fonts are difficult to get right. An often overlooked and disruptive piece of web performance, web fonts can slow down your site and leave your visitors confused and agitated. No one wants agitate...

We know that there’s a lot of optimizations that we can use to improve the performance of our images - but does this work really translate into wins for your company? In this talk, Allison McKni...

To render a webpage browsers needs to go through the complex dance of networking, parsing and painting before any content can be displayed to your user. Over the years, we’ve developed mechanism...

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Progressive Images is a hot topic these days. We often come across articles explaining techniques on how to avoid showing an empty space where an image will load. Medium and Facebook are examples of w...

Progressive Images is a hot topic these days. We often come across articles explaining techniques on how to avoid showing an empty space where an image will load. Medium and Facebook are examples of w...

Progressive Images is a hot topic these days. We often come across articles explaining techniques on how to avoid showing an empty space where an image will load. Medium and Facebook are examples of w...

Imagine an application that can, in real time, analyze a users emotional response while theyre interacting with an app or website. Or imagine a home device that recognizes you and tunes in to your fav...

Imagine an application that can, in real time, analyze a users emotional response while theyre interacting with an app or website. Or imagine a home device that recognizes you and tunes in to your fav...

Time flies! Did you know that it has been more than nine years already since we first embarked on our wallpapers adventure? Nine years is a long time, and sometimes we all should break out of our comf...

Time flies! Did you know that it has been more than nine years already since we first embarked on our wallpapers adventure? Nine years is a long time, and sometimes we all should break out of our comf...

Back in July 2010, I wrote an article for Smashing Magazine entitled “How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create A Mobile Version of Your Website.” Almost eight years on, that article still r...

Back in July 2010, I wrote an article for Smashing Magazine entitled “How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create A Mobile Version of Your Website.” Almost eight years on, that article still r...

The beginning of a new year seems like a perfect time to think about what we web professionals do, why we do it, how we could do it better and even how we could have more fun doing it.Like everyone, w...

The beginning of a new year seems like a perfect time to think about what we web professionals do, why we do it, how we could do it better and even how we could have more fun doing it.Like everyone, w...

Smashing Magazine gave us a little surprise recently: Its website has been completely overhauled, switching away from WordPress to Netlify. One of the several reasons for the move is cost: Netlify all...

Smashing Magazine gave us a little surprise recently: Its website has been completely overhauled, switching away from WordPress to Netlify. One of the several reasons for the move is cost: Netlify all...

Content marketing is the practice of creating a piece of content (generally digital) that is both useful and valuable to certain members of your target market(s).This piece of content is generally fre...

Content marketing is the practice of creating a piece of content (generally digital) that is both useful and valuable to certain members of your target market(s).This piece of content is generally fre...

console.log can tell you a lot about your app, but it can't truly debug your code. For that, you need a full-fledged JavaScript debugger. The new Firefox JavaScript debugger can help you write fast, b...

console.log can tell you a lot about your app, but it can't truly debug your code. For that, you need a full-fledged JavaScript debugger. The new Firefox JavaScript debugger can help you write fast, b...

console.log can tell you a lot about your app, but it can't truly debug your code. For that, you need a full-fledged JavaScript debugger. The new Firefox JavaScript debugger can help you write fast, b...

Time flies by… The first month of the new year is already behind us, and with February just around the corner, it's time for some fresh inspiration. So how about some wallpapers to tickle your ...

Time flies by… The first month of the new year is already behind us, and with February just around the corner, it's time for some fresh inspiration. So how about some wallpapers to tickle your ...

Time flies by… The first month of the new year is already behind us, and with February just around the corner, it's time for some fresh inspiration. So how about some wallpapers to tickle your ...

(This is a sponsored article.) What is a product? Until recently, the term was used only in relation to something material and often found in a retail store. Nowadays, it is coming to mean digital pro...

(This is a sponsored article.) What is a product? Until recently, the term was used only in relation to something material and often found in a retail store. Nowadays, it is coming to mean digital pro...

In Part 1 we looked at how APIs have evolved over the last few decades and how each one gave way to the next. We also talked about some of the particular drawbacks of using REST for mobile client deve...

A common Grid Layout gotcha, is when a newcomer to the layout method wonders how to style a grid cell which doesnt contain any content. In the current Level 1 specification this isnt possible, there i...

In Part 1 we looked at how APIs have evolved over the last few decades and how each one gave way to the next. We also talked about some of the particular drawbacks of using REST for mobile client deve...