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MooTools Tutorials and Resources Round-Up

MooTools Tutorials and Resources Round-Up

From Diogo Terror, July 28th, 2009

MooTools is a JavaScript framework that focus on being flexible, modular and compact. While still not on par in number of resources with other JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery, the MooTools community has generated a large number of articles, tutorials ...

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The Definitive Guide to Using Negative Margins

The Definitive Guide to Using Negative Margins

From John Imbong, July 27th, 2009

Since the recommendation of CSS2 back in 1998, the use of tables has slowly faded into the background and into the history books. Because of this, CSS layouts have since then been synonymous with coding elegance.Out of all the CSS ...

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The Ultimate Round-Up of Fireworks Tutorials and Resources

The Ultimate Round-Up of Fireworks Tutorials and Resources

From Paul Andrew, July 27th, 2009

Fireworks was originally created as an image editing and web design application by Macromedia, for quick web mock-ups, and optimizing images for the Web. It has since been transformed into a powerful environment for designing and prototyping applications that integrates ...

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Get Creative With Your Domain Name

Get Creative With Your Domain Name

From Preeti Pradhan, July 26th, 2009

Choosing a domain name for a new client is a difficult task. Domain names are the crux of a website’s existence. A bad name can create a negative impact on branding and the ability to strengthen the domain value. ...

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PNG Optimization Guide: More Clever Techniques

PNG Optimization Guide: More Clever Techniques

From Sergey Chikuyonok, July 25th, 2009

This post is a second part of the article Clever PNG Optimization Techniques that we posted last week. As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-featured transparency. It’s a lossless, ...

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Stunning Space Photography

Stunning Space Photography

From Vailancio Rodrigues, July 24th, 2009

Space has many beautiful mysteries hidden inside. Many people have tried and are still trying to uncover those mysteries. In this inspirational post, we present beautiful photographs from space explorations: nebulas, comets, stars, planets, etc. Hopefully, these beauties will inspire ...

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10 Handy WordPress Comments Hacks

10 Handy WordPress Comments Hacks

From Jean-Baptiste Jung, July 23rd, 2009

Comments sections are neglected on many blogs. That is definitely a bad thing, because comments represent interaction between you and your readers. In this article, we’ll have a look at 10 great tips and hacks to enhance your blog’s comments ...

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50 New Beautiful Blog Designs

50 New Beautiful Blog Designs

From Vitaly Friedman, July 22nd, 2009

There are things that can’t be showcased too often. For instance, beautiful blog designs. We have presented hundreds of beautiful blog designs in the past and now it’s time to provide our readers with a fresh portion of tasty design ...

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iPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over-Blown Visuals

iPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over-Blown Visuals

From Alexander Komarov, July 21st, 2009

The development of iPhone applications has recently become a hot topic in the design community; everybody tries to come up with some creative idea, port it into a stylish iPhone-alike application and sell it to thousands of users through the ...

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45+ Excellent Code Snippet Resources and Repositories

45+ Excellent Code Snippet Resources and Repositories

From Cameron Chapman, July 21st, 2009

The beauty of code snippets is their ability to save you time when developing a site. Whether you keep a file with your own often-reused snippets or turn to one of the many online repositories, snippets can really speed up ...

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50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design

50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design

From Cameron Chapman, July 20th, 2009

CSS is almost certainly one of the best developments in web design since the first graphical web browsers were adopted on a wide scale. Where tables created clunky, slow-loading pages, CSS created much more streamlined and usable web pages. Plus, ...

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How To Automate Optimization and Deployment Of Static Content

How To Automate Optimization and Deployment Of Static Content

From Christian Baeuerlein, July 19th, 2009

A lot of traffic between users and your site comes from the static content you’re using to set up the user interface, namely layout graphics, Stylesheets and Javascript files.This article shows a method to improve the providing of ...

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Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design

Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design

From Diogo Terror, July 17th, 2009

Also known as International Style, the Swiss Style does not simply describe a style of graphic design made in Switzerland. It became famous through the art of very talented Swiss graphic designers, but it emerged in Russia, Germany and Netherlands ...

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HTML5 and The Future of the Web

HTML5 and The Future of the Web

From Tim Wright, July 16th, 2009

Some have embraced it, some have discarded it as too far in the future, and some have abandoned a misused friend in favor of an old flame in preparation. Whatever side of the debate you’re on, you’ve most likely heard ...

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A Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools

A Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools

From Paul Andrew, July 16th, 2009

Google Analytics is undoubtedly the most widely used web analytics application. Emerged from and based upon the analytics-package developed by Urchin Software Corporation (which was bought by Google in April 2005), the tool has become publicly available for free under ...

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Clever PNG Optimization Techniques

Clever PNG Optimization Techniques

From Sergey Chikuyonok, July 15th, 2009

As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-featured transparency. It’s a lossless, robust, very good replacement of the elder GIF image format. As a Photoshop (or any other image editor) ...

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5 Useful And Creative Ways To Use WordPress Widgets

5 Useful And Creative Ways To Use WordPress Widgets

From Leland Fiegel, July 14th, 2009

If you’ve been reading some of the previous WordPress-related articles here on Smashing Magazine, you’ll know that WordPress is much more than a blogging platform. It can be used as a CMS, too. And WordPress widgets are a powerful tool ...

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Quality-Price-Ratio in Web Design (Pricing Design Work)

Quality-Price-Ratio in Web Design (Pricing Design Work)

From Jeff Gardner, July 14th, 2009

I’m about to make a bold statement. The quality of a design and the monetary cost of producing or procuring that design have absolutely no relationship whatsoever. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, I know. Many of you are crying ...

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CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF)

CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF)

From Smashing Editorial, July 13th, 2009

Just last week we released an extensive printable HTML 5 Cheat Sheet that lists all currently supported HTML 5 tags, their descriptions, their attributes and their support in HTML 4. In comments to this post we received many requests for ...

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Social Network Design: Examples and Best Practices

Social Network Design: Examples and Best Practices

From Cameron Chapman, July 13th, 2009

According to Nielsen Online, social networks and blogs are now the 4th most popular kinds of online activities. 67% of the world online population are now visiting them and the time they’re spending on them is growing by three ...

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