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Modern CSS Layouts: The Essential Characteristics

Modern CSS Layouts: The Essential Characteristics

From Zoe Mickley Gillenwater, October 26th, 2009

Now is an exciting time to be creating CSS layouts. After years of what felt like the same old techniques for the same old browsers, we’re finally seeing browsers implement CSS 3, HTML 5 and other technologies that give us ...

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10 Tips on Writing Hero-worthy Error Messages

10 Tips on Writing Hero-worthy Error Messages

From ThinkVitamin, October 26th, 2009

“Doh! %&^%&^%&!” Another forehead-smack-worthy curse-laden moment: I’ve filled out a lengthy online form and hit the submit button only to find myself staring back at an empty form peppered with red errors. Has this happened to you? Of course it ...

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Top 10 Site Engine Integration Options

Top 10 Site Engine Integration Options

From Designm.ag, October 26th, 2009

Part of having a user-friendly site involves making it possible for visitors to quickly find what they are looking for. A site-wide search is one of the best ways to accomplish this. In this post we’ll look at 10 of ...

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80 Stunning Background Patterns For Your Websites

80 Stunning Background Patterns For Your Websites

From Noupe, October 26th, 2009

We are always attracted to the outstanding design, layout or content when we click in a website, but seldom of us would notice the textures and patterns that are used. If there are only background colors, many websites would not ...

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40 Amazing Photoshop Brush Directories and Collections

40 Amazing Photoshop Brush Directories and Collections

From Speckyboy, October 26th, 2009

There are hundreds and thousands of Photoshop brushes available to download for free. Were do you start looking? How do you find that particular brush that you need to complete your latest design project? And most importantly, were are all ...

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Brand = User Experience: The Interface of a Cheeseburger

Brand = User Experience: The Interface of a Cheeseburger

From Oliver Reichenstein, October 24th, 2009

There he goes, the web designer, stepping up to the counter of an empty McDonald’s at 3 o’clock in the morning. He is scanning the overhead menu, putting a cheeseburger in his mental shopping basket. “Cheezubahga, onegaishimasu,” we hear him ...

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Showcase of Web Design in Ireland

Showcase of Web Design in Ireland

From Lee Munroe, October 23rd, 2009

This post is the second article of our new series “Global Web Design“. Over the next months we’ll be covering various continents, featuring web developers and web designs from different countries of the world and taking a close look of ...

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Rich Typography On The Web: Techniques and Tools

Rich Typography On The Web: Techniques and Tools

From Cameron Chapman, October 22nd, 2009

Let’s face it: Web-safe fonts are very limiting. Maybe a dozen fonts are out there that are widely enough adopted to be considered “Web safe,” and those ones aren’t exactly spectacular for much other than body type. Sure, Georgia, Arial ...

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Web Conferences Roundup: Events from Around the Globe

Web Conferences Roundup: Events from Around the Globe

From Louis Lazaris, October 21st, 2009

Each year, thousands of developers, designers, and programmers from around the world gather together at conferences and events to share ideas, promote the latest technologies, and discuss best practices, standards, and emerging trends in their respective fields. For those of ...

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10 Useful WordPress Coding Techniques

10 Useful WordPress Coding Techniques

From Jean-Baptiste Jung, October 20th, 2009

Since last year, the WordPress themes market has grown incredibly. The reason? Great designs, of course, but also a lot of amazing new functionality. Top WordPress developers are always looking to get the most out of WordPress and use all ...

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The Mystery Of The CSS Float Property

The Mystery Of The CSS Float Property

From Louis Lazaris, October 19th, 2009

Years ago, when developers first started to make the transition to HTML layouts without tables, one CSS property that suddenly took on a very important role was the float property. The reason that the float property became so common was ...

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Showcase of Web Design in Russia

Showcase of Web Design in Russia

From Arseny Vesnin, October 17th, 2009

This article is the first of our new series “Global Web Design“. Over the next months we’ll be covering various continents, featuring web developers and web designs from different countries of the world and taking a close look of what ...

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The Ultimate Round-Up Of T-Shirt Design Tutorials

The Ultimate Round-Up Of T-Shirt Design Tutorials

From Callum Chapman, October 16th, 2009

Among all of the graphic designers in the world, many of them have probably had a go at designing some cool artwork for t-shirts. The t-shirt, after all, is one of the world’s most purchased products, and a lot of ...

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How To Identify and Deal With Different Types Of Clients

How To Identify and Deal With Different Types Of Clients

From Robert Bowen, October 15th, 2009

In business, being able to read people and quickly get a sense of who you’re dealing with is an invaluable skill. It turns your encounter with a client into an opportunity to catch a glimpse of the upcoming project and ...

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CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8

CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8

From Louis Lazaris, October 14th, 2009

One of the most bizarre statistical facts in relation to browser use has to be the virtual widespread numbers that currently exist in the use of Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8. As of this writing, Internet Explorer holds ...

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Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices

Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices

From Jacob Gube, October 13th, 2009

Call to action in web design — and in user experience (UX) in particular — is a term used for elements in a web page that solicit an action from the user. The most popular manifestation of call ...

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Setting Up Photoshop For Web, App and iPhone Development

Setting Up Photoshop For Web, App and iPhone Development

From Marc Edwards, October 12th, 2009

Most people who have designed websites or apps in Photoshop will, at one point or another, have had issues trying to match colors in images to colors generated by HTML, CSS or code. This article aims to solve those problems ...

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How To Persuade Your Users, Boss or Clients

How To Persuade Your Users, Boss or Clients

From Paul Boag, October 11th, 2009

Whether you are getting a client to sign off on a website’s design or persuade a user to complete a call to action, we all need to know how to be convincing. Like many in the Web design industry, I ...

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iPhone App Design Trends

iPhone App Design Trends

From Jen Gordon, October 9th, 2009

For the past two years, the elegant iPhone has housed some of the most poorly designed applications you could imagine. The hype surrounding iPhone has prompted many designers across the globe to try their skills with the new mobile medium. ...

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15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design

15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design

From Cameron Chapman, October 8th, 2009

15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design and How to Avoid Them (via @smashingmag) - Selling online can open up huge new markets for many businesses. When your store can be open 24/7 and you can reach a global market without the ...

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